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.
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| Host | Macau, China |
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| Motto | 4 Continents, 1 Language, United by sport! |
| 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 |
| Main venue | Macau Stadium |
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 edit
The 2006 Lusophone Games included 8 sports, 3 individual sports and 5 team sports. In total there were 48 events at the Games.
Athletics ()
Basketball ()
Football () (men)
Futsal () (men)
Taekwondo () (men)
Table tennis ()
Volleyball ()
Beach volleyball ()
Delegations edit
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 | |||
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58 | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | ||||||
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74 | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | ||||||
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54 | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | ||||||
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39 | X | X | X | X | X | X | ||||||||
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155 | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | |
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46 | X | X | X | X | X | |||||||||
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140 | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | |
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32 | X | X | X | X | X | |||||||||
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57 | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | ||||
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42 | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | |||||||
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12 | X | X | X | |||||||||||
When the Games started 
Equatorial Guinea didn't field any athletes.
Medal table edit
Host nation (Macau)
| 2006 Lusophony Games medal count |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pos | Country | 
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Total |
| 1 |  Brazil
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29 | 19 | 9 | 57 |
| 2 |  Portugal
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12 | 18 | 21 | 51 |
| 3 |  Sri Lanka
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3 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
| 4 |  Mozambique
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3 | 0 | 3 | 6 |
| 5 |  Cape Verde
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1 | 1 | 4 | 6 |
| 6 |  Macau
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0 | 3 | 11 | 14 |
| 7 |  Angola
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0 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 8 |  India
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0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
 São Tomé and Príncipe
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0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| 10 |  East Timor
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0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
 Guinea-Bissau
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0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Total | 48 | 48 | 57 | 153 | |
Calendar edit
Venues edit
- IPM Multisport Pavilion (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 de Macau)
- Sports Field and Pavilion at 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)
See also edit
References edit
- ^ 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)
- ^ However, the Games started earlier on 4 October due to |the international football calendar limitations.
- ^ "macau2006.org". Archived from the original on 2 March 2007. Retrieved 25 September 2006.