Harbin, China, October 13, 2024: The Harbin Asian Winter Games Organising Committee has published the Sport Technical Handbook for the 9th AWG next February.
The 65-page handbook provides all details for the six sports, 11 disciplines and 64 events to be contested at Harbin and Yabuli in Heilongjiang province from February 7-14, 2025.
Harbin will stage the 32 ice events in five stadiums for speed skating, short track/figure skating, ice hockey (2 venues) and curling, while the mountains of Yabuli will host 32 snow events. Yabuli is 190km from Harbin and can be reached by high-speed train in 1 hour, 15 minutes.
The handbook provides details on speed skating, short track speed skating, figure skating, ice hockey, curling, alpine skiing, cross-country skiing, freestyle ski aerials, freeski and snowboard halfpipe, freeski and snowboard slopestyle, freeski and snowboard big air, biathlon and ski mountaineering, with an appendix to complete the content.
Each chapter contains the competition dates, competition venue and training venue, competition management, events, competition schedule, training schedule, competition rules, eligibility, number of entries permitted in each event, competition format, team leaders’ meeting and draws, protest and appeals and equipment and clothing.
The ice hockey competition, for example, will run from February 4-14, with the final competition schedule confirmed after the conclusion of the Entry by Name process. There will be 12 men’s teams and eight women’s team based on the IIHF world rankings, with six teams in division one and six in division two of the men’s competition and four teams in division one and four in division two in the women’s event. The format is single round-robin in all four divisions.
Sport Technical Handbook of Harbin 2025