1993 World Games

Multi-sport event in The Hague, Netherlands

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World Games IV
IV Wereldspelen

Host city| The Hague, Netherlands
Nations| 44
Athletes| 1,265
Events| 155 (23 sports)[1]
Opening| 22 July 1993
Closing| 2 August 1993
Opened by| Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands
Main venue| Zuiderpark Stadion

<- Karlsruhe 1989

Lahti 1997 ->

The 1993 World Games (Dutch: 1993 Wereldspelen), the fourth World Games, were an international multi-sport event held in The Hague, Netherlands.

## Titles

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155 titles were awarded in 23 sports (not including invitational sports — aikido, equestrian vaulting, indoor tug of war, baton twirling and barefoot waterski).

Sport | Titles | Notes

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Acrobatic gymnastics | 15 |
Beach volleyball | 2 |
Bodybuilding | 7 |
Boules | 2 |
Bowling | 3 |
Casting | 13 |
Field archery | 6 |
Fistball | 1 |
Finswimming | 14 |
Karate | 12 |
Korfball | 1 |
Life saving | 16 |
Netball | 1 |
Powerlifting | 6 |
Racquetball | 2 |
Roller hockey | 1 |
Roller skating, artistic | 4 |
Roller speed skating | 10 |
Sambo | 9 |
Taekwondo | 12 |
Trampoline | 6 |
Triathlon | 4 |
Tug of war | 2 |
Water skiing | 6 |
Total | 155

## Medal table

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Further information: List of 1993 World Games medal winners

The medal tally during the fourth World Games is as follows. Germany finished at the top of the final medal table.[2] There were two gold medals (and zero silver medals) awarded in five of the acrobatic gymnastics events because of ties for first place. There were two bronze medals awarded in the karate kumite (10) and taekwondo (12) events and one of the acrobatic gymnastics events.

* Host nation (Netherlands)

Rank| Nation| Gold| Silver| Bronze| Total

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1|  Germany (GER)| 21| 19| 15| 55
2|  Italy (ITA)| 14| 19| 6| 39
3|  Great Britain (GBR)| 12| 5| 9| 26
4|  United States (USA)| 11| 11| 12| 34
5|  France (FRA)| 11| 10| 15| 36
6|  Bulgaria (BUL)| 10| 1| 7| 18
7|  Netherlands (NED)*| 9| 5| 16| 30
8|  Sweden (SWE)| 8| 10| 10| 28
9|  Russia (RUS)| 7| 8| 2| 17
10|  China (CHN)| 5| 2| 2| 9
11|  South Korea (KOR)| 4| 2| 1| 7
12|  Belarus (BLR)| 4| 1| 5| 10
13|  Japan (JPN)| 4| 0| 1| 5
14|  Belgium (BEL)| 3| 5| 4| 12
15|  Norway (NOR)| 3| 4| 7| 14
16|  Czech Republic (CZE)| 3| 3| 3| 9
17|  Spain (ESP)| 3| 2| 6| 11
18|  Denmark (DEN)| 3| 0| 5| 8
19|  Poland (POL)| 3| 0| 0| 3
20|  Finland (FIN)| 2| 6| 6| 14
21|  Australia (AUS)| 2| 4| 5| 11
22|  Chinese Taipei (TPE)| 2| 3| 1| 6
23|  Estonia (EST)| 2| 3| 0| 5
24|  Mexico (MEX)| 2| 2| 1| 5
25|  Switzerland (SUI)| 2| 1| 1| 4
26|  Ukraine (UKR)| 1| 5| 1| 7
27|  Ireland (IRL)| 1| 2| 0| 3
28|  Canada (CAN)| 1| 1| 8| 10
29|  Hungary (HUN)| 1| 1| 5| 7
30|  Kazakhstan (KAZ)| 1| 1| 1| 3
New Zealand (NZL)| 1| 1| 1| 3
32|  Singapore (SIN)| 1| 1| 0| 2
33|  Portugal (POR)| 1| 0| 2| 3
34|  Brazil (BRA)| 1| 0| 1| 2
35|  Mongolia (MGL)| 1| 0| 0| 1
36|  Lithuania (LTU)| 0| 3| 3| 6
37|  Egypt (EGY)| 0| 2| 2| 4
38|  Turkey (TUR)| 0| 2| 0| 2
39|  Argentina (ARG)| 0| 1| 2| 3
Austria (AUT)| 0| 1| 2| 3
41|  South Africa (RSA)| 0| 1| 1| 2
42|  Latvia (LAT)| 0| 1| 0| 1
Malaysia (MAS)| 0| 1| 0| 1
44|  Morocco (MAR)| 0| 0| 3| 3
45|  Iran (IRI)| 0| 0| 1| 1
Jamaica (JAM)| 0| 0| 1| 1
Jordan (JOR)| 0| 0| 1| 1
Kuwait (KUW)| 0| 0| 1| 1
Nigeria (NGR)| 0| 0| 1| 1
Philippines (PHI)| 0| 0| 1| 1
Totals (50 entries)| 160| 150| 178| 488

## References

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1. ^ "The World Games in the past". worldgames2009.tw. Archived from the original on 4 September 2008. Retrieved 9 June 2012.
2. ^ "Results of the World Games". International World Games Association. Retrieved 2015-10-26.

## External links

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* Official Website of the IWGA
* Medal table at Sports123 (by Internet Archive)

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World Games

* Santa Clara 1981
* London 1985
* Karlsruhe 1989
* The Hague 1993
* Lahti 1997
* Akita 2001
* Duisburg 2005
* Kaohsiung 2009
* Cali 2013
* Wrocław 2017
* Birmingham 2022
* Chengdu 2025
* Karlsruhe 2029

* International World Games Association
* World Games sports
* All-time World Games medal table

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Events at the 1993 World Games

* Acrobatic gymnastics
* Aikido (Demonstration)
* Baton twirling (Demonstration)
* Beach volleyball
* Bodybuilding
* Boules
* Bowling [fr]
* Casting
* Field archery
* Finswimming [ru]
* Fistball
* Inline figure skating
* Inline speed skating
* Karate [fr]
* Korfball [nl]
* Lifesaving
* Netball
* Powerlifting [ru]
* Racquetball
* Roller hockey
* Sambo
* Taekwondo
* Trampoline and Tumbling
* Triathlon
* Tug of war
* Waterskiing

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