Back Sukan Dalam Dewan dan Seni Mempertahankan Diri Asia 2021 Malay เอเชียนอินดอร์และมาร์เชียลอาตส์เกมส์ 2021 Thai Đại hội Thể thao Trong nhà và Võ thuật châu Á 2021 Vietnamese 2021年亞洲室內暨武藝運動會 Chinese
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| Host city | Bangkok and Chonburi, Thailand |
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| Events | 359 (+6) in 36 (+2) sports [1] |
| Opening | 21 November 2024 |
| Closing | 30 November 2024 |
| Main venue | Bangkok Arena |
| Website | aimag2021.org |
The 2021 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games, officially known as the 6th Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games and also known as Bangkok–Chonburi 2021, was a planned pan-Asian multi-sport event in indoor and martial arts sports that was supposed to be held from 21 to 30 November 2024 in Thailand, with its capital Bangkok and the eastern Thai province of Chonburi serving as joint co-hosts.[2]
The Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) officially awarded the Games to Bangkok and Chonburi Province and signed the hosting rights contract in April 2020.[3] Originally scheduled to take place from 21 to 30 May 2021, the event was postponed four times due to various occasions. It was pushed back twice as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, first rescheduled to be held from 10 to 20 March 2022,[4][5] and then from 17 to 26 November 2023.[6] However, the event was postponed again due to political uncertainty in the country following the Thai general election; the Games were then timetabled for 24 February to 6 March 2024, but were rescheduled once more citing its five-month proximity to the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.[7]
On 19 August 2024, the Games were cancelled after organizers failed to meet contractual obligations. However, the OCA Executive Board also agreed that Thailand can apply to host the next games after the 2025 edition.[8]
This was supposed to be the first AIMAG (and the third OCA-sanctioned event after the 2011 Asian Winter Games in Astana and Almaty, Kazakhstan and the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta and Palembang, Indonesia) to be jointly co-hosted by two cities or regions; it would have also been Bangkok's third time to host the event after staging the first Asian Indoor Games in 2005 and the only iteration of the Asian Martial Arts Games in 2009 (both Games were eventually merged in 2013). This edition of the AIMAG would have marked the debuts for badminton, baseball5, BMX cycling, cheerleading, floorball, indoor rowing, netball, shooting and volleyball, and would have seen a record-high number of sports in the event's history, at a total of 30.
- ^ "OCA » Cheerleading confirmed for 6th AIMAG".
- ^ "OCA confirm postponement of Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games until 2023". Inside the Games. 20 October 2021. Retrieved 27 October 2021.
- ^ "ไทยรับเจ้าภาพอินดอร์เกมส์อีกแล้ว ทัพซีเกมส์รับมือโปลิโอระบาดฟิลิปปินส์" (in Thai). Matichon. 20 November 2019. Retrieved 28 November 2019.
- ^ "6th Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games – Thailand" (in Thai). Olympic Council of Asia. 14 January 2021. Archived from the original on 15 January 2021. Retrieved 14 January 2021.
- ^ "OCA postpone 2021 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games". Inside the Games. 14 January 2021. Retrieved 14 January 2021.
- ^ "OCA confirm postponement of Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games until 2023". Inside the Games. 20 October 2021. Retrieved 4 February 2024.
- ^ "Aimag postponed for 5th time". SunStar. 20 November 2023.
- ^ "Thailand loses major event after failing to meet obligations". Bangkok Post. 19 August 2024. Retrieved 20 August 2024.