INAS Global Games

Sports event for people with intellectual disabilities

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The INAS Global Games is a quadrennial global, international multi-sport event organised by the International Sports Federation for Persons with Intellectual Disability (INAS). First organised in 2004,[1] it is intended for elite competition in disability sports for athletes with intellectual disability and, since 2017, autism and Down syndrome.[2] It is the largest sporting event of its type. Athletes must have received classification from INAS to compete.[3]

## History

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A precursor event was the World Games for Athletes with an Intellectual Disability held in 1989.[4] The competition was discontinued following the integration of athletes with intellectual disabilities into the Paralympics programme in 1996, though renewed exclusion following disability fabrication at the 2000 Summer Paralympics led to the relaunch as the INAS Global Games.[5] The first three INAS Global Games were hosted in Europe. The fourth edition in 2015 expanded to South America,[6] though INAS were forced to take over organisational duties due to the collapse of the local organising committee.[4] Australia won the hosting rights for the 2019 event, having led the medal rankings of the previous three.[7] Initially the competition was seen as a specialist event by other sports governing bodies, but the INAS athletics, swimming and table tennis competitions are now recognised and sanctioned by the main global bodies for those disability sports.[8]

The games is separate from the INAS World Championships, which are a series of sport-specific championships.

## Editions

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No. | Year | Dates | City | Country | Top Nation | Sports | Countries | Athletes

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– | 1989 |  | Härnösand |  Sweden |  |  |  |
1[9] | 2004  | July  | Bollnäs |  Sweden |  Poland | 6  | 40  | 1000+
2[10] | 2009  | 7–11 June  | Liberec |  Czech Republic |  Australia | 9  | 34  | 800+
3[11] | 2011  | 26 September – 4 October  | Loano |  Italy |  Australia | 9  | 30  | 700+
4[12] | 2015  | 20–27 September  | Various |  Ecuador |  Australia | 8  | 35  | 600+[4]
5[13] | 2019  | 12–19 October  | Brisbane |  Australia |  Australia | 11  | 50  | 814
6[14] | 2023 | 4–10 June  | Vichy |  France |  France | 13  | 80  | 1000+

### Number of athletes at the 2019 Global Games (highest to lowest)

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AUS |  Australia | 166
FRA |  France | 83
JPN |  Japan | 57
POL |  Poland | 36
ESP |  Spain | 34
RUS |  Russia | 33
POR |  Portugal | 31
THA |  Thailand | 26
ECU |  Ecuador | 25
GBR |  Great Britain | 24
HKG |  Hong Kong | 23
USA |  United States | 22
KOR |  South Korea | 21
EGY |  Egypt | 20
CHN |  China | 20
ITA |  Italy | 19
INA |  Indonesia | 18
CZE |  Czech Republic | 16
MEX |  Mexico | 15
BRA |  Brazil | 14
MAC |  Macau | 13
MAS |  Malaysia | 12
ISR |  Israel | 11
NZL |  New Zealand | 8
KSA |  Saudi Arabia | 8
IND |  India | 7
SIN |  Singapore | 7
COL |  Colombia | 5
EST |  Estonia | 5
SRI |  Sri Lanka | 5
ISL |  Iceland | 4
MRI |  Mauritius | 4
SWE |  Sweden | 4
TPE |  Chinese Taipei | 3
DEN |  Denmark | 3
BEL |  Belgium | 2
HUN |  Hungary | 2
CAN |  Canada | 1
CPV |  Cape Verde | 1
CHI |  Chile | 1
FRO |  Faroe Islands | 1
FIN |  Finland | 1
GER |  Germany | 1
NOR |  Norway | 1
TUR |  Turkey | 1
Total | 814

### All-time medal table (2004 to 2023)

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Rank| Nation| Gold| Silver| Bronze| Total

