Dates 20 Jul 2017 – 30 Jul 2017 Opening ceremony 20 July | Host city Wroclaw, Poland Closing ceremony 30 July | |
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Location Stadion Miejski we Wrocławiu, Wrocław, Poland Main venue Stadion Miejski we Wrocławiu | ||
United world games 2017 official trailer
The World Games 2017 (Polish: World Games 2017), officially known as the X World Games, was a multi-sport event will celebrate in Wrocław, Poland from July 20 – July 30, 2017, with 27 official sports and 4 invitational sports featured in the Games.
Contents
- United world games 2017 official trailer
- Host selection
- Sports
- Participating nations
- Broadcasting
- References
Wrocław was awarded the right on January 12, 2012, defeating Budapest, Hungary to host the Games. Wrocław was the sixth city in Europe after London (1985), Karlsruhe (1989), The Hague (1993), Lahti (1997) and Duisburg (2005) to host the World Games.
Host selection
Four cities had expressed interest in hosting the 2017 Games. After examination of the files, the application of Genoa, Italy was not brought to the next step. The candidate cities have been announced by the IWGA in August 2011. They are
Just few days before the awarding ceremony Cape Town withdrew its bid for financial reasons. The final decision was announced by Ron Froehlich, President of the International World Games Association on 12 January 2012 in Lausanne. The 10th edition of The World Games was awarded to Wrocław.
Sports
This is the first time for Floorball and Muaythai were included in the World Games as the official sports, and the first time of Indoor rowing, Kickboxing and Motorcycle speedway were included in the World Games as the invitational sports.
Numbers in parentheses indicate the number of medal events contested in each sport.
In Addition to the official sports above, the following sports were selected by the host city for the invitational sports program:
Participating nations
Broadcasting
Also Olympic Channel will broadcast live & online