The 2018 Asia Pacific Masters Games (), the inaugural edition of the Asia Pacific Masters Games, also known as Penang 2018, was held in the

Malaysian state Malaysia is a federation of thirteen states and three federal territories, which form the primary administrative divisions of the country. Eleven states and two territories are part of Peninsular Malaysia, while two states and one territory ...

Penang Penang is a Malaysian state located on the northwest coast of Peninsular Malaysia along the Strait of Malacca. It has two parts: Penang Island, where the capital city, George Town, is located, and Seberang Perai on the Malay Peninsula. Th ...

from 7 to 15 September 2018. Organised by the

International Masters Games Association The World Masters Games is an international multi-sport event held every four years which, in terms of competitor numbers, has developed into the largest of its kind. Governed by the International Masters Games Association (IMGA), the World Mas ...

(IMGA), it is the first ever Masters Games for the Asia-Pacific region. The multi-sport event is open to participants of all abilities and most ages – the minimum age criterion ranges between 25 and 35 years depending on the sport. There are no competition qualification requirements apart from the age requirement and membership in that sport's governing body.

Host city

was selected as the host of the inaugural edition of the Asia Pacific Masters Games during a bidding process in

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in 2015.

Venues

18 venues within Penang's four districts were utilised in the Asia Pacific Masters Games. Most of the venues for the event are situated around

's capital city, George Town on

Penang Island Penang Island is the main constituent island of the Malaysian state of Penang. It is located off the western coast of Peninsular Malaysia by the Malacca Strait, with the Penang Strait separating the island from Seberang Perai on the mainla ...

Northeast Penang Island

# City Stadium-Athletics (Track and field), Opening ceremony #Downtown UNESCO Zone-Cycling (Criterium), Athletics (Half marathon) # Gurney Drive to Teluk Bahang-Cycling (Road race) #Penang Macallum Street Table Tennis Training Centre-Table tennis #Residency Road Primary School-Archery #Penang Sports Club-Tennis #Penang Rifle Club-Shooting #Hard Rock Hotel-Volleyball (beach) #Dumbar Hill

Penang Water Supply Corporation Penang Water Supply Corporation (; abbreviation PBAPP) is a State owned company (not to be confused as a GLC) which is responsible for water supply services in the state of Penang. It replaced Penang Water Authority or Pihak Berkuasa Air Pulau Pi ...

Badminton Hall-Badminton #Nicol David International Squash Centre-Squash #

Universiti Sains Malaysia Universiti Sains Malaysia ( 'University of Science Malaysia'; abbreviated as USM) is a public research university in Malaysia. Founded on 1 June 1969 as a statutory body with its own constitution, it is the oldest institute of higher learning ...

(Island Campus)-Netball, Softball, Football, Hockey, Tennis, Volleyball (Indoor) #Penang Golf Club, Bukit Jambul-Golf #Relau City Sports Complex-Swimming #Relau Agro Agriculture Centre-Cycling (Mountain bike)

Southwest Penang Island

Setia SPICE Setia is a Multi-purpose stadium, multipurpose sports complex in George Town, Penang, George Town within the States and federal territories of Malaysia, Malaysian state of Penang. It occupies an area of within the suburb of Bayan Lepas, comprisi ...

-Basketball, Lion dance, Pencak silat, Taekwondo, Wushu, Closing ceremony

Central Seberang Perai The Central Seberang Perai District is a district in Seberang Perai within the Malaysian state of Penang. The district covers the central third of Seberang Perai. It borders Northern Seberang Perai to the north, Kedah Kedah (), also know ...

*Mega Lanes Bowling Centre-Bowling *Seberang Perai Arena-Weightlifting

South Seberang Perai The South Seberang Perai District is a district in Seberang Perai within the Malaysian state of Penang. The district covers the southern third of Seberang Perai. It borders Central Seberang Perai to the north, Kedah to the east and Perak to the ...

*Bukit Jawi Golf Resort-Golf

Emblem

The emblem consisted of four strokes of pink, blue, sky blue and yellow represents the four spirits of sportsmanship - fairness, discipline, courage and perseverance.

Mascot

CUN the cat, symbolizing "Capable, United and Noble", was the official

mascot A mascot is any human, animal, or object thought to bring luck, or anything used to represent a group with a common public identity, such as a school, sports team, university society, society, military unit, or brand, brand name. Mascots are als ...

of the 2018 Games.

