The 2008

European Masters Games The European Masters Games (EMG) is a multi-sport event, consisting of summer sports, that is held every four years. The European Masters Games are owned by the International Masters Games Association ( IMGA), who also own the World Masters G ...

was the first edition of the

multi-sport event A multi-sport event is an organized sporting event, often held over multiple days, featuring competition in many different sports among organized teams of athletes from (mostly) nation-states. The first major, modern, multi-sport event of interna ...

for masters sport, which took place between 29 August – 7 September 2008 in

Malmö Malmö (, ; da, Malmø ) is the largest city in the Swedish county (län) of Scania (Skåne). It is the third-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm and Gothenburg, and the sixth-largest city in the Nordic region, with a municipal pop ...

, Sweden. 3022 participants from 46 countries competed in 18 sports.

Sports

*American football *Archery *Athletics *Badminton *Beach volleyball *Cue sports (Pool) *Fencing *Football *Golf *Handball *Indoor Bandy *Karate *Orienteering *Rugby *Squash *Table tennis *Volleyball *Wrestling The sports that were contracted, but that did not hold their competitions, were: * Basketball * Carom billiards * Boules/Petanque * Bowling * Cycling * Ju-Jitsu * Judo * Lifesaving * Rowing * Sailing * Shooting Exhibition sports During the week of the EMG a number of sporting events were held that were associated with the EMG, but that had their own organisa-tions and application systems. These were an invitation competition for fencing, an international football match for “old boys” between the Danish European champions from 1992 and the Swedish team that finished third in the 1994 World Cup at Malmö IP, the Christian-loppet race (an open cycling race between Helsingborg and Malmö) and an open half marathon.

References

Results

* https://www.imga.ch/assets/Uploads/Reports/EMG2008-Final-Report.pdf * https://www.imga.ch/assets/Uploads/Results/Athletics.pdf * http://websites.sportstg.com/select_node.cgi?cID=2209&p=1 * http://websites.sportstg.com/assoc_page.cgi?assoc=4674&pID=1 * http://websites.sportstg.com/assoc_page.cgi?assoc=4665&pID=1 * http://websites.sportstg.com/assoc_page.cgi?assoc=4676&pID=1 * http://websites.sportstg.com/assoc_page.cgi?assoc=4679&pID=1 * http://websites.sportstg.com/assoc_page.cgi?assoc=4670&pID=1 * http://websites.sportstg.com/assoc_page.cgi?assoc=4656&pID=1 * http://websites.sportstg.com/assoc_page.cgi?assoc=4654&pID=1 * http://websites.sportstg.com/assoc_page.cgi?assoc=4673&pID=1 * http://websites.sportstg.com/assoc_page.cgi?assoc=4671&pID=1 * http://websites.sportstg.com/assoc_page.cgi?assoc=4682&pID=1 * http://websites.sportstg.com/assoc_page.cgi?assoc=4667&pID=1 * http://websites.sportstg.com/assoc_page.cgi?assoc=4664&pID=1 * http://websites.sportstg.com/assoc_page.cgi?assoc=4660&pID=1 * http://websites.sportstg.com/assoc_page.cgi?assoc=4655&pID=1 * http://websites.sportstg.com/assoc_page.cgi?assoc=4653&pID=1

External links

2015 European Masters Games

EMG 2008 Blog
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Multi-sport events in Sweden International sports competitions hosted by Sweden