2013 World Games

World Games IX
IX Juegos Mundiales
Host city	Cali, Colombia
Motto	Fair play to the planet
Nations	103
Athletes	2,982
Events	171 in 31 official sports
Opening	25 July 2013
Closing	4 August 2013
Opened by	Vice President Angelino Garzón
Athlete's Oath	Jorge Luis CiFuentes
Judge's Oath	Marta Luz Vega
Coach's Oath	Hugo Cotuaz
Main venue	Estadio Olímpico Pascual Guerrero
Website	worldgames2013.com.co (archived)
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The 2013 World Games (Spanish: Juegos Mundiales 2013), the ninth World Games, were an international multi-sport event held in the city of Cali, Colombia, from July 25 to August 4.^[2] It is the first edition of the World Games to be held in South America.

Host city allocation history

The 2013 World Games were initially allocated to the German cities of Duisburg and Düsseldorf. However, at the end of 2008, Duisburg withdrew and Düsseldorf dropped out because both cities could not secure enough funding, partly as a result of the financial crisis of 2007–08 and the subsequent Great Recession.

Two alternate cities came forward to the IWGA to bid for these Games: Pretoria, South Africa and Cali, Colombia. During The World Games 2009 in Kaohsiung, Chinese Taipei, the IWGA announced that Cali has won the right to host The World Games in 2013.

Sports

Official sports

The 2013 World Games programme featured 32 official sports, and 4 invitational sports. The numbers in parentheses indicate the number of medal events, which were contested in each sports discipline.

Invitational sports

Garden of Sport

The "Garden of Sport" events were held in the neighboring towns of Buga and Jamundí. These demonstration events served to showcase these disciplines for potential inclusion in future games.

Two of the competitions were held at Coliseo Mayor in Buga:

Futsal (AMF rules)
Kudo, men's and women's.

The other three disciplines took place in Jamundí:

Coliseo Alfaguara y Plaza Mayor - Wallball and Frontball^[3]^[4]
Estadio El Cacique - Hapkido

Calendar

2013 World Games Event Schedule
Note: Due to concerns about temperature and air flow at the Del Pueblo Gymnasium, where the sport of Rhythmic Gymnastics was taking place, the Ribbons event was cancelled at the last moment.^[5]

Key: Invitational sport

OC	Opening ceremony	●	Event competitions	1	Event finals	CC	Closing ceremony

July/August 2013	25th Thu	26th Fri	27th Sat	28th Sun	29th Mon	30th Tue	31st Wed	1st Thu	2nd Fri	3rd Sat	4th Sun	Gold medals
Ceremonies	OC										CC
Acrobatic gymnastics				●	2	2	1					5
Aerobic gymnastics								●	3	4		7
Air sports						●	●	●	●	●	3	3
Artistic roller skating	●	●	4									4
Beach handball								●	●	●	2	2
Billiard sports	●	●	●	●	●	4						4
Boules sports				●	●	●	8					8
Bowling							●	1	●	●	2	3
Canoe polo								●	●	2		2
Dancesport		●	1	2								3
Field archery		●	●	3	●	●	●	4				7
Finswimming	●	5	5									10
Fistball							●	●	●	●	1	1
Flying disc			●	●	●	1						1
Ju-jitsu				●	7	6						13
Karate	●	6	6									12
Korfball						●	●	●	●	●	1	1
Lifesaving	●	8	8									16
Orienteering								●	2	2	1	5
Powerlifting					●	3	3	2				8
Racquetball		●	●	2								2
Road speed skating										4	4	8
Rhythmic gymnastics	●	2	1									3
Roller inline hockey	●	●	●	●	●	1						1
Rugby sevens							●	●	1			1
Track speed skating						●	2	4	4			10
Sport climbing										2	2	4
Squash								●	●	●	2	2
Sumo	●	6	2									8
Trampoline gymnastics				●	1		3					4
Tug of war		●	1	2								3
Tumbling gymnastics				●		2						2
Waterskiing and Wakeboarding	●	●	●	4	4							8
Total gold medals		27	28	13	14	19	17	11	10	14	18	171
July/August 2013	25th Thu	26th Fri	27th Sat	28th Sun	29th Mon	30th Tue	31st Wed	1st Thu	2nd Fri	3rd Sat	4th Sun	Gold medals
Canoe marathon								3	3			6
Duathlon	●	1	1									2
Softball	●	●	●	●	●	1						1
Wushu^[a]									6	2	6	14
Total gold medals		1	1			1		3	9	2	6	23
Grand total of gold medals		28	29	13	14	20	17	14	19	16	24	194

^ Although originally scheduled, apparently no medals were awarded in wushu for the Men's Gunshu and Women's Qiangshu events.

