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Military World Games

First event	1995 Rome
Occur every	4 Years
Last event	2019 Wuhan
Next event	Curicó 2023
Purpose	Military multi-sport event for nations of the world
Organization	CISM

The Military World Games is a multi-sport event for military sportspeople, organized by the International Military Sports Council (CISM). They have been held since 1995, although championships for separate sports had been held for some years. A winter edition of the games was subsequently created; the first edition was organized by the Italian region of Aosta Valley from 20 to 25 of March 2010.

Sports

Summer Games

Military sports

• Aeronautical pentathlon
• Military pentathlon
• Naval pentathlon

Winter Games

Editions

Summer Games

Year	Games	Host	Opened by	Dates	Nations	Competitors			Sports	Events	Top Country On Medal Table
						Men	Women	Total
1995	1	Rome	Oscar Luigi Scalfaro	September 4 – 16	93			4017	17	179	Russia
1999	2	Zagreb	Franjo Tuđman	August 8 – 17	80			7825	18	199	Russia
2003	3	Catania	Carlo Azeglio Ciampi	December 4 – 11	81			3217	11	120	China
2007	4	Hyderabad	Pratibha Patil	October 14 – 21	101			4738	15	157	Russia
2011	5	Rio de Janeiro	Dilma Rousseff	July 15 – 24	113			4017	20	195	Brazil
2015	6	Mungyeong	Park Geun-hye	October 2 – 11	110			8700	24	248	Russia
2019	7	Wuhan	Xi Jinping	October 18 – 27	110			9308	27	316	China

Winter Games

Year	Games	Host	Dates	Nations	Competitors			Sports	Events	Top Country On Medal Table
					Men	Women	Total
2010	1	Aosta Valley	March 20 – 25	43			800	6	28	Italy
2013	2	Annecy	March 24 – 29	40			1000	8	36	France
2017	3	Sochi	February 24 – 27	25			402	7	44	Russia
2022	4	Berchtesgaden	Cancelled, due to the COVID-19 pandemic
2025	5	Bern	Future event

Cadet Games

Year	Games	Host	Dates	Nations	Competitors			Sports	Events	Top Country On Medal Table
					Men	Women	Total
2010	1	Ankara
2014	2	Quito
2022	3	St. Petersburg	4–12 August	20				7		Russia

