1997 World Games

Multi-sport event in Lahti, Finland World Games V V Maailman Pelit V Världsspelen World Games 1997 logo.png 175 Lahti, Finland 73 1,379https://www.theworldgames.org/editions/Lahti-FIN-1997-9/summary LAHTI, FIN 1997 2017-09-30 International World Games Association 164 (22 sports) 7 August 1997 17 August 1997 President Martti Ahtisaari Lahti Sport Centre The Hague 1993 Akita 2001 The 1997 World Games (fi 1997 Maailman Pelit, sv 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 The 1997 World Games programme featured 23 official sports and 5 invitational sports. (Aikido was deemed a demonstration sport; no medal events were held.) The numbers in parentheses indicate the number of medal events that were contested in each sports discipline. Official sports 20em Acrobatic gymnastics 15 d Aerobic gymnastics 4 d Archery 6 d Artistic roller skating 4 d Bodybuilding 9 d Boules sports 2 d P Petanque Bowling 3 d Casting 11 d Dancesport 2 d Finswimming 16 d Fistball 1 d Inline speed skating 10 d Ju-jitsu 10 d Karate 12 d Korfball 1 d Lifesaving 16 d Parachuting 5 d Powerlifting 6 d Squash 2 d Trampoline gymnastics 6 d Tug of war 2 d M Men only Water skiing 12 d Weightlifting 9 dW Women only Invitational sports 20em Aikido d N No medals awarded Boules sports 2 d L Boules lyonnaise Floorball 1 d Military pentathlon 2 d Pesäpallo 1 d Tug of war 2 d W Women only Calendar |- |bgcolor=#00cc33|3●3||Opening ceremony||bgcolor=#3399ff|3●3||Event competitions||bgcolor=#ffcc00|3●3||Event finals||bgcolor=#ee3333|3●3||Closing ceremony |- |- ! August ! 7th ! 8th ! 9th ! 10th ! 11th ! 12th ! 13th ! 14th ! 15th ! 16th ! 17th |- | Ceremonies||bgcolor=#00cc33 align=center|●|| || || || || || || || || ||bgcolor=#ee3333 align=center|● |- | Bodybuilding|| ||bgcolor=#ffcc00 align=center|●||bgcolor=#ffcc00 align=center|●|| || || || || || || || |- | Bowling|| ||bgcolor=#ffcc00 align=center|●||bgcolor=#ffcc00 align=center|●||bgcolor=#ffcc00 align=center|●|| || || || || || || |- | Casting|| || || ||bgcolor=#ffcc00 align=center|●||bgcolor=#ffcc00 align=center|●||bgcolor=#ffcc00 align=center|●|| || || || || |- | DanceSport|| || || ||bgcolor=#ffcc00 align=center|●||bgcolor=#ffcc00 align=center|●|| || || || || || |- | Fistball|| || ||bgcolor=#3399ff align=center|●||bgcolor=#3399ff align=center|●||bgcolor=#ffcc00 align=center|●|| || || || || || |- | Gymnastics|| || || || ||bgcolor=#ffcc00 align=center|●||bgcolor=#ffcc00 align=center|●||bgcolor=#ffcc00 align=center|●|| ||bgcolor=#ffcc00 align=center|●||bgcolor=#ffcc00 align=center|●|| |- | Ju-jitsu|| || || || || || || || ||bgcolor=#ffcc00 align=center|●||bgcolor=#ffcc00 align=center|●||bgcolor=#ffcc00 align=center|● |- | Korfball|| || || || || || ||bgcolor=#3399ff align=center|●||bgcolor=#3399ff align=center|●||bgcolor=#3399ff align=center|●||bgcolor=#3399ff align=center|●||bgcolor=#ffcc00 align=center|● |- | Squash|| || || || ||bgcolor=#3399ff align=center|●|| || || || ||bgcolor=#3399ff align=center|●||bgcolor=#ffcc00 align=center|● |- | Tug of war|| || || || || || || || || ||bgcolor=#ffcc00 align=center|●||bgcolor=#ffcc00 align=center|● |- ! August ! 7th ! 8th ! 9th ! 10th ! 11th ! 12th ! 13th ! 14th ! 15th ! 16th ! 17th Medal table List of 1997 World Games medal winners Official sports The medal tally during the fifth World Games is as follows. United States finished at the top of the final medal table.http://www.theworldgames.org/the-world-games/results-history#edition=0&category=0&country=0 Results of the World Games International World Games Association 2015-10-26 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. FIN 17 18 10 16 14 5 15 16 10 15 10 13 12 12 15 8 5 10 6 8 9 6 3 5 JPN 1947 6 3 4 5 12 7 5 7 0 5 4 5 5 4 4 5 2 7 4 6 7 4 3 3 3 1 4 BLR 1995 3 1 2 2 2 3 2 2 2 2 1 1 2 0 4 1 3 1 1 2 2 1 2 1 1 1 4 1 1 2 KOR 1984 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 2 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 9 8 yes 0 2 5 0 1 2 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 GEO 1990 0 0 1 0 0 1 LTU 1988 0 0 1 0 0 1 PHI 1986 Invitation sports FIN 2 1 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 yes 0 1 0 0 0 2 JPN 1947 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 References Sources World Games News - Number 11 - Dec.1996 World Games News - Number 13 - May 1997 External links The IWGA 1997 Category:1997 in multi-sport events Category:International sports competitions hosted by Finland Category:1997 in Finnish sport Category:Multi-sport events in Finland Category:Sports competitions in Lahti Category:August 1997 sports events in Europe