Participant countries

Parade of nations at the opening ceremony of the World Games in Cali 2013

2013 World Games participant countries^[6] (with number of athletes):

Afghanistan (1)
Algeria (2)
Argentina (65)
Aruba (15)
Australia (87)
Austria (44)
Azerbaijan (5)
Belarus (15)
Belgium (59)
Bermuda (1)
Bolivia (4)
Brazil (74)
Bulgaria (6)
Canada (90)
Chile (42)
China (105)
Colombia (204) Host
Costa Rica (8)
Croatia (18)
Cuba (19)
Czech Republic (71)
Denmark (16)
Dominican Republic (7)
Ecuador (16)
Egypt (17)
El Salvador (2)
Estonia (7)
Ethiopia (1)
Finland (10)
France (157)
Germany (146)
Greece (2)
Guatemala (4)
Guyana (1)
Hong Kong (13)
Hungary (53)
India (12)
Indonesia (8)
Iran (17)
Ireland (26)
Israel (11)
Italy (102)
Jamaica (1)
Japan (76)
Jordan (1)
Kazakhstan (2)
South Korea (45)
Kuwait (1)
Latvia (35)
Lithuania (8)
Luxembourg (2)
Macau (1)
Macedonia (1)
Malaysia (13)
Malta (3)
Mauritius (1)
Mexico (37)
Moldova (2)
Monaco (3)
Mongolia (18)
Montenegro (3)
Morocco (3)
Namibia (1)
Netherlands (78)
New Zealand (24)
Nicaragua (2)
Norway (28)
Pakistan (1)
Peru (3)
Philippines (5)
Poland (33)
Portugal (36)
Puerto Rico (3)
Qatar (10)
Romania (12)
Russia (149)
Senegal (1)
Serbia (4)
Singapore (2)
Slovakia (17)
Slovenia (10)
South Africa (41)
Spain (37)
Sweden (52)
Switzerland (77)
Syria (1)
Chinese Taipei (51)
Thailand (11)
Trinidad and Tobago (6)
Tunisia (10)
Turkey (8)
Ukraine (90)
United Arab Emirates (2)
United Kingdom (102)
United States (137)
Uruguay (24)
Venezuela (88)
Vietnam (9)

Medal mistake

This particular edition made the mistake of putting the words "word games" instead of "world games," on one thousand medals.^[7] This fact was reported by Colombian news organization Noticias Uno.^[8]^[9] Several athletes smiled and were surprised upon seeing the typo.^[10] According to the representative of the firm that engraved the medals, several authorities had seen and approved the medals' design without noticing the mistake, including Coldeportes director Andrés Botero, and the head of the Organizing Committee Rodrigo Otoya. The representative also stated that, according to a corporate policy, "... any mistake after the art has been approved (by the client) will not be responsibility of the Firm" ^[11] Regarding the medals, Rodrigo Guerrero, Mayor of Cali, stated that "This mistake in no way undermines the value of the medals, and the spirit of the games. People are making a tempest in a tea cup out of this situation."^[12]

Medal results

Official sports

Key: Medal tally of the 2013 World Games' Official Results website, which includes road speed skating.^[13] In one aerobic gymnastics event there was a four-way tie for first place; four gold medals and no silver or bronze medals were awarded. In another aerobic gymnastics event there was a tie for second-place; two silver medals and no bronze medal were awarded. In two trampoline/tumbing gymnastics events, there was tie for first-place; in each event, two gold medals and no silver medal were awarded.

