2017 Summer Deaflympics

23rd Summer Deaflympics

Host city	Samsun
Country	Turkey
Nations participating	97
Athletes participating	3,145
Events	219
Sports	18 sports (21 disciplines)
Opening ceremony	July 18, 2017
Closing ceremony	July 30, 2017
Officially opened by	Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
Main venue	Samsun 19 Mayıs Stadium
Website	Official website
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The 2017 Summer Deaflympics, officially known as the 23rd Summer Deaflympics, is an international multi-sport event that took place in Samsun, Turkey from July 18 to July 30, 2017.^[1] 3,148 athletes from 97 countries competed in 21 sports.^[2]

Torch relay

The Olympic torch was brought from Lausanne, Switzerkand to Batı Park in Samsun by the Turkish Olympic champion in wrestling, Taha Akgül. The torch relay began with lighting of the torches of the Turkish sportspeople as "Olympic ambassadors", the footballers Gökhan Gönül and Sabri Sarıoğlu, world-record holder female diver Şahika Ercümen and media presenter and sportswoman Ece Vahapoğlu. Led by the Minister of Youth and Sports Akif Çağatay Kılıç, they marched to the Mustafa Dağıstanlı Sports Hall, where the torch was handed over to the mayor of the Samsun Metroplotian Municipality, Yusuf Ziya Yılmaz.^[3]

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Sports

The sports offered at the 2017 Summer Deaflympics will be held in 18 Sports consist of 21 disciplines, including 16 individual sports and 5 team sports.^[4] The number of gold medals for each event is shown in parenthesis.

Individual sports

Team sports

• Basketball (2)
• Football (2)
• Handball (1)
• Volleyball (4)
  • Beach Volleyball (2)
  • | Indoor Volleyball (2)

Venues

The largest venue at the games in terms of seating capacity was the 33,919 -seat Samsun 19 Mayıs Stadium, which served as the ceremonies venue.^[2]

Participating nations

A total of 97 countries from all over the world participated in the Games. This was the highest number of nations in any edition before.^[2][5]

Mascot

The official mascot of the 2017 Summer Deaflympics was unveiled on June 13, 2017. It represents a local male resident wearing regional outfit. The name of the mascot was chosen as "Çakır" (literally "greyish blue") following a voting on the official website of the Deaflympics.^[6]

Calendar

This is currently based on the schedule released by the official website of the Games.^[7]

All dates are Turkish Time (UTC+3)

OC

Opening ceremony

●

Event competitions

1

Gold medal events

CC

Closing ceremony

July		18 Tue	19 Wed	20 Thu	21 Fri	22 Sat	23 Sun	24 Mon	25 Tue	26 Wed	27 Thu	28 Fri	29 Sat	30 Sun	Gold medal events
Ceremonies (opening / closing		OC												CC
Athletics							5	7	7	5	9	5	10		48
Badminton			●	●	1		●	●	●	●	●	5			6
Basketball			●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●		2		2
Beach Volleyball				●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●		2		2
Bowling				1	1	1	1	1	1		1	1	4		12
Cycling (Mountain bike)								2							2
Cycling (Road)			2		2		2		2						8
Football		●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	2	2
Golf					●	●	●	●	●	2					2
Handball				●		●		●		●	●	1			1
Judo				7	8	2									17
Karate								8	6	4					18
Orienteering					2		1		2		2		2		9
Shooting			1	1	1	2	1	1	1	2	1	1			12
Swimming				7	7	7		6	7	7					41
Table tennis				●	2		1	2	●	●	2				7
Taekwondo												5	4	4	13
Tennis			●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	3	2			5
Volleyball			●	●	●	●	●		●	●	●	2			2
Wrestling (Freestyle)									4	4					8
Wrestling (Greco-Roman)					4	4									8
Total gold medal events			3	16	28	16	11	27	30	24	18	22	24	6	225
Cumulative total			3	19	47	63	74	101	131	155	173	195	219	225
July		18 Tue	19 Wed	20 Thu	21 Fri	22 Sat	23 Sun	24 Mon	25 Tue	26 Wed	27 Thu	28 Fri	29 Sat	30 Sun	Gold medal events

Medal table

This is the table of the medal count of the 2017 Summer Deaflympics, based on the medal count of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). These rankings sort by the number of gold medals, earned by a National Olympic Committee (NOC). The number of silver medals is taken into consideration next and then the number of bronze medals. If, after the above, countries are still tied, equal ranking is given and they are listed alphabetically by IOC Country Code. Although this information is provided by the IOC, the IOC itself does not recognize or endorse any ranking system.

Final medal table:^[8]

Key

  *   Host nation (Turkey)

2017 Summer Deaflympics medal table

Rank	NOC	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia (RUS)	85	53	61	199
2	Ukraine (UKR)	21	42	36	99
3	South Korea (KOR)	18	20	14	52
4	Turkey (TUR)	17	7	22	46
5	China (CHN)	14	9	11	34
6	Japan (JPN)	6	9	12	27
7	Iran (IRI)	5	9	20	34
8	Venezuela (VEN)	5	5	8	18
9	Kenya (KEN)	5	5	6	16
10	United States (USA)	5	3	8	16
11	Belarus (BLR)	4	9	3	16
12	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	4	5	8	17
13	Germany (GER)	4	5	3	12
14	Great Britain (GBR)	3	1	5	9
15	Slovakia (SVK)	2	2	2	6
16	Greece (GRE)	2	1	2	5
17	Cuba (CUB)	2	1	0	3
18	Czech Republic (CZE)	2	0	2	4
19	Thailand (THA)	2	0	0	2
20	Lithuania (LTU)	1	5	7	13
21	Italy (ITA)	1	3	8	12
22	Poland (POL)	1	3	7	11
23	Croatia (CRO)	1	3	2	6
24	France (FRA)	1	2	6	9
25	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	1	1	5	7
26	India (IND)	1	1	3	5
27	Switzerland (SUI)	1	1	0	2
28	Brazil (BRA)	1	0	4	5
29	Norway (NOR)	1	0	1	2
	Singapore (SGP)	1	0	1	2
31	Latvia (LVA)	1	0	0	1
	Mexico (MEX)	1	0	0	1
33	Mongolia (MGL)	0	4	5	9
34	Georgia (GEO)	0	2	1	3
35	South Africa (RSA)	0	2	0	2
36	Armenia (ARM)	0	1	4	5
37	Indonesia (INA)	0	1	1	2
	Portugal (POR)	0	1	1	2
39	Ecuador (ECU)	0	1	0	1
	Malaysia (MAS)	0	1	0	1
	Sweden (SWE)	0	1	0	1
42	Kyrgyzstan (KGZ)	0	0	4	4
43	Bulgaria (BUL)	0	0	3	3
44	Austria (AUT)	0	0	1	1
	Egypt (EGY)	0	0	1	1
	Estonia (EST)	0	0	1	1
	Finland (FIN)	0	0	1	1
	Hungary (HUN)	0	0	1	1
	Israel (ISR)	0	0	1	1
	Netherlands (NED)	0	0	1	1
	Spain (ESP)	0	0	1	1
Total:		219	219	294	732

References

External links

• Official website