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The World Games, first held in 1981, are an
international multi-sport event, meant for sports that are not contested in
the Olympic
Games. The World Games are organised and governed by the International World Games Association
(IWGA), under the patronage of the International Olympic
Committee (IOC).
Some of the sports that were on the program of the World Games
eventually made it as Olympic sports (such as triathlon) or have been Olympic sports in the
past (like tug of
war). Participation in past World Games is included in the
evaluation criteria used to select new Olympic sports adopted by
the IOC on August 12, 2004. However, with the current position of
the IOC to limit the Olympic Games to 10,500 participants, it is
unlikely that many of the World Games sports will be elevated to
the Olympic sports.
Some of the sports that are currently held at the World Games
are orienteering,
body building, powerlifting, finswimming, squash, netball, water skiing, casting, etc. The sports that are included
in the World Games are limited by the facilities available in the
host city; no new facilities may be constructed for the games.
Typically, between 25 and 35 sports are contested at any particular
World Games. Sports that have been classified as "invitational" are
still played, but no medals are awarded. Even if some sports are
official sports of the IWGA, they can be classified as invitational
by the hosting city.
Editions
Sports
Official sports and
disciplines
Invitational
sports
Past
World Games sports
Sports currently
not eligible for World Games
- Badminton - became an Olympic sport
at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Taekwondo - became an Olympic sport
at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Trampoline - certain individual
events were introduced at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Triathlon - became an Olympic sport
at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Weightlifting (women) -
became an Olympic sport at the 2000 Summer Olympics. (Men never
competed in weightlifting in the World Games because it has been in
all Summer Olympics since 1920.)
All-time
medal table
In 8 editions of the games disputed Russia (Soviet Union in 1989) was awarded the
medal in the last 3 occasions (2001, 2005 and 2009), two times
each, Italy (1985 and 1989) and
United States
(1981 and 1997) and once to Germany (West Germany in the first three editions)
in 1997 [1].
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