1993 World Games
Host city | The Hague, Netherlands |
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Nations participating | 44 |
Athletes participating | 1,265 |
Events | 155 (23 sports)[1] |
Opening ceremony | 22 July |
Closing ceremony | 2 August |
Officially opened by | Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands |
Main venue | Zuiderpark Stadion |
The 1993 World Games (Dutch: 1993 Wereldspelen), the fourth World Games, were an international multi-sport event held in The Hague, Netherlands.
Titles[]
155 titles were awarded in 23 sports (not including invitational sports — aikido, equestrian vaulting, indoor tug of war, and barefoot waterski).
Sport | Titles | Notes |
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Acrobatic gymnastics | 15 | |
Beach volleyball | 2 | |
Bodybuilding | 7 | |
Boules | 2 | |
Bowling | 3 | |
Casting | 13 | |
Field archery | 6 | |
Fistball | 1 | |
Finswimming | 14 | |
Karate | 12 | |
Korfball | 1 | |
Life saving | 16 | |
Netball | 1 | |
Powerlifting | 6 | |
Racquetball | 2 | |
Roller hockey | 1 | |
Roller skating, artistic | 4 | |
Roller speed skating | 10 | |
Sambo | 9 | |
Taekwondo | 12 | |
Trampoline | 6 | |
Triathlon | 4 | |
Tug of war | 2 | |
Water skiing | 6 | |
Total | 155 |
Medal table[]
The medal tally during the fourth World Games is as follows. Germany finished at the top of the final medal table.[2] There were two gold medals (and zero silver medals) awarded in five of the acrobatic gymnastics events because of ties for first place. There were two bronze medals awarded in the karate kumite (10) and taekwondo (12) events and one of the acrobatic gymnastics events.
* Host nation (Netherlands)
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | Germany (GER) | 21 | 19 | 15 | 55 |
2 | Italy (ITA) | 14 | 19 | 6 | 39 |
3 | Great Britain (GBR) | 12 | 5 | 9 | 26 |
4 | United States (USA) | 11 | 11 | 12 | 34 |
5 | France (FRA) | 11 | 10 | 15 | 36 |
6 | Bulgaria (BUL) | 10 | 1 | 7 | 18 |
7 | Netherlands (NED)* | 9 | 5 | 16 | 30 |
8 | Sweden (SWE) | 8 | 10 | 10 | 28 |
9 | Russia (RUS) | 7 | 8 | 2 | 17 |
10 | China (CHN) | 5 | 2 | 2 | 9 |
11 | South Korea (KOR) | 4 | 2 | 1 | 7 |
12 | Belarus (BLR) | 4 | 1 | 5 | 10 |
13 | Japan (JPN) | 4 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
14 | Belgium (BEL) | 3 | 5 | 4 | 12 |
15 | Norway (NOR) | 3 | 4 | 7 | 14 |
16 | Czech Republic (CZE) | 3 | 3 | 3 | 9 |
17 | Spain (ESP) | 3 | 2 | 6 | 11 |
18 | Denmark (DEN) | 3 | 0 | 5 | 8 |
19 | Poland (POL) | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
20 | Finland (FIN) | 2 | 6 | 6 | 14 |
21 | Australia (AUS) | 2 | 4 | 5 | 11 |
22 | Chinese Taipei (TPE) | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 |
23 | Estonia (EST) | 2 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
24 | Mexico (MEX) | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
25 | Switzerland (SUI) | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
26 | Ukraine (UKR) | 1 | 5 | 1 | 7 |
27 | Ireland (IRL) | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
28 | Canada (CAN) | 1 | 1 | 8 | 10 |
29 | Hungary (HUN) | 1 | 1 | 5 | 7 |
30 | Kazakhstan (KAZ) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
New Zealand (NZL) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |
32 | Singapore (SIN) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
33 | Portugal (POR) | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
34 | Brazil (BRA) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
35 | Mongolia (MGL) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
36 | Lithuania (LTU) | 0 | 3 | 3 | 6 |
37 | Egypt (EGY) | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
38 | Turkey (TUR) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
39 | Argentina (ARG) | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
Austria (AUT) | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
41 | South Africa (RSA) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
42 | Latvia (LAT) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Malaysia (MAS) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
44 | Morocco (MAR) | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
45 | Iran (IRI) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Jamaica (JAM) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Jordan (JOR) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Kuwait (KUW) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Nigeria (NGR) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Philippines (PHI) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Totals (50 nations) | 160 | 150 | 178 | 488 |
References[]
- ^ "The World Games in the past". worldgames2009.tw. Retrieved 9 June 2012.
- ^ "Results of the World Games". International World Games Association. Retrieved 2015-10-26.
External links[]
- Official Website of the IWGA
- Medal table at Sports123 (by Internet Archive)
Categories:
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