Host city | Cali, Colombia |
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Motto | Fair play to the planet |
Nations | 103 |
Athletes | 2,982 |
Events | 171 in 31 official sports |
Opening | 25 July 2013 |
Closing | 4 August 2013 |
Opened by | Vice President Angelino Garzón [1] |
Athlete's Oath | Jorge Luis CiFuentes |
Judge's Oath | Marta Luz Vega |
Coach's Oath | Hugo Cotuaz |
Main venue | Estadio Olímpico Pascual Guerrero |
Website | worldgames2013.com.co (archived) |
The 2013 World Games (Spanish : Juegos Mundiales 2013), the ninth World Games, were an international multi-sport event held in the city of Cali, Colombia, from July 25 to August 4. [2] It is the first edition of the World Games to be held in South America.
The 2013 World Games were initially allocated to the German cities of Duisburg and Düsseldorf. However, at the end of 2008, Duisburg withdrew and Düsseldorf dropped out because both cities could not secure enough funding, partly as a result of the financial crisis of 2007–08 and the subsequent Great Recession.
Two alternate cities came forward to the IWGA to bid for these Games: Pretoria, South Africa and Cali, Colombia. During The World Games 2009 in Kaohsiung, Chinese Taipei, the IWGA announced that Cali has won the right to host The World Games in 2013.
The 2013 World Games programme featured 32 official sports, and 4 invitational sports. The numbers in parentheses indicate the number of medal events, which were contested in each sports discipline.
The "Garden of Sport" events were held in the neighboring towns of Buga and Jamundí. These demonstration events served to showcase these disciplines for potential inclusion in future games.
Two of the competitions were held at Coliseo Mayor in Buga:
The other three disciplines took place in Jamundí:
Key: Invitational sport
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This particular edition made the mistake of putting the words "word games" instead of "world games," on one thousand medals. [7] This fact was reported by Colombian news organization Noticias Uno. [8] [9] Several athletes smiled and were surprised upon seeing the typo. [10] According to the representative of the firm that engraved the medals, several authorities had seen and approved the medals' design without noticing the mistake, including Coldeportes director Andrés Botero, and the head of the Organizing Committee Rodrigo Otoya. The representative also stated that, according to a corporate policy, "... any mistake after the art has been approved (by the client) will not be responsibility of the Firm" [11] Regarding the medals, Rodrigo Guerrero, Mayor of Cali, stated that "This mistake in no way undermines the value of the medals, and the spirit of the games. People are making a tempest in a tea cup out of this situation." [12]
Key: Medal tally of the 2013 World Games' Official Results website, which includes road speed skating. [13] In one aerobic gymnastics event there was a four-way tie for first place; four gold medals and no silver or bronze medals were awarded. In another aerobic gymnastics event there was a tie for second-place; two silver medals and no bronze medal were awarded. In two trampoline/tumbing gymnastics events, there was tie for first-place; in each event, two gold medals and no silver medal were awarded.
* Host nation (Colombia)
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | Italy (ITA) | 18 | 13 | 18 | 49 |
2 | Russia (RUS) | 17 | 24 | 12 | 53 |
3 | France (FRA) | 16 | 11 | 13 | 40 |
4 | Germany (GER) | 15 | 7 | 8 | 30 |
5 | China (CHN) | 14 | 6 | 2 | 22 |
6 | United States (USA) | 11 | 4 | 4 | 19 |
7 | Ukraine (UKR) | 9 | 10 | 9 | 28 |
8 | Colombia (COL)* | 8 | 13 | 10 | 31 |
9 | Great Britain (GBR) | 6 | 6 | 3 | 15 |
10 | Chinese Taipei (TPE) | 5 | 5 | 8 | 18 |
11 | Brazil (BRA) | 5 | 3 | 1 | 9 |
12 | Japan (JPN) | 5 | 1 | 4 | 10 |
13 | Switzerland (SUI) | 4 | 4 | 0 | 8 |
14 | Denmark (DEN) | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 |
15 | Sweden (SWE) | 3 | 1 | 5 | 9 |
16 | Belarus (BLR) | 3 | 1 | 3 | 7 |
Mexico (MEX) | 3 | 1 | 3 | 7 | |
18 | Netherlands (NED) | 2 | 6 | 5 | 13 |
19 | Belgium (BEL) | 2 | 4 | 4 | 10 |
20 | Spain (ESP) | 2 | 4 | 2 | 8 |
21 | Chile (CHI) | 2 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
Poland (POL) | 2 | 3 | 0 | 5 | |
Romania (ROU) | 2 | 3 | 0 | 5 | |
24 | Slovenia (SLO) | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
25 | Finland (FIN) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
26 | South Korea (KOR) | 1 | 2 | 6 | 9 |
27 | Austria (AUT) | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 |
28 | New Zealand (NZL) | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
29 | Croatia (CRO) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
Venezuela (VEN) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | |
31 | Hungary (HUN) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
Vietnam (VIE) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | |
33 | South Africa (RSA) | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
34 | Mongolia (MGL) | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
35 | Azerbaijan (AZE) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
Lithuania (LTU) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
37 | India (IND) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Malaysia (MAS) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
Moldova (MDA) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
Turkey (TUR) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
41 | Canada (CAN) | 0 | 3 | 6 | 9 |
42 | Norway (NOR) | 0 | 3 | 4 | 7 |
43 | Argentina (ARG) | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
Egypt (EGY) | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 | |
Thailand (THA) | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 | |
46 | Czech Republic (CZE) | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
47 | Australia (AUS) | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
48 | Ecuador (ECU) | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
Portugal (POR) | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
50 | Greece (GRE) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Iran (IRI) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
52 | Luxembourg (LUX) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
53 | El Salvador (ESA) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Ireland (IRL) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Israel (ISR) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Morocco (MAR) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Peru (PER) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Philippines (PHI) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Serbia (SRB) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Totals (59 entries) | 176 | 169 | 169 | 514 |
Key: As of August 3, 2013, from the Games' official Invitational Sports Medal Tally. [14]
* Host nation (Colombia)
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | Hungary (HUN) | 5 | 2 | 0 | 7 |
2 | China (CHN) | 5 | 1 | 1 | 7 |
3 | Iran (IRI) | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
4 | France (FRA) | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 |
5 | Vietnam (VIE) | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
6 | Germany (GER) | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
7 | Japan (JPN) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
United States (USA) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
9 | Belgium (BEL) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Cuba (CUB) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
Hong Kong (HKG) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
Indonesia (INA) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
13 | Malaysia (MAS) | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
14 | Russia (RUS) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
15 | Italy (ITA) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Portugal (POR) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
Turkey (TUR) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
Ukraine (UKR) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
19 | Brazil (BRA) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Canada (CAN) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
Chile (CHI) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
Czech Republic (CZE) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
India (IND) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
Spain (ESP) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
Venezuela (VEN) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
26 | Argentina (ARG) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Colombia (COL)* | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Mexico (MEX) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Netherlands (NED) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Poland (POL) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Totals (30 entries) | 23 | 23 | 18 | 64 |
Disqualified athlete(s)
Sport/Event | Athlete (NOC) | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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Sumo Men's middleweight | István Kalmár (HUN) | –1 | –1 | ||
Atsamaz Kaziev (RUS) | +1 | –1 | 0 | ||
Usukhbayar Ochirkhuu (MGL) | +1 | +1 |
In the men's middleweight sumo event, István Kalmár of Hungary was stripped of his silver medal due to a positive doping test. [15]
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