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31st Sea Games/ 2021 Sea Games
Date : 12 to 23 May, 2022
Venue : Hanoi, Vietnam
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This is the Southeast Asian Games 31st edition, so it’s commonly known as 31st Sea Games, will be held in Hanoi, between 12 to 23 May, 2022. Check the complete history of the Southeast Asian Games.

The Southeast Asian Games, otherwise called the SEA Games, is a biennial multi-sport occasion including members from the momentum 11 nations of Southeast Asia. The games are under the guideline of the Southeast Asian Games Federation with oversight by the International Olympic Committee and the Olympic Council of Asia.

The Southeast Asian Games is one of the five subregional Games of the Olympic Council of Asia . The others are the Central Asian Games, the East Asian Youth Games, the South Asian Games, and the West Asian Games. The Southeast Asian Games owes its starting points toward the South East Asian Peninsular Games or SEAP Games. On 22 May 1958, delegates from the nations in Southeast Asian Peninsula going to the Asian Games in Tokyo, Japan had a gathering and consented to lay out a games association.

SEAP Games

The SEAP Games was conceptualized by Luang Sukhum Nayaoradit, then, at that point, Vice-President of the Thailand Olympic Committee. The proposed reasoning was that a local game will assist with advancing co-activity, understanding, and relations among nations in the Southeast Asian area.

Six nations, Burma (presently Myanmar), Kampuchea (presently Cambodia), Laos, Malaya (presently Malaysia), Thailand and the Republic of Vietnam were the establishing individuals. These nations consented to hold the Games biennially in June 1959 and the SEAP Games Federation Committee was shaped thereafter.

The principal SEAP Games were held in Bangkok from 12-17 December 1959, with in excess of 527 competitors and authorities from 6 nations; Burma (presently Myanmar), Laos, Malaya, Singapore, South Vietnam and Thailand partook in 12 games.

At the eighth SEAP Games in 1975, the SEAP Federation thought about the consideration of Brunei, Indonesia, and the Philippines. These nations were officially conceded in 1977, that very year when SEAP Federation changed their name toward the Southeast Asian Games Federation, and the games were known as the Southeast Asian Games.

Notwithstanding its area nearer to the Pacific archipelago than the Asian mainland and not being an individual from ASEAN, East Timor was conceded at the 22nd Southeast Asian Games in 2003 Hanoi-Ho Chi Minh City. The 2009 Southeast Asian Games was whenever Laos first has at any point facilitated a Southeast Asian Games. Running from 9-18 December, it has additionally honored the 50 years of the Southeast Asian Games, held in Vientiane, Laos.

Sports

As indicated by the SEAGF Charter and Rules, a host country should organize at least 22 games – the two necessary games from Category 1, notwithstanding at least 14 games from Category 2, and a limit of 8 games from Category 3. Each game will not offer over 5% of the all out decoration count, aside from sports, aquatics and shooting. For each game and occasion to be incorporated, at least four nations should partake in it. Sports contended in the Olympic Games and Asian Games should be given priority.

