World Games 1981

I World Games
Host city	Santa Clara
Nations participating	31
Athletes participating	1265
Events	88
Opening ceremony	25 July 1981 (1981-07-25) [1]
Closing ceremony	3 August 1981 (1981-08-03) [2]
Officially opened by	Ronald Reagan
Main venue	Buck Shaw Stadium

The 1981 World Games were the first World Games and they were held in Santa Clara, California in the United States. The games featured sports that were not included in the Olympics, including tug-of-war, racquetball, baseball and softball, artistic roller skating, roller hockey, roller speed skating, fin swimming, karate, women's water polo, bowling, bodybuilding, casting and taekwondo.^[3]

Titles

89 titles (86 + 3 of invitational sports) were awarded in 16 sports (2 invitational).^[4]

     As Invitational sport

Medal Table

The following were the medal tally during the 1st World Games, USA is the over-all champion of this edition.^[5]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	27	26	23	76
2	South Korea	9	2	1	13
3	Italy	7	11	16	34
4	France	7	6	6	19
5	Canada	4	5	6	15
6	Japan	4	4	5	13
7	United Kingdom	4	4	3	11
8	West Germany	4	1	5	10
9	Norway	4	1	3	8
10	China	4	0	0	4
11	Netherlands	2	3	4	9
12	Belgium	2	0	4	6
13	Venezuela	2	0	0	2
14	Australia	1	4	5	10
15	Sweden	1	4	3	8
16	Austria	1	2	3	6
17	Switzerland	1	2	1	4
18	Finland	1	2	0	3
19	Chinese Taipei	1	1	1	3
20	New Zealand	1	0	0	1
	Portugal	1	0	0	1
22	Spain	0	2	3	5
23	Argentina	0	1	2	3
	Denmark	0	1	2	3
	Ivory Coast	0	1	2	3
26	Egypt	0	1	1	2
27	Thailand	0	1	0	1
28	Indonesia	0	0	3	3
29	Mexico	0	0	2	2
30	Bahamas	0	0	1	1
31	India	0	0	1	1
Totale		92	86	106	284

References

External links

• Official Website of the IWGA