World Games sports

The **World Games sports** are all of the sports that are played during The World Games.

## Sports

Disciplines from the same sport have the same color.
|colspan="2" width=170|Sport (Discipline)|width=50|Body|style="width:2.25em"|1981|style="width:2.25em"|1985|style="width:2.25em"|1989|style="width:2.25em"|1993|style="width:2.25em"|1997|style="width:2.25em"|2001|style="width:2.25em"|2005|style="width:2.25em"|2009|style="width:2.25em"|2013|style="width:2.25em"|2017|style="width:2.25em"|2022|
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|align=center colspan="14" bgcolor=LightSteelBlue|**Official sports**|||||||||||||||||||||||||
|Acrobatic gymnastics||rowspan="5"|FIG||||15|15|5|5|5|5|5|5||||||||||||
|Aerobic gymnastics||||||4|4|5|5|7|5|4||||||||||||||
|Rhythmic gymnastics|||||||4|4|4|3|4|4||||||||||||||
|Trampoline and Tumbling||8|6|6|6|6|6|6|6|6|6|4||||||||||||||
|Parkour||||||||||||4||||||||||||||
|colspan="14" style="font-size:0.2em;line-height:0.5"||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|Artistic roller skating||rowspan="4"|FIRS|4|4|4|4|4|4|4|4|4|4|3||||||||||||
|Inline hockey||||||||1|1|1|1|1||||||||||||||
|Roller hockey||1|1|1|1||1|||||||||||||||||||
|Roller speed skating||8|12|10|10|10|10|12|10|18|18|18||||||||||||||
|colspan="14" style="font-size:0.2em;line-height:0.5"||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|Air sports||FAI|||||5|4|5|5|3|3|2|||||||||||||
|Archery||WA||4|4|6|6|6|6|6|7|7|7|||||||||||||
|Beach handball||IHF||||||2|2|2|2|2|2|||||||||||||
|Billiards||WCBS||||||1|1|1|1|1|1|||||||||||||
|Boules sports||CMSB||1|2|2|2|4|6|8|8|12|4|||||||||||||
|Bowling||WB|3|5|3|3|3|3|6|3|3|4|4|||||||||||||
|Canoe marathon||ICF|||||||||6||4|||||||||||||
|Canoe polo||ICF|||||||2|2|2|2|2|||||||||||||
|Dancesport||WDSF|||||2|2|3|3|3|4|5|||||||||||||
|Finswimming||CMAS|12|17|14|14|16|10|10|10|10|14|16|||||||||||||
|Fistball||IFA||1|1|1|1|1|1|1|1|1|2|||||||||||||
|Floorball||IFF|||||1|||||1|1|||||||||||||
|Flying disc||WFDF|||•|||3|1|1|1|1|1|||||||||||||
|Ju-jitsu||JJIF|||||10|9|10|10|13|22|18|||||||||||||
|Karate||WKF|9|12|12|12|12|12|13|13|12|12|12|||||||||||||
|Kickboxing||WAKO||||||||||7|6|||||||||||||
|Korfball||IKF||1|1|1|1|1|1|1|1|1|1|||||||||||||
|Lacrosse (women's)||FIL||||||||||1|1|||||||||||||
|Lifesaving||ILS||10|16|16|16|16|16|16|16|16|16|||||||||||||
|Muay Thai||IFMA||||||||||11|12|||||||||||||
|Orienteering||IOF||||||3|3|5|5|5|5|||||||||||||
|Pool||WCBS||||||2|2|2|2|2|2|||||||||||||
|Powerlifting||IPF|9|3|6|6|6|6|6|8|8|8|8|||||||||||||
|Racquetball||IRF|4|2||2||||2|2||2|||||||||||||
|Snooker||WCBS||||||1|1|1|1|1|1|||||||||||||
|Softball||WBSC|2|1|||_1996-2008_|1|1||1|||||||||||||||
|Sport climbing||IFSC|||||||4|4|4|6|6|||||||||||||
|Squash||WSF|||||2||2|2|2|2|2|||||||||||||
|Sumo||IFS||||||8|8|8|8|8|8|||||||||||||
|Tug of war||TWIF|2|2|2|2|2|2|3|3|3|3|3|||||||||||||
|Water skiing||IWWF|8|6|6|6|12|6|8|6|8|8|8|||||||||||||
|colspan="14" style="font-size:0.2em;line-height:0.5"||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|align=center colspan=14 bgcolor=LightSteelBlue|**Previous official sports**|||||||||||||||||||||||||
|Badminton||BWF|5|||_since 1992_||||||||||||||||||||
|Baseball||WBSC|1|||_1992-2008_||||_2020_||||||||||||||||
|Beach volleyball||FIVB||||2|_since 1996_|||||||||||||||||||
|Bodybuilding||IFBB|6|6|6|7|9|7|7|7||||||||||||||||
|Casting||ICSF|11|12||13|12|6|6|||||||||||||||||
|Indoor cycling||UCI|||5|||||||||||||||||||||
|Netball||INF||1|1|1||||||||||||||||||||
|Rugby sevens||WR||||||1|1|1|1|_since 2016_||||||||||||||
|Sambo||FIAS||17||9||||||||||||||||||||
|Taekwondo||WTF|10|8|12|12||_since 2000_||||||||||||||||||
|Triathlon||ITU|||•|4||_since 2000_||||||||||||||||||
|Weightlifting (women)||IWF|||||9|_since 2000_||||||||||||||||||
|colspan="14" style="font-size:0.2em;line-height:0.5"||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|align=center colspan=14 bgcolor=palegreen|**Invitational sports**|||||||||||||||||||||||||
|Water polo (women)||FINA|1|||||_since 2000_||||||||||||||||||
|Motocross||rowspan=3|FIM||•|||||||||||||||||||||
|Speedway|||•||||||||1|||||||||||||||
|Indoor motorcycle trials||||||||1||||||||||||||||||
|Aikido||IAF|||•|•|•|•|•|||||||||||||||||
|Bahn golf||WMSF|||•|||||||||||||||||||||
|Boomerang|||||•|||||||||||||||||||||
|Baton twirling||||||•||||||||||||||||||||
|Equestrian vaulting||FEI||||•||||||||||||||||||||
|Boule Lyonnaise||CMSB|||||2|||||||||||||||||||
|Military pentathlon||CISM|||||2|||||||||||||||||||
|Pesäpallo|||||||1|||||||||||||||||||
|Tug of war (women)||TWIF|||||2|1||||||||||||||||||
|Gateball||WGU||||||1||||||||||||||||||
|American football||IFAF|||||||1|||1|2|||||||||||||
|Indoor hockey||FIH|||||||2|||||||||||||||||
|Dragon boat||ICF|||||||4|4||||||||||||||||
|Tchoukball||FITB||||||||2||||||||||||||||
|Wushu||IWUF||||||||13|16||10|||||||||||||
|Duathlon||ITU|||||||||2||3|||||||||||||
|Indoor rowing||FISA||||||||||7||||||||||||||
|Lacrosse (men's)||FIL|||||||||||1|||||||||||||
|Wheelchair rugby|||||||||||||1|||||||||||||
|colspan="14" style="font-size:0.2em;line-height:0.5"||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|colspan=3|**Medal Events**|||||||||||||||||||||||||
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|**Official sports**|15|20|19|21|23|27|31|31|32|27|30|||||||||||||||
|**Invitational sports**|1|4|5|3|6|5|6|5|4|4|5|}||||||||||||||

