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To over 30 diverse, popular and spectacular sports, The World Games are the pinnacle in the competition calendar, providing the common stage for their best athletes to aim for excellence and celebrate unity and friendship across all boundaries.

As 3,000 of the finest sportsmen and women contest the coveted medals at The World Games, they present the very essence of their sport to the world at large.

For the spectators, at the venues as well as in front of TV sets, the particular fascinations of The World Games are found in watching these athletes compete in sports of a kaleidoscopic variety that is without match in the entire Olympic Movement.

Some of the 32 sports appearing here under their generic name could, and should, be broken down further: into different sports or disciplines of sports.

An effective auxiliary construct is applied by grouping the 30+ sports thematically. To make the variety somewhat more manageable for the general public, The World Games feature:

Artistic and Dance Sports

Ball Sports

Martial Arts

Precision Sports

Strength Sports

Trend Sports

30+ sports at their best!

All these groups, sports, or disciplines of sports, do have one thing common: they reserve The World Games for the best. The best athletes competing in the best events! That is their pledge to spectators and broadcasters alike.

The IWGA Commitment

Pursuant to the International World Games Association's (IWGA) aims of securing global exposure for the participating sports and athletes, the affiliated International Sports Federations ensure - by establishing the selection and qualification criteria accordingly - that their very best athletes enter The World Games in each event.

Under the terms of the IWGA membership, each sport's governing body commits to stage its events in ways which enable the spectators watching them for the first time to follow and enjoy the competitions.

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Safeguarding the diversity in sport is vital to the international culture of the 21st century.

Just imagine a world without sports like inline skating, karate, rugby or squash! Unthinkable, you say. And rightfully so: a combined 1.2 billion people around the globe practice them regularly.

Ron Froehlich
President
International World Games Association

Diverse!

The object of areobic gymnastics is to demonstrate cardiovascular endurance and high levels of fitness. The squat in powerlifting is considered to be the ultimate test of strength.

There's not all that much common ground when it comes to the physics of the two sports. Still, at four year intervals, the best athletes in both get on the global stage together - during The World Games - to captivate the public.

Some perform a routine of 1 minute and 45 seconds with continuous movement and aerobic dance patterns to music. Others lower themselves into a simple squat for just a few seconds. But on their shoulders is a bar loaded with weights of up to three times that of their body.

Popular!

Over 30 million people water ski. In billiard sports, the number of registered players stands at over 100 million.
Netball's governing body reports that the all-women sport - way beyond its huge popularity in the Oceanic region - is actually practiced by more than 7 million women in 65 countries.
Fringe sports? Think again!
The athletes taking part in The World Games represent not only their country, they represent their sports, too, and the millions around the globe practicing them. Albeit not at the level of perfection that's reserved to the best: the international elite of 30+ sports gathered in The World Games.

Spectacular!

Live transmission of video signals from the most inaccessible fields of play - from remote forest trails and from thousands of meters up in the sky - project dramatic images of superb sporting exploits in orienteering and skydiving onto giant outdoor screens.
In The World Games, all International Federations, pursuant to the IWGA's aims of securing worldwide exposure, endeavor to 'present' their sports to the public in attendance as well as to the cameras of the host broadcaster.