* Host nation (Colombia)


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Italy (ITA)	18	13	18	49
2	Russia (RUS)	17	24	12	53
3	France (FRA)	16	11	13	40
4	Germany (GER)	15	7	8	30
5	China (CHN)	14	6	2	22
6	United States (USA)	11	4	4	19
7	Ukraine (UKR)	9	10	9	28
8	Colombia (COL)*	8	13	10	31
9	Great Britain (GBR)	6	6	3	15
10	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	5	5	8	18
11	Brazil (BRA)	5	3	1	9
12	Japan (JPN)	5	1	4	10
13	Switzerland (SUI)	4	4	0	8
14	Denmark (DEN)	3	2	2	7
15	Sweden (SWE)	3	1	5	9
16	Belarus (BLR)	3	1	3	7
16	Mexico (MEX)	3	1	3	7
18	Netherlands (NED)	2	6	5	13
19	Belgium (BEL)	2	4	4	10
20	Spain (ESP)	2	4	2	8
21	Chile (CHI)	2	3	0	5
	Poland (POL)	2	3	0	5
	Romania (ROU)	2	3	0	5
24	Slovenia (SLO)	2	1	0	3
25	Finland (FIN)	2	0	0	2
26	South Korea (KOR)	1	2	6	9
27	Austria (AUT)	1	2	3	6
28	New Zealand (NZL)	1	2	0	3
29	Croatia (CRO)	1	1	2	4
29	Venezuela (VEN)	1	1	2	4
31	Hungary (HUN)	1	1	0	2
31	Vietnam (VIE)	1	1	0	2
33	South Africa (RSA)	1	0	3	4
34	Mongolia (MGL)	1	0	2	3
35	Azerbaijan (AZE)	1	0	1	2
35	Lithuania (LTU)	1	0	1	2
37	India (IND)	1	0	0	1
	Malaysia (MAS)	1	0	0	1
	Moldova (MDA)	1	0	0	1
	Turkey (TUR)	1	0	0	1
41	Canada (CAN)	0	3	6	9
42	Norway (NOR)	0	3	4	7
43	Argentina (ARG)	0	3	2	5
	Egypt (EGY)	0	3	2	5
	Thailand (THA)	0	3	2	5
46	Czech Republic (CZE)	0	2	1	3
47	Australia (AUS)	0	1	3	4
48	Ecuador (ECU)	0	1	2	3
48	Portugal (POR)	0	1	2	3
50	Greece (GRE)	0	1	1	2
50	Iran (IRI)	0	1	1	2
52	Luxembourg (LUX)	0	1	0	1
53	El Salvador (ESA)	0	0	1	1
	Ireland (IRL)	0	0	1	1
	Israel (ISR)	0	0	1	1
	Morocco (MAR)	0	0	1	1
	Peru (PER)	0	0	1	1
	Philippines (PHI)	0	0	1	1
	Serbia (SRB)	0	0	1	1
Totals (59 entries)		176	169	169	514

Invitational sports

Key: As of August 3, 2013, from the Games' official Invitational Sports Medal Tally.^[14]

* Host nation (Colombia)


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Hungary (HUN)	5	2	0	7
2	China (CHN)	5	1	1	7
3	Iran (IRI)	4	0	0	4
4	France (FRA)	1	3	2	6
5	Vietnam (VIE)	1	2	0	3
6	Germany (GER)	1	0	2	3
7	Japan (JPN)	1	0	1	2
7	United States (USA)	1	0	1	2
9	Belgium (BEL)	1	0	0	1
	Cuba (CUB)	1	0	0	1
	Hong Kong (HKG)	1	0	0	1
	Indonesia (INA)	1	0	0	1
13	Malaysia (MAS)	0	2	2	4
14	Russia (RUS)	0	2	0	2
15	Italy (ITA)	0	1	1	2
	Portugal (POR)	0	1	1	2
	Turkey (TUR)	0	1	1	2
	Ukraine (UKR)	0	1	1	2
19	Brazil (BRA)	0	1	0	1
	Canada (CAN)	0	1	0	1
	Chile (CHI)	0	1	0	1
	Czech Republic (CZE)	0	1	0	1
	India (IND)	0	1	0	1
	Spain (ESP)	0	1	0	1
	Venezuela (VEN)	0	1	0	1
26	Argentina (ARG)	0	0	1	1
	Colombia (COL)*	0	0	1	1
	Mexico (MEX)	0	0	1	1
	Netherlands (NED)	0	0	1	1
	Poland (POL)	0	0	1	1
Totals (30 entries)		23	23	18	64