Sport  –   Years

Archery – 1977–1997, since 2001

Arnis   –   1991, 2005, 2019

Athletics              All

Badminton          All

Baseball               2005–2007, 2011, since 2019

Basketball           1979–2003, 2007, since 2011

Beach handball  – Since 2019

Billiards and snooker    –   Since 1991

Bodybuilding       1987–1993, 1997, 2003–2007,

2013

Bowling 1977–1979, 1983–2001,

2005–2007, 2011, since 2015

Boxing   All

Canoeing             1985, 1995, 2001, 2005–2007,

2011–2015, since 2019

Chess     2003–2005, 2011–2013, since 2019

Chinlone              2013 only

Contract bridge 2011 only

Cricket  2017 only

Cycling  1959-1979, since 1983

Dancesport         2005–2009, since 2019

Diving    Since 1965

Duathlon             Since 2019

Equestrian           1983, 1995, 2001, 2005–2007,

2011–2017

eSports Since 2019

Fencing 1974–1978, since 1986

Field hockey       1971–1979, 1983, 1987–1989,

1993–2001, 2007, 2013–2017

Figure skating    Since 2017

Fin swimming     2003, 2009–2011

Floorball              2015, 2019

Football               All

Futsal    2007, 2011–2013, 2017

Golf       1985–1997, 2001, since 2005

Gymnastics         1979–1981, 1985–1997,

2001–2007, 2011, since 2015

Handball              2005–2007

Ice hockey           Since 2017

Indoor hockey    Since 2017

Ju-jitsu  Since 2019

Judo       1967–1997, since 2001

Karate   1985–1991, 1995–1997,

2001–2013, 2017

Kenpō    2011–2013

Kickboxing           Since 2019

Kurash   Since 2019

Lawn bowls         1997, 2001, 2005–2007, Since 2017

Modern pentathlon         Since 2019

Muay     2005–2009, 2013, Since 2019

Netball  2001, since 2015

Obstacle racing  Since 2019

Paragliding          2011 only

Pencak silat        1987–1989, 1993–1997,

since 2001

Pétanque             Since 2001

Polo       2007, Since 2017

Roller sports       2011 only

Rowing 1989–1991, 1997, 2001–2007,

2011–2015, since 2019

Rugby sevens     Since 2015

Rugby union       1969, 1977–1979, 1995, 2007

Sailing   1961, 1967–1971, 1975–1977,

1983–1997, 2001, 2005–2007,

since 2011

Sambo   Since 2019

Sepak takraw     1967–1969, since 1973

Shooting              All

Short track speed skating             since 2017

Shuttle cock       2007–2009

Skateboarding    Since 2019

Soft tennis           2011, since 2019

Softball 1981–1983, 1989, 2003–2005,

2011, 2015, since 2019

Sport climbing    2011 only

Squash  1991–2001, 2005–2007,

since 2015

Surfing  Since 2019

Swimming           All

Synchronized swimming                2001, 2011, since 2015

Table tennis        All

Taekwondo         Since 1985

Tennis   1959–2011, since 2015

Traditional boat race      1993, 1997–1999,

2003–2007, 2011–2015

Triathlon              2005–2007, since 2015

Volleyball            1959–1997, since 2001

Vovinam              2011–2013

Wakeboarding   Since 2019

Water polo         1965–2017

Water skiing       1987, 1997, 2011, 2015–2017

Weightlifting      1959–1997, 2001–2013, since 2017

Wrestling             1987, 1997, 2003–2013, since 2019

Wushu   1991–1993, 1997, since 2001

Logo

The Southeast Asian Games logo was introduced during the 1959 edition in Bangkok, depicting six rings that represent the six founding members and was used until the 1997 edition in Jakarta. The number of rings increased to 10 during the 1999 edition in Brunei to reflect the inclusion of Singapore which was admitted into the Southeast Asian Games Federation in 1961 and Brunei, Indonesia, and the Philippines which joined the organization in 1977. The number of rings was again increased to 11 during the 2011 games in Indonesia to reflect the federation’s newest member, East Timor which was admitted in 2003.

Participating Nations

NOC Names        Formal Names   Debuted               IOC code             Other codes used

 Brunei  Brunei Darussalam           1977      BRU       BRN (ISO)

 Cambodia           Kingdom of Cambodia    1961      CAM      KHM (1972–1976, ISO)

 Indonesia           Republic of Indonesia     1977      INA        IHO (1952), IDN (FIFA, ISO)

 Laos      Lao People’s Democratic Republic             1959      LAO       

 Malaysia             Malaysia              1959      MAS       MAL (1952 − 1988), MYS (ISO)

 Myanmar            Republic of the Union of Myanmar           1959      MYA       BIR (1948 – 1988), MMR (ISO)

 Philippines          Republic of the Philippines            1977      PHI         PHL (ISO)

 Singapore           Republic of Singapore     1959      SGP        SIN (1959 – 2016)

 Thailand              Kingdom of Thailand       1959      THA       

 Timor-Leste       Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste         2003      TLS         IOA (2000)

 Vietnam              Socialist Republic of Vietnam       1959[a] VIE         VET (1964), VNM (1968–1976, ISO)

All-time Southeast Asian Games medal table

Rank      NOC       Gold       Silver     Bronze  Total

1             Thailand (THA)  1885      1930      1943      5758

2             Indonesia (INA) 1824      1703      1780      5307

3             Malaysia (MAS)[2]           1303      1273      1685      4261

4             Philippines (PHI)              1067      1193      1477      3737

5             Singapore (SGP)               947        1002      1363      3312

6             Vietnam (VIE)[3]              928        967        991        2886

7             Myanmar (MYA)[4]         564        741        992        2297

8             Cambodia (CAM)[5]        69           115        258        442

9             Laos (LAO)          69           93           319        481

10           Brunei (BRU)     14           55           163        232

11           Timor-Leste (TLS)            3             6             26           35