The 3rd West Asian Games

West Asian Games

West Asian Games are a bi-annual multi-sport event held among the athletes from West Asia.At present, WAG are joined by thirteen members namely Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen.The West Asian Games were first...

were to be held from 7 to 17 April 2003 in Damascus

Damascus

Damascus , commonly known in Syria as Al Sham , and as the City of Jasmine , is the capital and the second largest city of Syria after Aleppo, both are part of the country's 14 governorates. In addition to being one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world, Damascus is a major...

, Syria; however they were postponed and then cancelled. On 4 April 2002 the West Asian Games Federation decided that the Games would be held every four years, instead of two, namely one year before the Asian Games.

The Third West Asian Games was held from the 1st to 10 December 2005 in Doha

Doha

Doha is the capital city of the state of Qatar. Located on the Persian Gulf, it had a population of 998,651 in 2008, and is also one of the municipalities of Qatar...

, Qatar and involved over 1,200 athletes from 13 nations participating in 11 sports. Women participated in the West Asian Games for the first time.

Sports

• • Swimming
    Swimming (sport)
    Swimming is a sport governed by the Fédération Internationale de Natation .-History: Competitive swimming in Europe began around 1800 BCE, mostly in the form of the freestyle. In 1873 Steve Bowyer introduced the trudgen to Western swimming competitions, after copying the front crawl used by Native...
    
    
  • Diving
    Diving
    Diving is the sport of jumping or falling into water from a platform or springboard, sometimes while performing acrobatics. Diving is an internationally-recognized sport that is part of the Olympic Games. In addition, unstructured and non-competitive diving is a recreational pastime.Diving is one...
    
    

Medal table

1	tyle="text-align:left"	|28	19	20	67
2	tyle="text-align:left"	|25	15	17	57
3	tyle="text-align:left"	|20	25	16	61
4	tyle="text-align:left"	|20	13	17	50
5	tyle="text-align:left"	|7	9	6	22
6	tyle="text-align:left"	|4	9	12	25
7	tyle="text-align:left"	|4	4	3	11
8	tyle="text-align:left"	|3	12	10	25
9	tyle="text-align:left"	|3	2	2	7
10	tyle="text-align:left"	|2	1	7	10
11	tyle="text-align:left"	|2	1	0	3
12	tyle="text-align:left"	|0	5	5	10
Total		118	115	115	348