World Games 2009
VIII. World Games |
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venue | Kaohsiung |
Participating Nations | 102 |
Participating athletes | 4,720 |
Official sports | 28 |
Invitation Sports | 5 |
opening | July 16, 2009 |
Closing ceremony | July 26, 2009 |
Opened by | Ma Ying-jeou |
timeline | |
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space | country | G | S. | B. | total |
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1. | Russia | 18th | 14th | 15th | 47 |
2. | Italy | 16 | 12 | 13 | 41 |
3. | People's Republic of China | 14th | 10 | 5 | 35 |
4th | United States | 13 | 18th | 5 | 36 |
5. | France | 11 | 14th | 23 | 48 |
6th | Ukraine | 11 | 12 | 10 | 33 |
7th | Chinese Taipei | 8th | 9 | 7th | 24 |
8th. | Germany | 6th | 6th | 10 | 22nd |
9. | South Korea | 6th | 3 | 5 | 14th |
10. | Australia | 5 | 10 | 5 | 20th |
... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... |
15th | Switzerland | 3 | 4th | 0 | 7th |
... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... |
25th | Austria | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
complete medal table |
The 8th World Games 2009 took place from July 16 to 26, 2009 in the Taiwanese port city of Kaohsiung .
sports
Competitive sports
Links in bold give detailed results.
Invitation sports
Participating Nations
A total of 4,720 athletes from 102 nations took part in the 2009 World Games. (The number of participating athletes is in brackets):
- Egypt (46)
- US Virgin Islands (1)
- Angola (1)
- Argentina (28)
- Armenia (1)
- Azerbaijan (11)
- Australia (168)
- Bahamas (1)
- Belgium (73)
- Bolivia (6)
- Bosnia and Herzegovina (5)
- Brazil (77)
- British Virgin Islands (2)
- Bulgaria (23)
- Chile (27)
- People's Republic of China (148)
- Chinese Taipei (459) hosts
- Costa Rica (3)
- Denmark (25)
- Germany (230)
- Dominican Republic (8)
- Ecuador (10)
- El Salvador (4)
- Estonia (16)
- Fiji (16)
- Finland (32)
- France (220)
- Georgia (1)
- Greece (15)
- Great Britain (204)
- Guatemala (7)
- Hong Kong (51)
- India (10)
- Indonesia (12)
- Iran (11)
- Iraq (1)
- Ireland (17)
- Israel (14)
- Italy (189)
- Japan (282)
- Canada (141)
- Kazakhstan (19)
- Qatar (2)
- Kenya (4)
- Colombia (30)
- Croatia (45)
- Cuba (2)
- Kuwait (6)
- Latvia (21)
- Lithuania (11)
- Luxembourg (4)
- Macau (10)
- Madagascar (3)
- Malaysia (29)
- Malaysia (15)
- Mexico (15)
- Moldova (2)
- Mongolia (8)
- Montenegro (8)
- Myanmar (2)
- Nepal (1)
- Netherlands (112)
- Netherlands Antilles (1)
- New Zealand (62)
- Norway (35)
- Oman (13)
- Austria (51)
- Pakistan (16)
- Peru (5)
- Philippines (16)
- Poland (40)
- Portugal (68)
- Puerto Rico (3)
- Romania (13)
- Russia (225)
- Sweden (87)
- Switzerland (115)
- Senegal (2)
- Senegal (4)
- Singapore (64)
- Slovakia (25)
- Slovenia (24)
- Spain (52)
- Sri Lanka (1)
- South Africa (86)
- South Korea (79)
- Tanzania (1)
- Thailand (52)
- Czech Republic (51)
- Turkey (6)
- Turkey (22)
- Hungary (92)
- Ukraine (155)
- Uruguay (3)
- Uzbekistan (7)
- Venezuela (36)
- United Arab Emirates (3)
- United States (211)
- Vietnam (23)
- Belarus (25)
- Cyprus (1)
Results
- Main article: Results list & medal table
Web links
Commons : World Games 2009 - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files