Southeast Asian Games 2025

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Southeast Asian Games 2025

 

Various Cities (THA) - 3 December 2025 - 20 December 2025

 

 

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Edited Wednesday at 11:48 AM by Sindo

[dcmdtruefan 40]

I wanted to use some of my posts in the following days and weeks to analyze some aspects of the upcoming Southeast Asian Games including the amount of Olympic sports events hosted in Thailand as well as predictions for those who will win in the Olympic sports events.

 

The SEA Games has been known for hosting sports program that includes a combination of Olympic sports events as well as a number of local sports that favors the host in each edition. What usually happens are complaints of a lack of standardization of the sports program that falls short of adequately preparing the regional athletes for the Olympic and Asian Games.

 

Two years ago, the SEA Games federation agreed to amend its own charter to streamline its sports program to put more of a focus to including Olympic and Asian Games Sports with a limitation of four non-Olympic and Asian Games sports. My following posts (Warning: This is a multi-post topic) intends to measure the standardization of the 2025 SEA Games sports program by looking at the amount of Olympic Sports events that will be hosted in the 2028 LA Games and compare the percentage to previous SEA Games and Asian Games editions since the end of the Cold War (ca. 1990).

[dcmdtruefan 40]

Part 2:

 

In this year’s SEA Games, 33 out of the 36 sports competed in Los Angeles will be hosted in Thailand. Surfing, lacrosse and flag football are the three sports left out of this year’s program. In terms of the Olympic sports events, according to my estimation, 267 out of the 351 events at LA will be hosted in Thailand, which accounts to 76.07%. Here is the breakdown of events that are will be hosted and left off:

 

2028 Olympic Events Hosted in 2025 SEA Games: (267/351 events; 76.07 %)

 

Core Sports

 

Aquatics-Artistic Swimming (2 out of 2 events hosted)

 

Events hosted:

 

Women: Duet, Team

 

Aquatics-Diving (3/8)

 

Events hosted:

 

Men: 3 m Springboard, Synchronized 3 m

 

Women: Synchronized 10 m

 

Events left out:

 

Men: 10 m Platform, Synchronized 10 m;

 

Women: 3 m Springboard, 10 m Platform, Synchronized 3 m 

 

Aquatics-Swimming (40/43)

 

Events hosted:

 

Men: 50 m Freestyle, 100 m Freestyle, 200 m Freestyle, 400 m Freestyle, 800 m Freestyle, 1,500 m Freestyle, 50 m Backstroke, 100 m Backstroke, 200 m Backstroke, 50 m Breaststroke, 100 m Breaststroke, 200 m Breaststroke, 50 m Butterfly, 100 m Butterfly, 200 m Butterfly, 200 m Individual Medley, 400 m Individual Medley, 4 x 100 m Freestyle Relay, 4 x 200 m Freestyle Relay, 4 x 100 m Medley Relay, 10 km Open Water

 

Women: 50 m Freestyle, 100 m Freestyle, 200 m Freestyle, 400 m Freestyle, 800 m Freestyle, 1,500 m Freestyle, 50 m Backstroke, 100 m Backstroke, 200 m Backstroke, 50 m Breaststroke, 100 m Breaststroke, 200 m Breaststroke, 50 m Butterfly, 100 m Butterfly, 200 m Butterfly, 200 m Individual Medley, 400 m Individual Medley, 4 x 100 m Freestyle Relay, 4 x 200 m Freestyle Relay, 4 x 100 m Medley Relay, 10 km Open Water

 

Events left out:

 

Men: 800 m Freestyle;

 

Women: 1,500 m Freestyle;

 

Mixed: 4 x 100 m Medley Relay

 

Aquatics-Water Polo (2/2):

 

Events hosted:

 

Men’s Team, Women’s Team

 

Archery (6/6):

 

Events hosted:

 

Men: Recurve Individual, Recurve Team

 

Women: Recurve Individual, Recurve Team

 

Mixed: Recurve Team, Compound Team

 

Athletics (47/48):

 

Events hosted:

