Summer Deaflympics 2013

XXII. Summer Deaflympics
Venue:	Sofia , Bulgaria
Participating nations:	90
Participating athletes:	2879
Competitions:	116 (19 sports)
Opening:	July 26, 2013
Closing ceremony:	4th August 2013
Main Stadium:	Arena Armeec Sofia
Homepage:	sofia2013.com

The XXII. Summer Deaflympics took place from July 26th to August 4th 2013 in Sofia , Bulgaria . For the second time, Sofia hosted the largest sporting event for deaf athletes.

sports

There were 19 sports at the 2013 Summer Deaflympics, including 14 individual sports and five team sports:

Individual sports

badminton bowling Judo karate

athletics Mountain bike Orienteering swim

Sport shooting Road cycling Taekwondo tennis

Table tennis Wrestling

Team sports

basketball beach volleyball

Soccer Handball

volleyball

Venues

Vasil Levski National Stadium

• Opening / closing ceremony: Armeec Arena
• Badminton: Hristo Botev Sports Hall
• Basketball: Overgas Arena , Universiada Hall
• Beach volleyball: National Sports Academy
• Bowling: Sky City Mall
• Football: Pravets Sport Complex , Vasil Levski National Stadium
• Handball, judo, karate: National Sports Academy
• Athletics: Vasil Levski National Stadium
• Orienteering: Bonsovi Polqni , Borissowa gradina
• Cycling: Mountain Bike: Vitosha Mountain
• Cycling: Road Cycling: Sofia Roads
• Wrestling: CSKA Stadium
• Swimming: Aquasports Center Spartak
• Sport Shooting: Geo Milev Shooting Range
• Taekwondo: National Sports Academy
• Tennis: Dema Sports Complex
• Table tennis: Winter Sports Palace
• Volleyball: Armeec Arena

Participating national associations

90 national associations took part with 2,879 athletes:

Algeria (5)  Argentina (45)  Armenia (5)  Australia (25)  Egypt (28)  Belgium (5)  Bolivia (1)  Brazil (19)  Bulgaria (43)  People's Republic of China (67)  Denmark (32)  Dominican Republic (1)  Germany (137)  Ecuador (2)  Estonia (13)  Ivory Coast (7)  Fiji (4)  Finland (8)  France (22)  Georgia (4)  Greece (100)  Guatemala (1)  Hong Kong (18)

India (26)  Indonesia (10)  Iraq (22)  Iran (82)  Ireland (23)  Iceland (5)  Israel (6)  Italy (63)  Jamaica (6)  Japan (149)  Yemen (6)  Canada (27)  Kazakhstan (32)  Kenya (39)  Kyrgyzstan (7)  Croatia (46)  Cuba (10)  Kuwait (12)  Latvia (16)  Libya (9)  Lithuania (61)  Macau (7)  Malta (1)

Mauritius (2)  North Macedonia (4)  Mexico (16)  Moldova (1)  Mongolia (21)  Nepal (10)  New Zealand (3)  Netherlands (12)  Nigeria (46)  Norway (5)  Austria (26)  Pakistan (6)  Philippines (2)  Poland (75)  Portugal (14)  Puerto Rico (2)  Russia (321)  Zambia (3)  San Marino (2)  Saudi Arabia (25)  Sweden (14)  Switzerland (17)  Serbia (22)

Slovakia (7)  Slovenia (13)  Spain (11)  South Africa (28)  South Korea (69)  Chinese Taipei (55)  Thailand (2)  Trinidad and Tobago (2)  Czech Republic (17)  Turkmenistan (3)  Turkey (181)  Ukraine (191)  Hungary (57)  Uruguay (2)  Uzbekistan (22)  Venezuela (72)  United Arab Emirates (5)  United States (129)  United Kingdom (54)  Belarus (48)  Cyprus (5)

Results

badminton basketball beach volleyball

bowling Soccer Handball

athletics Mountain bike Road cycling

tennis volleyball

Medal table

space	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
01	Russia (RUS)	67	52	58	177
02	Ukraine (UKR)	21st	30th	37	88
03	South Korea (KOR)	19th	11	12	42
04th	Belarus (BLR)	12	11	4th	27
05	People's Republic of China (CHN)	12	5	8th	25th
06th	United States (USA)	9	8th	12	29
07th	Turkey (TUR)	7th	9	17th	33
08th	Iran (IRI)	7th	4th	21st	32
09	Kenya (KEN)	6th	5	5	16
10	Lithuania (LTU)	4th	5	4th	13
11	Venezuela (VEN)	4th	4th	5	13
12	Italy (ITA)	4th	3	5	12
13	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	3	12	9	24
14th	Germany (GER)	3	6th	5	14th
15th	Hungary (HUN)	3	-	1	4th
16	Japan (JPN)	2	10	9	21st
17th	France (FRA)	2	6th	3	11
18th	Poland (POL)	2	1	1	4th
19th	Puerto Rico (PUR)	2	-	-	2
19th	Cuba (CUB)	2	-	-	2
21st	Bulgaria (BUL)	1	4th	6th	11
22nd	Sweden (SWE)	1	1	2	4th
23	Portugal (POR)	1	1	1	3
23	Slovakia (SVK)	1	1	1	3
23	Australia (AUS)	1	1	1	3
23	Estonia (EST)	1	1	1	3
27	Croatia (CRO)	1	1	-	2
28	Macau (MAC)	1	-	1	2
29	Norway (NOR)	1	-	-	1
29	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	1	-	-	1
29	India (IND)	1	-	-	1
29	Switzerland (SUI)	1	-	-	1
33	United Kingdom (GBR)	-	2	3	5
34	Czech Republic (CZE)	-	2	1	3
34	South Africa (RSA)	-	2	1	3
36	Mongolia (MGL)	-	1	3	4th
36	Brazil (BRA)	-	1	3	4th
38	Argentina (ARG)	-	1	1	2
38	Spain (ESP)	-	1	1	2
40	Greece (GRE)	-	1	-	1
41	Indonesia (IDN)	-	-	2	2
41	Austria (AUT)	-	-	2	2
43	Armenia (ARM)	-	-	1	1
43	Cyprus (CYP)	-	-	1	1
43	Nigeria (NGR)	-	-	1	1
43	Latvia (LAT)	-	-	1	1
43	Moldova (MDA)	-	-	1	1
43	Mexico (MEX)	-	-	1	1
43	Turkmenistan (TKM)	-	-	1	1
total		203	203	253	659

See also

• Deaflympics
• Deaf sports

Web links

• International Committee of Sports for the Deaf (English)
• Official site of the 2013 Summer Deaflympics (English)
• Facebook page of the Summer Deaflympics 2013

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sofia 2013 - 22nd Summer Deaflympics ( Memento of the original from April 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . International Committee of Sports for the Deaf, accessed April 7, 2013. 
2. ^ Official schedule of the Deaflympics 2013 International Committee of Sports for the Deaf . Retrieved April 7, 2013.
3. ↑ “Arena Armeec” - Opening and closing ceremony for Sofia 2013 Deaflympics ( Memento of the original from August 28, 2013 on WebCite ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed April 7, 2013. 
4. ↑ ^{a b} Договорът за летните олимпийски игри през 2013 бе подписан Bulgarian Deaf Sports Federation. Retrieved April 7, 2013.