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1|  Australia (AUS)| 189| 134| 142| 465
2|  France (FRA)| 121| 89| 83| 293
3|  Poland (POL)| 71| 56| 53| 180
4|  Hong Kong (HKG)| 64| 64| 57| 185
5|  Portugal (POR)| 52| 41| 45| 138
6|  Spain (ESP)| 49| 41| 35| 125
7|  Brazil (BRA)| 46| 33| 25| 104
8|  Italy (ITA)| 38| 37| 44| 119
9|  Japan (JPN)| 35| 62| 68| 165
10|  Ukraine (UKR)| 35| 30| 19| 84
11|  Russia (RUS)| 34| 13| 9| 56
12|  Great Britain (GBR)| 31| 33| 24| 88
13|  South Korea (KOR)| 27| 16| 29| 72
14|  Ecuador (ECU)| 19| 16| 15| 50
15|  Egypt (EGY)| 17| 6| 14| 37
16|  Hungary (HUN)| 16| 29| 29| 74
17|  Mexico (MEX)| 16| 9| 14| 39
18|  Denmark (DEN)| 15| 8| 5| 28
19|  South Africa (RSA)| 14| 18| 34| 66
20|  Estonia (EST)| 13| 10| 8| 31
21|  United States (USA)| 12| 25| 20| 57
22|  Netherlands (NED)| 11| 13| 14| 38
23|  Israel (ISR)| 11| 6| 4| 21
24|  Sweden (SWE)| 10| 9| 6| 25
25|  Czech Republic (CZE)| 9| 15| 16| 40
26|  Colombia (COL)| 9| 2| 4| 15
27|  Belgium (BEL)| 7| 6| 6| 19
28|  Chinese Taipei (TPE)| 7| 5| 6| 18
29|  Tunisia (TUN)| 5| 5| 8| 18
30|  Iceland (ISL)| 5| 4| 6| 15
31|  Venezuela (VEN)| 4| 6| 6| 16
32|  Turkey (TUR)| 3| 4| 4| 11
33|  Puerto Rico (PUR)| 3| 3| 2| 8
34|  Cape Verde (CPV)| 3| 0| 2| 5
35|  Croatia (CRO)| 2| 6| 1| 9
36|  Indonesia (INA)| 2| 2| 1| 5
37|  Canada (CAN)| 2| 1| 4| 7
38|  Thailand (THA)| 2| 1| 0| 3
39|  Faroe Islands (FAR)| 1| 5| 2| 8
40|  Germany (GER)| 1| 3| 1| 5
41|  Greece (GRE)| 1| 2| 1| 4
42|  Finland (FIN)| 1| 1| 1| 3
43|  Iran (IRI)| 1| 0| 3| 4
44|  Malaysia (MAS)| 1| 0| 2| 3
45|  Chile (CHI)| 1| 0| 0| 1
Peru (PER)| 1| 0| 0| 1
47|  Kazakhstan (KAZ)| 0| 4| 0| 4
48|  Macau (MAC)| 0| 3| 4| 7
49|  Austria (AUT)| 0| 3| 2| 5
50|  Singapore (SGP)| 0| 3| 0| 3
51|  India (IND)| 0| 2| 3| 5
52|  Argentina (ARG)| 0| 2| 2| 4
Sri Lanka (SRI)| 0| 2| 2| 4
54|  Bulgaria (BUL)| 0| 2| 1| 3
55|  New Zealand (NZL)| 0| 1| 1| 2
56|  China (CHN)| 0| 0| 1| 1
Norway (NOR)| 0| 0| 1| 1
Totals (57 entries)| 1,017| 891| 889| 2,797

## Regional events

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### Virtus Americas Regional Games

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No. | Year | Dates | City | Country | Top Nation | Sports | Countries | Athletes

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–[15] | 2022 (cancelled) | 18–23 September | São Paulo |  Brazil | – | – | – | –
1[16] | 2026  | 2–11 October  | Lima |  Peru |  | 10  |  |

