The 2019 Military World Games (Chinese: 2019年世界军人运动会; pinyin: nián shìjiè jūnrén yùndònghuì), officially known as the 7th CISM Military World Games, (Chinese: 第七届世界军人运动会; pinyin: dì qī jiè shìjiè jūnrén yùndònghuì) and commonly known as Wuhan 2019, was held from October 18–27, 2019, in Wuhan, Hubei, China.[2][3]
Host city | Wuhan, Hubei, China |
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Motto | Military Glory, World Peace (Chinese: 创军人荣耀 筑世界和平; pinyin: Chuàng jūnrén róngyào zhù shìjiè hépíng) |
Nations | >110 |
Athletes | 9,308 |
Events | 316 events in 27 sports |
Opening | October 18, 2019 |
Closing | October 27, 2019 |
Opened by | CCP General Secretary and PRC President Xi Jinping[1] |
Athlete's Oath | Yuan Xinyue |
Judge's Oath | Wen Keming |
Main venue | Wuhan Sports Center |
Website | web |
Summer | |
Winter | |
The 7th Military World Games was the first international military multisport event to be held in China. The event was also the nation’s largest military sports event ever with 9,308 athletes from 109 countries competing in 329 events and 27 sporting disciplines.[4][5] The multisport event included 25 official and two demonstrative sports. Six sport disciplines such as badminton, tennis, table tennis, women's boxing, and men's gymnastics made their debuts in the event.[6]
The Military World Games was also the second biggest international sport event to be held in 2019. 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[7]). 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.[8] The village was officially opened for the athletes following the flag-raising ceremony.[9]
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.[10] Around 230,000 volunteers were recruited for the event.[11]
Bidding
editFollowing the conclusion of the 2015 Military World Games, China won the bid to host the Games for the first time.[12]
Venues
editThe event was held in 35 venues.[12] The Wuhan Sports Center hosted a soccer competition for both men and women held from October 16–27.[13]
Houhu block
editWuhan Five Rings Sports Center
editVenue | Sport | Capacity |
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Stadium | Athletics (Track and field) | 30,000 |
Gymnasium | Table tennis | 7,559 |
Natatorium | Lifesaving | 1,090 |
Others
editVenue | Sport | Capacity |
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Aeronautical Pentathlon Flying Contest Venue | Aeronautical Pentathlon (Flying Contest) | n/a |
Mulan Lake Campus of PLA Naval University of Engineering | Naval Pentathlon (Lifesaving, Utility Swimming, Obstacle Race, Seamanship Race and Amphibious Cross-Country Race) | 1,300 |
Air Force Early Warning Academy Venues | Aeronautical Pentathlon (Air Pistol Shooting, Swimming, Fencing, Basketball and Obstacle Race) | 1,000 |
Wuhan National Fitness Center | Soccer | 8,400 |
Hankou Culture and Sports Center | Soccer | 8,756 |
Wuhan Gymnasium | Taekwondo | 2,430 |
Zhuankou block
editWuhan Sports Center
editVenue | Sport | Capacity |
---|---|---|
Stadium | Opening and closing ceremonies | 58,000 |
Gymnasium | Women's Volleyball | 12,000 |
Natatorium | Swimming, Diving | 3,500 |
Others
editVenue | Sport | Capacity |
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Jianghan University Gymnasium | Men's Volleyball | 2,300 |
Hannan Municipal Airport | Parachuting | n/a |
Tianwaitian Golf Course | Men's golf | n/a |
Wuhan Business University Natatorium | Modern Pentathlon (Swimming) | 514 |
Wuhan Business University Gymnasium | Modern Pentathlon (fencing) | 2,185 |
Wuhan Business University Equestrian Venue | Equestrian, Modern pentathlon (Riding and Laser-Run) | 2,120 |
Hanyang District Beach Volleyball Center | Women's Beach Volleyball | 1,160 |
Caidian National Defense Park | Archery | 2,110 |
Shooting (25/ 50 m Pistol/ Rifle, Trap/ Skeet) | 3,600 | |
Main Media Center | Broadcast, Press | n/a |
Guanggu block
editVenue | Sport | Capacity |
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Wuhan Sports University Gymnasium | Boxing | 3,800 |
Hongshan Gymnasium | Men's Basketball | 8,000 |
Optics Valley International Tennis Center | Tennis (demonstration) | 13,722 |
East Lake Greenway Marathon and Road Cycling Venues | Athletics (marathon) and Cycling (road) | n/a |
Wuhan Vocational College of Software and Engineering Gymnasium | Wrestling | 1,353 |
Huazhong University of Science and Technology Optics Valley Gymnasium | Women's Basketball | 6,316 |
Yishan Golf Course | Women's Golf | n/a |
Wuhan University of Technology Gymnasium | Judo | 5,212 |
Ordnance NCO Academy, Army Engineering University of PLA Venues | Cross-Country and Military Pentathlon (Obstacle swimming) | 2,280 |
