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Asian Winter Games
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Within Vinony's link graph, Asian Winter Games is referenced by 937 other articles, and connects out to Gangwon Province, IWAS World Games and Asian Indoor-Martial Arts Games.
It is catalogued under topics including Asian international sports competitions, Asian Winter Games and Multi-sport events in Asia.
Its subject is documented across 38 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Abbreviation
- AWG
- First event
- 1986 Asian Winter Games in Sapporo , Japan
- Occur every
- Four years
- Last event
- 2025 Asian Winter Games in Harbin , China
- Next event
- 2029 Asian Winter Games in Almaty , Kazakhstan
- Purpose
- Multi-sport event for nations on the Asian continent
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Wikidata facts
- Sport
- ice hockey
- Image
- Asian Games logo.svg
- Organizer
- Olympic Council of Asia
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- Commons category
- Asian Winter Games
- topic's main category
- Category:Asian Winter Games
- event interval
- 4
- topic has template
- Template:Asian Games
- start time
- 1986-00-00
- short name
- 亞冬運الغعلعلعلف
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Encyclopedic overview
The Asian Winter Games (AWG) is an international multi-sport event held every four years for members of the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) featuring winter events. The Japanese Olympic Committee first suggested creating a winter version of the Asian Games in 1982. Their efforts were rewarded when they received hosting rights for the first edition, held in Sapporo in 1986, as the city had the infrastructure and expertise gained from hosting of the 1972 Winter Olympics.
From having only seven OCA member nations participate in the first edition, the number of competing nations in the Winter Asiad has grown consistently. In the 2007 Asian Winter Games in Changchun, 27 out of the 45 members fielded a record number of competitors, while all 45 National Olympic Committees sent delegations for the first time in AWG history.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Asian Winter Games” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.