Sports

The inaugural edition of the Asia Pacific Masters Games in

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will include 22

sports Sport is a physical activity or game, often competitive and organized, that maintains or improves physical ability and skills. Sport may provide enjoyment to participants and entertainment to spectators. The number of participants in ...

. *

Archery Archery is the sport, practice, or skill of using a Bow and arrow, bow to shooting, shoot arrows.Paterson ''Encyclopaedia of Archery'' p. 17 The word comes from the Latin ''arcus'', meaning bow. Historically, archery has been used for hunting ...

(16) - 125 participants from 12 countries *

Athletics Athletics may refer to: Sports * Sport of athletics, a collection of sporting events that involve competitive running, jumping, throwing, and walking ** Track and field, a sub-category of the above sport * Athletics (physical culture), competitio ...

(467) - 1300 participants from 37 countries *

Badminton Badminton is a racquet sport played using racket (sports equipment), racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net (device), net. Although it may be played with larger teams, the most common forms of the game are "singles" (with one player per s ...

(138) - 538 participants from 21 countries *

Cycling Cycling, also known as bicycling or biking, is the activity of riding a bicycle or other types of pedal-driven human-powered vehicles such as balance bikes, unicycles, tricycles, and quadricycles. Cycling is practised around the world fo ...

(43) - 466 participants from 13 countries *

Golf Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various Golf club, clubs to hit a Golf ball, ball into a series of holes on a golf course, course in as few strokes as possible. Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standa ...

(18) - 107 participants from 9 countries *

Pencak silat Pencak silat (; in Western writings sometimes spelled "pentjak silat" or phonetically as "penchak silat") is a class of related Indonesian martial arts. In neighbouring countries, the term usually refers to professional competitive silat. It ...

(38) - 95 participants from 5 countries *

Shooting Shooting is the act or process of discharging a projectile from a ranged weapon (such as a gun, bow, crossbow, slingshot, or blowpipe). Even the acts of launching flame, artillery, darts, harpoons, grenades, rockets, and guided missile ...

(2) - 52 participants from 3 countries *

Squash Squash most often refers to: * Squash (sport), the high-speed racquet sport also known as squash racquets * Squash (plant), the fruit of vines of the genus ''Cucurbita'' Squash may also refer to: Sports * Squash (professional wrestling), an extr ...

(61) - 111 participants from 13 countries *

Swimming Swimming is the self-propulsion of a person through water, such as saltwater or freshwater environments, usually for recreation, sport, exercise, or survival. Swimmers achieve locomotion by coordinating limb and body movements to achieve hydrody ...

(500) - 306 participants from 27 countries *

Table tennis Table tennis (also known as ping-pong) is a racket sport derived from tennis but distinguished by its playing surface being atop a stationary table, rather than the Tennis court, court on which players stand. Either individually or in teams of ...

(96) - 277 participants from 16 countries *

Taekwondo Taekwondo (; ; ) is a Korean martial art and combat sport involving primarily kicking techniques and punching. "Taekwondo" can be translated as ''tae'' ("strike with foot"), ''kwon'' ("strike with hand"), and ''do'' ("the art or way"). In ad ...

(25) - 69 participants from 9 countries *

Tennis Tennis is a List of racket sports, racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles (tennis), singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles (tennis), doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket st ...

(69) - 131 participants from 21 countries *

Tenpin bowling Tenpin bowling is a type of bowling in which a bowler bowling form, rolls a bowling ball down a wood or synthetic lane toward ten pins positioned Tetractys, evenly in four rows in an equilateral triangle. The goal is to knock down all ten Bowlin ...

(80) - 135 participants from 7 countries *

Weightlifting Weightlifting or weight lifting generally refers to physical exercises and sports in which people lift weights, often in the form of dumbbells, barbells or machines. People engage in weightlifting for a variety of different reasons. These can ...

(49) - 83 participants from 14 countries *

Wushu Wushu may refer to: Martial arts * Chinese martial arts, the various martial arts of China * Wushu (sport) Wushu () (), or kung fu, is a competitive Chinese martial art. It integrates concepts and forms from various traditional and modern ...

(70) - 197 participants from 17 countries ---- Team Sports: *

Basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (appro ...

(204) - 245 participants from 9 countries *

Football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ...

(152) - 484 participants from 12 countries *

Hockey ''Hockey'' is a family of List of stick sports, stick sports where two opposing teams use hockey sticks to propel a ball or disk into a goal. There are many types of hockey, and the individual sports vary in rules, numbers of players, apparel, ...

