Military World Games

Military World Games
First event	1995 Rome
Occur every	4 Years
Last event	2019 Wuhan
Next event	2025 Bern
Purpose	Military multi-sport event for nations of the world
Organization	CISM

Last updated March 21, 2025

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

Military sports

Winter Games

Editions

Summer Games

1995

1999

2003

2007

2011

2015

2019

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Host cities of the Military Games

Year	Games	Host	Opened by	Dates	Nations	Competitors			Sports	Events	Top Country On Medal Table
Year	Games	Host	Opened by	Dates	Nations	Men	Women	Total	Sports	Events	Top Country On Medal Table
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

2010

2013

2017

2022

2025

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Host cities of the Military Games

Year	Games	Host	Dates	Nations	Competitors			Sports	Events	Top Country On Medal Table
Year	Games	Host	Dates	Nations	Men	Women	Total	Sports	Events	Top Country On Medal Table
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	Lucerne	Future event

Cadet Games

Year	Games	Host	Dates	Nations	Competitors			Sports	Events	Top Country On Medal Table
Year	Games	Host	Dates	Nations	Men	Women	Total	Sports	Events	Top Country On Medal Table
2010	1	Ankara
2014	2	Quito
2022^[3]	3	St. Petersburg	4–12 August	20				7		Russia
2024	4

Source:^[4]

Medals

Summer Games

As of 2019 Military World Games.


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China (CHN)	324	247	168	739
2	Russia (RUS)	294	227	190	711
3	Brazil (BRA)	102	104	107	313
4	Italy (ITA)	88	94	115	297
5	France (FRA)	51	53	70	174
6	Poland (POL)	49	61	87	197
7	South Korea (KOR)	47	48	57	152
8	Germany (GER)	40	71	80	191
9	North Korea (PRK)	39	34	45	118
10	Ukraine (UKR)	34	63	73	170
11	Kenya (KEN)	27	26	25	78
12	United States (USA)	20	30	30	80
13	Belarus (BLR)	18	25	58	101
14	Bahrain (BHR)	17	5	15	37
15	Slovenia (SLO)	15	17	22	54
16	Iran (IRI)	14	22	27	63
17	Turkey (TUR)	14	10	16	40
18	Norway (NOR)	13	21	15	49
19	Croatia (CRO)	13	12	21	46
20	Uzbekistan (UZB)	13	9	12	34
21	Romania (ROM)	11	23	29	63
22	Austria (AUT)	10	15	21	46
23	Morocco (MAR)	10	11	11	32
24	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	10	9	23	42
25	Belgium (BEL)	10	5	13	28
26	Qatar (QAT)	9	11	10	30
27	Latvia (LAT)	9	7	9	25
28	Brunei (BRN)	9	6	11	26
29	Egypt (EGY)	8	8	14	30
30	Switzerland (SUI)	8	7	20	35
31	Saudi Arabia (KSA)	8	6	5	19
32	Algeria (ALG)	7	9	17	33
33	Slovakia (SVK)	7	7	10	24
34	Netherlands (NED)	7	4	9	20
35	Sweden (SWE)	7	2	9	18
36	Czech Republic (CZE)	6	10	10	26
37	Tunisia (TUN)	6	4	6	16
38	Finland (FIN)	5	18	12	35
39	Azerbaijan (AZE)	5	12	22	39
40	Greece (GRE)	4	20	11	35
41	Estonia (EST)	4	4	6	14
42	Hungary (HUN)	3	10	6	19
43	India (IND)	3	4	19	26
44	Lithuania (LTU)	3	4	16	23
45	Bulgaria (BUL)	3	3	6	12
46	Canada (CAN)	3	1	10	14
47	Ecuador (ECU)	3	1	0	4
48	Chile (CHI)	2	4	2	8
48	Syria (SYR)	2	4	2	8
50	Sri Lanka (SRI)	2	2	8	12
51	Ireland (IRL)	2	1	4	7
52	Venezuela (VEN)	1	4	10	15
53	Mongolia (MGL)	1	3	5	9
54	Vietnam (VIE)	1	2	3	6
55	Oman (OMA)	1	2	2	5
56	Tanzania (TAN)	1	2	0	3
57	Armenia (ARM)	1	1	5	7
58	Denmark (DEN)	1	1	3	5
59	Namibia (NAM)	1	1	2	4
59	Sudan (SUD)	1	1	2	4
61	Uganda (UGA)	1	0	2	3
61	United Arab Emirates (UAE)	1	0	2	3
63	Serbia and Montenegro (SCG)	1	0	1	2
64	Gabon (GAB)	1	0	0	1
64	Senegal (SEN)	1	0	0	1
66	Thailand (THA)	0	5	10	15
67	Dominican Republic (DOM)	0	4	7	11
68	Lesotho (LES)	0	3	1	4
69	Cyprus (CYP)	0	2	2	4
70	Cameroon (CMR)	0	1	4	5
71	Indonesia (INA)	0	1	3	4
72	Georgia (GEO)	0	1	2	3
72	Jordan (JOR)	0	1	2	3
74	Luxembourg (LUX)	0	1	1	2
74	Rwanda (RWA)	0	1	1	2
76	Monaco (MON)	0	1	0	1
77	Barbados (BAR)	0	0	3	3
	Serbia (SRB)	0	0	3	3
	South Africa (RSA)	0	0	3	3
	Spain (ESP)	0	0	3	3
81	Botswana (BOT)	0	0	2	2
	Kuwait (KUW)	0	0	2	2
	Pakistan (PAK)	0	0	2	2
	Uruguay (URU)	0	0	2	2
85	Afghanistan (AFG)	0	0	1	1
	Albania (ALB)	0	0	1	1
	Argentina (ARG)	0	0	1	1
	Colombia (COL)	0	0	1	1
	Ivory Coast (CIV)	0	0	1	1
	Jamaica (JAM)	0	0	1	1
	Portugal (POR)	0	0	1	1
	Suriname (SUR)	0	0	1	1
Totals (92 entries)		1,432	1,449	1,682	4,563

