2013 Islamic Solidarity Games


The 3rd Islamic Solidarity Games is an international sporting event held in Palembang, Indonesia from 22 September to 1 October 2013. The 2009 event, originally scheduled to take place in Iran, and later re-scheduled for April 2010, was cancelled after a dispute arose between Iran and the Arab countries.

Venues

Participating Nations

There are 57 nations participating in 2013 Islamic Solidarity Games.

Sports

September/October18
Wed		19
Thu		20
Fri		21
Sat		22
Sun		23
Mon		24
Tue		25
Wed		26
Thu		27
Fri		28
Sat		29
Sun		30
Mon		1
Tue
Events
CeremoniesOCCC
Athletics5 10 5 88 5 142
Archery●●2 22 2 2 10
Aquatics-Swimming●66777740
Badminton●●●2●●●57
Basketball●●●●●●●●22
Football●●●●11
Karate465217
Taekwondo4644321
Tennis●●●●2●●●●46
Volleyball Indoor●●●●●●●11
Volleyball Beach●●●●●22
Weightlifting443415
Wushu346720

Medal table

Sports bikini controversy

The Games faced a controversy over female athletes competing in sports bikinis. Some participating nations demanded that all sportswomen competing in the athletics, beach volleyball and swimming events wear body-covering sporting outfits instead of the usual, functional and official sports bikinis regulated by international rules. In some countries of the Muslim world, sporting suits for women called burqini, which cover the whole body except the face, the hands and the feet, are in use in accordance with Islamic culture. Furthermore, some countries asked the organizers to run the male and female events on separate days. Both regulations were applied in the first edition of the Games held in Saudi Arabia in 2005.
The organizing committee refused to fully comply with the demands stating that only the countries ruled by Islamic governments among the 44 participants with Muslim population opposed the two-piece sporting outfits standardized in international sports dress code. The organizers ruled that the use of sports bikinis is set optional so that sportswomen may wear religious-based outfits.