World Transplant Games Federation

The World Transplant Games Federation

Abbreviation	WTGF
Formation	1978;47 years ago (1978) / 1987 [1] [2] (Established) 29 June 2017;7 years ago (2017-06-29) (Legally incorporated)
Founder	Dr Maurice Slapak
Founded at	England
Purpose	Promoting amateur sport amongst organ transplant recipients and associated activities most notably the organisation of World Transplant Games events
Headquarters	The Quay, 30 Channel Way, Ocean Village Southampton, UK
Region	Argentina, Australia, Austria, Canada, France, Greece, Hungary, Japan, Netherlands, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, England and Wales, United States
Services	Education/training The advancement of health or saving of lives Amateur sport
President	Liz Schick
Affiliations	International Olympic Committee
Website	www.wtgf.org
[3] [4]

The World Transplant Games Federation (abbreviated as WTGF) is a United Kingdom-based non-profit organisation that aims to promote amateur sport amongst organ transplant recipients, living donors and donor families. The WTGF promotes the study of transplantation and aims to educate the public and raise awareness of the world shortage of donor organs. It shares new knowledge from biological/clinical studies and promotes the mental and moral improvement for recipients, living donors and donor families; and fosters international friendship and relations.

Established in 1978, ^[4] the WTGF was formally incorporated in 2017 and is responsible for the organisation of World Transplant Games events, including the Summer Transplant Games and the Winter Transplant Games, both held every two years, on alternate years.

The WTGF is affiliated with the International Olympic Committee (2013 and 2021) ^[5] and its headquarters are located in Winchester.

Presidents

The leading executive officer of the WTGF is called the president; and since formation the following have served in this role:

Ordinal	Officeholder	Country	Term start	Term end	Time in office	Notes
1	Maurice Slapak	England	1978 (1978)	2004 (2004)	25–26 years	[4]
2	Olivier Coustere	France	2004 (2004)	2015 (2015)	20–21 years
3	Chris Thomas	Australia	August 2015 (2015-08)	April 2023	7–8 years	[6]
4	Liz Schick	Switzerland	April 2023 (2023-04)	Incumbent

Members

Source: ^[7]

60 Nations members in 1 April 2025:

1. Africa: 4
2. Asia: 14
3. Oceania: 2
4. Americas: 10
5. Europe: 30

Events

Source: ^[8]

Journals

Since 2010. ^[9]

World Cup

1st Football World Cup was held in Italy in 2024 in men football and Chile was Champion.

Calendar

Source: ^[10]

European Heart and Lung Transplant Championships 2022 / 6–11 June 2022 / Belgium

European Transplant and Dialysis Sports Games 2022 / 21–28 August 2022 / Oxford, UK

Transplant Games of America / 29 July - 3 August 2022 / USA (San Diego)

Games

Asian Transplant Games

1. 2002 Thialand
2. 2008 Iran

European Transplant Games

Source: ^{[11] [12] [13]}

The 15th European Heart & Lung Transplant Championships (12-17 July 2014). Vilnius Lithuania 15 countries participating - Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark,Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden and Switzerland. ^[14]

16th European Heart and Lung Transplant Championships in Vantaa. ^[15]

ETSC 2024 will be held in Lisbon between Sunday 21 July and Sunday 28 July 2024.

• European Transplant Sport Championships (Heart and Lung) (ETSC) or European Heart and Lung Transplant Sport Championships (EHLTC) ^[16]
• European Heart and Lung Transplant Federation (EHLTF) ^{[17] [18]}
• European Transplant and Dialysis Sports Championships (ETDSC) or European Dialysis and Transplant Sports Championships (EDTSC) ^[19]
• European Transplant and Dialysis Sports Federation (ETDSF) (Country: Ireland) ^{[11] [20] [19]}

Lisbon for the first time in history (after 2016), the two Federations unite together in holding the 2024 European Transplant Sport Championships.

