Asia Pacific Deaf Games


Asia Pacific Deaf Games is a deaf multi-sport event established in 1984 which is held every 4 years in the Asia Pacific region. It is the successor to the "Far Eastern Deaf Football Championship" which was held in Taipei in 1983. The inaugural games was held in 1984 in Hong Kong. At that time, the games was known as the Asia Pacific Deaf Football Championship which was held biennially until 1988. In 1988, the games' governing body Asia Pacific Deaf Sports Confederation was formed during the 3rd Championship in Melbourne, Australia with Ms. Wendy Home as its first administrator. The games changed its name to its present name, the Asia Pacific Deaf Games when the games was held in Seoul, South Korea in 1992 after Asia Pacific Deaf Sports Confederation passed a resolution to change the name of the games, which has since been held once every four years.

List of Asia Pacific Deaf Games

List of participating nations

1984 Asia Pacific Deaf Football Championship

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1986 Asia Pacific Deaf Football Championship

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1988 Asia Pacific Deaf Football Championship

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1992 Asia Pacific Deaf Games

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1996 Asia Pacific Deaf Games

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2000 Asia Pacific Deaf Games

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2012 Asia Pacific Deaf Games

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;Seoul
;Gyeonggi Province
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2015 Asia Pacific Deaf Games

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Officially known as: 8th Asia Pacific Deaf Games
Motto: The Power of Silence
Officially opened by: Cheng Wen-tsan
Athlete's oath: Huang Shu Min
Torch lighter: Wang Shih Wei, Peng Si Ting

Venues

Non-Deaflympics sport is denoted with asterisk

Calendar

Medal table

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5 Games records were broken, all were from athletics.

Athletics

Badminton

Basketball

Bowling

Cycling

Football

Futsal

Judo

Swimming

Table tennis

Taekwondo

Tennis

Logos and mascots of the Asia Pacific Deaf Games