2017 Summer Deaflympics

XXIII Summer Deaflympics
Host city	Samsun, Turkey
Motto	Our voice is sport; (Turkish: Sesimiz Spor)
Nations participating	97
Athletes participating	3,145
Events	219 in 18 sports
Opening ceremony	July 18, 2017
Closing ceremony	July 30, 2017
Officially opened by	Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
Athlete's Oath	Ömer Otamış
Torch lighter	Ertuğrul Bursa
Main venue	Samsun 19 Mayıs Stadium
Website	Official website
Summer
	← Sofia 2013 Caxias 2021 →
Winter
	← Khanty-Mansiysk 2015 Sondrio 2019 →

The 2017 Summer Deaflympics (Turkish: 2017 Yaz İşitme Engelliler Olimpiyat Oyunları), officially known as the 23rd Summer Deaflympics (Turkish: 23'üncü Yaz İşitme Engelliler Olimpiyat Oyunları), 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 18 sports with 21 disciplines.^[2]^[3] 86 records were broken with 54 being world records and 32 being Deaflympics records.^[4]

Sports[]

2017 Summer Deaflympics offered 18 Sports including Golf which made its debut.^[5]

Athletics (43 gold medal events)
Badminton (6)
Basketball (2)
Bowling (12)
Cycling
- Mountain biking (2)
- Road (8)
Football (2)
Golf (2)
Handball (1)
Judo (17)
Karate (18)
Orienteering (9)
Shooting (12)
Swimming (40)
Table tennis (7)
Taekwondo (13)
Tennis (5)
Volleyball
- Indoor volleyball (2)
- Beach volleyball (2)
Wrestling
- Freestyle (8)
- Greco-Roman (8)

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]^[6]^[7]^[8]^[9]

Venue	Location	Sport
İlkadım Athletics Stadium	İlkadım	Athetics
Bafra Sports Hall	Bafra	Badminton
Bahattin Ekinci Sports Hall	Tekkeköy	Basketball
Yaşar Doğu Sport Hall	Tekkeköy	Basketball, Closing ceremony
İlkadım Beach Volleyball Court	İlkadım	Beach volleyball
Samsun Bowling Hall	İlkadım	Bowling
19 Mayıs District	Ondokuzmayıs	Cycling
Canik 19 Mayıs Stadium	Canik	Football, Opening ceremony
Çarşamba Stadium	Çarşamba	Football
Bafra Stadium	Bafra	Football
Samsun Golf Course	Atakum	Golf
Çarşamba Sports Hall	Çarşamba	Handball
Atatürk Sports Hall	Canik	Judo
		Karate
		Taekwondo
Mountain Bike Trail	Ondokuz Mayıs University	Mountain bike
Orienteering venues: Tekkekoy, City center, Bayraktepe, Kocadag, Kabadüz, Yenikoy	Samsun	Orienteering
Bafra Shooting Range	Bafra	Shooting
Atakum Olympic Swimming Pool	Atakum	Swimming
Archery Sports Hall	İlkadım	Table tennis
Samsun Tennis Club	Canik	Tennis
Hasan Doğan Sports Hall	Canik	Volleyball
Mustafa Dağıstanlı Sports Hall	İlkadım	Volleyball
Kavak Sports Hall	Kavak	Wrestling

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. Afghanistan, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Mali made their debut at the games.^[2]^[10]

Participating National Olympic Committees
Afghanistan (5) (7) (38) (10) Australia (20) (8) (5) (43) (5) Brazil (101) (20) (4) (26) (3) (107) (4) (19) (37) Cuba (5) (1) (20) (17) (9) (22) (11) (2) (9) (45) (13) (105) Ghana (62) Greece Guinea (21) Hungary Iceland India Indonesia Iran (4) Ireland Israel Italy Jamaica Japan Jordan Kazakhstan Kenya South Korea Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Latvia Libya Lithuania Macedonia Malaysia (16) Mali Malta Mauritius Mexico Moldova Mongolia Netherlands New Zealand Nigeria Norway Pakistan Peru Poland Portugal Romania Russia Saudi Arabia Senegal Serbia Seychelles Sierra Leone Singapore (5) Slovakia Slovenia South Africa (4) Spain (18) Swaziland Sweden Switzerland (61) (9) Turkey (288) (host) Turkmenistan Ukraine (8) United States (58) Uruguay Uzbekistan Venezuela Yemen (3)

Logo[]

Cakir, the games' official mascot.

