India At The World Games

	India At The World Games India is participating in World Games since World Games 1981, inaugural Games of 1981. As of 2022 India has won 5 medals (1 Gold, 1 Silver and 3 Bronze). Medal count Medals by sport Medalists See also India at the Olympics India at the Paralympics India at the Asian Games India at the Commonwealth Games India at the Lusofonia Games India at the South Asian Games References {{National sports teams of India India at the World Games, Nations at the World Games ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	India At The 1981 World Games The 1981 World Games were the first World Games and were held in Santa Clara, California in the United States. The games featured sports that were not included in the Olympics.India competed at the 1981 World Games in Santa Clara and won one Bronze medal in Badminton Men's Singles. Medalists References {{Reflist India at the World Games, 1981 1981 in Indian sport 1981 World Games ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	2001 World Games The 2001 World Games ( ja, 2001年ワールドゲームズ, 2001-Nen wārudogēmuzu), the sixth World Games, were an international multi-sport event held in Akita, Japan. Titles 140 titles (invitational sports not included) were awarded in the following official sports. There were five invitational sports in this edition. Sports The 2001 World Games programme featured 27 official sports and 4 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. * * * I * * * * * * * * * I * * * * * * * * * * I * * ;Notes :I: Invitational sports, selected by the host city Medal count Official sports The results from the 2001 World Games are from the archived website of the Akita, Japan, organizing committee. The medal tally during the sixth World Games is as follows. Russia finished at the top of the final medal table. Invitatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Archery At The World Games Field archery was introduced as a World Games sport at the 1985 World Games in London. At the 2013 World Games in Cali the field compound even was replaced with an outdoor target event. Field archery Men Recurve Until 1993 this event was called freestyle. Compound Barebow Women Recurve Until 1993 this event was called freestyle. Compound Barebow Outdoor archery Men Compound Women Compound Mixed Compound Team External linksWorld Archery - World Games Medallists {{World Games Sports Sports at the World Games World Games The World Games are an international multi-sport event comprising sports and sporting disciplines that are not contested in the Olympic Games. They are usually held every four years, one year after a Summer Olympic Games, over the course of 11 d ... ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Snooker At The World Games 2013 – Men's Singles Snooker (pronounced , ) is a cue sport played on a rectangular table covered with a green cloth called baize, with six pockets, one at each corner and one in the middle of each long side. First played by British Army officers stationed in India in the second half of the 19th century, the game is played with twenty-two balls, comprising a , fifteen red balls, and six other balls—a yellow, green, brown, blue, pink, and black—collectively called the colours. Using a cue stick, the individual players or teams take turns to strike the white to other balls in a predefined sequence, accumulating points for each successful pot and for each time the opposing player or team commits a . An individual of snooker is won by the player who has scored the most points. A snooker ends when a player reaches a predetermined number of frames. Snooker gained its identity in 1875 when army officer Sir Neville Chamberlain, stationed in Ootacamund, Madras, and Jabalpur, devised a set of rule ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Cue Sports At The World Games Cue sports, including three-cushion billiards, nine-ball (a pool discipline) and snooker, were introduced as World Games sports for men and (in the case of nine-ball) for women also at the World Games 2001 in Akita. Medal table Medallists Three-cushion billiards Men's singles Pool (Nine-ball) Men's singles Women's singles Snooker See also * Cue sports at the Asian Games References {{Snooker tournaments Sports at the World Games World Games The World Games are an international multi-sport event comprising sports and sporting disciplines that are not contested in the Olympic Games. They are usually held every four years, one year after a Summer Olympic Games, over the course of 11 d ... ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	The Hindu ''The Hindu'' is an Indian English-language daily newspaper owned by The Hindu Group, headquartered in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. It began as a weekly in 1878 and became a daily in 1889. It is one of the Indian newspapers of record and the second most circulated English-language newspaper in India, after '' The Times of India''. , ''The Hindu'' is published from 21 locations across 11 states of India. ''The Hindu'' has been a family-owned newspaper since 1905, when it was purchased by S. Kasturi Ranga Iyengar from the original founders. It is now jointly owned by Iyengar's descendants, referred to as the "Kasturi family", who serve as the directors of the holding company. The current chairperson of the group is Malini Parthasarathy, a great-granddaughter of Iyengar. Except for a period of about two years, when S. Varadarajan held the editorship of the newspaper, the editorial positions of the paper were always held by members of the family or held under their direction. Histo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Powerlifting At The World Games Powerlifting has been part of every World Games since the inaugural 1981 World Games held in Santa Clara, California. Medalists Men Lightweight Middleweight Heavyweight Super Heavyweight −52 kg −56 kg −60 kg −75 kg −82,5 kg −90 kg −100 kg −110 kg +110 kg Women Lightweight Middleweight Heavyweight Super Heavyweight External links Results of World Championshipsat IPF {{World Games Sports Sports at the World Games World Games The World Games are an international multi-sport event comprising sports and sporting disciplines that are not contested in the Olympic Games. They are usually held every four years, one year after a Summer Olympic Games, over the course of 11 d ... ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Badminton At The World Games Badminton was introduced and only played at the 1981 World Games. The badminton events of World Games I were held on July 25–28, 1981, at the San Jose Civic Auditorium in San Jose, California, in the United States. These were the first World Games, an international quadrennial multi-sport event, and were hosted by the city of Santa Clara. China, in its first summer multi-sport event since the 1936 Summer Olympics, competed in badminton only, winning four of the five gold medals. Seventeen of the countries at these Games participated in badminton, making it one of the most represented sports. The players executive of the International Badminton Federation, Ciro Ciniglio, expressed disappointment at the lack of media coverage of badminton, saying, "We have many world champions competing here and ... were hoping all these great players would draw crowds. ... The United States over the years has had very good players, some of the finest. It was our hope to help the sport gain po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Prakash Padukone Prakash Padukone (born 10 June 1955) is a former Indian badminton player. He was ranked World No. 1 in 1980; the same year he became the first Indian to win the All England Open Badminton Championships. He was awarded the Arjuna award in 1972 and the Padma Shri in 1982 by the Government of India. He is one of the co-founders of Olympic Gold Quest, a foundation dedicated to the promotion of Olympic sports in India. Early life Padukone was born on 10 June 1955 in Bangalore in Karnataka. His father, Ramesh, was a secretary of the Mysore Badminton Association. Career Prakash was initiated into the game by his father Ramesh Padukone, who was the Secretary of the "Mysore Badminton Association" for many years. Padukone's first official tournament was the Karnataka state junior championship in 1962. Though he lost in the very first round, two years later he managed to win the state junior title. He changed his playing style into a more aggressive style in 1971, and won the Indian na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	2025 World Games 2025 World Games ( zh, 2025年世界运动会 )is the 12th edition of the World Games, which includes sports and sporting disciplines that are not contested in the Olympic Games. It is expected to be held in Chengdu, China. This is the first edition to be held under the guidelines set by the strategy paper "Growth Beyond Excellence", the second edition to be held in Asia, and the first time for the nation to host the World Games. Bidding Luo Qiang, Mayor of Chengdu, signed the Organiser Agreement for TWG 2025, with the Vice President of IOC and the Chinese Olympic Committee as witness. President José Perurena signed on behalf of the International World Games Association. Participants Under the ‘Growth Beyond Excellence’ guidelines ,the maximum permitted number (including athletes and technical officials) for the sports program of TWG 2025 and onwards will be increased from 4200 to 5000. 4000 participants are proposed by the IWGA Member Federations; while the remaining 10 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	2022 World Games The 2022 World Games were an international multi-sport event held from July 7 to 17, 2022, in Birmingham, Alabama, United States. They were the 11th World Games, a multi-sport event featuring disciplines of Olympic sports and other competitions that are not currently contested at the Olympic Games; the Games featured 3,600 athletes competing in 206 medal events over 30 sports. They were originally scheduled to be held in 2021, but were postponed by one year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. They were the second edition of the World Games to be hosted by the United States since their inaugural edition in 1981. Bidding process The cities that bid for the 2022 Games were: * Lima, Peru * Ufa, Russia * Birmingham, United States Barcelona and Santiago also considered bids. Cities paid a $125,000 application fee, and submitted information about "venues, infrastructure, volunteers, budget, transportation and other elements". Birmingham's bid, publicly announced in June 2014, was present ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	2017 World Games The 2017 World Games ( pl, Igrzyska Światowe 2017), commonly known as Wrocław 2017 (german: Breslau 2017; sli, Brassel 2017), was the tenth World Games, a major international multi-sport event, meant for sports, or disciplines or events within a sport, that were not contested in the Olympic Games, held from 20 to 30 July 2017 in Wrocław, Poland. The World Games were organized by the Wrocław Organizing Committee. Wrocław was selected as the host city in January 2012 in Lausanne, over Budapest, Hungary. It was the first time The World Games was organised in Poland. Wrocław was the sixth city in Europe after London (1985), Karlsruhe ( 1989), The Hague (1993), Lahti (1997) and Duisburg (2005) to host The World Games. A total of 201 events in 27 official sport disciplines were held during the Games. This is the first time that floorball, women's lacrosse, and Muay Thai have been included in The World Games as official sports. Also, a total of 21 events in 4 invitational sports ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]