2006 Lusofonia Games Explained

I Lusofonia Games
Host:Macau, China
Nations:11[1]
Athletes:733
Events:48 in 8 sports
Opening:7 October 2006[2]
Closing:15 October 2006
Opened By:Edmund Ho
Closed By:Fernando Chui
Stadium:Macau Stadium
Motto:4 Continents,
1 Language,
United by sport!
Next:2009 Lisboa

The 1st Lusofonia Games (Portuguese: 1.<sup>os</sup> Jogos da Lusofonia;) were held in the Macau Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China between 7 and 15 October 2006. The 2006 Games were the first edition of this multi-sport event for Portuguese-speaking countries and territories, under the banner of ACOLOP.

The site for the opening ceremony was the Macau Stadium and the closing ceremony was held at the Macau East Asian Games Dome. The mascot for the games was a dog named Leo. The pronunciation of "Leo" in Portuguese is similar to Chinese (Lei O) and it means "Come to Macau".

Due to the high expenses, some of the participating NOCs received financial support from the International Olympic Committee and Olympic Committee of Portugal.[3]

Sports

The 2006 Lusophone Games included 8 sports, 3 individual sports and 5 team sports. In total there were 48 events at the Games.

Delegations

A total of 733 athletes competed at the Games.

NationsNumber of athletesMalewidth=1% rowspan=13 bgcolor=ffffffFemale
width=10%width=10%width=10%Athleticswidth=10%Basketballwidth=10%Football
(soccer)
width=10%Futsalwidth=10%Taekwondowidth=10%Table tenniswidth=10%Volleyballwidth=10%Beach
volleyball
width=10%Athleticswidth=10%Basketballwidth=10%Table tenniswidth=10%Volleyballwidth=10%Beach
volleyball
Angola58XXXXXXXX
Brazil74XXXXXXXX
Cape Verde54XXXXXXXX
Guinea-Bissau39XXXXXX
Macau155XXXXXXXXXXXXX
Mozambique46XXXXX
Portugal140XXXXXXXXXXXXX
São Tomé and Príncipe32XXXXX
East Timor57XXXXXXXXXX
India42XXXXXXX
Sri Lanka12XXX
When the Games started Equatorial Guinea didn't field any athletes.

Medal table

2006 Lusophony Games medal count
PosCountryTotal
1 29 19 9 57
2 12 18 21 51
3 3 2 1 6
4 3 0 3 6
5 1 1 4 6
6 0 3 11 14
7 0 3 2 5
8 0 1 2 3
0 1 2 3
10 East Timor0 0 1 1
0 0 1 1
Total 48 48 57 153

Calendar

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Venues

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. 9 members of the ACOLOP (Angola; Brazil; Cape Verde;
  2. However, the Games started earlier on 4 October due to
  3. Web site: macau2006.org . 25 September 2006 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070302060903/http://www.macau2006.org/en/lusofonia_02.php . 2 March 2007 . dead . dmy-all .