Bangkok, Thailand, November 12, 2022: The excitement of the Asian Games will come to Bangkok on Sunday, November 13 when the National Olympic Committee of Thailand hosts the latest leg of the Asian Games Fun Run.
The event, which will be held in partnership with the Olympic Council of Asia and the Hangzhou Asian Games Organising Committee, has attracted 800 participants and will follow a 5km course within the grounds of the Sports Authority of Thailand.
The starting and finishing point will be at the SAT Indoor Stadium Huamark, which was built for the 5th Asian Games hosted by Bangkok in 1966.
“We are very pleased to welcome the Olympic Council of Asia and the Hangzhou Asian Games Organising Committee to Thailand, which has a long history and experience of hosting OCA games,” said Dato Seri Chaiyapak Siriwat, Vice President of the OCA for the 6th Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games (AIMAG) to be held in Thailand in November 2023.
“We asked the national sport associations to take part in the Asian Games Fun Run and we are expecting 800 people to join, most of them athletes from associations such as hockey and football.
“All our national associations are preparing for the Asian Games next year and the Fun Run will show our support for Hangzhou and the OCA and boost the Asian Games.”
The 19th Asian Games will be held in Hangzhou, capital of Zhejiang province in eastern China, from September 23 to October 8, 2023 and the Asian Games Fun Run in Bangkok on Sunday is the latest overseas promotion following runs in Cambodia and Uzbekistan in recent weeks.
The Asian Games Fun Run is one of three components of the OCA’s “Asian Games for All” campaign, along with the Asian Games Children’s Art Competition and the Asian Youth Reporter Project.
The Thai capital has hosted the Asian Games four times – in 1966, 1970, 1978 and 1998. Thailand also organized the first Asian Indoor Games in 2005 and the first Asian Martial Arts Games in 2009 before the two events merged to form the Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games from 2013.
Following the Asian Games Fun Run on Sunday, the OCA will hold a two-day Coordination Committee meeting on Monday and Tuesday for the 6th AIMAG which will take place in Bangkok and the coastal province of Chonburi, famous for the tourist hot spot of Pattaya, from November 17-26, 2023.