Samoa at the 2017 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games | |
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IOC code | SAM |
NOC | Samoa Association of Sports and National Olympic Committee Inc. |
Website | www |
in Ashgabat 17–27 September | |
Competitors | 15 in 4 sports |
Medals |
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Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games appearances | |
Samoa competed at the 2017 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games held in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan from September 17 to 27. Samoa sent a delegation consisting of 15 athletes competing in 3 different sports. [1] [2] Iuniarra Sipaia was the only medalist in the event for Samoa as she claimed the bronze medal in the women's weightlifting over 90 kg category.
Samoa made its debut in an Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games for the first time at the Games held in Turkmenistan along with other Oceania nations. [3]
Sport | Men | Women | Total |
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3x3 basketball | 4 | 0 | 4 |
Indoor Athletics | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Indoor tennis | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Weightlifting | 6 | 3 | 9 |
Medal | Name | Sport | Event |
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Bronze | Iuniarra Sipaia | Weightlifting | Women's 90+ kg |
The Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games is a pancontinental multi-sport event held every four years among athletes from all over Asia. It is organised by the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) and consists of Indoor and martial arts events with TV broadcasting potential, some of which were not contested at the Asian Games and Asian Winter Games Programs and are not Olympic sports.
The 2017 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games, which is also counted as the 5th Asian Indoor Games, was held in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan in 2017. It became the third city in the former Soviet countries to win the right of hosting an Olympic Council of Asia-sanctioned event, following Astana and Almaty in Kazakhstan, which jointly-hosted the 2011 Asian Winter Games. The host city was chosen in Kuwait on 19 December 2010. On 6 July 2013 the flag of the Olympic Council of Asia was officially handed over to the mayor of the city of Ashgabat.
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