 

Men: 100 m, 200 m, 400 m, 800 m, 1,500 m, 5,000 m, 10,000 m, 3,000 m Steeplechase, 110 m Hurdles, 400 m Hurdles, 4 x 100 m Relay, 4 x 400 m Relay, Marathon, 20 km Walk, High Jump, Pole Vault, Long Jump, Triple Jump, Shot Put, Discus Throw, Hammer Throw, Javelin Throw, Decathlon

 

Women: 100 m, 200 m, 400 m, 800 m, 1,500 m, 5,000 m, 10,000 m, 3,000 m Steeplechase, 100 m Hurdles, 400 m Hurdles, 4 x 100 m Relay, 4 x 400 m Relay, Marathon, 20 km Walk, High Jump, Pole Vault, Long Jump, Triple Jump, Shot Put, Discus Throw, Hammer Throw, Javelin Throw, Heptathlon

 

Mixed: 4 x 400 m Relay

 

Events left out:

 

Mixed: 4 x 100 m Relay

 

Badminton (5/5):

 

Events hosted:

 

Men’s Singles, Women’s Singles, Men’s Doubles, Women’s Doubles, Mixed Doubles

 

Basketball (2/2):

 

Events hosted:

 

Men’s Team, Women’s Team

 

Basketball 3x3 (2/2):

 

Events hosted:

 

Men’s 3x3, Women’s 3x3

 

Boxing (11/14):

 

Events hosted:

 

Men: -57 kg (-55 kg), -60 kg, -63.5 kg (-65 kg), -69 kg (-70 kg), -80 kg

 

Women: -50 kg (-51 kg), -54 kg, -57 kg, -60 kg, -66 kg (-65 kg), -70 kg

 

Events left off:

 

Men: -90 kg, +90 kg

 

Women: -75 kg

 

Note: Since the boxing program is not entirely aligned with the weight categories implemented by World Boxing after the 2024 Olympics, I took the liberty in equating some of the older weight categories to the new ones made for the 2028 Olympics.

 

Canoeing (5/16):

 

Events hosted:

 

Men: Slalom: C1, K1

 

Women: Sprint: C2 500 m; Slalom: C1, K1

 

Events left out:

 

Men: C1 1,000 m Sprint, C2 500 m Sprint, K1 1,000 m Sprint, K2 500 m Sprint, K4 500 m Sprint, Extreme Slalom;

 

Women: C1 200 m Sprint, K1 500 m Sprint, K2 500 m Sprint, K4 500 m Sprint, Extreme Slalom

 

Cycling (8/22):

 

Events hosted:

 

Men: Road Race, Time Trial, Team Sprint, Team Pursuit, Keirin, BMX

 

Women: Road Race, Time Trial

 

Events left out:

 

Men: Sprint, Madison, Omnium, Olympic Cross Country, BMX Park;

 

Women: Team Sprint, Sprint, Keirin, Team Pursuit, Madison, Omnium, Olympic Cross Country, BMX Racing, BMX Park

 

Equestrian (6/6):

 

Events hosted:

 

Mixed: Dressage Individual, Dressage Team, Eventing Individual, Eventing Team, Show Jumping Individual, Show Jumping Team

 

Fencing (12/12):

 

Events hosted:

 

Men: Eppe Individual, Foil Individual, Sabre Individual, Eppe Team, Foil Team, Sabre Individual;

 

Women: Eppe Individual, Foil Individual, Sabre Individual, Eppe Team, Foil Team, Sabre Individual

 

Field Hockey (2/2):

 

Events hosted:

 

Men’s Team, Women’s Team

 

Football (2/2):

 

Events hosted:

 

Men’s Team, Women’s Team

 

Golf (2/3):

 

Events hosted:

 

Men’s Individual, Women’s Individual

 

Events left off:

 

Mixed Team

 

Gymnastics (12/19):

 

Events hosted:

 

Men: Floor Exercise, Pommel Horse, Rings, Vault, Parallel Bars, Horizontal Bar

 

