World Games 1985
 II. World Games |
|
|---|---|
| venue |
 London
|
| Participating Nations | 57 |
| Participating athletes | 1227 |
| Official sports | 20th |
| Invitation Sports | 1 |
| opening | July 25, 1985 |
| Closing ceremony | 4th August 1985 |
| timeline | |
| ← World Games 1981 | World Games 1989 → |
| Medal Tally - Official Sports | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| space | country | G | S. | B. | total |
| 1 |
 Italy
|
27 | 29 | 22nd | 78 |
| 2 |
 United States
|
18th | 16 | 18th | 52 |
| 3 |
 Spain
|
15th | 11 | 5 | 31 |
| 4th |
 BR Germany
|
13 | 12 | 16 | 41 |
| 5 |
 Sweden
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12 | 8th | 5 | 25th |
| 6th |
United Kingdom
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11 | 11 | 21st | 43 |
| 7th |
 France
|
7th | 11 | 13 | 31 |
| 8th |
 South Korea
|
7th | - | 1 | 8th |
| 9 |
Spain
|
5 | 1 | 3 | 9 |
| 10 |
 Japan
|
5 | 1 | 2 | 8th |
| Complete medal table | |||||
The 2nd World Games 1985 took place in London from July 25th to August 4th 1985 . 1227 athletes participated in 21 sports.
Competition venues
Most of the plants were in the city of London. There were a total of nine different competition venues.
- Wembley Arena and Wembley Conference Center : Opening Ceremonies, Bodybuilding and Powerlifting
- Crystal Palace National Sports Center : fin swimming , Karate , Korfball , Netball , rescue sports , roller sports , Sambo , taekwondo and trampolining
- Copthall Stadium : Boules , casting , fistball , softball and tug of war
- Wimbledon Stadium : Motorcycling
- The David Lloyd Racquet Center : Racquetball
- Princes Club Bedfont : water skiing
- Stevenage Bowling Center in Stevenage : Bowling
- Tolmers Scout Camp in Cuffey in the county of Hertfordshire : Field Archery
sports
114 competitions in the 20 official sports and two competitions in an invitation sport were held. Compared to the World Games 1981 , the sports baseball and badminton no longer took part in the event. At the same time, six new official sports were added to the event (boules, field archery, korfball, netball, rescue sports and sambo).
Official sports
- Bodybuilding
- Boules ( pétanque )
- bowling
- Casting
- Fistball
- Field archery
- Fin swimming
- Karate ( Kata and Kumite )
- Powerlifting
- Korfball
- Netball
- Racquetball
- Rescue Sports
- Roller sports ( inline speed skating , roller hockey and roller figure skating )
- Softball
- Sambo
- Taekwondo
- Tug of war
- Trampoline exercise including tumbling
- Water-skiing
Invitation sports
- Motorcycling ( Motocross and Speedway )
swell
Individual evidence
- ^ Daniel Bell: Encyclopedia of International Games . McFarland, 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-6414-2 , pp. 408 (English).