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The 1st Lusophony Games
Lusophony Games
The Lusophony Games is a multinational multi-sport event organized by the ACOLOP, which involves athletes coming from Lusophone countries, namely those belonging to the CPLP , but also others where there are significant Portuguese communities or that have a common past with Portugal.Participating...

were held in the Macau Special Administrative Region

Macau

Macau , also spelled Macao , is, along with Hong Kong, one of the two special administrative regions of the People's Republic of China...

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

Multi-sport event

A multi-sport event is an organized sporting event, often held over multiple days, featuring competition in many different sports between organized teams of athletes from nation-states. The first major, modern, multi-sport event of international significance was the modern Olympic Games.Many...

for Portuguese-speaking countries and territories, under the banner of ACOLOP

ACOLOP

ACOLOP , is an Olympic-related non-profit organisation officially established on June 8, 2004, in Lisbon. It was founded by the national Olympic committees of Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Guinea-Bissau, Macau , Mozambique, Portugal and São Tomé and Príncipe; it also includes Equatorial...

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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 (Lai Ao) and it means "Come to Macau

Macau

Macau , also spelled Macao , is, along with Hong Kong, one of the two special administrative regions of the People's Republic of China...

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Due to the high expenses, some of the participating NOC

National Olympic Committee

National Olympic Committees are the national constituents of the worldwide Olympic movement. Subject to the controls of the International Olympic Committee, they are responsible for organizing their people's participation in the Olympic Games...

s received financial support from the International Olympic Committee

International Olympic Committee

The International Olympic Committee is an international corporation based in Lausanne, Switzerland, created by Pierre de Coubertin on 23 June 1894 with Demetrios Vikelas as its first president...

and Olympic Committee of Portugal

Olympic Committee of Portugal

The Olympic Committee of Portugal is a non-profit organisation of public utility, which serves as the National Olympic Committee for Portugal. It was founded on October 26, 1909, to ensure a timely, methodical and state-sponsored participation at the Games of the V Olympiad, in Stockholm...

Sports

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

Delegations

A total of 733 athletes competed at the Games.

Nations	Number of athletes	Male								Female
Athletics	Basketball	Football (soccer)	Futsal Futsal Futsal is a variant of association football that is played on a smaller pitch and mainly played indoors. Its name is a portmanteau of the Portuguese futebol de salão and the Spanish fútbol de salón , which can be translated as "hall football" or "indoor football"...	Taekwondo Taekwondo Taekwondo is a Korean martial art and the national sport of South Korea. In Korean, tae means "to strike or break with foot"; kwon means "to strike or break with fist"; and do means "way", "method", or "path"...	Table tennis Table tennis Table tennis, also known as ping-pong, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight, hollow ball back and forth using table tennis rackets. The game takes place on a hard table divided by a net...	Volleyball Volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...	Beach volleyball Beach volleyball Beach volleyball, or sand volleyball, is an Olympic team sport played by two teams of two players on a sand court divided by a net.Like volleyball, the object of the game is to send the ball over the net in order to ground it on the opponent’s court, and to prevent the same effort by the opponent....	Athletics	Basketball	Table tennis Table tennis Table tennis, also known as ping-pong, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight, hollow ball back and forth using table tennis rackets. The game takes place on a hard table divided by a net...	Volleyball Volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...	Beach volleyball Beach volleyball Beach volleyball, or sand volleyball, is an Olympic team sport played by two teams of two players on a sand court divided by a net.Like volleyball, the object of the game is to send the ball over the net in order to ground it on the opponent’s court, and to prevent the same effort by the opponent....
Angola Angola Angola, officially the Republic of Angola , is a country in south-central Africa bordered by Namibia on the south, the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the north, and Zambia on the east; its west coast is on the Atlantic Ocean with Luanda as its capital city...	58	X	X	X	X	X			X	X				X
Brazil	74	X			X	X	X		X	X		X		X
Cape Verde Cape Verde The Republic of Cape Verde is an island country, spanning an archipelago of 10 islands located in the central Atlantic Ocean, 570 kilometres off the coast of Western Africa...	54	X	X	X		X			X	X	X			X
Guinea-Bissau Guinea-Bissau The Republic of Guinea-Bissau is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Senegal to the north, and Guinea to the south and east, with the Atlantic Ocean to its west....	39	X	X	X					X	X				X
Macau Macau Macau , also spelled Macao , is, along with Hong Kong, one of the two special administrative regions of the People's Republic of China...	155	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
Mozambique Mozambique Mozambique, officially the Republic of Mozambique , is a country in southeastern Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi and Zambia to the northwest, Zimbabwe to the west and Swaziland and South Africa to the southwest...	46	X		X						X	X			X
Portugal	140	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
São Tomé and Príncipe São Tomé and Príncipe São Tomé and Príncipe, officially the Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe, is a Portuguese-speaking island nation in the Gulf of Guinea, off the western equatorial coast of Central Africa. It consists of two islands: São Tomé and Príncipe, located about apart and about , respectively, off...	32	X		X		X			X	X
East Timor East Timor The Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, commonly known as East Timor , is a state in Southeast Asia. It comprises the eastern half of the island of Timor, the nearby islands of Atauro and Jaco, and Oecusse, an exclave on the northwestern side of the island, within Indonesian West Timor...	57	X	X	X	X	X	X		X	X		X	X
India	42			X		X	X	X	X	X				X
Sri Lanka Sri Lanka Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is a country off the southern coast of the Indian subcontinent. Known until 1972 as Ceylon , Sri Lanka is an island surrounded by the Indian Ocean, the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait, and lies in the vicinity of India and the...	12	X							X	X