Women: Floor Exercise, Vault, Uneven Bars, Balance Beam, Rhythmic All-Around, Rhythmic Group;

 

Events left out:

 

Men: Artistic Team, Artistic All-Around, Trampoline;

 

Women: Artistic Team, Artistic All-Around, Trampoline

 

Mixed: Artistic Team

 

Handball (2/2)

 

Events hosted:

 

Men’s Team, Women’s Team

 

Judo (9/15):

 

Events hosted:

 

Men: -73 kg, -81 kg, -90 kg, -100 kg

 

Women: -57 kg, -70 kg, -78 kg, +78 kg

 

Mixed: Team

 

Events left out:

 

Men: -60 kg, -66 kg, +100 kg;

 

Women: -48 kg, -52 kg, -63 kg

 

Modern Pentathlon (0/2):

 

No Olympic events hosted.

 

Events left out:

 

Men's Individual, Women's Individual 

 

Note: While the sport is included in the SEA Games program, none of the individual events include all of the elements of the format, in particularly the fencing portion of the competition. The SEA Games program included Laser-Run and triathlete formats.

 

Rowing (7/15):

 

Events hosted:

 

Men: Single Sculls, Double Sculls, Coastal Single Sculls

 

Women: Double Sculls, Quadruple Sculls, Fours, Coastal Single Sculls 

 

Events left out:

 

Men: Pairs, Fours, Quadruple Sculls, Eights;

 

Women: Single Sculls, Pairs, Eights;

 

Mixed: Coastal Double Sculls

 

Rugby (2/2):

 

Events hosted:

 

Men’s Sevens, Women’s Sevens

 

Sailing (7/10):

 

Events hosted:

 

Men: iqFoil, ICLA 7, Kiteboarding  

 

Women: iqFoil, ICLA 6, Kiteboarding

 

Mixed: 470

 

Events left out:

 

Men: 49er

 

Women: 49er FX

 

Mixed: Nacra 17

 

Shooting (13/15):

 

Events hosted:

 

Men: Rifle 3x 40, Air Pistol, 25 m Pistol, Trap, Skeet

 

Women: Air Rifle, Rifle 3x 40, Air Pistol, 25 m Pistol, Trap, Skeet

 

Mixed: Air Rifle Team, Air Pistol Team

 

Events left out:

 

Men: Air Rifle;

 

Mixed: Trap Team

 

Skateboarding (4/4):

 

Events hosted:

 

Men: Street, Park

 

Women: Street, Park

 

Sport Climbing (6/6):

 

Events hosted:

 

Men: Bouldering, Lead, Speed

 

Women: Bouldering, Lead, Speed

 

Table Tennis (5/6):

 

Events hosted:

 

Men’s Singles, Women’s Singles, Men’s Doubles, Women’s Doubles, Mixed Doubles

 

Events left off:

 

Mixed Team

 

Taekwondo (8/8):

 

Events hosted:

 

Men: -58 kg, -68 kg, -80 kg, -87 kg (+80 kg)

 

Women: -49 kg, -57 kg, -67 kg, -73 kg (+67 kg)

 

Note: The -87 kg and -73 kg categories are not +80 kg and the +67 Olympic categories in the truest sense. But I took the liberty to count them as representative of the +80 kg and +67 kg Olympic categories because those who compete in the -87 and -73 kg has to weight more than 80 kg and 67 kg respectively.

 

Tennis (5/5):

 

Events Hosted:

 

Men’s Singles, Women’s Singles, Men’s Doubles, Women’s Doubles, Mixed Doubles

 

Triathlon (3/3):

 

Events Hosted:

 

Men’s Individual, Women’s Individual, Mixed Team Relay

 

Volleyball (2/2):

 

Events Hosted:

 

Men’s Team, Women’s Team

 

Beach Volleyball (2/2):

 

Events Hosted:

 

Men’s Beach, Women’s Beach

 

Weightlifting (5/10):

 

Events Hosted:

 

Men: -61 kg, -73 kg

 

Women: -49 kg, -59 kg, -71 kg

 

Events left out:

 

Men: -89 kg, -102 kg, +102 kg;

 

Women: -81 kg, +81 kg

 

Note: Since the SEA Games weightlifting program was based out of the 2024 Olympics weight categories, I took the liberty to evaluate this particular sports program to the standards of the 2024 Olympic sports program. Despite the different of weight categories between the 2024 and 2028 Olympics, this does not affect the overall amount of Olympic events since both 2024 and 2028 Olympics contain 10 events.   

