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28th Southeast Asian Games
File:2015 Southeast Asian Games logo.png
Logo of the 2015 Southeast Asian Games
Motto: "Celebrate The Extraordinary"
Events402 in 36 sports
Main venueSingapore National Stadium
WebsiteOfficial Website
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The 2015 Southeast Asian Games, officially known as the 28th Southeast Asian Games (or simply 28th SEA Games), is a multi-sport event hosted by the city-state of Singapore.[1][2][3] It is currently held from 5 to 16 June 2015, although several events have commenced since 29 May 2015. About 7000 athletes from 11 participating nations are competing in the Games, with 402 events in 36 sports featured in the Games.[4][5]

Singapore as the host city of SEA Games 2015.

Host selection

Singapore's selection as the host of the 28th Southeast Asian Games of 2015 was announced in 2011 during the 26th Southeast Asian Games, held in Indonesian cities Palembang and Jakarta. Singapore had previously been nominated to host the event in 2007 and 2013, but turned down both opportunities citing costs associated with the construction of the new Singapore Sports Hub.

Development and preparation

The Singapore SEA Games Organising Committee (SINGSOC) was formed on 28 June 2012 to oversee the staging of the event.

Steering Committee members of the Games[6][7]
Position Name Designation
Chairman Mr Lawrence Wong Acting Minister, Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth. Senior Minister of State, Ministry of Communications and Information
Members Mr Chan Chun Sing Minister, Prime Minister's Office
Ms Indranee Rajah Senior Minister of State, Ministry of Education and Ministry of Law
Mrs Carmee Lim Founder and President of Aoede Music Enterprise
Mr Low Teo Ping Vice-President, Singapore National Olympic Council
Mr Masagos Zulkifli Senior Minister of State, Ministry of Home Affairs and Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Mr Mohamed Abdul Jaleel Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Mini Environment Service Group
Mr Valerio Nannini Managing Director, Nestle Singapore Pte Ltd
Ms Annabel Pennefather Vice-President, Singapore National Olympic Council
Mr Brian Richmond Radio Personality, MediaCorp Pte Ltd
Mr Saktiandi Supaat Head, FX Research Team, Global Markets, Global Banking, Maybank
Mr Manu Sawhney Director, Manchester United Limited
Mr Seah Moon Ming Executive Director and Group CEO of Pavilion Energy Pte Ltd and Pavilion Gas Pte Ltd
Mr Richard Seow Yung Liang Chairman, Singapore Sports Council
Dr Tan Eng Liang Vice-President, Singapore National Olympic Council
Ms Jessica Tan Soon Neo Managing Director, Microsoft Singapore
Mr Tan Kian Chew Group Chief Executive Officer, NTUC FairPrice Co-operative Ltd
Mr Leonard Tan Founder and Chief Executive Officer, PurpleClick Media Pte Ltd
Mr Stanley Tan Chairman, National Volunteer & Philanthropy Centre
Mrs Josephine Teo Senior Minister of State, Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Transport
Mr Teo Ser Luck Minister of State, Ministry of Trade and Industry and Mayor, North East District

Venues

The National Stadium in Singapore, venue of the athletics and football events, and the opening and closing ceremonies for the 28th SEA Games

The 2015 Southeast Asian Games will use a mix of new, existing and temporary venues. Given the city-state's compact size, most venues are pre-existing public-sporting facilities located in the suburban heartlands which will revert to public use after the games. No major retrofitting work is necessary in most venues as most are of good quality and has been used to host major multi-disciplinary events such as the 2010 Youth Olympic Games.

At the centrepiece of the activities will be the Singapore Sports Hub which was completed in mid-2014. Incorporating the new 55,000-seat national stadium, it will host most of the events.

A games village will not be built. Instead, a "village in the city" concept will see athletes and officials housed in 20 hotels in Downtown Singapore. Besides being physically near to the Singapore Sports Hub, it is hoped that it will add vibe to the city and reduce post-games costs in converting a dedicated games village to other uses.

The 28th Southeast Asian Games have 30 venues for this games.

