Sanya, Hainan, China 28 Nov - 5 Dec 2020

Classes in competition: Paramotors: PF1

Important dates

The three-stage process of sports entries by the National Olympic Committees:

• First round – Entry by Sport: 18 December 2019 to 30 January 2020.

• Second round – Entry by Number: 15 March - 13 April 2020.

• Third round – Entry by Name: 1 September - 28 September 2020.

• Athletes village opening: 23 November 2020.

• Practice days: 27 November - 29 November 2020.

• Competition days: 30 November - 5 December 2020.

• Medals ceremony: 5 December 2020 Immediately after the last task.

Links

FAI News announcement march 2019
Games news from OCA
ABG main page at OCA
Sanya games home page at OCA
Official games website

Championship Officers

Key facts

• The official website is http://www.sanya2020.cn/. More about the area on the City of Sanya website.

• National teams are limited to maximum 5 pilots in the PF1 class (Paraglider control / Foot-launched / flown solo) They can be flown by male or female pilots and may use any type of engine.

• Gold, Silver and Bronze medals are available for:
  • Precision flying, individual.
  • Economy flying, individual.
  • Combined precision flying and economy flying, teams.

• The main considerations in selecting the tasks are they are close to the beach, fun to fly and entertaining for spectators. Scoring will be in a form which is really easy for everyone to understand.

• There are 2 practice days and up to 6 competition days, it seems probable tasks will happen every morning before it gets too windy.

• Site location is Yazhou Bay.

• There is no Athlete entry fee, but there may be expenses in the form of the Athletes Village accommodation fee and the cost of getting to the Games and home again.

• China has a first class reputation for organising these sorts of events, the 2007 World Paramotor Championships and the 2012 ABG in Haiyang were both hugely successful.

About ABG

The Asian Beach Games is quite different to FAI organised events. The sanctioning body is the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) which is a group of 45 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) in the Asian Region.

ABGs are very big events, for example ABG Phuket 2014 involved something in excess of 5000 people including c.2697 athletes competing for 169 medals.

The ABG setup is a triangular arrangement identical to other games organised under the Olympic flag:

• Sanctioning body: OCA - Invites all member NOCs to send Athletes. Oversees the event on behalf of all its member NOCs, keeps media revenue (if any) and distributes some of it later amongst participating NOCs and IFs.

• Local Organizing Committee: SABGOC; Sanya Asian Beach Games Organizing Committee - A stand-alone body contractually responsible to OCA for providing the venues, infrastructure, accommodation, organizational staff, websites, accreditation, medals Etc. Chooses sports it wants to include in the event from a list provided by OCA (some, like beach volleyball are mandatory, many are optional). Can raise funds in any way apart from media.

• International Sports Federations (IF): Responsible for supplying rules, judges, marshals, jury, scoring, entry requirements.... and then running their competition in the venue provided by SABGOC amongst competitors provided by the NOCs. Travel, accommodation Etc. of IF staff is paid by SABGOC.

OCA invites each IF to nominate a Technical Delegate (TD) who is responsible for coordinating their event(s) planning and execution with SABGOC and OCA to ensure a successful outcome.

CIMA has done this twice before, at the 2012 3rd Asian Beach Games at Haiyang, China and the 4th Asian Beach Games 2014, Phuket, Thailand