The IBSA World Games (formerly IBSA World Championships and Games) or World Blind Games are an international

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, occurring every four years, organized by the

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(IBSA). The events enable blind and partially sighted athletes to compete in a number of sports. The first event took place at

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in 1998. The competitions in athletics, swimming, goalball and judo are part of the qualification process for the

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Events

IBSA World Games

IBSA World Youth Games (WYC)

* Former name: IBSA World Youth and Student Games * 2013 also IBSA Para Pan-American Games. * 2009 and 2011 in judo and goalball and Athletics and 2013 in judo and goalball, 2015 and 2017 only in goalball. * https://web.archive.org/web/20120702142551/http://www.ibsa.es/eng/competiciones/historicoFechas.asp * http://www.ibsa.es/eng/competiciones/historico.asp?id=6&anio=2005 - 2005 and 2007 Sports : Athletics, Goalball, Judo, Powerlifting, Swimming * https://konanjudo.org/2010/11/26/2011-ibsa-world-youth-and-student-championships/ * http://www.ibsasport.org/news/307/2013-ibsa-para-pan-american-games-and-world-youth-and-student-games-results * http://www.ibsasport.org/calendar/615/2015-ibsa-world-youth-games-goalball-championships * https://web.archive.org/web/20170902074459/http://usaba.org/index.php/sports/past-events/

1998 IBSA World Games

The inaugural 1998 sports event was held in

for athletics, swimming, goalball and judo for the blind and vision-impaired.

2003 IBSA World Games

The 2003

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event included five-a-side football,

goalball Goalball is a team sport designed specifically for athletes with a vision impairment. Participants compete in teams of three, and try to throw a ball that has bells embedded inside of it into the opponents' goal. The ball is thrown by hand a ...

and

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, other disciplines have been added to the event. Blind athletes were able to compete in the following sports: powerlifting, ten-pin and nine-pin bowling, biathlon, alpine skiing, archery, showdown, swimming, shooting, torball, Nordic skiing, athletics and cycling. Although a lot of winter sports were added to the list such as skiing, but also bowling and many others, but was held in five sports: Swimming, athletics, goalball, judo, and powerlifting.

2007 IBSA World Games

The 2007

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sports were powerlifting, judo, goalball, football, swimming, and athletics. * http://www.ibsasport.org/photos/pictures/345.jpg

2011 IBSA World Games

The 2011

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sports were athletics, chess, futsal (football) B1, futsal (football) B2/B3, goalball, judo, powerlifting, swimming.

2015 IBSA World Games

The 2015 IBSA World Championships and Games was held from 8 to 18 June 2015, in

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and included competitions in ten sports: *

athletics Athletics may refer to: Sports * Sport of athletics, a collection of sporting events that involve competitive running, jumping, throwing, and walking ** Track and field, a sub-category of the above sport * Athletics (physical culture), competiti ...

, at the

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chess Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to disti ...

, at the Olympic Parktel Hotel *

futsal Futsal is a football-based game played on a hardcourt, hard court smaller than a football pitch, and mainly indoors. It has similarities to five-a-side football and Indoor soccer, indoor football. Futsal is played between two teams of five players ...

B1, at the Songpa women's football field *

Futsal Futsal is a football-based game played on a hardcourt, hard court smaller than a football pitch, and mainly indoors. It has similarities to five-a-side football and Indoor soccer, indoor football. Futsal is played between two teams of five players ...

B2/ B3, at the

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, in the

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for the men's competition, and SK Handball Centre for the women's competition *

, at the Jamsil student gymnasium *

powerlifting Powerlifting is a strength sport that consists of three attempts at maximal weight on three lifts: squat, bench press, and deadlift. As in the sport of Olympic weightlifting, it involves the athlete attempting a maximal weight single-lift effor ...

, at the Woori Financial Art Hall *

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swimming Swimming is the self-propulsion of a person through water, or other liquid, usually for recreation, sport, exercise, or survival. Locomotion is achieved through coordinated movement of the limbs and the body to achieve hydrodynamic thrust that r ...

, at the Tancheon swimming pool *

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tenpin bowling Ten-pin bowling is a type of bowling in which a bowler rolls a bowling ball down a wood or synthetic lane toward ten pins positioned evenly in four rows in an equilateral triangle. The objective is to knock down all ten pins on the first roll o ...

, at the Tancheon bowling centre. Venues were scattered around the city, including opening and closing ceremonies at the

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. About 1626 athletes competed from fifty-seven countries. The event motto was 'See with Passion, Run with Hope'. Mascots were Dari, Haechi and Suri.

2019 IBSA World Games

Nominations for the host nation for the 2019 IBSA World Games was called on 3 March 2017. It was not possible to find a host nation able to cater for all the sports. Instead the IBSA

Goalball Goalball is a team sport designed specifically for athletes with a vision impairment. Participants compete in teams of three, and try to throw a ball that has bells embedded inside of it into the opponents' goal. The ball is thrown by hand a ...

and

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Paralympic Games qualifying tournaments were held in

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in June–July 2019, in conjunction with the federation's four-yearly international general assembly.

2023 IBSA World Games

IBSA indicated it would commence searching for a host nation in the latter part of 2018. On 11 May 2020, the

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, England was announced as the host city, for 18–27 August 2023, with the sports of

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shooting Shooting is the act or process of discharging a projectile from a ranged weapon (such as a gun, bow, crossbow, slingshot, or blowpipe). Even the acts of launching flame, artillery, darts, harpoons, grenades, rockets, and guided missiles can ...

, and

External links

*http://iis.ibsawg2015seoul.org/en-us/Medal/medal_class.jsp *http://www.ibsasport.org/paginas/?url=seoul-2015-ibsa-world-games * http://www.ibsa.es/esp/galeria/13/campeonato/campe_i.htm * https://www.ibsaworldgames2011.com/the-ibsa-competitions.html - Sports * https://www.ibsaworldgames2011.com/the-ibsa-organizing-members.html

References

{{International multi-sport events IBSA competitions Recurring sporting events established in 1998 Blind sports competitions Disabled multi-sport events