When the Games started Equatorial Guinea

Equatorial Guinea

Equatorial Guinea, officially the Republic of Equatorial Guinea where the capital Malabo is situated.Annobón is the southernmost island of Equatorial Guinea and is situated just south of the equator. Bioko island is the northernmost point of Equatorial Guinea. Between the two islands and to the...

didn't field any athletes.

Medal table

2006 Lusophony Games medal count
Pos	Country				Total
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
8		0	1	2	3
10	East Timor East Timor East Timor at the 2006 Lusophony Games This is the list of events, results of 2006 Lusophony Games, where East Timor fielded athlets:-Medal table by sports:-Athletics:-Basketball - Male:-Beach Volleyball:-Football:-Futsal:-Table Tennis:-Taekwondo:...	0	0	1	1
10		0	0	1	1
Total		48	48	57	153

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Athletics at the 2006 Lusophony Games

The Athletics at the 2006 Lusophony Games were held in the Macau Stadium on October 11 and 12. Brazil was the dominating delegation taking 19 out of 30 gold medals , while Sri Lanka managed to grab all three of gold medals it won in the Games in this sport...

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Basketball at the 2006 Lusophony Games

The Basketball tournament of the 2006 Lusophony Games was played in Macau, People's Republic of China. The venue was the Tap Seac Multi-sports Pavilion. The tournament was played from 8 to 14 October 2006, and there was a men's and women's competition...

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Beach Volleyball at the 2006 Lusophony Games

The Beach Volleyball tournament of the 2006 Lusophony Games was played in Macau, People's Republic of China. The venue was the Tennis Academy. The tournament was played from 13 to 15 October 2006, and there was both the men's and women's competition....

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Beach Volleyball at the 2006 Lusophony Games

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Football at the 2006 Lusophony Games

The Football tournament of the 2006 Lusophony Games was played in Macau, People's Republic of China. The venues were the Campo Desportivo e Pavilhão da U.C.T.M. and the Macau Stadium. The tournament was played from 4 to 10 October 2006, and it was only a men's competition...

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Futsal at the 2006 Lusophony Games

The Futsal tournament of the 2006 Lusophony Games was played in Macau, People's Republic of China. The venue was the Macao East Asian Games Dome...

