2006 ASEAN University Games
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| Host city | Hanoi | ||
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| Country | Vietnam | ||
| Motto | ASEAN students for coorperation, creativeness and success | ||
| Nations participating | 9 | ||
| Athletes participating | 1000 | ||
| Events | 157 | ||
| Sports | 12 | ||
| Opening ceremony | 16 December 2006 | ||
| Closing ceremony | 22 December 2006 | ||
| Officially opened by |
Nguyễn Thiện Nhân Minister of Education and Training |
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| Main venue |
Hang Day Stadium (Opening) Quan Ngua Sports Palace (Closing) |
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| Website | 2006 ASEAN University Games | ||
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The 2006 ASEAN University Games officially known as the 13th ASEAN University Games was a Southeast Asian university multi-sports event held in Hanoi, Vietnam from 16 to 22 December 2006. This was the first time Vietnam hosted the ASEAN University Games.
Around 1000 athletes from 9 participating nations participated at the games which featured 157 events in 12 sports. Vietnam is the seventh nation to host the ASEAN University Games after Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei and the Philippines. The games was opened and closed by Nguyen Thien Nhan, the Minister of Education and Training of Vietnam at the Hang Day Stadium and Quan Ngua Sports Palace respectively.
The final medal tally was led by host Vietnam, followed by Thailand and Indonesia. Several games and national records were broken during the games. With little or no controversy at all, the games were deemed generally successful with the rising standards of university sports competition amongst the Southeast Asian nations.
The Organising Committee of the 13th ASEAN University Games was formed to oversee the staging of the games.
The 13th ASEAN University Games had 12 venues for the games.
The logo of the 2006 ASEAN University Games is an image of a letter U which is the abbreviation of the word University. The moving U image resembles the circle on the logo of the Olympic movement. The motion of these circles represents the competitiveness, solidarity, ASEAN university students' activeness and creativeness as athletes. The linked 11 circles at the bottom of the U image represents the 11 member countries of ASEAN, The picture of Khue Van Cac – the symbol of the Literature Temple (the first University of Vietnam ) which is placed in the middle of one of the circles, represents Vietnam as a country with university and as a host of the ASEAN University Games. The circles that look like a torch fire represents the ideas of the solidarity, friendship, studying and sporting among the ASEAN students. Red represents courage, blue stands for unity while yellow stands for victory and enthusiasm.
The mascot of the 2006 ASEAN University Games is an unnamed carp. In Vietnamese belief, a carp is though to bring many good characteristics such as: The symbol of wealth, prosperity and having many children. The adoption of carp as the games mascot was according to the Vietnamese phrase: a carp, will become a dragon after passing 5 gates of challenges, which means a normal people will become a talent after overcoming many obstacles. The phrase is a great encouragement for students to study and obtain high achievements in exams and to be victorious and intelligent. The two hands of the mascot that raise upwards represents the welcome of all participating delegations to Vietnam. The head represents the belief and the determination of ASEAN students to succeed. The cunning smile and the bachelor hat of the carp represents the intelligence, and naughty characters of the students. The mascot is painted with three major colours : Red, Blue and Yellow. Yellow represents Victory and enthusiasm, red represents courage and blue represents unity.
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