Host city | Lahti, Finland |
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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 |
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.
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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 |
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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 |
* Host nation (Finland)
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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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 |
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Skydiving - Accuracy Landing | Irena Avbelj | Xiaoli Lai | Monika Filipowska |
Skydiving - Freestyle Landing | Dale Stuart | Chifumi Sakakibara | Lucrezia Manni-Hunold |
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Recurve | Sven Giesa | Andrea Parenti | Fulvio Verdecchia |
Compound | Morgan Lundin | Niels Baldur | Peter Penner |
Barebow | Mathias Larsson | Rensco van Wees | Alessandro Gaudethi |
The venue was the Lahti City Theater. The competition took place on August 8 and 9.
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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- 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 |
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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- 52 kg | Utako Mizuma | Katja Rydström | Heike Jung |
- 57 kg | Barbara Furer | Rita Rinner | |
+ 57 kg | Michaela Baumer | Pauliina Kosola | Anne Oksanen |
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Pétanque - Triples Men | Enrique Catalan Jose Hoyo Quilez Isidro Pomares Solsona |
Stefano Bruno Gianni Laugueglia Massimiliano Tiboni |
Michel Briand Michel Loy Zvonko Radic |
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Pétanque - Precision Shooting - Doubles | Fabienne Berodyes Linda Goblet |
Angelique Colombet Christine Saunier |
Catlina Gomez Mayo Rosario Ines Lizon |
The venue was the Lahti Bowling Centre. The competition took place on August 8 to 10.
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Ten-pin bowling - Singles | Gery Verbruggen | Vernon Peterson | Rafael Nepomuceno |
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Ten-pin bowling - Singles | Patricia Schwarz | Isabelle Saldjian | Lee Mi-Young |
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Ten-pin bowling - Pairs | Sharon Low Daniel Lim |
Cara Honeychurch Andrew Frawley |
Tomomi Shibata Shigeo Saito |
The venue was the Kisapuisto Sports Park. The competition took place on August 10 to 12.
The source available does not say whether or not there was a Men's Multiplier Distance Single Handed event.
The venue was the Urheilutalo. The competition took place on August 10 and 11.
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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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 |
The venue was the Lahti Sport Centre. The competition took place on August 9 to 11.
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Men | Germany | Austria | Brazil |
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Pairs | Sofiya Galiyulina Dmitriy Kukva |
Lü Xiaojun Lu Yijie |
Ewelina Fijolek Andrzej Sokołowski |
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Men | Kalojan Kalojanov | Stanislav Marchenkov | Patrick Nahafahik |
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Women | Juanita Little | Olga Rumyantseva | Barbara Vadovicová |
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.
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Individual | Nikolay Kazak | Emmanuel Durand | Aleksandr Danilchenko |
Synchro | Nikolay Kazak Vladimir Kakorko |
Michael Serth Martin Kubicka |
Adrian Wareham Ji Wallace |
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Individual | Yelena Savaleva | Olena Movchan | Anna Dogonadze-Lilkendey |
Synchro | Oxana Tsyhuleva Olena Movchan |
Yelena Savaleva Yekaterina Khilko |
Galina Lebedeva Natalya Karpenkova |
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Individual | Vladimir Ignatenkov | Rayshine Harris | Tseko Mogotsi |
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Individual | Olena Chabanenko | Chrystel Robert | Natalya Borisenko |
Main article: Ju-jitsu at the 1997 World Games |
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Korfball | Netherlands | Belgium | Chinese Taipei |
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Lightweight | Alexey Sivokon (KAZ) | Sutrisno Bin Darimin (INA) | Hu Chun-hsiung (TPE) |
Middleweight | Triharyanto (INA) | Dmitriy Soloviov (UKR) | Jan Wilczynski (POL) |
Heavyweight | Sturla Davidsen (NOR) | Carl Christoffersen (NOR) | Janne Toivanen (FIN) |
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Lightweight | Lin Li-min (TPE) | Raija Koskinen (FIN) | Nadezhda Mir (KAZ) |
Middleweight | Carrie Boudreau (USA) | Ingeborg Marx (BEL) | Irene Frangi (ARG) |
Heavyweight | Lisa Sjöstrand (SWE) | Lee Chia-sui (TPE) | Chao Chen-yeh (TPE) |
Main article: Squash at the 1997 World Games |
The competition took place at Suurhalli Exhibition.
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Men | Ahmed Barada | Derek Ryan | Graham Ryding |
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Women | Sarah Fitz-Gerald | Sabine Schöne | Leilani Joyce |
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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- 640 kg | Spain | Switzerland | Ireland |
- 720 kg | Netherlands | Sweden | Ireland |