Winter Games

As of 2017 Winter Military World Games.


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia (RUS)	29	16	14	59
2	Italy (ITA)	25	19	18	62
3	France (FRA)	24	21	20	65
4	China (CHN)	6	11	8	25
5	Austria (AUT)	6	11	6	23
6	Switzerland (SUI)	5	6	5	16
7	Slovenia (SLO)	4	4	5	13
8	Norway (NOR)	2	5	2	9
9	Germany (GER)	2	3	7	12
10	Poland (POL)	2	0	1	3
11	South Korea (KOR)	2	0	0	2
12	Bulgaria (BUL)	1	4	2	7
13	Estonia (EST)	1	1	0	2
14	Spain (ESP)	1	0	2	3
15	Finland (FIN)	0	1	5	6
16	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	0	1	4	5
17	Romania (ROM)	0	1	1	2
18	Belarus (BLR)	0	1	0	1
19	Czech Republic (CZE)	0	0	1	1
	Iran (IRN)	0	0	1	1
	Lithuania (LTU)	0	0	1	1
	Serbia (SRB)	0	0	1	1
	Sweden (SWE)	0	0	1	1
Totals (23 entries)		110	105	105	320

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".

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[1] "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.

[military_world_winter_games_cancelled_over_covid_19_concerns_2021-2] Iveson, Ali (31 December 2021). "Military World Winter Games cancelled over COVID-19 concerns". InsideTheGames.biz . Retrieved 15 January 2022.

[3] "The III CISM Military World Cadet – St. Petersburg, August 4 – 12, 2022".

[4] "CISM - World Cadet Games".

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v t e Military World Games
Summer Games	1995 Rome 1999 Zagreb 2003 Catania 2007 Hyderabad 2011 Rio de Janeiro 2015 Mungyeong 2019 Wuhan
Winter Games	2010 Aosta Valley 2013 Annecy 2017 Sochi 2021 Berchtesgaden

v t e Nations at the Military World Games
Africa	Algeria Angola Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Burundi Cameroon Cape Verde Central African Republic Chad Comoros Congo DR Congo Djibouti Egypt Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Eswatini Ethiopia Gabon The Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Ivory Coast Kenya Lesotho Liberia Libya Madagascar Malawi Mali Mauritania Mauritius Morocco Mozambique Namibia Niger Nigeria Rwanda São Tomé and Príncipe Senegal Seychelles Sierra Leone Somalia South Africa South Sudan Sudan Tanzania Togo Tunisia Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe
Americas	Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Aruba Bahamas Barbados Belize Bermuda Bolivia Brazil British Virgin Islands Canada Cayman Islands Chile Colombia Costa Rica Cuba Dominica Dominican Republic Ecuador El Salvador Grenada Guatemala Guyana Haiti Honduras Jamaica Mexico Nicaragua Panama Paraguay Peru Puerto Rico Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Suriname Trinidad and Tobago United States Uruguay Venezuela Virgin Islands
Asia	Afghanistan Bahrain Bangladesh Bhutan Brunei Cambodia China Chinese Taipei East Timor Hong Kong India Indonesia Iran Iraq Japan Jordan Kazakhstan Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Laos Lebanon Malaysia Maldives Mongolia Myanmar Nepal North Korea Oman Pakistan Palestine Philippines Qatar Saudi Arabia Singapore South Korea Sri Lanka Syria Tajikistan Thailand Turkmenistan United Arab Emirates Uzbekistan Vietnam Yemen
Europe	Albania Andorra Armenia Austria Azerbaijan Belarus Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Finland France Georgia Germany Great Britain Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland Israel Italy Kosovo Latvia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Malta Moldova Monaco Montenegro Netherlands North Macedonia Norway Poland Portugal Romania Russia San Marino Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey Ukraine
Oceania	American Samoa Australia Cook Islands Fiji Guam Kiribati Marshall Islands Federated States of Micronesia Nauru New Zealand Palau Papua New Guinea Samoa Solomon Islands Tonga Tuvalu Vanuatu

Military World Games

Contents

Sports

Summer Games

Winter Games

Editions

Summer Games

Winter Games

Cadet Games

Medals

Summer Games

Winter Games

See also

References

External links