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 International Blind Sports Federation (). 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.

Editions

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. * Sources:

History

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 visual impairment, vision impairment. Participants compete in teams of three, and try to throw a ball with bells embedded inside it into the opponents' goal. The ball is throw ...

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 IBSA World Games was held from 28 July to 8 August in São Paulo, Brazil. The sports were powerlifting, judo, goalball, football, swimming, and athletics.

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 Games was held from 8 to 18 June 2015, in

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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 visual impairment, vision impairment. Participants compete in teams of three, and try to throw a ball with bells embedded inside it into the opponents' goal. The ball is throw ...

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

In May 2020, British Blind Sport and the

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, England was announced as the host city, for 18–27 August 2023. There were ten sports, including

which was held in

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2027 IBSA World Games

The host nation was announced in November 2024 for Tashkent, under the auspices of the Uzbekistan National Paralympic Committee.

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 Disabled multi-sport events