Military World Games
Appearance
First event | 1995 Rome |
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Occur every | 4 Years |
Last event | 2019 Wuhan |
Next event | 2025 Bern |
Purpose | Military multi-sport event for nations of the world |
Organization | CISM |
The Military World Games is a multi-sport event for military sportspeople, organized by the International Military Sports Council (CISM). They have been held since 1995, although championships for separate sports had been held for some years. A winter edition of the games was subsequently created; the first edition was organized by the Italian region of Aosta Valley from 20 to 25 of March 2010.[1]
Sports
Summer Games
- Archery ( )
- Artistic gymnastics ( )
- Athletics ( )
- Badminton ( )
- Basketball ( )
- Beach volleyball ( )
- Boxing ( )
- Cycling ( )
- Diving ( )
- Equestrian ( )
- Fencing ( )
- Football ( )
- Golf ( )
- Handball (details )
- Judo ( )
- Modern pentathlon ( )
- Open water swimming ( )
- Orienteering ( )
- Parachuting ( )
- Sailing ( )
- Shooting ( )
- Swimming ( )
- Table tennis ( )
- Taekwondo ( )
- Tennis ( )
- Triathlon ( )
- Volleyball ( )
- Wrestling ( )
- Military sports
Winter Games
- Alpine skiing ( )
- Biathlon ( )
- Cross-country skiing ( )
- Military patrol ( )
- Short track speed skating ( )
- Ski mountaineering ( )
- Ski-orienteering ( )
- Sport climbing ( )
Editions
Summer Games
Year | Games | Host | Opened by | Dates | Nations | Competitors | Sports | Events | Top Country On Medal Table | ||
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Men | Women | Total | |||||||||
1995 | 1 | Rome | Oscar Luigi Scalfaro | September 4 – 16 | 93 | 4017 | 17 | 179 | Russia | ||
1999 | 2 | Zagreb | Franjo Tuđman | August 8 – 17 | 80 | 7825 | 18 | 199 | Russia | ||
2003 | 3 | Catania | Carlo Azeglio Ciampi | December 4 – 11 | 81 | 3217 | 11 | 120 | China | ||
2007 | 4 | Hyderabad | Pratibha Patil | October 14 – 21 | 101 | 4738 | 15 | 157 | Russia | ||
2011 | 5 | Rio de Janeiro | Dilma Rousseff | July 15 – 24 | 113 | 4017 | 20 | 195 | Brazil | ||
2015 | 6 | Mungyeong | Park Geun-hye | October 2 – 11 | 110 | 8700 | 24 | 248 | Russia | ||
2019 | 7 | Wuhan | Xi Jinping | October 18 – 27 | 110 | 9308 | 27 | 316 | China | ||
2027 | 8 | TBA | TBA | TBA |
Winter Games
Year | Games | Host | Dates | Nations | Competitors | Sports | Events | Top Country On Medal Table | ||
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Men | Women | Total | ||||||||
2010 | 1 | Aosta Valley | March 20 – 25 | 43 | 800 | 6 | 28 | Italy | ||
2013 | 2 | Annecy | March 24 – 29 | 40 | 1000 | 8 | 36 | France | ||
2017 | 3 | Sochi | February 24 – 27 | 25 | 402 | 7 | 44 | Russia | ||
2022 | 4 | Berchtesgaden | Cancelled, due to the COVID-19 pandemic[2] | |||||||
2025 | 5 | Bern | Future event |
Cadet Games
Year | Games | Host | Dates | Nations | Competitors | Sports | Events | Top Country On Medal Table | ||
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Men | Women | Total | ||||||||
2010 | 1 | Ankara | ||||||||
2014 | 2 | Quito | ||||||||
2022[3] | 3 | St. Petersburg | 4–12 August | 20 | 7 | Russia |
Source:[4]
Medals
Summer GamesAs of 2019 Military World Games.
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Winter GamesAs of 2017 Winter Military World Games.
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See also
- International Army Games
- World Military Championships
- World Military Cup
- African Military Games
- Invictus Games
- Military pentathlon
- World Police and Fire Games
References
- ^ "Guidance for Submitting a Candidature to the Organization of the 1st CISM Winter Military Games" (PDF). CISM official website. CISM Winter Military Games Bidding Book. Retrieved 26 April 2020.
- ^ Iveson, Ali (31 December 2021). "Military World Winter Games cancelled over COVID-19 concerns". InsideTheGames.biz. Retrieved 15 January 2022.
- ^ "The III CISM Military World Cadet – St. Petersburg, August 4 – 12, 2022".
- ^ "CISM - World Cadet Games".