Sports
In 2010, Guangzhou hosted the 16th Asian Games from November 12 to 27 and the first Asian Para Games from December 12 to 19, which were the largest sports events the city ever hosted.
Guangzhou also hosted the following major sports events:
- 1987 The 6th National Games of the People's Republic of China
- 1991 The 1st FIFA Women's World Cup
- 2001 The 9th National Games of the People's Republic of China
- 2007 The 8th National Traditional Games of Ethnic Minorities of the People's Republic of China
- 2008 The 49th World Table Tennis Championships
- 2009 The 11th Sudirman Cup--the world badminton mixed team championships
Current professional sports clubs (football and basketball) based in Guangzhou include:
| Sport | League | Tier | Club | Stadium |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Football | Chinese Super League | 1st | Guangzhou Evergrande | Tianhe Stadium |
| Football | Chinese Super League | 1st | Guangzhou R&F | Yuexiushan Stadium |
| Football | China League One | 2nd | Guangdong Sunray Cave | Guangdong Provincial People's Stadium |
| Basketball | National Basketball League | 2nd | Guangzhou Freemen | Tianhe Stadium |
| Basketball | National Basketball League | 2nd | Guangzhou Six-rice | Huangpu Stadium |
| Volleyball | Chinese Volleyball League | 1st | Guangdong Evergrande Women's Volleyball Club | Guangzhou Sport University |
| Baseball | China Baseball League | 1st | Guangdong Leopards | Guangdong Olympic Stadium |
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behaviour, attire, grace, learning and all their words aimeth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)
“In the past, it seemed to make sense for a sportswriter on sabbatical from the playpen to attend the quadrennial hawgkilling when Presidential candidates are chosen, to observe and report upon politicians at play. After all, national conventions are games of a sort, and sports offers few spectacles richer in low comedy.”
—Walter Wellesley (Red)
“In the end, I think you really only get as far as you’re allowed to get.”
—Gayle Gardner, U.S. sports reporter. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 87 (June 17, 1991)