World Games V
V Maailman Pelit
V Världsspelen

Host city	Lahti, Finland
Nations	73
Athletes	1,379[1]
Events	164 (22 sports)
Opening	7 August 1997
Closing	17 August 1997
Opened by	President Martti Ahtisaari
Main venue	Lahti Sport Centre
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The 1997 World Games (Finnish: 1997 Maailman Pelit, Swedish: 1997 Världsspelen), the fifth World Games, were an international multi-sport event held in Lahti, Finland on August 7–17, 1997. The opening and closing ceremonies took place at the Lahti Sport Centre.

Sports

Calendar

Medal table

Official sports

The medal tally during the fifth World Games is as follows. United States finished at the top of the final medal table.^[2] Two bronze medals were awarded in each of the nine karate kumite events. No bronze medals were awarded in two bodybuilding and three weightlifting events. No silver medal was awarded in one weightlifting event.

  *   Host nation (Finland)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	17	18	10	45
2	China (CHN)	16	14	5	35
3	Germany (GER)	15	16	10	41
4	Russia (RUS)	15	10	13	38
5	Italy (ITA)	12	12	15	39
6	Sweden (SWE)	8	5	10	23
7	Great Britain (GBR)	6	8	9	23
8	Japan (JPN)	6	3	5	14
9	Belgium (BEL)	6	3	4	13
10	France (FRA)	5	12	7	24
11	Ukraine (UKR)	5	7	0	12
12	Australia (AUS)	5	4	5	14
13	Czech Republic (CZE)	5	4	4	13
14	Spain (ESP)	5	2	7	14
15	Netherlands (NED)	4	6	7	17
16	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	4	3	3	10
17	Belarus (BLR)	3	1	4	8
18	Canada (CAN)	3	1	2	6
19	Hungary (HUN)	2	2	3	7
20	Colombia (COL)	2	2	2	6
21	Egypt (EGY)	2	1	1	4
22	South Africa (RSA)	2	0	4	6
23	Austria (AUT)	1	3	1	5
24	Slovakia (SVK)	1	2	2	5
25	Denmark (DEN)	1	2	1	4
26	Norway (NOR)	1	1	4	6
27	Slovenia (SVN)	1	1	2	4
	South Korea (KOR)	1	1	2	4
29	Greece (GRE)	1	1	1	3
	Switzerland (SUI)	1	1	1	3
31	Bulgaria (BUL)	1	1	0	2
	Indonesia (INA)	1	1	0	2
	Uzbekistan (UZB)	1	1	0	2
34	Brazil (BRA)	1	0	2	3
35	Argentina (ARG)	1	0	1	2
	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	1	0	1	2
37	Malaysia (MAS)	1	0	0	1
	Saudi Arabia (KSA)	1	0	0	1
39	Finland (FIN)*	0	9	8	17
40	Poland (POL)	0	2	5	7
41	Ireland (IRL)	0	1	2	3
42	Liechtenstein (LIE)	0	1	0	1
	Mexico (MEX)	0	1	0	1
44	Georgia (GEO)	0	0	1	1
	Iran (IRI)	0	0	1	1
	Lithuania (LTU)	0	0	1	1
	New Zealand (NZL)	0	0	1	1
	Philippines (PHI)	0	0	1	1
Totals (48 entries)		164	163	168	495

Invitation sports

  *   Host nation (Finland)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China (CHN)	2	1	0	3
2	Netherlands (NED)	2	0	0	2
	Sweden (SWE)	2	0	0	2
4	France (FRA)	1	1	0	2
	Italy (ITA)	1	1	0	2
6	Spain (ESP)	0	2	0	2
7	Brazil (BRA)	0	1	1	2
	Finland (FIN)*	0	1	1	2
9	Australia (AUS)	0	1	0	1
10	Japan (JPN)	0	0	2	2
11	Croatia (CRO)	0	0	1	1
	Russia (RUS)	0	0	1	1
	Slovenia (SVN)	0	0	1	1
	Switzerland (SUI)	0	0	1	1
Totals (14 entries)		8	8	8	24

Medalists

Bodybuilding

The venue was the Lahti City Theater. The competition took place on August 8 and 9.

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
- 65 kg	Anwar el-Amawy	Mohamed Abdel el-Aziz	José Carlos Santos
- 70 kg	Toshiko Hirota	Chris Faildo
- 75 kg	Kim Jun-Ho	Juha Hakala	Ahmed al-Sayed
- 80 kg	Kester Pasche	Johnny Steward	Yrjö Jokela
- 90 kg	Milton Holloway	Ingo Fischer	Janos Lantos
+ 90 kg	Walter Lettner	Peter Keränen	Olegas Zuras

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
- 52 kg	Utako Mizuma	Katja Rydström	Heike Jung
- 57 kg	Barbara Furer	Rita Rinner
+ 57 kg	Michaela Baumer	Pauliina Kosola	Anne Oksanen

Bowling

The venue was the Lahti Bowling Centre. The competition took place on August 8 to 10.