 

Wrestling (12/18):

 

Events hosted:

 

Men’s Freestyle: -57 kg, -65 kg, -74 kg, -86 kg

 

Men’s Greco-Roman: -60 kg, -67 kg, -77 kg, -87 kg

 

Women’s Freestyle: -50 kg, -53 kg, -57 kg, -62 kg

 

Events left out:

 

Men: -97 kg Freestyle, -125 kg Freestyle, -60 kg Greco Roman, -130 kg Greco Roman;

 

Women: -68 kg Freestyle, -76 kg Freestyle

 

Non-Core Sports

 

Baseball & Softball (2/2):

 

Events Hosted:

 

Men’s Baseball, Women’s Softball

 

Cricket (2/2):

 

Events Hosted:

 

Men’s T20, Women’s T20

 

Squash (2/2):

 

Events Hosted:

 

Men’s Singles, Women’s Singles

Edited September 17 by dcmdtruefan

[JoshMartini007 2,765]

While I wouldn't expect the SEA Games to match the Olympic program, it is a bit weird seeing some events excluded relative to what's in.

 

For example, they have women's 10m synchronized platform, but not the individual event. Similarly, in cycling there's team sprint, but no individual sprint (at least there's keirin)

[dcmdtruefan 40]

My analysis of the Olympic events hosted in the 2025 SEA Games has three parts and two posts, so please bear with me. 

 

In terms of the percentage of hosted Olympic events, the 76.07 percentage is the highest since the 2011 SEA games that was hosted in Indonesia, but still not as high as when Thailand last hosted the SEA Games in 2007. Here is the list of SEA Games and percentage of hosted Olympic events as caculated vis-a-vis the total amount of the preceding Olympic Games since 1991 (i.e. 2022 and 2023 sEA Games editions and thier hosted Olympic events will be counted as a percentage of the total amount of events hosted in the 2024 Olympics as it falls under the 2024 Cycle):

 

1991 Philippines: 175/256 events hosted (68.36 %). 17/25 sports hosted.

1993 Singapore: 175/271 events hosted (64.58 %). 18/26 sports hosted

1995 Thailand: 195/271 events hosted (71.96 %). 19/26 sports hosted.

1997 Indonesia: 248/295 events hosted (84.07 %). 23/28 sports hosted.

1999 Brunei: 123/300 events hosted (41 %). 12/28 sports hosted.

2001 Malaysia: 231/302 events hosted (76.49 %). 21/28 sports hosted.

2003 Vietnam: 234/302 events hosted (77.74 %). 21/28 sports hosted.

2005 Philippines: 231/302 events hosted (76.49 %). 24/28 sports hosted.

2007 Thailand: 253/302 events hosted (83.77 %). 27/28 sports hosted.

2009 Laos: 175/302 events hosted (57.95 %). 15/26 sports hosted.

2011 Indonesia: 252/302 events hosted (83.44 %). 22/26 sports hosted.

2013 Myanmar: 201/306 events hosted (65.69 %). 21/28 sports hosted.

2015 Singapore: 215/306 events hosted (70.26 %). 24/28 sports hosted.

2017 Malaysia: 207/340 events hosted (60.88 %). 24/33 sports hosted.

2019 Philippines: 230/339 events hosted (67.85 %). 29/33 sports hosted.

2022 Vietnam: 234/329 events hosted (71.12 %). 23/32 sports hosted.

2023 Cambodia: 193/329 events hosted (58.67 %). 21/32 sports hosted.

2025 Thailand: 267/351 events hosted (76.07 %). 33/36 sports hosted.

 

