2017 World Games

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

The 2017 World Games, commonly known as Wrocław 2017, was the tenth World Games, 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 time The World Games was organised 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, women's lacrosse, and Muay Thai have been included in The World Games as official sports. Also, a total of 21 events in 4 invitational sports, American football, indoor rowing, kickboxing, and motorcycle speedway were held during the Games.

Host selection

Location of Wrocław, the host city.

Four cities 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 were announced by the IWGA in August 2011:[1]

Just a 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
  • National Forum of Music – closing ceremony, powerlifting, 1,800 spectators
  • Nowy Targ Square – orienteering, sport climbing
  • Sky Tower Housed – bowling
  • Hasta la Vista Sport Club – Squash

East Cluster

The interior of the Centennial Hall
  • Centennial Hall – acrobatic gymnastic, aerobic gymnastics, dancesport, rhythmic gymnastics, trampoline gymnastics, Tumbling, 10,000 spectators
  • Wroclaw Congress Center – billiards
  • Pergola Centennial Hall – archery, boules sports, orienteering, 10,000 spectators
  • Olympic Stadium – American football, motorcycle speedway, 35,000 spectators
  • University of Physical Education – tug of war
  • Marsowe Fields – tug of war
  • P5 Complex – beach handball, flying disc
  • WKK Sport Center – floorball, korfball
  • Sport Complex GEM – ju-jitsu, karate
  • Olawka Stadium – fistball, lacrosse

Outside Wrocław

  • Szymanów Airport, Szymanów – air sports
  • Trzebnica Beech Forest, Trzebnica – orienteering
  • Świdnica Icerink, Świdnica – artistic roller skating, inline hockey
  • Laskowice Sport Complex, Jelcz-Laskowice – indoor rowing

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, women's lacrosse, and Muay Thai 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.

Notes
AD: Artistic and Dance sports
B: Ball sports
I: Invitational sports, 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.

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		 Events
CeremoniesOCCCN/A
Acrobatic gymnastics 2 1 2 5
Aerobic gymnastics 2 3 5
Air sports ● 1 2 3
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
Ju-Jitsu 12 10 22
Karate 6 6 12
Korfball ● ● ● ● 1 1
Lacrosse ● ● ● 1 1
Lifesaving 8 8 16
Muay Thai ● ● 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
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
Daily medal events 2434162123185181822199
Cumulative total 24587495118136141159177199
American football1 ● 1 1
Indoor rowing1 4 2 6
Kickboxing1 ● 12 12
Speedway1 1 1
Daily medal events 1041401020
Cumulative total 11519192020
July 20
Thu		 21
Fri		 22
Sat		 23
Sun		 24
Mon		 25
Tue		 26
Wed		 27
Thu		 28
Fri		 29
Sat		 30
Sun		 Events
Note

1 Invitational sports selected by the host organizing committee

Medal table

Medal design

Wrocław's medal design was unveiled in July 2017. The official sports medals were a diameter of eight centimetres, larger than the invitation sports medals which were 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]

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:

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Russia28211463
2 Germany18101442
3 Italy16131342
4 France14141543
5 Ukraine107825
6 Colombia910221
7 Japan96722
8 China87520
9 Belgium79824
10 United States611522
11 Hungary64414
12 Denmark6006
13 Poland56920
14 Belarus42511
 Sweden42511
16 Brazil4228
17 Switzerland38314
18 South Korea36312
19 Australia35614
20 Thailand35210
21 Spain34714
22 Great Britain34411
23 Argentina3126
24 Iran28111
25 Netherlands2226
26 Czech Republic2147
27 Austria2125
28 Chinese Taipei1438
29 Canada1326
30 Mexico1135
31 Chile1124
32 Mongolia1113
 United Arab Emirates1113
34 Azerbaijan1102
35 Turkey1034
36 Kazakhstan1023
37 Morocco1012
 Peru1012
39 Algeria1001
 Moldova1001
 Philippines1001
 Serbia1001
 Vietnam1001
44 Slovenia0426
45 Venezuela0336
46 Croatia0213
 Egypt0213
48 Israel0156
49 Finland0123
50 Hong Kong0112
 Romania0112
52 Greece0101
 Jordan0101
 San Marino0101
55 Portugal0033
56 New Zealand0022
57 Dominican Republic0011
 Lithuania0011
 Malaysia0011
 Montenegro0011
 Qatar0011
 Slovakia0011
 South Africa0011
Totals (63 nations)199199199597

Invitation sports

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Ukraine5027
2 Poland44210
3 Serbia2204
4 Russia2013
5 France2002
6 Austria1113
7 Germany1102
8 Brazil1001
 Czech Republic1001
 Netherlands1001
11 Bulgaria0202
 Great Britain0202
 Turkey0202
14 Sweden0123
15 Slovakia0112
16 Australia0101
 Bosnia and Herzegovina0101
 Canada0101
 Mexico0101
20 Thailand0022
 United States0022
22 Belarus0011
 China0011
 Croatia0011
 Iran0011
 Israel0011
 Moldova0011
 Morocco0011
Totals (28 nations)20202060

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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