(162) - 157 participants from 9 countries *

Lion dance Lion dance ( zh, s=舞狮, t=舞獅, p=wǔshī, c=, first=t) is a form of traditional dance in Culture of China, Chinese culture and other Asian countries in which performers mimic a Asiatic lion, lion's movements in a lion costume to bring good l ...

(40) - 110 participants from 8 countries *

Netball Netball is a ball sport played on a rectangular court by two teams of seven players. The primary objective is to shoot a ball through the defender's goal ring while preventing the opposing team from shooting through their own. It is one of a ...

(28) - 138 participants from 7 countries *

Softball Softball is a Variations of baseball, variation of baseball, the difference being that it is played with a larger ball, on a smaller field, and with only underhand pitches (where the ball is released while the hand is primarily below the ball) ...

(30) - 109 participants from 3 countries *

Volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Summ ...

(150) - 199 participants from 15 countries * Note: Volleyball consist of Beach Volleyball too.

Results

Source: # Archery: # Athletics: https://d3tfdru9q5sbcz.cloudfront.net/2019/11/APMG-2018-Athletics.pdf # Badminton: https://d3tfdru9q5sbcz.cloudfront.net/2019/11/APMG-2018-Badminton.pdf # Basketball: https://d3tfdru9q5sbcz.cloudfront.net/2020/09/APMG-2018-Basketball.pdf # Beach volleyball: https://d3tfdru9q5sbcz.cloudfront.net/2020/09/APMG-2018-Beach-Volleyball-All-Results.pdf # Cycling: # Football: # Golf: # Hockey: https://d3tfdru9q5sbcz.cloudfront.net/2019/11/APMG-2018-Field-Hockey.pdf # Lion dance: # Netball: https://d3tfdru9q5sbcz.cloudfront.net/2019/11/APMG-2018-Netball.pdf # Pencak silat: # Shooting: # Softball: # Squash: https://d3tfdru9q5sbcz.cloudfront.net/2019/11/APMG-2018-SQUASH-final-results.pdf # Swimming: https://d3tfdru9q5sbcz.cloudfront.net/2019/11/APMG-2018-Swimming.pdf # Table tennis: https://d3tfdru9q5sbcz.cloudfront.net/2019/11/APMG-2018-Table-Tennis.pdf # Taekwondo: # Tennis: # Ten-pin bowling: # Volleyball: https://d3tfdru9q5sbcz.cloudfront.net/2020/09/APMG-2018-INDOOR-VB-RESULT-All-Results.pdf # Weightlifting: https://d3tfdru9q5sbcz.cloudfront.net/2020/09/All-Weightlifting.pdf # Wushu:

Medals

Source page 70 and 77: There should not be any medal table or results in the article as Master games are not like the Olympics. As mentioned in the rules of IMGA, there are no national delegation and all participants compete individually. Total 5,846 Podium medals (G,S,B) and 1,180 finishers medals (in Road cycling and road athletics events) in all age group. # 2438 Gold # 1850 Silver # 1558 Bronze # 5846 Total

Participating nations

Below are the countries of origin of the participating athletes. Note that there are no national delegations in Masters Games, as the athletes compete on their own.

Summary

Source event report page 6 and 75: A total of 5601 participants: 3328 athletes from

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(59.4%). 2273 athletes from 66 other countries (40.6%). 4,073 men (73%) and 1,528 women (27%).

Ages

# Under 20: 25 persons # 20-29: 55 persons # 30-39: 1346 persons # 40-49: 1748 persons # 50-59: 1420 persons # 60-69: 745 persons # 70-79: 220 persons # Over 80: 42 persons

Top

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Pacific (7)

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Athlete's death

On 13 September 2018, Ukrainian football player Oleksandr Shcherbinin died of a heart attack in his hotel room at 6.45 am, after he complained of chest pain and collapsed.

References

External links

2018 Asia Pacific Masters Games
* https://web.archive.org/web/20180421031735/https://www.apmg2018.com/sport-list/ * https://web.archive.org/web/20190618182647/https://www.apmg2018.com/ * https://web.archive.org/web/20180315152102/https://www.apmg2018.com/ {{S-end Masters Games 2018 in multi-sport events 2018 in Malaysian sport Multi-sport events in Malaysia Asia Pacific Masters Games