The 76.07 percentage of the 2025 edition fells short of the 2007 edition that Thailand last hosted as well as the 1997 and 2011 editions in Indonesia. Since 2011, the percentage of Olympic hosted events never gets above 80 percent. These figures pales in comparison to the Asian Games, which usually hovers around 90 percent:

 

1990 China: 229/256 events hosted (89.45 %). 22/25 sports hosted

1994 Japan: 245/271 events hosted (90.41 %). 26/26 sports hosted

1998 Thailand: 261/300 events hosted (87 %). 26/28 sports hosted

2002 South Korea: 280/302 events hosted (92.72 %). 27/28 sports hosted

2006 Qatar: 269/302 events hosted (89.07 %). 27/28 sports hosted

2010 China: 285/302 events hosted (94.37 %). 26/26 sports hosted

2014 South Korea: 287/306 events hosted (93.79 %). 28/28 sports hosted

2018 Indonesia: 321/340 events hosted (94.41%). 32/33 sports hosted

2023 China: 318/329 events hosted (96.66%). 31/32 sports hosted

2026 Japan: 325/351 events hosted (92.59%). 34/36 sports hosted

[dcmdtruefan 40]

1 hour ago, JoshMartini007 said:

While I wouldn't expect the SEA Games to match the Olympic program, it is a bit weird seeing some events excluded relative to what's in.

 

For example, they have women's 10m synchronized platform, but not the individual event. Similarly, in cycling there's team sprint, but no individual sprint (at least there's keirin)

And this is the last part of my analysis/breakdown of the percentage of the hosted Olympic events in this year's SEA Games. It is a bit weird to find asymmetry of the list of Olympic events hosted in several sports. And I noticed that has been a trend since around 2017. For instance, in 2017, Malaysia hosted the road race events, but not the time trial cycling events. Malaysis also neglected to host the all-around events for gymnastics. In 2019, Philippines hosted shooting trap for men, but not skeet for men as well no skeet and trap shooting events for women. And there's a bunch examples for the 2022 and 2023 editions. 

 

For the 2025 edition, you will probably noticed that the individual and team all-around events for artistic gymnastics as well a number of track cycling, canoe sprint and judo events are missing from this year's edition in Thailand. One of the numberical facts is that there are 31 2028 Olympic events that was hosted in the 2007 SEA Games in Thailand, but will not featured in this year's edition (7 in canoeing, 6 in cycling, 6 in judo, 5 in diving, 4 in gymnastics, 2 in Rowing and 1 in shooting). There's a lot of events. In fact, if you add those those 31 events into this year's program, it will raise the number of 76% to 84 %. 

 

My summary takes are that the amendment to the SEA Games charter did help a bit for Thailand to host nearly all of the Olympic Sports, which would happen anyway even without the amendment. However, in terms of the number and percentage of Olympic sports events, those numbers do not increase and lag behind some of the percentage numbers of SEA Games edition of a decade plus ago. 

 

The issue is that recent host countries have taken the cunning strategy to cut out events that there are not likely going to win. In the case of Thailand, they cut out the artistic gymnastics all around team and individual events because they know they cannot beat the caliber of an Olympic champion athlete in Carlos Yulo. And you can make the conjecture or educated guess as to why the other 2028 Olympic events were not hosted this year.

 

Does this make Thailand the worst host ever? No, since Thailand still hosts slightly more Olympic events, percentage wise, than some of the other recent hosts like the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, etc. But it does not make Thailand the examplary of good sportsmanship that Thai sports fan like to think. Since I can read Thai, I have frequented in some of the Thai language forums, and a good number of Thai sports fans see that in recent sea games editions, the hosts have failed to adequately host a good amount of Olympic events. However, they failed to realize that Thailand is not much better than its neighbors. The Thai media has also failed to report such critical perspective of this kind of issue because many reporters are reliant on being inn the good graces with sports authority figures into have access to report major sports events. Also, Thailand does not have a culture of honest and hard journalism as the country is at best a semi-democratic state. 

