2013 Islamic Solidarity Games
# 2013 Islamic Solidarity Games

The 3rd Islamic Solidarity Games was 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.

## Host selection

Indonesia was announced as the host for the Games on April 2011 with Pekanbaru, Riau, as the host city. The Games were then relocated to Jakarta citing lack of standard in some venues combined with a corruption case involving Governor of Riau, Rusli Zainal. Palembang was finally selected as the host city and the Games were delayed about three months from the original time frame in June.

## Venues

| Venue Name | Sports |
| - | - |
| Dempo Sport Hall | Badminton |
| PSCC Palembang Sport Hall | Basketball, Volleyball |
| Graha Serbaguna Jakabaring | Weightlifting |
| Jakabaring Athletic Stadium | Athletics |
| Jakabaring Beach Volleyball Arena | Beach Volleyball |
| Jakabaring Gymnastic Hall | Wushu |
| Gelora Sriwijaya Stadium | Opening Ceremony, Closing Ceremony, Football |
| Jakabaring Archery Field | Archery |
| Jakabaring Aquatic Stadium | Swimming |
| Bukit Asam Tennis Court | Tennis |
| Bumi Sriwijaya Stadium | Football |
| Sriwijaya Promotion Centre | Karate, Taekwondo |

## Participating nations

There are 57 nations participating in 2013 Islamic Solidarity Games.

* Participating National Committees
* Afghanistan
* Albania
* Algeria
* Azerbaijan
* Bahrain
* Bangladesh
* Benin
* Brunei
* Burkina Faso
* Cameroon
* Chad
* Comoros
* Djibouti
* Egypt
* Gabon
* Gambia
* Guinea
* Guinea-Bissau
* Guyana
* Indonesia
* Iran
* Iraq
* Ivory Coast
* Jordan
* Kazakhstan
* Kuwait
* Kyrgyzstan
* Lebanon
* Libya
* Malaysia
* Maldives
* Mali
* Mauritania
* Morocco
* Mozambique
* Niger
* Nigeria
* Oman
* Pakistan
* Palestine
* Qatar
* Saudi Arabia
* Senegal
* Sierra Leone
* Somalia
* Sudan
* Suriname
* Syria
* Tajikistan
* Togo
* Tunisia
* Turkey
* Turkmenistan
* Uganda
* United Arab Emirates
* Uzbekistan
* Yemen

## Sports

* 2013 Islamic Solidarity Games sports programme
* Aquatics
* Swimming (details) (40)
* Archery (details) (10)
* Athletics (details) (42)
* Badminton (details) (7)
* Basketball (details) (2)
* Football (details) (1)
* Karate (details) (17)
* Taekwondo (details) (21)
* Tennis (details) (6)
* Volleyball (details) (3)
* Indoor volleyball (1)
* Beach volleyball (2)
* Weightlifting (details) (15)
* Wushu (details) (20)

## Schedule

| OC | Opening ceremony | ● | Event competitions | 1 | Event finals | CC | Closing ceremony |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| September/October | 18 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 |
| Ceremonies | | | | | OC | | | | | | | | | CC | |
| Athletics | | | | | | | 5 | 10 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 1 | | 42 |
| Archery | | | | | ● | ● | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | | | | 10 |
| Aquatics-Swimming | | | | | | ● | 6 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | | | 40 |
| Badminton | ● | ● | ● | 2 | ● | ● | ● | 5 | | | | | | | 7 |
| Basketball | | | | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | | ● | ● | 2 | | 2 |
| Football | | ● | | | | ● | | ● | | ● | | 1 | | | 1 |
| Karate | | | | | 4 | 6 | 5 | 2 | | | | | | | 17 |
| Taekwondo | | | | | | | | | | 4 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 21 |
| Tennis | | | | ● | ● | ● | ● | 2 | ● | ● | ● | ● | 4 | | 6 |
| Volleyball Indoor | | | | | | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | 1 | | 1 |
| Volleyball Beach | | | | | | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | 2 | | | | 2 |
| Weightlifting | | | | | | | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | | | | | 15 |
| Wushu | | | | | | | | | | | 3 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 20 |

## Medal table

* Host nation (Indonesia)

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Indonesia (INA)* | 36 | 34 | 34 | 104 |
| 2 | Iran (IRI) | 30 | 17 | 12 | 59 |
| 3 | Egypt (EGY) | 26 | 31 | 29 | 86 |
| 4 | Malaysia (MAS) | 26 | 17 | 29 | 72 |
| 5 | Turkey (TUR) | 23 | 30 | 50 | 103 |
| 6 | Morocco (MAR) | 10 | 15 | 14 | 39 |
| 7 | Saudi Arabia (KSA) | 7 | 3 | 6 | 16 |
| 8 | Azerbaijan (AZE) | 6 | 9 | 9 | 24 |
| 9 | Algeria (ALG) | 5 | 6 | 8 | 19 |
| 10 | Oman (OMA) | 3 | 2 | 5 | 10 |
| 11 | Bahrain (BHR) | 2 | 1 | 4 | 7 |
| 12 | Syria (SYR) | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| 13 | Iraq (IRQ) | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 14 | Tunisia (TUN) | 2 | 0 | 7 | 9 |
| 15 | Kuwait (KUW) | 1 | 4 | 3 | 8 |
| 16 | Qatar (QAT) | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
| 17 | Jordan (JOR) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 18 | Guyana (GUY) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 19 | United Arab Emirates (UAE) | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 20 | Bangladesh (BAN) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 20 | Libya (LBA) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 22 | Brunei (BRU) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 22 | Palestine (PLE) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 24 | Turkmenistan (TKM) | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 25 | Senegal (SEN) | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 25 | Yemen (YEM) | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 27 | Cameroon (CMR) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 27 | Lebanon (LIB) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 27 | Sierra Leone (SLE) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (29 entries) | Totals (29 entries) | 183 | 181 | 236 | 600 |

## 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.