European Heart and Lung Transplant Federation

Members: ^{[21] [22] [18] [23] [24]}

Games: ^{[25] [26]}

Games Results: ^{[27] [28]}

1. 1989
2. 1990
3. 1991
4. 1992
5. 1994
6. 1996
7. 1998
8. 2000
9. 2002
10. 2004
11. 2006
12. 2008
13. 2010
14. 2012: ^[29]
15. 2014
16. 2016: ^[30]
17. 2018: ^{[31] [32]}
18. 2020: Cancelled
19. 2022: Cancelled
20. 2024: ^{[33] [34]}

European Transplant and Dialysis Sports Federation

2000 - 2020 in Hungary / 2020 - Ongoing in Ireland ^[35]

Source: ^[11]

Results: ^{[36] [37]}

Past Results and News: ^{[37] [37] [37] [37]}

28 Members: ^[37]

Board: ^[38]

Statutes: ^{[39] [40]}

Rules: ^[37]

Games Results: ^[37]

1. 2000
2. 2002
3. 2004: ^[37]
4. 2006: ^[37]
5. 2008: ^[37]
6. 2010: ^[37]
7. 2012: ^[37]
8. 2014: ^[37]
9. 2016: ^{[37] [35] [41] [42] [43] [15] [37]}
10. 2018: ^[44]
11. 2020
12. 2022
13. 2024: ^[33]

European Heart and Lung Transplant Championships

Participants: heart, lung and heart-lung transplant.

Sports: volleyball,badminton,tennis, table tennis, cycling, ten-pin bowling, petanque, swimming, golf, cross-country running and athletics.

Age groups (5–17, 18–34, 35–44, 45–54, 55–59, 60–64, 65–69, 70+)

Previous Games

 2024 Lisbon, Portugal  [33]  [37]   2022 Cancelled  [37]   2020 Cancelled  [37]   2018 Lignano Sabbiadoro, Italy  2016 Vantaa, Finland  2014 Vilnus, Lithuania  2012 Apeldoorn, Netherlands  2010 Växjö, Sweden  2008 Vichy, France  2006 Napol, Italy  2004 Dublin, Ireland  2002 Klagenfurt, Austria  2000 Sandefjord, Norway  1998 Bad Oeynhausen, Germany  1996 Lausanne, Switzerland  1994 Espoo, Finland  1992 Enschene, Netherlands  1991 London, Great Britain  1990 Paris, France  1989 Gorssel, Netherlands

Source: ^{[12] [13] [45]}

European Transplant and Dialysis Sports Championships

Participants: kidney, liver, heart, lung, pancreas, bonemarrow transplant recipients, dialysis patients.

Sports: volleyball, badminton, tennis, table tennis, cycling, petanque, swimming, darts, golf, virtual triathlon, mini-marathon and athletics.

Age groups (5–17, 18–34, 35–44, 45–54, 55–59, 60–64, 65–69, 70+)

Previous Games

 2026 Arnhem, Netherlands  2024 Lisbon, Portugal  [33]  [37]   2022 Oxford, UK  2020 Dublin, Ireland  [46]   2018 Cagliari, Italy  [47]   2016 Vantaa, Finland  [37]   2014 Krakow, Poland  2012 Zagreb, Croatia  2010 Dublin, Ireland  2008 Wurzburg, Germany  2006 Pécs, Hungary  2004 Ljubljana, Slovenia  2002 Balatonaliga, Hungary  2000 Athens, Greece  [37] 

Source: ^[42]

MENA Transplant Games

Middle East Transplant Games Federation (METGF) ^[48]

MESOT : The Middle East Society for Organ Transplantation ^{[49] [50]}

1st Middle East Transplant Games (METG) Championship in Kuwait in 2001 ^[51]

14th Congress of the Middle East Society for Organ Transplantation (MESOT) 10–13 September 2014.