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Ten-pin bowling - Singles	Gery Verbruggen	Vernon Peterson	Rafael Nepomuceno

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Ten-pin bowling - Singles	Patricia Schwarz	Isabelle Saldjian	Lee Mi-Young

Mixed

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Ten-pin bowling - Pairs	Sharon Low Daniel Lim	Cara Honeychurch Andrew Frawley	Tomomi Shibata Shigeo Saito

Casting

The venue was the Kisapuisto Sports Park. The competition took place on August 10 to 12.

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Fly Accuracy	Thomas Maire	Werner Gattermaier	Frode Semb
Fly Distance Single Handed	Slaveyko Slaveykov	Robert Meszaros	Patrik Lexa
Spinning Accuracy Arenberg Target	Patrik Lexa	Henrik Harjanne	Josef Luxa
Spinning Accuracy	Patrik Lexa	Thomas Maire	Jan Meszaros
Spinning Distance Single Handed	Jan Meszaros	Thomas Maire	Patrik Lexa
Multiplier Accuracy	Steve Rajeff	Harvey Beck	Henrik Österberg

The source available does not say whether or not there was a Men's Multiplier Distance Single Handed event.

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Fly Accuracy	Hana Tupa	Michaela Krizová	Kathrin Ernst
Fly Distance Single Handed	Michaela Krizová	Hana Tupa	Ewa Borowska
Spinning Accuracy Arenberg Target	Annika Janson	Michaela Krizová	Marianne Kosonen
Spinning Accuracy	Kathrin Ernst	Michaela Krizová	Brenda Banks
Multiplier Accuracy	Bernda Banks	Marianne Kosonen	Annika Janson

DanceSport

The venue was the Urheilutalo. The competition took place on August 10 and 11.

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Standard	Hazel Newberry Christopher Hawkins	Alessandra Bucciarelli William Pino	Pia David Stefan Ossenkop
Latin	Mie Bach Steen Lund	Katerina Venturini Andrej Skufca	Katja Koukkula Jussi Väänänen

Fistball

The venue was the Lahti Sport Centre. The competition took place on August 9 to 11.

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men	Germany	Austria	Brazil

Gymnastics

Sports acrobatics

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Pairs	Song Min Li Renjie	Martyn Smith Mark Flores	Dariusz Nowak Marcin Drabicki
Groups	Denys Pirogov Maksim Vlasov Aleksandr Maikrov Oleg Ivanov	Andrey Safonov Yuriy Zaveryukha Sergiy Pavlov Dmitriy Bain	Wu Weihuan Huang Linseng Chen Wuhua Jiang Jianfen

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Pairs	Anna Mokhova Yuliya Lopatkina	Yekaterina Raktcheyeva Oksana Feoktistova	Kaat Croubels Tine Dewaele
Groups	Yelvira Zaliayeva Svetlana Kushu Yelena Avakeliyan	Yelena Moyseychea Nadezhda Surina Viktoriya Zherdeva	Xu Yingxia Luo Xiajing Wang Ting

Mixed

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Pairs	Sofiya Galiyulina Dmitriy Kukva	Lü Xiaojun Lu Yijie	Ewelina Fijolek Andrzej Sokołowski

Sports aerobics

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men	Kalojan Kalojanov	Stanislav Marchenkov	Patrick Nahafahik

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Women	Juanita Little	Olga Rumyantseva	Barbara Vadovicová

Mixed

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Pairs	Tatyana Solovyova Vladislav Oksner	Konstantza Popova Kalojan Kalojanov	Helen Carpenter-Waters Alastair Rates
Trios	Attila Katus Tamas Katus Romeo Szentgyörgyi	Denys Belikov Stanislav Marchenkov Vadim Michaylov	Grégory Alcan Xavier Julien Olivier Salvan

Trampoline

These were the final individual events of trampoline at the World Games. The individual trampoline has been part of the program of the Olympic Games from 2000.

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual	Nikolay Kazak	Emmanuel Durand	Aleksandr Danilchenko
Synchro	Nikolay Kazak Vladimir Kakorko	Michael Serth Martin Kubicka	Adrian Wareham Ji Wallace

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual	Yelena Savaleva	Olena Movchan	Anna Dogonadze-Lilkendey
Synchro	Oksana Tsiguleva Olena Movchan	Yelena Savaleva Yekaterina Khilko	Galina Lebedeva Natalya Karpenkova

Tumbling

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual	Vladimir Ignatenkov	Rayshine Harris	Tseko Mogotsi

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual	Olena Chabanenko	Chrystel Robert	Natalya Borisenko

Korfball

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Korfball	Netherlands	Belgium	Chinese Taipei

Squash

The competition took place at Suurhalli Exhibition.

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men	Ahmed Barada	Derek Ryan	Graham Ryding

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Women	Sarah Fitz-Gerald	Sabine Schöne	Leilani Joyce

Tug of war

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
- 640 kg	Spain	Switzerland	Ireland
- 720 kg	Netherlands	Sweden	Ireland

Women (invitational)