Editions
| Games | Year | Host city | Host country | Best nation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| XIII | 1998 | Bangkok |  Thailand |  Chinese Taipei |
| XIV | 2002 | Busan |  South Korea | Chinese Taipei  Thailand |
| XV | 2006 | Doha |  Qatar |  China |
| XVI | 2010 | Guangzhou |  China | China |
Cue sports events were contested at the Asian Games starting from the 1998 Games in Bangkok.
| Games | Year | Host city | Host country | Best nation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| XIII | 1998 | Bangkok | Thailand | Chinese Taipei |
| XIV | 2002 | Busan | South Korea | Chinese Taipei Thailand |
| XV | 2006 | Doha | Qatar | China |
| XVI | 2010 | Guangzhou | China | China |
| Event | 98 | 02 | 06 | 10 | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carom billiards | |||||
| Men's three-cushion singles | X | X | X | X | 4 |
| Men's straight rail singles | X | 1 | |||
| English billiards | |||||
| Men's English billiards singles | X | X | X | X | 4 |
| Men's English billiards doubles | X | X | X | 3 | |
| Pool | |||||
| Men's eight-ball singles | X | X | X | X | 4 |
| Men's eight-ball doubles | X | 1 | |||
| Men's nine-ball singles | X | X | X | X | 4 |
| Men's nine-ball doubles | X | X | 2 | ||
| Women's eight-ball singles | X | X | 2 | ||
| Women's nine-ball singles | X | X | 2 | ||
| Snooker | |||||
| Men's snooker singles | X | X | X | X | 4 |
| Men's snooker doubles | X | X | X | 3 | |
| Men's snooker team | X | X | X | X | 4 |
| Women's six-red snooker singles | X | 1 | |||
| Women's six-red snooker team | X | 1 | |||
| Total | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | |
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chinese Taipei (TPE) | 8 | 5 | 8 | 21 |
| 2 | China (CHN) | 8 | 4 | 4 | 16 |
| 3 |  India (IND) | 5 | 4 | 6 | 15 |
| 4 |  Philippines (PHI) | 4 | 4 | 1 | 9 |
| 5 |  Japan (JPN) | 4 | 3 | 4 | 11 |
| 6 |  Hong Kong (HKG) | 4 | 3 | 3 | 10 |
| 7 | Thailand (THA) | 3 | 4 | 7 | 14 |
| 8 |  South Korea (KOR) | 1 | 4 | 4 | 9 |
| 9 |  Malaysia (MAS) | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| 10 |  Vietnam (VIE) | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
| 11 |  Pakistan (PAK) | 1 | 0 | 5 | 6 |
| 12 |  Myanmar (MYA) | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 13 |  Singapore (SGP) | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 14 |  Indonesia (INA) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
 Kuwait (KUW) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Totals (15 entries) | 40 | 40 | 50 | 130 | |
| Nation | 98 | 02 | 06 | 10 | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Afghanistan | 2 | 4 | 2 | ||
 Bahrain | 13 | 1 | |||
 Bangladesh | 3 | 5 | 3 | 3 | |
 Brunei | 3 | 6 | 1 | 3 | |
 Cambodia | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||
| China | 6 | 5 | 7 | 13 | 4 |
| Chinese Taipei | 12 | 10 | 11 | 11 | 4 |
| Hong Kong | 3 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 3 |
| India | 14 | 12 | 17 | 17 | 4 |
| Indonesia | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | |
 Iran | 3 | 1 | |||
 Iraq | 3 | 3 | 2 | ||
| Japan | 9 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 4 |
 Jordan | 5 | 1 | |||
 Kazakhstan | 1 | 1 | |||
| Kuwait | 6 | 4 | 11 | 10 | 4 |
 Kyrgyzstan | 2 | 1 | |||
 Lebanon | 2 | 1 | |||
 Macau | 2 | 5 | 3 | 3 | |
| Malaysia | 10 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 4 |
 Maldives | 6 | 1 | |||
 Mongolia | 4 | 10 | 10 | 3 | |
| Myanmar | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | |
| Pakistan | 4 | 7 | 12 | 5 | 4 |
| Philippines | 8 | 9 | 9 | 14 | 4 |
 Qatar | 8 | 10 | 6 | 3 | |
 Saudi Arabia | 4 | 11 | 2 | ||
| Singapore | 7 | 5 | 9 | 6 | 4 |
| South Korea | 2 | 12 | 10 | 11 | 4 |
 Sri Lanka | 3 | 2 | 5 | 3 | |
 Syria | 2 | 3 | 2 | ||
| Thailand | 16 | 11 | 11 | 14 | 4 |
 United Arab Emirates | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 |
 Uzbekistan | 5 | 1 | |||
| Vietnam | 2 | 6 | 9 | 8 | 4 |
| Number of nations | 21 | 21 | 28 | 28 | |
| Number of athletes | 123 | 132 | 196 | 191 | |
Cue sports are a wide variety of games of skill played with a cue, which is used to strike billiard balls and thereby cause them to move around a cloth-covered table bounded by elastic bumpers known as cushions. Cue sports are also collectively referred to as billiards, though this term has more specific connotations in some varieties of English.
