2019 Military World Games

The 2019 Military World Games, officially known as the 7th CISM Military World Games, was held from October 18–27, 2019 in the capital of Hubei Province in Wuhan, China.

The 7th Military World Games was the first international military multi-sport event to be held in China and also it was the largest military sports event ever to be held in China, with nearly 10, 000 athletes from over 100 countries competed in 27 sports. The multi-sport event included 25 official and 2 demonstrative sports. Six sport disciplines such as badminton, tennis, table tennis, women's boxing and men's gymnastics made their debuts in the event. This was also the second biggest international sport event to be held in the year 2019 in China after hosting the 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup. The Games were organized by the Military Sports Commission of China, Ministry of National Defense of the People's Republic of China and the military commands (Army in accordance with CISM regulations and the rules of the International Sports Federations. For the first time in the history of the Military World Games, an Olympic village was set up for the athletes prior to the commencement of the Games. The village was officially opened for the athletes following the flag-raising ceremony.

Host nation China sent a delegation consisting of 553 participants for the games, which marked the record number of participants to represent a nation at a single Military World Games. Around 230, 000 volunteers were recruited for the event to be staged in China.

Bidding
Following the conclusion of the 2015 Military World Games, China won the bid to host the Games for the first time in 2015.

Venues
The event was held in 35 venues. Football stadium Wuhan Sports Center hosted the football competition for both men and women held from 16 to 27 October.

Opening ceremony




The opening ceremony was held on 18 October 2019 and the event was officially opened by the Chinese President and General Secretary of the Communist Party Xi Jinping. An extravaganza titled "Torch of Peace" was performed during the opening ceremony highlighting the main motto of the event.

Prior to the opening ceremony, a light show was set to be staged in the Yangtze River in Wuhan. It featured a screen made up of millions of small LED lights installed on bridges and buildings along the bank of the Yangtze River. The torch relay for the event was held on 16 October 2019 with the participation of 100 torchbearers. Liao Hui, 2008 Olympic gold medalist in weightlifting began the torch rally while hammer thrower Zhang Wenxiu concluded the torch relay. Flag raising ceremony was also held on 16 October 2019.

Mascot
The emblem and mascot along with the website were unveiled on 24 November 2017 by Ministry of National Defense of China.

Marketing
An online store and 21 franchised retail stores were newly opened in order to promote the sales of licensed items.

Sports
The competition involved 27 sports.

- Demonstration sports
 * Pentathlon
 * (5)
 * (6)
 * (5)
 * (6)
 * Army Sports
 * (8)
 * (18)
 * (2)
 * Aquatics
 * (12)
 * (5)
 * (42)
 * (18)
 * Main Sports
 * (Athletics and Para Athletics) (45)+(29)
 * (Road Cycling) (6)
 * (25)
 * Martial Arts
 * (15)
 * (12)
 * (16)
 * (16)
 * (18)
 * Team Sports
 * (2)
 * (2)
 * (Indoor and Beach Volleyball) (4)
 * Other Sports
 * (Archery and Para Archery) (5)+(3)
 * (6)
 * (2)
 * (4)
 * (6)
 * (5)+(3)
 * (5)
 * Gymnastics
 * (8)

Records
On 20 October 2019, China's Lu Pinpin broke the world record in the women's 500m obstacle swimming course classified under the military pentathlon with a record timing of 2 minutes and 10.9 seconds.

Overall, 82 records were broken during the nine day multi-sport event.

Controversies
In orienteering China's teams originally captured a gold and a silver medal in women as well as a silver in men, but were all disqualified by the International Orienteering Federation after it was found out that they had been given access to secretly marked paths and received external assistance thus gaining major unfair advantage over other competitors. A common protest was also held by the competitors from Russia, Switzerland, France, Belgium, Poland and Austria accusing the Chinese team for gaining major unfair advantage in the competition.

Participating nations
It was reported that 109 nations took part in the event including athletes from Russia. In September 2019, the International Association of Athletics Federation approved athletes from Russia with the Authorized National Athlete (ANA) status to take part at the event. However the All Russia Athletics Federation remained silent on the participation of Russian athletes.

List of participating nations
9,308 athletes from 110 countries :


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 * 🇨🇲 (55)
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 * 🇫🇷 (273)
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 * 🇮🇪 (32)
 * 🇮🇹 (139)
 * 🇯🇴 (5)
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 * 🇰🇪 (14)
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 * 🇰🇵 (156)
 * 🇳🇴 (28)
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 * 🇵🇰 (19)
 * (9)
 * 🇵🇪 (15)
 * 🇵🇱 (193)
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 * 🇶🇦 (99)
 * (77)
 * 🇷🇺 (243)
 * 🇷🇼 (41)
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 * 🇸🇳 (3)
 * 🇷🇸 (41)
 * 🇸🇰 (14)
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 * 🇰🇷 (172)
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 * 🇺🇿 (50)
 * 🇺🇦 (87)
 * (27)
 * 🇻🇪 (84)
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Not Participate
30 countries register but not participate:


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Medal table
Source:

Note: Para Athletics, Para Archery, Gymnastics, Tennis and 3 Senior Triathlon events not counted in medal table.

Results

 * https://results.wuhan2019mwg.cn/file/RESULTS-7th%20CISM%20Military%20World%20Games-%E6%80%BB%E6%88%90%E7%BB%A9%E5%86%8C.pdf
 * https://results.wuhan2019mwg.cn/index.htm#/totalmedal
 * https://web.archive.org/web/20191112134942/https://results.wuhan2019mwg.cn/file/RESULTS-7th%20CISM%20Military%20World%20Games-%E6%80%BB%E6%88%90%E7%BB%A9%E5%86%8C.pdf
 * https://web.archive.org/web/20191112135029/https://results.wuhan2019mwg.cn/index.htm#/index
 * https://web.archive.org/web/20191112135047/http://web.archive.org/screenshot/https://results.wuhan2019mwg.cn/index.htm
 * Results book (Track & Field)
 * Results book (Marathon)
 * Swimming Results book
 * Orienteering Results book
 * Fencing Results book