## Past TWG sports and disciplines

These sports were played at previous World Games, but are not played anymore.

- Bodybuilding (Bodybuilding, Fitness) – Last played in 2009
- Bowling (Nine-pin bowling) – Only played in 2005 officially
- Cable wakeboard - Only played in 2005 officially
- Casting – Last played in 2005
- Flying Disc (Disc golf) – Only played in 2001 officially
- Indoor cycling (Artistic cycling, Cycle ball) – Only played in 1989 officially
- Lifesaving (Beach) – Last played in 2009
- Netball – Last played in 1993
- Roller hockey (quad skate) - Last played in 2001
- Sambo – Last played in 1993

The following sports were part of The World Games in the past. However, they are now official events at the Olympics.
- Badminton – became an Olympic sport at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Baseball and Softball – were Olympic sports from 1992 (baseball)/1996 (softball) to 2008. Returned to the Olympics in 2020. It is not known if they will be played at future Olympic Games.
- Beach volleyball - became an Olympic sport at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Rugby sevens – became an Olympic sport at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Taekwondo – became an Olympic sport at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Trampoline – some individual events were introduced at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Triathlon – became an Olympic sport at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Water polo (women) - became an Olympic sport at the 2000 Summer Olympics. (Men never competed in water polo in The World Games because it has been in all Summer Olympics since 1900.)
- Weightlifting (women) - became an Olympic sport at the 2000 Summer Olympics. (Men never competed in weightlifting in The World Games because it has been in all Summer Olympics since 1920.)

## Other websites

- The Sports of the World Games  at International World Games Association web site