Cluster Competition Venue Sports
Kallang Cluster Singapore National Stadium Opening & Closing Ceremony, Athletics (20 km Walk, Marathon), Football
OCBC Arena Hall 1 Netball, Basketball
OCBC Arena Hall 2 Fencing, Volleyball (Indoor)
OCBC Arena Hall 4 Billiards & snooker
Singapore Indoor Stadium Table Tennis, Badminton
OCBC Aquatic Centre Aquatics – Diving, Swimming, Synchronised swimming, Waterpolo
Kallang Squash Centre Squash (Singles & Team)
Kallang Tennis Centre Tennis
Kallang Cricket Field Archery
Kallang Softball Field Softball
Singapore Expo Expo Hall 1 Boxing, Sepaktakraw, Judo, Pencak Silat
Expo Hall 2 Taekwondo, Wushu
Marina Cluster Marina Bay Traditional Boat Race, Sailing – Keelboat
Marina Channel Canoeing, Rowing
Other
Venue Sports
Bedok Reservoir Water Ski[8]
Bishan Sports Hall Gymnastics
Bishan Stadium Football[8]
Jalan Besar Stadium Football
Choa Chu Kang Stadium Rugby sevens[8]
East Coast Park Triathlon
ITE Central Floorball
Marina Barrage Cycling
National Sailing Centre Sailing
National Shooting Centre Shooting (Outdoors)
Orchid Country Club Bowling
Padang Pétanque
Sengkang Hockey Stadium Field hockey
Turf Club Riding Centre Equestrian
Tanglin Club Squash (Jumbo Double)
SAFRA Yishun Shooting (Indoors)

Public transport

Given the pre-existing extensive public transport network already in place, there is no games-specific major infrastructural development to support it. The clustering of venues is aimed at easing the traffic flow, and a bus service for games athletes and officials will be provided.

Volunteers

The organisers estimated that about 15,000 volunteers are needed to successfully host the games. Volunteer recruitment began in late 2013, and by February 2014, about 5,000 volunteers have signed up.[9] This number swelled to over 17,000 by February 2015, and a volunteers night event was held at Universal Studios Singapore to launch the sports volunteers brand name as "Team Nila" and to thank the volunteers who have signed up with free shows at the venue. Amongst the pool of 17,000 volunteers, 35% came from the community, while 65% were from corporations in support of the games.[10]

Ticketing

A total of about 790,000 tickets were put on sale from February 2015 online, at the Singapore Indoor Stadium and at SingPost outlets. To encourage public participation in the games, it was announced on 28 January 2015 that 18 of the sports will be free for spectators, while the other 18 are kept at relatively affordable levels of between S$5 to S$20.[11] By 15 April 2015 some sports such as swimming and fencing were selling fast, while silat and sepak takraw were much less popular.[12] Organisers reported that ticket sales were pass 70% for most sports by 27 April, with fencing and swimming being the most popular at 85 and 70% tickets sold respectively, while rhythmic gymnastics, silat and wushu have also sold over 70%. Billiards and snooker, equestrian, sepak takraw, taekwondo, and artistic gymnastics have sold about half their tickets. Rugby and judo have sold 30%, while table tennis has sold only 20%.[13]

Priced between S$5 to S$20, priority sales for the opening and closing ceremonies tickets for those who registered theirs interests in 2014 began on 15 January 2015, while sales for the general public began on 22 January 2015. In February 2015, tickets to the opening ceremony were going at over seven times their original value on unauthorised websites, despite 40% of the tickets still available at that time.[14] By March 2015, tickets to the opening ceremony were sold out.[15]

Countdown

During the closing ceremony of the 2013 Southeast Asian Games, the SEAG Flag was formally handed over to Singapore from Myanmar. This was followed by a song and dance section highlighting Singapore as the next venue.

On 27 June 2014, a series of festivities were held at the Singapore Sports Hub, including a fireworks display, to mark the one year countdown to the games. The Sports Hub Community Open House was held in conjunction with the launch to introduce the new sports facilities to the general public.[16]

The countdown to the games began on 15 February 2014 with a launch party at the Gardens by the Bay, where the logo, theme and mascot were also introduced.[17]

800 Nanyang Polytechnic students organised a major countdown event on 11 April 2015 to mark the final 50 days in a few days, where about 4,000 people turned up to attend a concert and a sports carnival.[18]

On 16 April 2015, the 50-day countdown began with various organisations stacking a number each through a video tribute. This included: London School of Business and Finance Singapore (49), Compassvale Primary School (48), Development Bank of Singapore (47), National Kidney Foundation (46), CWT Limited (45), Park View Primary School (43), Sport Singapore (42), 41st Battalion, Singapore Armoured Regiment (41), and Corporation Primary School (40).[19]

Security

The principal agency to ensure the security of the games is the Singapore Police Force, supplemented by the Auxiliary Police Forces. The organisers singled out security as one of their major concerns ahead of the games, with worries over unforeseen security breaches which may occur across any of the venues, some of which are easily accessible by the public.[20]

