Medalists
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men |  Netherlands (NED) |  Germany (GER) |  Great Britain (GBR) |
| Women | Germany (GER) | Great Britain (GBR) |  Japan (JPN) |
Canoe polo at the 2005 World Games .
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men | Netherlands (NED) | Germany (GER) | Great Britain (GBR) |
| Women | Germany (GER) | Great Britain (GBR) | Japan (JPN) |
The World Games are an international multi-sport event comprising sports and sporting disciplines that are not contested in the Olympic Games. They are usually held every four years, one year after a Summer Olympic Games, over the course of 11 days. The World Games are governed by the International World Games Association, under the patronage of the International Olympic Committee.
Canoe polo, also known as kayak polo or polo, is one of the competitive disciplines of kayaking. It incorporates ball-handling skills into a contact team game, wherein group tactics and positional play are as important as individual speed and fitness.
Christine Robinson is a Canadian water polo player. She is a student at McGill University. She was part of the 7th place women's water polo team at the 2004 Summer Olympics. She won a gold medal at the 2003 FINA Junior Water Polo World Championships in Calgary.
Duff Gibson is a Canadian skeleton racer who competed from 1999 to 2006. He was born in Vaughan, Ontario. His father was born on December 13, 1937. At the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, He won the gold medal in the men's skeleton, narrowly beating out his teammate Jeff Pain. With his victory, the 39-year-old Gibson surpassed ice hockey player Al MacInnis as the oldest gold medalist in Canadian Winter Olympic history. More significantly, Gibson became the oldest individual gold medallist in the history of the Winter Games, a record previously held by Norway's Magnar Solberg, who was 35 when he won the gold medal in the 20 km individual biathlon event at the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo; he held the record until Ole Einar Bjørndalen won gold at the 10 km biathlon sprint aged 40 at the 2014 Sochi Olympics. He retired immediately following the 2006 Games in Turin.
The Skeleton World Cup season is a yearly competition first organized by the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation since 1986–87. The women's version of this event debuted in 1996–97.
Men's and Women's Artistic gymnastics have been contested at the Pan American Games since the 1951 edition. In 1987, Rhythmic gymnastics was introduced. In 2007, Trampoline gymnastics was added to the program.
Football was an optional sport at the 1979 edition and two of the optional sports at the 1985 edition of the Universiade. Between 1987 and 2019, it was a recognized mandatory sport. The women's football competition began in the 1993 edition as an optional event. Due to the creation of the FISU University Football World Cup in 2019, the sport is no longer part of the Summer World University Games program, as of that year. With this change, the number of mandatory sports was kept at 15, since the place was occupied by badminton, which, after five editions as an optional sport, became compulsory.
Cue sports, including three-cushion billiards, nine-ball and snooker, were introduced as World Games sports for men and for women also at the World Games 2001 in Akita.
Water polo has been part of the Universiade program since the first games, in 1959. A women's water polo tournament was introduced for the 2009 Summer Universiade. Water polo was not included in 1975 and 1989.
Speed skating events have been contested at the Universiade since 1968. The sport has a special status at the event, because the host cities are not expected to build a speed skating rink specifically for the Winter World University Games. In years where the Winter World University Games do not take place, or do not include speed skating, the World University Speed Skating Championships are sometimes held instead.
For the 1972 Summer Olympics, a total of thirty-two sports venues were used. A majority of the venues used were new construction in time for the 1972 Games after Munich was awarded the Games in 1966. Kiel Bay was the only venue from the 1936 Summer Olympics to be used for the 1972 Games. A stretch of the Autobahn near Munich was used for cycling's road team time trial event. After the Olympics, Olympiastadion hosted the final of the FIFA World Cup less than two years later. Augsburg's Eiskanal has served as host to three Canoe Slalom World Championships while the shooting range hosted the World Shooting Championships 2010. Olympiapark was part of Munich's bid for the 2018 Winter Olympics.
Hungary competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, from 27 July to 12 August 2012. Hungarian athletes have competed at every Summer Olympic Games in the modern era, except the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, and the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles because of the Soviet boycott. The Hungarian Olympic Committee sent the nation's smallest delegation to the Games since 1956 to London. A total of 159 athletes, 97 men and 62 women, competed in 18 sports.
The ICF Canoe Polo World Championships are international competitions in the sport of canoe polo. They have taken place every two years since 1994, in a different venue each time. Medals are awarded by national team; the German team has won the most medals in total.
Canoe polo was part of the World Games from the edition of Duisburg 2005.
Gymnastics events were competed at the 1963 Pan American Games in São Paulo, Brazil.
This page shows the results of the Gymnastics Competition at the 1983 Pan American Games, held in Caracas, Venezuela.
Men's artistic gymnastics events were held at the 1951 Pan American Games in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Gymnastics at the 1975 Pan American Games in Mexico City, Mexico.
Canoe polo at the 2017 World Games.
Gymnastics events were competed at the 1967 Pan American Games in Winnipeg, Canada.