Nine-ball is a discipline of the cue sport pool. The game's origins are traceable to the 1920s in the United States. It is played on a rectangular billiard table with pockets at each of the four corners and in the middle of each long side. Using a cue stick, players must strike the white cue ball to pocket nine colored billiard balls, hitting them in ascending numerical order. An individual game is won by the player pocketing the 9 ball. Matches are usually played as a race to a set number of racks, with the player who reaches the set number winning the match.
A billiard ball is a small, hard ball used in cue sports, such as carom billiards, pool, and snooker. The number, type, diameter, color, and pattern of the balls differ depending upon the specific game being played. Various particular ball properties such as hardness, friction coefficient, and resilience are important to accuracy.
Carom billiards, also called French billiards and sometimes carambole billiards, is the overarching title of a family of cue sports generally played on cloth-covered, pocketless billiard tables. In its simplest form, the object of the game is to score points or "counts" by caroming one's own cue ball off both the opponent's cue ball and the object ball on a single shot. The invention as well as the exact date of origin of carom billiards is somewhat obscure but is thought to be traceable to 18th-century France.
Russian pyramid, also known as Russian billiards, is a form of billiards played on a large billiard table with narrow pockets. It is played across Russia and several former Soviet/Eastern Bloc countries. In the West, the game is known as pyramid billiards, or simply pyramid.
Pool is the name given to a series of cue sports played on a billiard table. The table has six pockets along the rails, into which balls are shot. Of the many different pool games, the most popular include: eight-ball, blackball, nine-ball, ten-ball, seven-ball, straight pool, one-pocket, and bank pool. Eight-ball is the most frequently played discipline of pool, and it is often thought of as synonymous with "pool".
The following is a glossary of traditional English-language terms used in the three overarching cue sports disciplines: carom billiards referring to the various carom games played on a billiard table without pockets; pool, which denotes a host of games played on a table with six pockets; and snooker, played on a large pocket table, and which has a sport culture unto itself distinct from pool. There are also games such as English billiards that include aspects of multiple disciplines.
Billiard or billiards may refer to:
Cue sports techniques are a vital important aspect of game play in the various cue sports such as carom billiards, pool, snooker and other games. Such techniques are used on each shot in an attempt to achieve an immediate aim such as scoring or playing a safety, while at the same time exercising control over the positioning of the cue ball and often the object balls for the next shot or inning.
The cue sports of snooker, English billiards, and three-cushion carom for men, as well as eight-ball and nine-ball pool for both men and women, were contested at the 2006 Asian Games in Doha, Qatar from December 4 to December 11. All events were held at the Al-Sadd Multi-Purpose Hall.
The World Confederation of Billiards Sports (WCBS) is the international umbrella organization encompassing the major cue sports, including carom billiards, pool games of several varieties, and snooker.
Cue sports at the 2007 Asian Indoor Games was held in Macau East Asian Games Dome, Macau, China from 27 October to 2 November 2007.
Carom billiards and pool are two types of cue sports or billiards-family games, which as a general class are played with a stick called a cue which is used to strike billiard balls, moving them around a cloth-covered billiard table bounded by rubber cushions attached to the confining rails of the table.
Cue sports, including three-cushion billiards, nine-ball and snooker, were introduced as World Games sports for men and for women also at the World Games 2001 in Akita.
Cue sports at the 2009 Asian Indoor Games was held in Phan Đình Phùng Gymnasium, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam from 31 October to 7 November 2009.
Goriziana or nine-pin billiards is a carom billiards game, especially popular in Italy.
Cue sports at the 2010 Asian Games was held in Asian Games Town Gymnasium, Guangzhou, China from November 13 to 20, 2010.
Cue sports was contested at the Asian Games for the first time at the 1998 Asian Games in Bangkok, Thailand between 6 and 19 December 1998. The competition took place at the Land Sports Complex. The competition included only men's events.
Slosh is a cue sport played on a snooker table. The game features seven balls, coloured white, yellow, green, brown, blue, pink and black, with points being scored for pocketing or playing caroms and cannons off object balls. The game is played to a score of 100 points, or a length of 30 minutes. First played in the early 1900s, not much is known about the game's origins.
