2017 World Games

X World Games
Host city Poland Wrocław, Poland
Nations participating 102
Athletes participating 3,214
Events 199 + 20 (219)
Opening ceremony 20 July
Closing ceremony 30 July
Officially opened by Thomas Bach
Main venue Stadion Miejski
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Sport climbing during World Games in Wrocław.

The 2017 World Games, officially called the X World Games and commonly known as Wrocław 2017, was a major international multi-sport event, meant for sports, or disciplines or events within a sport, that were not contested in the Olympic Games, held from 20 to 30 July 2017 in Wrocław, Poland. The World Games were organized by the Wrocław Organizing Committee. Wrocław was selected as the host city in January 2012 in Lausanne, over Budapest, Hungary. It was the first World Games in Poland.

Wrocław was the sixth city in Europe after London (1985), Karlsruhe (1989), The Hague (1993), Lahti (1997) and Duisburg (2005) to host The World Games.

A total of 201 events in 27 official sport disciplines were held during the Games. This is the first time that Floorball and Muaythai have been included in the World Games as official sports. Also, a total of 21 events in 4 invitational sports, include American football, Indoor rowing, Kickboxing, and Motorcycle speedway were held during the Games.

Host selection

Location of Wrocław, the host city.

Four cities had expressed interest in hosting the 2017 Games. After examination of the files, the application of Genoa, Italy was not brought to the next step. The candidate cities have been announced by the IWGA in August 2011. They are[1]

Just few days before the awarding ceremony Cape Town withdrew its bid for financial reasons.[2] The final decision was announced by Ron Froehlich, President of the International World Games Association on 12 January 2012 in Lausanne. The 10th edition of The World Games was awarded to Wrocław.[3]

Venues

West Cluster

Stadion Miejski, during UEFA Euro 2012

The West Cluster was the main clusters of the games, include the opening ceremony venue, Stadion Miejski, the venue of the 2012 UEFA European Football Championship in Poland and Ukraine.

Central Cluster

National Forum of Music in Wrocław

East Cluster

The interior of the Centennial Hall

Outside Wrocław

The games

Opening ceremony


The opening ceremony took place in the Stadion Miejski on 20 July 2017. Artistic conception of the opening Ceremony is made by polish director and TV producer, Krzysztof Materna. He is responsible for direction of show, details of scenario, artists, choreographer, compositors, sound system specialists and all special effects of ceremony.[4]

The ceremony highlighted aspects of Polish culture, and featured the popular singer, Dawid Kwiatkowski, and Radzimir Dębski, Kamil Bednarek, Steve Nash alongside the Turntable Orchestra. The Games were officially opened by President of International Olympic Committee Thomas Bach.[5]

Sports

The 2017 World Games programme featured 27 official sports, and 4 invitational sports encompassing 219 events. This is the first time that Floorball, Lacrosse, and Muaythai have been included in the World Games as official sports, and the first time Indoor rowing, Kickboxing and Motorcycle speedway have been included as invitational sports. The numbers in parentheses indicate the number of medal events contested in each sports discipline.

Note
AD: Artistic and Dance sports
B: Ball sports
I: Invitational sports, the sports were selected by the host city.
M: Martial arts
P: Precision sports
S: Strength sports
T: Trend sports

Participating nations

Participating National Olympic Committees

Closing ceremony

The closing ceremony was held on 30 July 2017 at Wolności Square near the National Forum of Music in Wrocław.

Medals

Wrocław's medal design was unveiled in July 2017. The official sports medals was a diameter of eight centimetres, larger than invitation sports medals was a diameter of six centimetres. The face of the medals features The World Games logo, while the reverse displays original work by Professor Mateusz Dworski. In the centre of the medal is a globe containing the image of the Wrocław City Hall building. The medals were designed by Dworski, a lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław, and were produced by the Polish National Mint.[7]

Medal table

This is the table of the medal count of the 2017 World Games, based on the medal count of the International World Games Committee (IWGA). 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 IWGA Country Code. Although this information is provided by the IWGA, the IWGA itself does not recognize or endorse any ranking system.

Official sports

Key

  *   Host nation (Poland)

The final medal table:

2017 World Games medal table
 Rank  NOC Gold Silver Bronze Total
1  Russia 28 21 14 63
2  Germany 18 10 14 42
3  Italy 16 13 13 42
4  France 14 14 15 43
5  Ukraine 10 7 8 25
6  Colombia 9 10 2 21
7  Japan 9 6 7 22
8  China 8 7 5 20
9  Belgium 7 9 8 24
10  United States 6 11 5 22
11  Hungary 6 4 4 14
12  Denmark 6 0 0 6
13  Poland 5 6 9 20
14  Belarus 4 2 5 11
 Sweden 4 2 5 11
16  Brazil 4 2 2 8
17  Switzerland 3 8 3 14
18  South Korea 3 6 3 12
19  Australia 3 5 6 14
20  Thailand 3 5 2 9
21  Spain 3 4 7 14
22  Great Britain 3 4 4 11
23  Argentina 3 1 2 6
24  Iran 2 8 1 11
25  Netherlands 2 2 2 6
26  Czech Republic 2 1 4 7
27  Austria 2 1 2 5
28  Chinese Taipei 1 4 3 8
29  Canada 1 3 2 6
30  Mexico 1 1 3 5
31  Chile 1 1 2 4
32  Mongolia 1 1 1 3
 United Arab Emirates 1 1 1 3
34  Azerbaijan 1 1 0 2
35  Turkey 1 0 3 4
36  Kazakhstan 1 0 2 3
37  Morocco 1 0 1 2
 Peru 1 0 1 2
39  Algeria 1 0 0 1
 Moldova 1 0 0 1
 Philippines 1 0 0 1
 Serbia 1 0 0 1
 Vietnam 1 0 0 1
44  Slovenia 0 4 2 6
45  Venezuela 0 3 3 6
46  Croatia 0 2 1 3
 Egypt 0 2 1 3
48  Israel 0 1 5 6
49  Finland 0 1 2 3
50  Hong Kong 0 1 1 2
 Romania 0 1 1 2
52  Greece 0 1 0 1
 Jordan 0 1 0 1
 San Marino 0 1 0 1
55  Portugal 0 0 3 3
56  New Zealand 0 0 2 2
57  Dominican Republic 0 0 1 1
 Lithuania 0 0 1 1
 Malaysia 0 0 1 1
 Montenegro 0 0 1 1
 Qatar 0 0 1 1
 South Africa 0 0 1 1
 Slovakia 0 0 1 1
Total (63 NOCs) 199 199 199 597

Invitation sports

After 20 of 20 events

2017 World Games invitation medal table
 Rank  NOC Gold Silver Bronze Total
1  Ukraine 5 0 2 7
2  Poland 4 4 2 10
3  Serbia 2 2 0 4
4  Russia 2 0 1 3
5  France 2 0 0 2
6  Austria 1 1 1 3
7  Germany 1 1 0 2
8  Brazil 1 0 0 1
 Czech Republic 1 0 0 1
 Netherlands 1 0 0 1
11  Bulgaria 0 2 0 2
 Great Britain 0 2 0 2
 Turkey 0 2 0 2
14  Sweden 0 1 2 3
15  Slovakia 0 1 1 2
16  Australia 0 1 0 1
 Bosnia and Herzegovina 0 1 0 1
 Canada 0 1 0 1
 Mexico 0 1 0 1
20  Thailand 0 0 2 2
 United States 0 0 2 2
22  Belarus 0 0 1 1
 China 0 0 1 1
 Croatia 0 0 1 1
 Iran 0 0 1 1
 Israel 0 0 1 1
 Morocco 0 0 1 1
 Moldova 0 0 1 1
Total (28 NOCs) 20 20 20 60

Calendar

OCOpening ceremony ●Event competitions 1Gold medal events CCClosing ceremony
July 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
CeremoniesOC CC N/A
Acrobatic gymnastics 2 1 2 5
Aerobic gymnastics 2 3 5
Air sports ● 1 2 3
American football1 ● 1 1
Archery ● ● 2 ● ● 2 ● 3 7
Artistic roller skating ● 4 4
Beach handball ● ● ● 2 2
Billiard sports ● ● ● 1 3 4
Boules sports ● ● 12 12
Bowling 1 1 1 1 4
Canoe polo ● ● 2 2
Dancesport 2 2 4
Finswimming 7 7 14
Fistball ● ● ● 1 1
Floorball ● ● ● 1 1
Flying disc ● ● 1 1
Indoor rowing1 4 2 6
Ju-Jitsu 12 10 22
Karate 6 6 12
Kickboxing1 ● 12 12
Korfball ● ● ● ● 1 1
Lacrosse ● ● ● 1 1
Lifesaving 8 8 16
Muaythai ● ● 11 11
Orienteering 2 2 1 5
Powerlifting 3 3 2 8
Rhythmic gymnastics 2 2 4
Road speed skating 4 4 8
Roller hockey ● ● ● ● 1 1
Speedway1 1 1
Sport climbing 2 2 2 6
Squash ● ● ● 2 2
Sumo 4 2 6
Track speed skating 2 4 4 10
Trampoline gymnastics 1 2 3 6
Tug of war 2 1 3
Waterskiing ● 3 3 6
Total gold medal events 24 34 16 22 23 22 19 18 19 22 219
Cumulative total 24 58 74 96 119 141 160 178 197 219
July 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
Note

1 Invitational sports selected by the host organizing committee

Broadcasting

Olympic Channel [8]

Marketing

Mascots

The official mascots of the 2017 World Games are a boy and a girl named 'Hansel and Gretel', named after the popular fairy tale and townhouses in Wroclaw. The duo were selected from a nationwide voting in February 2015, and were chosen in November 2015. They symbolise Wroclaw as a place of positive meetings.

Sponsors

Sponsors of the 2017 World Games
Sponsors
Supporters

References

  1. ↑ Candidate host cities for 2017
  2. ↑ Awarding Ceremony In Progress
  3. ↑ Candidate Host Cities for 2017
  4. ↑ Good luck at The World Games
  5. ↑ Bach officially declares Wrocław 2017 World Games open
  6. ↑ "Colombia, presente con 51 atletas, en 10 deportes" [Colombia, present with 51 athletes, in 10 sports] (in Spanish). 6 June 2017.
  7. ↑ Wrocław 2017 World Games medals unveiled
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Preceded by
Cali		 World Games
Wrocław
X World Games (2017) 		Succeeded by
Birmingham
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