At noon on April 8, the Organizing Committee of the 19th Asian Games in 2022 officially announced the time and some items of the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou in 2022 on its official website. 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games time announced! Mascot collection will also be launched in the near future.
The 19th Asian Games in 2022 will be held from September 10 to 25, 2022. At present, the number of major events has been increased to 37, including swimming, archery, track and field, badminton, basketball, boxing, canoeing, cycling, equestrian, fencing, football, golf, gymnastics, handball, hockey, judo, modern pentathlon and rowing 28 Olympic events, including rugby, sailing, shooting, table tennis, taekwondo, tennis, triathlon, volleyball, weightlifting and wrestling, and 9 non Olympic events, including Wushu, rattan, croquet, jujitsu, cricket, chess, roller skating, kabaddi and squash.
Compared with the 34 Hangzhou Asian Games initially determined at the 36th Asian Olympic Council plenary meeting held in September 2017, the 37 major events determined this time have added equestrian events in the Olympic Games, dragon boat, a non Olympic event, as a sub item of canoeing in the Olympic Games, and three new non Olympic events, including jujitsu, jujitsu and cricket.
Next, according to the new events (hip-hop, competitive rock climbing, surfing and skateboarding) proposed by the Paris Olympic Organizing Committee on February 21, and the competition events proposed by the Asian Olympic Council at the first meeting of the Coordination Committee of the Hangzhou Asian Games, the Hangzhou Asian organizing committee will discuss with the Asian Olympic Council and the Chinese Olympic Committee on the setting of follow-up events according to the project attributes and setting principles.
According to the relevant people of the Organizing Committee of the 19th Asian Games in 2022, they will also hold the launching ceremony of the mascot collection of Hangzhou Asian Games in the near future.