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Medals

Summer Games As of 2019 Military World Games. Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total 1  China (CHN) 324 247 168 739 2  Russia (RUS) 294 227 190 711 3  Brazil (BRA) 102 104 107 313 4  Italy (ITA) 88 94 115 297 5  France (FRA) 51 53 70 174 6  Poland (POL) 49 61 87 197 7  South Korea (KOR) 47 48 57 152 8  Germany (GER) 40 71 80 191 9  North Korea (PRK) 39 34 45 118 10  Ukraine (UKR) 34 63 73 170 11  Kenya (KEN) 27 26 25 78 12  United States (USA) 20 30 30 80 13  Belarus (BLR) 18 25 58 101 14  Bahrain (BHR) 17 5 15 37 15  Slovenia (SLO) 15 17 22 54 16  Iran (IRI) 14 22 27 63 17  Turkey (TUR) 14 10 16 40 18  Norway (NOR) 13 21 15 49 19  Croatia (CRO) 13 12 21 46 20  Uzbekistan (UZB) 13 9 12 34 21  Romania (ROM) 11 23 29 63 22  Austria (AUT) 10 15 21 46 23  Morocco (MAR) 10 11 11 32 24  Kazakhstan (KAZ) 10 9 23 42 25  Belgium (BEL) 10 5 13 28 26  Qatar (QAT) 9 11 10 30 27  Latvia (LAT) 9 7 9 25 28  Brunei (BRN) 9 6 11 26 29  Egypt (EGY) 8 8 14 30 30  Switzerland (SUI) 8 7 20 35 31  Saudi Arabia (KSA) 8 6 5 19 32  Algeria (ALG) 7 9 17 33 33  Slovakia (SVK) 7 7 10 24 34  Netherlands (NED) 7 4 9 20 35  Sweden (SWE) 7 2 9 18 36  Czech Republic (CZE) 6 10 10 26 37  Tunisia (TUN) 6 4 6 16 38  Finland (FIN) 5 18 12 35 39  Azerbaijan (AZE) 5 12 22 39 40  Greece (GRE) 4 20 11 35 41  Estonia (EST) 4 4 6 14 42  Hungary (HUN) 3 10 6 19 43  India (IND) 3 4 19 26 44  Lithuania (LTU) 3 4 16 23 45  Bulgaria (BUL) 3 3 6 12 46  Canada (CAN) 3 1 10 14 47  Ecuador (ECU) 3 1 0 4 48  Chile (CHI) 2 4 2 8  Syria (SYR) 2 4 2 8 50  Sri Lanka (SRI) 2 2 8 12 51  Ireland (IRL) 2 1 4 7 52  Venezuela (VEN) 1 4 10 15 53  Mongolia (MGL) 1 3 5 9 54  Vietnam (VIE) 1 2 3 6 55  Oman (OMA) 1 2 2 5 56  Tanzania (TAN) 1 2 0 3 57  Armenia (ARM) 1 1 5 7 58  Denmark (DEN) 1 1 3 5 59  Namibia (NAM) 1 1 2 4  Sudan (SUD) 1 1 2 4 61  Uganda (UGA) 1 0 2 3  United Arab Emirates (UAE) 1 0 2 3 63  Serbia and Montenegro (SCG) 1 0 1 2 64  Gabon (GAB) 1 0 0 1  Senegal (SEN) 1 0 0 1 66  Thailand (THA) 0 5 10 15 67  Dominican Republic (DOM) 0 4 7 11 68  Lesotho (LES) 0 3 1 4 69  Cyprus (CYP) 0 2 2 4 70  Cameroon (CMR) 0 1 4 5 71  Indonesia (INA) 0 1 3 4 72  Georgia (GEO) 0 1 2 3  Jordan (JOR) 0 1 2 3 74  Luxembourg (LUX) 0 1 1 2  Rwanda (RWA) 0 1 1 2 76  Monaco (MON) 0 1 0 1 77  Barbados (BAR) 0 0 3 3  Serbia (SRB) 0 0 3 3  South Africa (RSA) 0 0 3 3  Spain (ESP) 0 0 3 3 81  Botswana (BOT) 0 0 2 2  Kuwait (KUW) 0 0 2 2  Pakistan (PAK) 0 0 2 2  Uruguay (URU) 0 0 2 2 85  Afghanistan (AFG) 0 0 1 1  Albania (ALB) 0 0 1 1  Argentina (ARG) 0 0 1 1  Colombia (COL) 0 0 1 1  Ivory Coast (CIV) 0 0 1 1  Jamaica (JAM) 0 0 1 1  Portugal (POR) 0 0 1 1  Suriname (SUR) 0 0 1 1 Totals (92 entries) 1,432 1,449 1,682 4,563

Winter Games As of 2017 Winter Military World Games. Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total 1  Russia (RUS) 29 16 14 59 2  Italy (ITA) 25 19 18 62 3  France (FRA) 24 21 20 65 4  China (CHN) 6 11 8 25 5  Austria (AUT) 6 11 6 23 6  Switzerland (SUI) 5 6 5 16 7  Slovenia (SLO) 4 4 5 13 8  Norway (NOR) 2 5 2 9 9  Germany (GER) 2 3 7 12 10  Poland (POL) 2 0 1 3 11  South Korea (KOR) 2 0 0 2 12  Bulgaria (BUL) 1 4 2 7 13  Estonia (EST) 1 1 0 2 14  Spain (ESP) 1 0 2 3 15  Finland (FIN) 0 1 5 6 16  Kazakhstan (KAZ) 0 1 4 5 17  Romania (ROM) 0 1 1 2 18  Belarus (BLR) 0 1 0 1 19  Czech Republic (CZE) 0 0 1 1  Iran (IRN) 0 0 1 1  Lithuania (LTU) 0 0 1 1  Serbia (SRB) 0 0 1 1  Sweden (SWE) 0 0 1 1 Totals (23 entries) 110 105 105 320

See also

In Spanish: Juegos Mundiales Militares para niños

• International Army Games
• World Military Championships
• World Military Cup
• Africa Military Games
• Invictus Games
• Military pentathlon
• World Police and Fire Games