Facts and numbers

Facts and numbers

published on 30 July, 2017

The World Games 2017, Wroclaw, Poland

20 – 30 July 2017

27 official sports

4 invitational sports

  • Kickboxing
  • Speedway
  • Indoor Rowing
  • American Football

219 medal events

  • 199 on the official program
  • 20 on the invitational program

3251 athletes from 111 countries

Medal Tally

1.    Russia            28    21    14
2.    Germany        18    10    14
3.    Italy                 16    13    13
4.    France             14     14    15
5.    Ukraine           10    7    8
6.    Colombia         9    10    2
7.    Japan                9    6    7
8.    China                8    7    5
9.    Belgium           7    9    8
10.  USA                  6    11    5

Multi Medalists

1     ARIAS Fabriana COL (Roller Skating)    3     2     0     5     
2     AVERINA Arina RUS   (Gymnastics)      3     0     1     4   
3     MUSSO Jacopo  ITA (Life Saving)           3     0     0     3     
4     ZHURMAN Dmitrii RUS (Fin Swimming)   3     0     0     3     
5     ALBRECHT Simon GER (Roller Skating)     2     1     0     3      
5     MIKHAYLUSHKINA Ekaterina RUS (Fin Swimming)     2     1     0     3     
5     SWINGS Bart BEL (Roller Skating)        2     1     0     3         
5     WEYDERS Justine FRA (Life Saving)    2     1     0     3 
9     KABANOV Pavel RUS (Life Saving)       2     0     1     3      
9     WIECK Danny GER (Life Saving)            2     0     1     3      
11   ALM Maja DEN (Orienteering)               2     0     0     2

Tickets Sold

160,000 – 80 % in total

  • Speedway 29,000
  • Opening Ceremony 26,000

TV production

341 hours of content produced
Broadcasters: 130 stations world wide
+ Olympic Channel
Production Companies ISB (Spain) and ATM (Poland)

Media

861 accreditated media representatives
coming from 50 countries

Volunteers

1606
Coming from 59 Countries

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