East Lake Sailing and Open Water Swimming Venues | Sailing and Open Water Swimming | n/a |
East Lake Hi-Tech Development Zone | Shooting (300 m Rifle), Military Pentathlon (Shooting, Throwing, Obstacle Run) | n/a |
Hubei Olympic Center Gymnasium | Men's Gymnastics (demonstration) | 5,294 |
Wuhan University Student Sports Center | Badminton | 8,031 |
Qingshan District Beach Volleyball Center | Men's Beach Volleyball | 1,116 |
Huangjiahu block
editVenue | Sport | Capacity |
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Jiangxia District Liangzihu Lake Triathlon Venue | Triathlon | n/a |
Jiangxia District Orienteering Venues: Bafenshan Dahuashan Qinglongshan Tianzishan |
Orienteering, Aeronautical Pentathlon (Orienteering) | n/a |
Wuhan City Polytechnic Gymnasium | Fencing | 2,433 |
Athletes Village | Athletes Village | n/a |
Opening ceremony
editThe opening ceremony was held on 18 October 2019 and the event was officially opened by the General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, Chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC), President of the People's Republic of China Xi Jinping.[14][15] An extravaganza titled "Torch of Peace" was performed during the opening ceremony highlighting the main motto of the event.[16]
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.[17] 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.[18] Flag raising ceremony was also held on 16 October 2019.[19]
Mascot
editThe emblem and mascot along with the website were unveiled on 24 November 2017 by Ministry of National Defense of China. The mascot, named Bingbing, was designed based on the Chinese sturgeon.[7]
Marketing
editAn online store and 21 franchised retail stores were newly opened in order to promote the sales of licensed items.[20]
Sports
editThe competition involved 28 sports.[21]
- Pentathlon
- Aeronautical pentathlon ( ) (5)
- Military pentathlon ( ) (6)
- Modern pentathlon ( ) (5)
- Naval pentathlon ( ) (6)
- Army Sports
- Orienteering ( ) (8)
- Parachuting ( ) (18)
- Sailing ( ) (2)
- Aquatics
- Diving ( ) (12)
- Open water swimming ( ) (5)
- Swimming ( ) (42)
- Lifesaving ( ) (18)
- Main Sports
- Athletics ( ) (Athletics and Para Athletics) (45) (29)
- Cycling ( ) (Road Cycling) (6)
- Shooting ( ) (25)
- Martial Arts
- Team Sports
- Basketball ( ) (2)
- Football ( ) (2)
- Volleyball ( ) (Indoor and Beach Volleyball) (4)
- Other Sports
- Archery ( ) (Archery and Para Archery) (5) (3)
- Badminton ( ) (6)
- Equestrian ( ) (2)
- Golf ( ) (4)
- Table tennis ( ) (6)
- Triathlon ( ) (Triathlon and Senior triathlon) (5) (3)
Demonstration sports
- Tennis ( ) (5)
- Gymnastics
- Artistic gymnastics ( ) (8)
Records
editOn 20 October 2019, China's Lu Pinpin broke the world record in the women's 500 m obstacle swimming course classified under the military pentathlon with a record timing of 2 minutes and 10.9 seconds.[22][23]
Overall, 82 records were broken during the nine day multisport event.[24]
Controversies
editCheating
editChina's orienteering teams originally captured a gold and a silver medal in women as well as a silver in men. They were all disqualified by the International Orienteering Federation after it was found out that they had been cheating through access to secretly marked paths, and received external assistance thus gaining major unfair advantage over other competitors.[25] 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.[26]
COVID-19 claims
editAccording to a report by Radio Free Asia, a number of athletes reported experiencing symptoms reminiscent of COVID-19 around the time of the games. French pentathlon champion Élodie Clouvel said that she, her boyfriend, and other French athletes were affected. Matteo Tagliariol and five roommates experienced breathing difficulties. Raphael Stacchiotti and some Swedish athletes also reported illnesses.[27] Five athletes from the United States returned home early with a diagnosis of malaria.[28] Jacques Reis, et al. wrote that the games were possibly a superspreader event.[29]
Conspiracy theories emerged in China that the SARS-CoV-2 virus originated in the United States and was brought to China by American participants in the Military World Games, amongst them the version which suspects that the virus was created and introduced into China through nefarious activities of the CIA.[30][31] Amidst the surge of anti-Asian violence from January through March of 2020, Zhao Lijian, a spokesman for China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, claimed the virus originated in the United States in reference to U.S. Army personnel present at the Wuhan games; his boss in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Hua Chunying added that "some cases that were previously diagnosed as (the) flu in the US were actually COVID-19... it's absolutely wrong and inappropriate to call this the Chinese coronavirus.".