 

@JoshMartini007 You are right of the weirdness of the exclusion of some events. And while hosting every Olympic event is not to be expected, I think the percentage should be at least around the 80 percent area with an attempt to trying to match the percentage of the 90 percent area of the Asian Games. It sure does hosting a bunch of events in some nadir induced sports like woodball and a litany of martial arts events. 

 

For reference, you can see the entire list of SEA Games events hosted in this year's edition, both olympic and non-olympic events with the exception of five events (4 of them in athletics) since this was the next-to-last draft of the total list of events. There are altogether 574 events and as you can see there is too many non-olympic events that is hosted here. 

 

I like to see the opinions of both Asean and non-Asean users about the amount of Olympic events hosted in the sea games. My apologies of using a lot of space for these posts. 

Events 569 Final.pdf

Edited September 18 by dcmdtruefan

[Fly_like_a_don 1,142]

I really love the SEA games. SEA games is a multi sport event which doesn't have competition I feel.

 

We have the Olympics, Asian Games, Universiade and others for Olympic sports. I love the SEA games for the interesting choice of sports especially indigenous sports which I would have never known has the SEA games not existed.

[PHI2019 309]

This is why the Southeast Asian Games has become a joke to me. Just because one country has a dominant gymnast on the world stage doesn’t give the host country the right  to limit him or her to just one event at the Games. And it isn’t just in one sport. Look at diving. They limit the number of events there to stop the Malaysians from winning more gold medals. Maybe it’s time the decisions to add or scrap events and to determine how many events one gets to take part in be taken away from the host country. 
 

https://www.abs-cbn.com/sports/othersports/2025/10/17/sea-games-restrictions-to-limit-carlos-yulo-to-one-apparatus-gap-president-0048

[dcmdtruefan 40]

5 hours ago, PHI2019 said:

This is why the Southeast Asian Games has become a joke to me. Just because one country has a dominant gymnast on the world stage doesn’t give the host country the right  to limit him or her to just one event at the Games. And it isn’t just in one sport. Look at diving. They limit the number of events there to stop the Malaysians from winning more gold medals. Maybe it’s time the decisions to add or scrap events and to determine how many events one gets to take part in be taken away from the host country. 
 

https://www.abs-cbn.com/sports/othersports/2025/10/17/sea-games-restrictions-to-limit-carlos-yulo-to-one-apparatus-gap-president-0048

I have read the article and I agree with your sentiment. I feel bad about the one event limit per athlete because it does not allow that particular athlete to show his/her entire capabilities. I am sure that if Thailand has a gymnast at the caliber of Carlos Yulo, this rule won't take place. I have stated before that such rule is an example of Thailand trying to use shortcuts in terms of cutting some of the Olympic events that they are not good at as well as other rules and restrictions to maintain its chance of winning the overall gold medal tally.

 

I also think such underhanded tactics that is show by Thailand and previous host is a reflection on the overall political and sports governance culture of the Southeast Asian region which values winning in all costs over fairness and good sportsmanship. 

 

This news about the one event per athlete rule has not been reported within other media outlets in Southeast Asia or in Thailand. 

 

If this news broke out to the Thai media, most of Thai sports fans would not be in favor for such rule as they have complained about unfair rules and controversies in past Sea Games hosted by other countries. And I don't think it will broken to Thai media since most local outlets rely on Thai sports associations for access to news and information. However, the reaction may vary through individual to individual. Some might be outspoken about their displeasure about such rule noting that Thailand is not any better than other SEA Games hosts in being a fair host. Others are likely to be silent as wither they want to be loyal to their sense of Thai patriotism or develop a disease of cognitive dissonance and not accept such truth.  

 

I have written extensively about some of my displeasure of this year's Olympic sports events program for this year's Sea Games in this topic thread. Please kindly read my post in this thread from last month if you like to comment or exchange your opinions with me. 

 

 

Edited October 18 by dcmdtruefan

[PHI2019 309]

Latest news from the local press is that Carlos Yulo will be skipping the Southeast Asian Games.