2006 Lusofonia Games

I Lusofonia Games
HostMacau, China
Motto4 Continents,
1 Language,
United by sport!
Nations11[1]
Athletes733
Events48 in 8 sports
Opening7 October 2006[2]
Closing15 October 2006
Opened byEdmund Ho
Closed byFernando Chui
Main venueMacau Stadium

The 1st Lusofonia Games (Portuguese: 1.os Jogos da Lusofonia; Chinese: 第一屆葡語系運動會) 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

Participating countries (purple) and host city (yellow square) of the 1st Lusophone Games.

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.

Nations Number of athletes Male Female
Athletics Basketball Football
(soccer) 		Futsal Taekwondo Table tennis Volleyball Beach
volleyball 		Athletics Basketball Table tennis Volleyball Beach
volleyball
Angola
Angola 		58 X X X X X X X X
Brazil
Brazil 		74 X X X X X X X X
Cape Verde
Cape Verde 		54 X X X X X X X X
Guinea-Bissau
Guinea-Bissau 		39 X X X X X X
Flag of Macau, China
Macau 		155 X X X X X X X X X X X X X
Mozambique
Mozambique 		46 X X X X X
Portugal
Portugal 		140 X X X X X X X X X X X X X
São Tomé and Príncipe
São Tomé and Príncipe 		32 X X X X X
East Timor
East Timor 		57 X X X X X X X X X X
India
India 		42 X X X X X X X
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka 		12 X X X

Medal table

  Host nation (Macau)

2006 Lusophony Games medal count
Pos Country 1st place, gold medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Total
1  Brazil 29 19 9 57
2  Portugal 12 18 21 51
3  Sri Lanka 3 2 1 6
4  Mozambique 3 0 3 6
5  Cape Verde 1 1 4 6
6  Macau 0 3 11 14
7  Angola 0 3 2 5
8  India 0 1 2 3
 São Tomé and Príncipe 0 1 2 3
10 East Timor East Timor 0 0 1 1
 Guinea-Bissau 0 0 1 1
Total 48 48 57 153

Calendar

   ●    Opening ceremony    ●    Event competitions    ●    Event finals    ●    Closing ceremony
October 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th 12th 13th 14th 15th
Ceremonies ● ●
Athletics ● ●
Basketball ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ●
Beach volleyball ● ● ●
Football ● ● ● ● ●
Futsal ● ● ● ● ●
Taekwondo ● ●
Table tennis ● ● ●
Volleyball ● ● ● ●
October 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th 12th 13th 14th 15th

Venues

See also

References

  1. ^ 9 members of the ACOLOP (Angola; Brazil; Cape Verde; |East Timor; Guinea-Bissau; Macau, China; Mozambique; Portugal; and São Tomé and Príncipe) and 2 associate members (India; and Sri Lanka)
  2. ^ However, the Games started earlier on 4 October due to |the international football calendar limitations.
  3. ^ "macau2006.org". Archived from the original on 2 March 2007. Retrieved 25 September 2006.