The logo of the games is a combination of the elements of The Olympic Games, the Olympic flame, deaf communication, Samsun Pheasant Bird, Turkish Tulip, Peace and Friendship.^[11]

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.^[12]^[13]

Torch relay[]

The Olympic torch was brought from Lausanne, Switzerland 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 Metropolitan Municipality, Yusuf Ziya Yılmaz.^[14]

Calendar[]

This is currently based on the schedule released by the official website of the Games.^[15]

All dates are Turkish Time (UTC+3)

OC	Opening ceremony	●	Event competitions	1	Gold medal events	CC	Closing ceremony

July		18th Tue	19th Wed	20th Thu	21st Fri	22nd Sat	23rd Sun	24th Mon	25th Tue	26th Wed	27th Thu	28th Fri	29th Sat	30th Sun	Events
Ceremonies		OC												CC	N/A
Athletics							4	8	7	3	5	6	10		43
Badminton			●	●	1		●	●	●	●	●	5			6
Basketball			●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●		2		2
Bowling				1	1	1	1	1	1		1	1	4		12
Cycling	Road cycling		2		2		2		2						10
Cycling	Mountain biking							2							10
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	6	7		6	7	7					40
Table tennis				●	2		1	2	●	●	2				7
Taekwondo												5	4	4	13
Tennis			●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	3	2			5
Volleyball	Beach volleyball			●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●		2		4
Volleyball	Indoor volleyball		●	●	●	●	●		●	●	●	2			4
Wrestling					4	4			4	4					16
Daily medal events			3	16	27	16	10	28	30	22	14	23	24	6	219
Cumulative total			3	19	46	62	72	100	130	152	166	189	213	219	219
July		18th Tue	19th Wed	20th Thu	21st Fri	22nd Sat	23rd Sun	24th Mon	25th Tue	26th Wed	27th Thu	28th Fri	29th Sat	30th Sun	Total 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:^[16]^[17]^[18]

* Host nation (Turkey)

2017 Summer Deaflympics medal table
Rank	NOC	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	(RUS)	85	53	61	199
2	(UKR)	21	42	36	99
3	(KOR)	18	20	14	52
4	Turkey (TUR)*	17	7	22	46
5	(CHN)	14	9	11	34
6	(JPN)	6	9	12	27
7	(IRI)	5	9	20	34
8	(VEN)	5	5	8	18
9	(KEN)	5	5	6	16
10	(USA)	5	3	8	16
11	(BLR)	4	9	3	16
12	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	4	5	8	17
13	(GER)	4	5	3	12
14	(GBR)	3	1	5	9
15	(SVK)	2	2	2	6
16	Greece (GRE)	2	1	2	5
17	Cuba (CUB)	2	1	0	3
18	(CZE)	2	0	2	4
19	(THA)	2	0	0	2
20	(LTU)	1	5	7	13
21	(ITA)	1	3	8	12
22	(POL)	1	3	7	11
23	(CRO)	1	3	2	6
24	(FRA)	1	2	6	9
25	(KAZ)	1	1	5	7
26	India (IND)	1	1	3	5
27	(SUI)	1	1	0	2
28	Brazil (BRA)	1	0	4	5
29	Norway (NOR)	1	0	1	2
29	Singapore (SGP)	1	0	1	2
31	(LAT)	1	0	0	1
31	Mexico (MEX)	1	0	0	1
33	(MGL)	0	4	5	9
34	(GEO)	0	2	1	3
35	South Africa (RSA)	0	2	0	2
36	(ARM)	0	1	4	5
37	(INA)	0	1	1	2
37	(POR)	0	1	1	2
39	(ECU)	0	1	0	1
	Malaysia (MAS)	0	1	0	1
	(SWE)	0	1	0	1
42	(KGZ)	0	0	4	4
43	(BUL)	0	0	3	3
44	(AUT)	0	0	1	1
	(EGY)	0	0	1	1
	(EST)	0	0	1	1
	(FIN)	0	0	1	1
	Hungary (HUN)	0	0	1	1
	Israel (ISR)	0	0	1	1
	(NED)	0	0	1	1
	Spain (ESP)	0	0	1	1
Totals (51 NOCs)		219	219	294	732

References[]