Medals

A total of 1,327 medals will be awarded during the games. The design of the medals were unveiled on 27 April 2015. Designed by Joys Tan from Sport Singapore, they feature the Games' logo on one side, and the Singapore Sports Hub on the reverse. Each medal will be 80mm in diameter and will each weigh 183 grams. It was also announced during the media brief that smaller versions of the medal, in the form of medallions, will be given to all spectators of the closing ceremony.[21]

Opening ceremony

The opening ceremony was held on 5 June 2015 at the National Stadium, the first major opening ceremony for a sporting event in the new venue.[22] Organised by the Singapore Armed Forces, which has also been responsible for the annual National Day Parade, they were supported by a creative team with Beatrice Chia-Richmond serving as Creative Director. The ceremony was helmed by more than 5,000 performers and volunteers and supported by 3,500 soldiers. Given the enclosed nature of the stadium, extensive use of an aerial system to allow suspension and movement of performers and props will be possible. Floor projection will be accomplished using 160 multimedia high-definition projectors.[23]

Closing ceremony

The Games will have its closing ceremony held at the Singapore National Stadium on 16 June 2015.

Medal winners of every participating countries will be then paraded onto the stadium floor to the beat of Singaporean music – chants of "Singapore" ringing through the stadium.

The SEA Games in Singapore will be then finally put to rest with one last volley of fireworks and round of musical performances following the official handing over of SEA Games responsibilities to Malaysia, host of the 2017 Southeast Asian Games.

The Games

Participating nations

The number of athletes competing for each nation is shown in parenthesis.

Sports

The 2015 Southeast Asian Games programme will feature 402 events in 36 sports and disciplines. The number of events in each discipline is noted in parentheses.

¹ – not an official Olympic Sport.
² – sport played only in the SEAG.
³ – not a traditional Olympic nor SEAG Sport and introduced only by the host country.
° – a former official Olympic Sport, not applied in previous host countries and was introduced only by the host country.
ʰ- sport not played in the previous edition and was reintroduced by the host country.

The first 30 sports were announced by the Singapore National Olympic Council on 10 December 2013 on the sidelines of the 27th SEA Games in Myanmar. It announced then that there was room for as many as eight more sports.[24][25] On 29 April 2014, the final six sports, namely boxing, equestrian, floorball, petanque, rowing and volleyball were added to the programme. Floorball will feature in the event for the first time after being a demonstration sport in the 2013 edition.

In its selection of events, the organising committee indicated their desire to set a model for subsequent games in trimming the number of "traditional" sports to refocus on the SEAG's initial intent to increase the level of sporting excellence in key sports. Hence, despite room for up to eight traditional sports, only two, floorball and netball, were included in the programme. Amongst the other 34 sports, 24 are Olympic sports and all remaining sports are featured in the Asian Games.

Calendar

OC Opening ceremony ● Event competitions 1 Gold medal events CC Closing ceremony
May / June 29
Fri 		30
Sat 		31
Sun 		1
Mon 		2
Tue 		3
Wed 		4
Thu 		5
Fri 		6
Sat 		7
Sun 		8
Mon 		9
Tue 		10
Wed 		11
Thu 		12
Fri 		13
Sat 		14
Sun 		15
Mon 		16
Tue 		Events
Ceremonies OC CC —
Archery ● ● ● 5 5 10
Athletics 2 2 8 12 12 10 46
Badminton ● ● 2 ● ● ● 5 7
Basketball ● ● ● ● ● ● 2 2
Billiards & snooker ● 2 2 3 3 10
Bowling 2 2 2 2 ● 2 10
Boxing ● ● ● 11 11
Canoeing 5 3 9 17
Cycling 2 2 1 1 6
Diving 2 2 2 2 8
Equestrian ● 1 ● 1 1 1 4
Fencing 3 3 3 3 12
Field hockey ● ● ● ● ● ● 1 1 2
Floorball ● ● ● ● ● 2 2
Football ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● 1 1
Golf ● ● ● 4 4
Gymnastics 1 1 2 5 5 2 16
Judo 5 5 2 12
Netball ● ● ● ● ● ● 1 1
Pencak silat ● ● ● 3 10 13
Pétanque 2 ● 2 1 ● 2 ● 1 ● 2 10
Rowing 8 ● ● 10 18
Rugby sevens ● 2 2
Sailing ● 1 4 ● ● 4 ● 4 7 20
Sepaktakraw 2 2 ● 1 ● ● 1 2 ● 2 10
Shooting 4 6 2 2 4 2 4 2 26
Softball ● ● ● ● 2 2
Squash ● 2 ● ● 2 ● 1 5
Swimming 6 6 7 6 6 7 38
Synchronised swimming ● 1 2 3
Table tennis ● 2 1 2 ● ● 2 7
Taekwondo 7 4 4 15
Tennis ● ● ● 2 ● ● ● 2 3 7
Traditional boat race 4 4 8
Triathlon 1 1 2
Volleyball ● ● ● ● ● 1 1 2
Water polo ● ● ● ● ● 1 1 2
Waterskiing ● 4 4 3 11
Wushu 4 7 9 20
Daily medal events 0 0 0 0 2 5 7 0 42 45 38 42 48 39 36 31 50 10 7 402
Cumulative total 0 0 0 0 2 7 14 14 56 101 149 181 229 268 304 335 385 395 402
May / June 29
Fri 		30
Sat 		31
Sun 		1
Mon 		2
Tue 		3
Wed 		4
Thu 		5
Fri 		6
Sat 		7
Sun 		8
Mon 		9
Tue 		10
Wed 		11
Thu 		12
Fri 		13
Sat 		14
Sun 		15
Mon 		16
Tue 		Total
events