### Virtus Oceania Asia Games

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No. | Year | Dates | City | Country | Top Nation | Sports | Countries | Athletes

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1[17] | 2022 | 5–11 November | Brisbane |  Australia |  Australia | 11 | 24 | 600+

### Virtus European Games

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No. | Year | Dates | City | Country | Top Nation | Sports | Countries | Athletes

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1[18][19] | 2018 | 14–22 July | Paris |  France |  Russia | 9 | 20 | 1000
2[20] | 2022  | 16–23 July  | Kraków |  Poland |  | 9  | 18  | 600

## Sports

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*  Athletics (details) (2004 to present)
*  Basketball (details) (2004 to present)
*  Cricket (details) (demonstration sport in 2019)
*  Cycling (details) (2009 to present)
*  Futsal (details) (2004 to present)
*  Judo (details) (2009)
*  Rowing (details) (2009 to present)
*  Swimming (details) (2004 to present)
*  Table tennis (details) (2004 to present)
*  Taekwondo (details) (demonstration sport in 2015)
*  Tennis (details) (2004 to present)

## See also

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Global Games.

* Special Olympics
* IWAS World Games
* Deaflympics
* Invictus Games

### Other INAS sporting championships

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* INAS World Athletics Championships
* INAS World Swimming Championships

## References

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1. ^ "International Federation for Intellectual Impairment Sport: Global Games". inas.org. Archived from the original on 14 November 2016. Retrieved 31 January 2018.
2. ^ History of INAS. INAS. Retrieved 2019-09-21.
3. ^ Etchells, Daniel (2019-06-25). in athletics, swimming and table tennis confirmed for 2019 INAS Global Games. Inside the Games. Retrieved 2019-09-21.
4. ^ a b c Butler, Nick (2015-09-29). Inas considering legal action after "collapse" of Global Games Organising Committee. Inside the Games. Retrieved 2019-09-21.
5. ^ How the Paralympics checks intellectual disability. BBC (2012-08-30). Retrieved 2019-09-21.
6. ^ The 4th Inas Global Games 2015. Sport and Dev. Retrieved 2019-09-21.
7. ^ INAS Global Games 2019 Archived 2020-01-09 at the Wayback Machine. Brisbane City Council. Retrieved 2019-09-21.
8. ^ INAS Global Games recognised by ITTF. Paralympic (2019-01-10). Retrieved 2019-09-21.
9. ^ "2004 INAS Global Games Results Book" (PDF). VIRTUS Sport. 8 March 2020.
10. ^ "2009 INAS Global Games Results Book" (PDF). VIRTUS Sport. 8 March 2020.
11. ^ "2011 INAS Global Games Results Book" (PDF). VIRTUS Sport. 8 March 2020.
12. ^ "2015 INAS Global Games Results Book" (PDF). VIRTUS Sport. 8 March 2020.
13. ^ "2019 INAS Global Games Results Book" (PDF). VIRTUS Sport. 8 March 2020.
14. ^ "2023 INAS Global Games Results Book" (PDF). VIRTUS Sport. Retrieved 16 November 2023.
15. ^ "2022 Americas Regional Games - cancelled". VIRTUS.sport. 26 August 2021. Retrieved 17 November 2023.
16. ^ "Peru to Host Inaugural 2026 Virtus Americas Regional Games". VIRTUS.sport. 19 July 2023. Retrieved 17 November 2023.
17. ^ "The Virtus Oceania Asian Games 2022". oagames2022.org. Retrieved 17 November 2023.
18. ^ "2018 INAS Summer Games Paris". Archived from the original on 21 Aug 2018. Retrieved 17 November 2023.
19. ^ "2018 INAS Summer Games – Medailles et Records". Ligue AuRA du Sport Adapté (in French). 20 August 2018. Retrieved 17 November 2013.
20. ^ "2022 Virtus European Summer Games begin in Cracow, Poland". paralympic.org. 18 July 2022. Retrieved 17 November 2023.

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