^ "Games – Deaflympics". Archived from the original on 2017-07-22. Retrieved 2016-06-29.
^ ^a ^b ^c "23'üncü Yaz İşitme Engelliler Olimpiyat Oyunları açılış seremonisi ile başladı". NTV (in Turkish). 2017-07-18. Retrieved 2017-07-19.
^ Samsun Deaflympics 2017 Has Ended
^ A Month after the 2017 Deaflympics
^ "Sports – Deaflympics". Archived from the original on 2017-07-25. Retrieved 2016-06-29.
^ Bulletin Orienteering 3
^ Bulletin Orienteering 1-2
^ Samsun Deaflympics 2017 Has Ended
^ Deaflympics off to magnificent start
^ "Countries". Deaflympics 2017. Archived from the original on 2017-07-21. Retrieved 2017-07-20.
^ "Logo and branding (Corporate)".
^ "Olimpiyat Maskotunun Adı Belli Oldu". Tekkköy Gündem (in Turkish). 2017-06-13. Archived from the original on 2017-07-30. Retrieved 2017-07-04.
^ Voting for the name of the mascot of Deaflympics
^ "Olımpiyat Elçilerinin Samsun Coşkusu" (in Turkish). Deaflympics 2017. 2017-07-08. Retrieved 2017-07-19.
^ "Schedule". 2017 Deaflympics. Retrieved 2017-07-18.
^ "Medals". Deaflympics 2017. 2017-07-08. Retrieved 2017-07-20.
^ "Deaflympics 2017 Samsun Results". deaflympics2017.org (in Turkish). Retrieved 2017-09-02.
^ "Medal standings" (PDF).

External links[]

Official website

Preceded by Sofia-Fussen	Summer Deaflympic Games Samsun XXIII Summer Deaflympics (2017)	Succeeded by Caxias do Sul 2022

[1] "Games – Deaflympics". Archived from the original on 2017-07-22. Retrieved 2016-06-29.

[ntv1-2] "23'üncü Yaz İşitme Engelliler Olimpiyat Oyunları açılış seremonisi ile başladı". NTV (in Turkish). 2017-07-18. Retrieved 2017-07-19.

[3] Samsun Deaflympics 2017 Has Ended

[4] A Month after the 2017 Deaflympics

[5] "Sports – Deaflympics". Archived from the original on 2017-07-25. Retrieved 2016-06-29.

[6] Bulletin Orienteering 3

[7] Bulletin Orienteering 1-2

[8] Samsun Deaflympics 2017 Has Ended

[9] Deaflympics off to magnificent start

[d3-10] "Countries". Deaflympics 2017. Archived from the original on 2017-07-21. Retrieved 2017-07-20.

[11] "Logo and branding (Corporate)".

[tg1-12] "Olimpiyat Maskotunun Adı Belli Oldu". Tekkköy Gündem (in Turkish). 2017-06-13. Archived from the original on 2017-07-30. Retrieved 2017-07-04.

[13] Voting for the name of the mascot of Deaflympics

[d1-14] "Olımpiyat Elçilerinin Samsun Coşkusu" (in Turkish). Deaflympics 2017. 2017-07-08. Retrieved 2017-07-19.

[15] "Schedule". 2017 Deaflympics. Retrieved 2017-07-18.

[d2-16] "Medals". Deaflympics 2017. 2017-07-08. Retrieved 2017-07-20.

[17] "Deaflympics 2017 Samsun Results". deaflympics2017.org (in Turkish). Retrieved 2017-09-02.

[18] "Medal standings" (PDF).

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CISS IOC
Summer Games	1924 Paris 1928 Amsterdam 1931 Nuremberg 1935 London 1939 Stockholm 1949 Copenhagen 1953 Brussels 1957 Milan 1961 Helsinki 1965 Washington DC 1969 Belgrade 1973 Malmö 1977 Bucharest 1981 Cologne 1985 Los Angeles 1989 Christchurch 1993 Sofia 1997 Copenhagen 2001 Rome 2005 Melbourne 2009 Taipei 2013 Sofia 2017 Samsun 2022 Caxias do Sul
Winter Games	1949 Seefeld 1953 Oslo 1955 Oberammergau 1959 Montana-Vermala 1963 Are 1967 Berchtesgaden 1971 Adelboden 1975 Lake Placid 1979 Meribel 1983 Madonna di Campigilo 1987 Oslo 1991 Banff 1995 Yilas 1999 Davos 2003 Sundsvall 2007 Salt Lake City ~~2011 Vysoké Tatry~~ 2015 Khanty-Mansiysk 2019 Province of Sondrio

v t Nations at the 2017 Summer Deaflympics in Samsun, Turkey
Africa	Libya Mali Mauritius Nigeria Senegal Seychelles Sierra Leone South Africa Swaziland Tanzania Tunisia Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe
Americas	Brazil Cuba Mexico United States
Asia Pacific	Afghanistan Australia Bahrain Bangladesh China Fiji Hong Kong India Indonesia Iran Iraq Japan Jordan Kazakhstan South Korea Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Macau Malaysia Mongolia New Zealand Pakistan Philippines Saudi Arabia Singapore Chinese Taipei Thailand Turkmenistan United Arab Emirates Uzbekistan Yemen
Europe	Armenia Austria Azerbaijan Belarus Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Finland France Georgia Germany Great Britain Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland Israel Italy Latvia Lithuania Macedonia Malta Moldova Netherlands Norway Poland Portugal Romania Russia Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey Ukraine