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The ASEAN Para Games is a biannual multi-sport event held after every Southeast Asian Games for ASEAN athletes with physical disabilities. The games are participated by the 11 countries located in Southeast Asia - Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Timor Leste and Vietnam . The Para Games, patterned after the Paralympic Games, are played by physically challenged athletes with mobility disabilities, visual disabilities, who are amputees and those with cerebral palsy. The ASEAN ParaGames is traditionally hosted by the same country and sport venues where the Southeast Asian Games took place. Although it has been a norm for the Southeast Asian Games host nation to host the games, lack of accessible facilities or inexperience in catering to the needs for disabled sport triggered hosting city substitutions like Surakarta rather than Jakarta in the 2011 ASEAN Para Games, or a change of country Malaysia rather than Laos for the 2009 ASEAN ParaGames. The APG serves as a regional-level multisport event to prepare physically challenged ASEAN athletes to compete in the Paralympic Games.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.paralympic.org.my/currentaffairs/150511_6th_ASEAN_PARA_GAMES.asp )〕 Aside from promoting friendship and solidarity among persons with disabilities in the ASEAN region through sports, the Games also hopes to promote and develop sports for the differently-abled, apart from to rehabilitating and integrating persons with disability into mainstream society through sports.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.aseanparasports.org/news/_news1.htm )〕 The ASEAN ParaGames is under the regulation of the ASEAN Para Sports Federation (APSF) and is traditionally hosted by the same country and sport venues where the Southeast Asian Games took place. ==History== ;Future Games * 8th ASEAN Para Games – Singapore, on 3– 9 December 2015. ;Recently concluded * ;Previous Games * 7th ASEAN Para Games – Naypyidaw, Myanmar from 14–20 January 2014. * 6th ASEAN Para Games – Solo, Indonesia from 15–20 December 2011. * 5th ASEAN Para Games originally scheduled for Laos, was instead held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from 15–19 August 2009. :The Sailing event held in Port Dickson was a full medal sport. :Selected to host the 2009 SEA Games, Laos begged off from hosting the 5th ASEAN ParaGames due to financial difficulty and inexperience in providing necessary support for athletes with disabilities. This edition of the Para Games was also notable for being launched into action 5 months ahead of the 2009 Sea Games. * 4th ASEAN Para Games – Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand from 20–26 January 2008. : The Paralympic shooting event was a full medal sport. * 3rd ASEAN Para Games – Manila, Philippines from 14–20 December 2005. :Sailing introduced as a demo sport. :Wheelchair basketball and Wheelchair tennis was played for the first time. * 2nd ASEAN Para Games – Hanoi, Vietnam from 19–27 December 2003. :Timor Leste was formally included in the Games increasing its member countries to eleven. * The 1st ASEAN Para Games – Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from 25–30 October 2001, was the initial major sports event of the ASEAN Para Sports Federation (APSF). :The APSF was conceived in the special meeting of the National Paralympic Committee of the ASEAN countries during the 10th Malaysian Paralympiad and the ASEAN Cities Invitational. The ASEAN Para Games, the "parallel" sports event for the disabled after every Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games), was patterned after the Paralympics and the FESPIC Games. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「ASEAN Para Games」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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