2020 Invictus Games
Host city | The Hague, Netherlands |
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Nations participating | 20 |
Debuting countries | 2 |
Opening ceremony | 16 April 2022 |
Closing ceremony | 22 April 2022 |
Officially opened by | Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex |
Main venue | Sportcampus Zuiderpark |
Website | invictusgamesfoundation |
The 2020 Invictus Games will take place in The Hague, Netherlands. It will be the fifth Invictus Games.[1][2] The games will be documented in a Netflix documentary called .[3]
The games were to be held on 9–16 May 2020 at the ,[4] but were postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. They were then postponed again to the Spring of 2022.[5]
Participating countries[]
The 18 participating countries of the 2018 Invictus Games are invited back, along with new invitations to Belgium and South Korea, which made the total number of participating countries to 20.
The participating countries are:
- Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
- Australia
- Belgium
- Canada
- Denmark
- Estonia
- France
- Georgia
- Germany
- Iraq
- Italy
- Jordan
- Netherlands (host)
- New Zealand
- Poland
- Romania
- South Korea
- Ukraine
- United Kingdom
- United States
References[]
- ^ "THE HAGUE 2022 – Invictus Games Foundation". Retrieved 2021-04-07.
- ^ "Harry and Meghan announce Netflix show about Invictus Games". the Guardian. 2021-04-06. Retrieved 2021-04-07.
- ^ "Prince Harry's Invictus Games set for new 2022 date after Netflix announcement". uk.news.yahoo.com. Retrieved 2021-04-07.
- ^ "Invictus Games". Invictus Games (in Dutch). Retrieved 2019-10-18.
- ^ Nolasco, Stephanie (19 March 2020). "Prince Harry's Invictus Games postponed to 2022 due to coronavirus pandemic". Fox News. Retrieved 19 March 2020.
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