Medal table

  Host nation

1  Singapore (SIN) 62 56 66 184
2  Vietnam (VIE) 55 27 47 129
3  Thailand (THA) 50 60 45 155
4  Malaysia (MAS) 30 31 39 100
5  Indonesia (INA) 26 31 46 103
6  Philippines (PHI) 22 23 36 81
7  Myanmar (MYA) 11 21 24 56
8  Cambodia (CAM) 1 4 3 8
9  Laos (LAO) 0 3 12 15
10  Brunei (BRU) 0 0 5 5
11  East Timor (TLS) 0 0 1 1
GRAND TOTAL 251 253 339 841
Source: 28th SEA Games

Broadcasting

  Host nation

2015 SEA Games Broadcasters rights in Southeast Asia
IOC Code Country Broadcast network Television network Radio network Digital network
BRU Brunei Brunei Radio Televisyen Brunei
Kristal-Astro 		RTB1
Astro Arena 		Hot FM
One FM
CAM Cambodia Cambodia Radio and Television of Cambodia Television of Cambodia Radio of Cambodia
INA Indonesia Indonesia Surya Citra Media
Radio and Television of the Republic of Indonesia 		SCTV
Indosiar
Televisi Republik Indonesia
Nexmedia 		Radio Republik Indonesia
LAO Laos Laos Laos National Radio and Television Lao National Television Lao National Radio
MAS Malaysia Malaysia Sistem Televisyen Malaysia Berhad
Astro
Radio Television Malaysia (RTM) 		TV3 Malaysia (Some Games, News reporting)
TV9 Malaysia (Some Games, Highlights)
Astro Arena(Some games)
TV1 Malaysia (News reporting only)
TV2 Malaysia(News reporting only) 		Hot FM
Fly FM
One FM
MYA Myanmar Myanmar Myanmar Radio and Television Myanmar Television Myanmar Radio
PHI Philippines Philippines Sports5[27] TV5
AksyonTV 		Radyo5 sports5.ph
SIN Singapore Singapore MediaCorp TV MediaCorp okto (Main Channel)
MediaCorp Channel U (Some games only)
MediaCorp Channel 5 (Opening Ceremony, Today at the Games and Closing Ceremony only)
MediaCorp Channel NewsAsia (Reports & Highlights)
Singtel TV 		MediaCorp Radio 938LIVE YouTube ([28])
THA Thailand Thailand The Television Pool of Thailand (TPT) BEC-TV Channel 3
RTA-TV Channel 5
BBTV Channel 7
Modernine TV
NBT channel
Thai PBS 		MCOT Radio Network, NBT Radio
TML East Timor Timor Leste RTTL Televisão Timor Leste Radio Timor Leste
VIE Vietnam Vietnam VTV VTV3
VTV6 		Voice of Vietnam

Marketing

Mascot

Nila, the official mascot

The official mascot of the 2015 Southeast Asian Games is a lion named Nila. The name comes from Sang Nila Utama, the founder of Singapura. Nila has a red mane and heart-shaped face. He wears either his signature tracksuit or blue sporting attire, depending on the occasion.[29]

Sponsors

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  29. ^ "28th SEA Games Mascot - Nila". Retrieved 16 February 2014.
Preceded by
2013
Naypyidaw, Myanmar 		2015
Singapore 		Succeeded by
2017
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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