[32][33] Among the conspiracy theories was the calling-out of one of the U.S. Army athletes who participated the games and whom worked as a military driver in assignment to different Army bases including Fort Detrick, MD, where the USAMRIID biowarfare research laboratory is based, and had been shutdown by the CDC due to BSL-3/BSL-4 safety violations back in July-August of 2019,[34][35][36] and accusing her of being "patient zero" of the novel coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan, after which she faced harassment on social media, despite never having symptoms or testing positive herself.[37] A coronavirus public health exercise in the United States called Event 201 started at the same time as the Wuhan games, and is cited by conspiracy theorists as further evidence of misconduct.[38] The National Center for Medical Intelligence (NCMI - a branch of the DIA within the USIC) based in Fort Detrick, MD, provided an intelligence report soon after the end of the Military World Games that indicated a contagion had begun spreading in the Wuhan region; this intelligence report was shared only with NATO member states and the state of Israel.[39][40]
Participating nations
editIt 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.[41] However, the All Russia Athletics Federation remained silent on the participation of its athletes. The State of Palestine participated in the event, but Israel did not.[42][43]
List of participating nations
editAs many as 9,308 athletes from 110 countries participated in the games:[44][45][46]
Calendar
editOC | Opening ceremony | ● | Event competitions | 1 | Gold medal events | CC | Closing ceremony |
October | 16th Wed |
17th Thu |
18th Fri |
19th Sat |
20th Sun |
21st Mon |
22nd Tue |
23rd Wed |
24th Thu |
25th Fri |
26th Sat |
27th Sun |
Events | |
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Ceremonies | OC | CC | — | |||||||||||
Aeronautical pentathlon | 1 | ● | ● | ● | 4 | 5 | ||||||||
Archery | ● | ● | ● | 3 | 2 | 5 | ||||||||
Athletics | 8 | 8 | 12 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 45 | |||||||
Badminton | ● | ● | 1 | ● | ● | 5 | 6 | |||||||
Basketball | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | 2 | 2 | |||||
Boxing | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | 5 | 10 | 15 | ||||||
Cycling | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | ||||||||||
Diving | 3 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 12 | |||||||||
Equestrian | ● | ● | 2 | 2 | ||||||||||
Fencing | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 12 | |||||||
Football | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||
Golf | ● | ● | ● | 2 | 2 | 4 | ||||||||
Judo | 7 | 7 | 2 | 16 | ||||||||||
Lifesaving | 6 | 6 | 6 | 18 | ||||||||||
Military pentathlon | ● | ● | ● | ● | 4 | 2 | 6 | |||||||
Modern pentathlon | ● | ● | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | ||||||||
Naval pentathlon | ● | ● | 4 | 2 | 6 | |||||||||
Open water swimming | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | ||||||||||
Orienteering | 2 | 2 | 4 | 8 | ||||||||||
Parachuting | ● | ● | ● | 1 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 18 | |||||
Sailing | ● | ● | 2 | 2 | ||||||||||
Shooting | 1 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 25 | ||||||
Swimming | 9 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 7 | 42 | ||||||||
Table tennis | ● | ● | 1 | ● | 1 | 2 | ● | 2 | 6 | |||||
Taekwondo | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 16 | |||||||||
Triathlon | 5 | 5 | ||||||||||||
Volleyball | Beach volleyball | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | 2 | 4 | ||||
Indoor volleyball | ● | ● | ● | ● | 1 | ● | ● | ● | 1 | |||||
Wrestling | 4 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 18 | |||||||||
Daily medal events | 22 | 29 | 36 | 42 | 51 | 46 | 37 | 40 | 13 | 316 | ||||
Cumulative total | 22 | 51 | 87 | 129 | 180 | 226 | 263 | 303 | 316 | |||||
Para archery | ● | ● | 1 | 2 | 3 | |||||||||
Para athletics | 10 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 29 | |||||||||
Gymnastics | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 8 | |||||||||
Tennis | ● | ● | ● | 1 | 4 | 5 | ||||||||
Senior triathlon | 3 | 3 | ||||||||||||
October | 16th Wed |
17th Thu |
18th Fri |
19th Sat |
20th Sun |
21st Mon |
22nd Tue |
23rd Wed |
24th Thu |
25th Fri |
26th Sat |
27th Sun |
Events |
Medal table
edit* Host nation (China)
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | China (CHN)* | 133 | 64 | 42 | 239 |
2 | Russia (RUS) | 51 | 53 | 57 | 161 |