1. 2001 Kuwait
2. 2007 Kuwait ^[52]
3. 2010 Tunisia
4. 2012 UAE ^{[2] [53]}
5. 2014 Istanbul, Turkey ^[14]
6. 2016 Egypt Cancelled
7. Next TBD

Latin American

11th Argentinean and 6th Latin American Games 2012 250 people from 7 nations ^[2]

2014 Transplant Games of America (TGA) inaugural 5K event. ^[14]

USA

USA Games ^{[54] [55]}

Medals

2016

EHLTC (ETSC)

^[56]

Rank	NOC	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Great Britain	41	20	10	71
2	Netherlands	26	10	6	42
3	Finland	21	12	3	36
4	Austria	20	8	7	35
5	Sweden	17	9	6	32
6	Ireland	14	5	6	25
7	Denmark	11	6	2	19
8	Norway	8	4	5	17
9	Germany	7	5	2	14
10	Greece	6	6	5	17
11	Bulgaria	5	6	1	12
12	France	5	3	4	12
13	Belgium	3	2	0	5
14	Italy	1	3	0	4
15	Switzerland	1	0	1	2
Totals (15 entries)		186	99	58	343

ETDSC (EDTSC)

^[37]

Rank	NOC	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Finland	38	38	28	104
2	Hungary	35	32	28	95
3	Great Britain	31	20	13	64
4	Germany	25	16	23	64
5	Ireland	20	18	19	57
6	Poland	17	14	20	51
7	Greece	10	5	7	22
8	Italy	5	13	5	23
9	France	5	8	6	19
10	Slovenia	5	5	11	21
11	Spain	5	3	10	18
12	Romania	5	1	2	8
13	Netherlands	4	7	3	14
14	Portugal	4	2	5	11
15	Czech Republic	3	7	1	11
16	Denmark	3	5	2	10
17	Austria	2	4	6	12
18	Norway	2	2	2	6
19	Switzerland	2	1	0	3
20	Belgium	1	6	5	12
21	Slovakia	1	2	2	5
22	Sweden	0	4	4	8
23	Cyprus	0	2	4	6
Totals (23 entries)		223	215	206	644

2024

EHLTC (ETSC)

^[33]

Rank	NOC	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Great Britain	10	4	0	14
2	Bulgaria	8	2	1	11
3	France	8	1	2	11
4	Germany	5	1	0	6
5	Italy	5	0	0	5
	Netherlands	5	0	0	5
7	Czech Republic	2	1	0	3
8	Austria	2	0	0	2
	Spain	2	0	0	2
10	Sweden	1	1	1	3
11	Ireland	1	1	0	2
12	Belgium	1	0	2	3
13	Norway	1	0	0	1
14	Portugal	0	1	2	3
Totals (14 entries)		51	12	8	71

ETDSC (EDTSC)

^[33]

Rank	NOC	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Great Britain	133	51	13	197
2	Germany	78	47	32	157
3	Hungary	46	41	27	114
4	Poland	46	31	27	104
5	France	44	28	26	98
6	Ireland	43	22	5	70
7	Finland	38	21	22	81
8	Italy	30	15	6	51
9	Spain	29	5	10	44
10	Belgium	28	17	15	60
11	Greece	25	19	6	50
12	Portugal	20	14	13	47
13	Netherlands	19	7	3	29
14	Austria	13	10	7	30
15	Sweden	13	7	6	26
16	Norway	12	6	2	20
17	Bulgaria	10	3	3	16
18	Czech Republic	6	13	8	27
19	Switzerland	4	4	2	10
20	Slovenia	3	3	3	9
21	Turkey	3	2	2	7
22	Canada	2	1	0	3
23	Andorra	2	0	0	2
	Denmark	2	0	0	2
25	Cyprus	1	2	2	5
26	Slovakia	1	1	2	4
27	Croatia	1	1	0	2
28	United States	0	0	0	0
Totals (28 entries)		652	371	242	1,265

See also

• World Transplant Games
• European Transplant and Diabets Games
• Asian Transplant Games
• MENA Transplant Games

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External links

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