2003 ASEAN Para Games

Development and preparation

The 2nd ASEAN Para Games Organising Committee was formed to oversee the staging of the games.

Venues

The 2nd ASEAN Para Games had 5 venues for the games.

Marketing

Logo

The emblem of the 2nd ASEAN Para Games is a stylised image of a wheelchair athlete with two hands raised up upwards in the shape of a "V" which symbolises Vietnam and victory. At the top of the emblem, 11 small circles linked together around the image of "Khue Van Cac" (room for reciting poems). The linked small circles represents solidarity, cooperation, and friendship of disabled athletes among 11 countries in the Southeast Asian region, while the Khue Van Cac represents the host country Vietnam. The colours of the athlete and the Khue Van Cac are dark sea blue which represents unity while the colours of the 11 circles are vermilion which represents courage and passion.

Mascot

The mascot of the 2003 ASEAN Para Games is "The Golden Goat" which was designed by Nguyen The Nguyen. It was selected by the Organising Committee because the year 2003, year of which Vietnam hosting the second ASEAN Para Games is a goat year in most lunar calendars, especially in Vietnamese and Chinese calendar. The goat is widely described in many art and literary works of Vietnam as a very intimate, friendly and useful animal to the people in daily life. The Golden Goat symbolises happiness, victory and courage when facing challenges. The mascot's design of wearing the sports costume, holds its left hand on its waist, and raises the right hand upwards with two fingers stretching out in a "V" shape represents the strong belief in fair-play among athletes to reach the highest achievements at the games.

Songs

The theme song of the 2003 ASEAN Para Games is "Welcome to Para Games-Hanoi".

The games

Opening ceremony

The opening ceremony was held at the My Dinh National Stadium on 21 December 2003 at 19:00 (VST - UTC+7).

Closing ceremony

The closing ceremony was held at the Hanoi Sports Palace on 27 December 2003 at 19:00 (VST).

Participating nations

• Brunei
• Cambodia
• Laos
• Indonesia
• MAS
• Myanmar
• Philippines
• Singapore
• Thailand
• Timor-Leste
• Vietnam

Sports

5 Sports are introduced for the 2003 ASEAN Para Games with 4 of them are Paralympics events.

• [[File:Athletics pictogram (Paralympics).svg|20px]] Athletics
• [[File:Badminton pictogram.svg|20px]] Badminton
• [[File:Powerlifting pictogram (Paralympics).svg|20px]] Powerlifting
• [[File:Swimming pictogram (Paralympics).svg|20px]] Swimming
• [[File:Table tennis pictogram (Paralympics).svg|20px]] Table tennis

Medal table

A total of 760 medals comprising 287 gold medals, 245 silver medals and 228 bronze medals were awarded to athletes. The Host Vietnam's performance was its best ever yet in ASEAN Para Games History and was second behind Thailand as overall champion.

;Key Host nation (Vietnam)

References

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