Saudi Arabia Chosen to Host 2025 Asian Indoor, Martial Arts Games
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Saudi Arabia will host the 2025 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games, an event that will be an important warm-up for the Asian Games that Riyadh is due to stage in 2034.
The decision was approved by acclamation during the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) General Assembly on Sunday.
It is due to be the seventh edition of a Games that features a variety of sports, ranging from traditional Asian events such as pencak silat, sepak takraw and muaythai, to Olympic disciplines such as 3x3 basketball, badminton and taekwondo.
The competition is the second-largest event organized by the OCA after the Asian Games.
The last edition of the Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games, held in Ashgabat in Turkmenistan in 2017, featured more than 4,000 athletes from 63 countries.
Iran finished in third place after Turkmenistan and China, winning 118 medals.
The first Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games organized in its current format had taken place in Incheon in South Korea in 2013.
The next edition was due to take place this year in Thailand but has now been postponed until November 2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