3 | Brazil (BRA) | 21 | 31 | 36 | 88 |
4 | France (FRA) | 13 | 20 | 24 | 57 |
5 | Poland (POL) | 11 | 15 | 34 | 60 |
6 | Germany (GER) | 10 | 15 | 20 | 45 |
7 | North Korea (PRK) | 9 | 8 | 15 | 32 |
8 | Bahrain (BHR) | 9 | 1 | 7 | 17 |
9 | Uzbekistan (UZB) | 8 | 7 | 5 | 20 |
10 | Ukraine (UKR) | 5 | 13 | 15 | 33 |
11 | Italy (ITA) | 4 | 12 | 12 | 28 |
12 | Kazakhstan (KAZ) | 4 | 3 | 5 | 12 |
13 | Belarus (BLR) | 4 | 2 | 8 | 14 |
14 | Iran (IRI) | 4 | 2 | 5 | 11 |
15 | Switzerland (SUI) | 4 | 1 | 8 | 13 |
16 | South Korea (KOR) | 3 | 10 | 11 | 24 |
17 | Norway (NOR) | 2 | 4 | 2 | 8 |
Slovenia (SLO) | 2 | 4 | 2 | 8 | |
19 | Egypt (EGY) | 2 | 2 | 5 | 9 |
20 | Kenya (KEN) | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
Morocco (MAR) | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | |
22 | Turkey (TUR) | 2 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
23 | Romania (ROU) | 1 | 4 | 3 | 8 |
24 | Mongolia (MGL) | 1 | 3 | 5 | 9 |
25 | Hungary (HUN) | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 |
26 | Czech Republic (CZE) | 1 | 2 | 5 | 8 |
27 | India (IND) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
28 | Belgium (BEL) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
29 | Latvia (LAT) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
30 | Lithuania (LTU) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
31 | Bulgaria (BUL) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Namibia (NAM) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
Tunisia (TUN) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
34 | Finland (FIN) | 0 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
35 | United States (USA) | 0 | 3 | 5 | 8 |
36 | Austria (AUT) | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
37 | Algeria (ALG) | 0 | 2 | 5 | 7 |
38 | Azerbaijan (AZE) | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 |
39 | Dominican Republic (DOM) | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
40 | Slovakia (SVK) | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
41 | Qatar (QAT) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
42 | Thailand (THA) | 0 | 1 | 5 | 6 |
43 | Canada (CAN) | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
Sri Lanka (SRI) | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
Sweden (SWE) | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
46 | Oman (OMA) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Syria (SYR) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
Vietnam (VIE) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
49 | Denmark (DEN) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Ecuador (ECU) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
Estonia (EST) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
Saudi Arabia (KSA) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
Tanzania (TAN) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
54 | Serbia (SRB) | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
55 | Venezuela (VEN) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
56 | Albania (ALB) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Armenia (ARM) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Barbados (BAR) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Greece (GRE) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Indonesia (INA) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Ireland (IRL) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Kuwait (KUW) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Luxembourg (LUX) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Pakistan (PAK) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Rwanda (RWA) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Spain (ESP) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Totals (66 entries) | 316 | 316 | 389 | 1,021 |
Note: Para Athletics, Para Archery, Gymnastics, Tennis and three Senior Triathlon events not counted in medal table.[a]
Results
edit- https://web.archive.org/web/20191112134942/https://results.wuhan2019mwg.cn/file/RESULTS-7th CISM Military World Games-总成绩册.pdf
- https://web.archive.org/web/20191028234735/https://results.wuhan2019mwg.cn/index.htm#/totalmedal
- https://web.archive.org/web/20191112134942/https://results.wuhan2019mwg.cn/file/RESULTS-7th CISM Military World Games-总成绩册.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) Archived November 12, 2019, at the Wayback Machine
- Swimming Results book Archived November 12, 2019, at the Wayback Machine
- Orienteering Results book Archived 2019-11-12 at the Wayback Machine
- Fencing Results book Archived November 3, 2019, at the Wayback Machine
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