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Futsal at the 2006 Lusophony Games

The Futsal tournament of the 2006 Lusophony Games was played in Macau, People's Republic of China. The venue was the Macao East Asian Games Dome...

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Futsal at the 2006 Lusophony Games

The Futsal tournament of the 2006 Lusophony Games was played in Macau, People's Republic of China. The venue was the Macao East Asian Games Dome...

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Futsal at the 2006 Lusophony Games

The Futsal tournament of the 2006 Lusophony Games was played in Macau, People's Republic of China. The venue was the Macao East Asian Games Dome...

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Futsal at the 2006 Lusophony Games

The Futsal tournament of the 2006 Lusophony Games was played in Macau, People's Republic of China. The venue was the Macao East Asian Games Dome...

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Futsal at the 2006 Lusophony Games

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Taekwondo at the 2006 Lusophony Games

The Taekwondo at the 2006 Lusophony Games was held in the Macao Stadium Pavilion, and there were in competition 4 categories: - 58 kg, - 68 kg, - 80 kg and + 80 kg....

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Taekwondo at the 2006 Lusophony Games

The Taekwondo at the 2006 Lusophony Games was held in the Macao Stadium Pavilion, and there were in competition 4 categories: - 58 kg, - 68 kg, - 80 kg and + 80 kg....

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Taekwondo at the 2006 Lusophony Games

The Taekwondo at the 2006 Lusophony Games was held in the Macao Stadium Pavilion, and there were in competition 4 categories: - 58 kg, - 68 kg, - 80 kg and + 80 kg....

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Table Tennis at the 2006 Lusophony Games

The Table Tennis tournament of the 2006 Lusophony Games was played in Macau, People's Republic of China. The venue was the Macao East Asian Games Dome Theatre...

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Table Tennis at the 2006 Lusophony Games

The Table Tennis tournament of the 2006 Lusophony Games was played in Macau, People's Republic of China. The venue was the Macao East Asian Games Dome Theatre...

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Table Tennis at the 2006 Lusophony Games

The Table Tennis tournament of the 2006 Lusophony Games was played in Macau, People's Republic of China. The venue was the Macao East Asian Games Dome Theatre...

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Table Tennis at the 2006 Lusophony Games

The Table Tennis tournament of the 2006 Lusophony Games was played in Macau, People's Republic of China. The venue was the Macao East Asian Games Dome Theatre...

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Volleyball at the 2006 Lusophony Games

The Volleyball tournament of the 2006 Lusophony Games was played in Macau, People's Republic of China. The venue was the IPM Multi-sports Pavilion. The tournament was played from 7 to 15 October 2006, and there was a men's and women's competition....

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Venues

IPM Multisport Pavilion
IPM Multisport Pavilion
The IPM Multisport Pavilion is part of the Macao Polytechnic Institute in Macau, People's Republic of China. It covers a total area of over and has a seating capacity of 3,800. This modern Pavilion is ideal for indoor sports such as basketball, assorted ball games, volleyball, etc. It is...

(Pavilhão Polidesportivo do IPM)
Tap Seac Multi-sports Pavilion (Pavilhão Polidesportivo Tap Seac)
Macau Stadium Pavilion (Pavilhão Desportivo do Estádio de Macau)
Macau Stadium
Estádio Campo Desportivo
Estádio Campo Desportivo is a multi-purpose stadium on Taipa, in the former Portuguese colony of Macau, in the People's Republic of China. It was renamed 'Macau Olympic Complex' when the reconstruction of the stadium had been completed....

(Estádio de Macau)
Sports Field and Pavilion of MUST (Campo Desportivo e Pavilhão da UCTM)
Macau East Asian Games Dome (Nave Desportiva dos Jogos da Ásia Oriental de Macau)
Tennis Academy (Academia de Ténis)

External links

Official website of the 1.^st Lusophony Games

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