Talk:All-time World Games medal table

May not properly reflect 1981 World Games I results
I am afraid that this table may not properly reflect the actual 1981 results. Prior to 23 October 2015, all of the information that I found regarding World Games I in Wikipedia understated the numbers of sports, events contested and medals awarded. I added up the information to be found on the IWGA's website for 1981, as well as news accounts at the time, to revise the 1981 World Games article. My suspicion is that any errors that had existed there may have been propagated through the overall accounting of the all-time World Games medal table. Jeff in CA (talk) 03:28, 27 October 2015 (UTC)
 * I have now updated the table based on the results of all nine editions of the World Games. It includes 2013 road roller skating (which was not an invitational sport), the effect of the stripping of a silver medal from the Hungarian sumo player in 2013, and the 1981 women's water polo result (there was no invitational sport program at the first World Games — rather, a month before the opening ceremony, an accommodation to prevent the water polo athletes from marching in the opening ceremony was reached between FINA and the Games organizers simply to assuage the IOC (who had no connection with the World Games)).  The table excludes medal counts for legitimate invitational sports from 1985–2013. Jeff in CA (talk) 20:45, 2 November 2015 (UTC)

Table does not match with official medal history table
This table does not match with this table. Also, there Soviet results are merged with Russian results.User:Tomcat7 (talk) 14:27, 27 July 2017 (UTC)
 * That is because the table at that site is incorrect. In November 2015 the table in this article was updated based on the results of all of the events, considered individually one-by-one, for all nine editions of the World Games up to that point.
 * Unlike the other table, this article's table includes 2013 road roller skating (which was not an invitational sport), the effect of the stripping of a silver medal from the Hungarian sumo player in 2013, and the 1981 women's water polo result (there was no invitational sport program at the first World Games — rather, a month before the opening ceremony, an accommodation to prevent the water polo athletes from marching in the opening ceremony was reached between FINA and the Games organizers simply to assuage the IOC (who had no connection with the World Games at the time)).
 * I have found zero contemporaneous press accounts of any such thing as an invitational sport at World Games I, at which I personally attended numerous events, including the opening ceremony and women's water polo.Jeff in CA (talk) 22:35, 27 July 2017 (UTC)
 * I have found zero contemporaneous press accounts of any such thing as an invitational sport at World Games I, at which I personally attended numerous events, including the opening ceremony and women's water polo.Jeff in CA (talk) 22:35, 27 July 2017 (UTC)
 * I have found zero contemporaneous press accounts of any such thing as an invitational sport at World Games I, at which I personally attended numerous events, including the opening ceremony and women's water polo.Jeff in CA (talk) 22:35, 27 July 2017 (UTC)

Germany and Russia issue
If table doesn ot add Russian and Soviet medals then the same table hsould never add West German and German medals. Someone should fix this bias — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:582:7C61:8E00:6CBC:380E:B446:3C7F (talk) 08:46, 5 August 2017 (UTC)


 * The way to fix that would be for the former Soviet republics to join back together as a new Soviet Union, and that's not going to happen. Jeff in CA (talk) 09:56, 5 August 2017 (UTC).

Two 1981 roller skating events are omitted from the TWG database
The database used by the World Games website omits two roller skating events for 1981 that were held on 29 July 1981.

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This means that USA and Belgium each should have an additional gold medal in the all-time table. Italy should have two additional silver medals and two additional bronze medals in the all-time table. The total number of events should increase by two. I will make these changes.

You can be assured that the existing table in fact does not reflect the results of these two 1981 roller skating events, because I performed the most recent quality check and subsequent overall revision of the entire table, based on the TWG database, and I still have my materials. I discovered this defect yesterday during my creation of the 1981 World Games calendar for Wikipedia.

Men's 5000m

1. Tom Peterson, U.S., 10:29.58.

2. Guiseppe Cruciani, Italy, 10:29.73.

3. Ermes Fossi, Italy, 10:30.42.

4. Dimitri Vam Cauwemberge, Belgium, 10:31.11.

5. Chuck Jackson, U.S., 10:31.20.

6. Danny Van De Perre, Belgium, 10:31.22.

7. Robb Dunn, U.S., 10:32.10.

8. Scott Constantine, New Zealand, 10:32.24.

9. Augustin Ramirea, Colombia, 10:32.37.

10. Dean Huffman, U.S., 10:33.31.

11. Alvaro Arrendondo, Colombia, 10:34.06.

12. Humberto Triana, Colombia, 10:34.34.

13. Serge Plante, Canada, 10:38.04.

14. Roland De Roo, Belgium, 10:41.69.

15. M. Bagnoli, Italy, 10:51.69.

16. Doug Blair, Canada, 10:56.24.

Women's 15,000m

1. Annie Lambrechte, Belgium, 33:45.02.

2. Paolo Christofori, Italy, 33:45.03.

3. Monica Lucchese, Italy, 33:45.03.

4. Darlene Kessinger, U.S., 33:45.04.

5. Paolo Sometti, Italy, 33:46.02.

No times --

6. Mary Barriere, U.S.

7. Fiona Wass, New Zealand.

8. L. Fioni, Italy.

9. Sue Dooley, U.S.

10. Christine de Clerck, Belgium.

11. Marie-Claire van Damme, Belgium.

Jeff in CA (talk) 00:58, 19 August 2017 (UTC)

stepped in it
I'm afraid I started updating this table to the IWGA table here: When I found that there was 20 odd countries listed in this table and not on the official site, I stopped and looked here. It seems crazy to try to update this table based on yearly results and sleuthing individual NGBs, but if that's what people want to do, revert back to before I started. If you do, I suggest putting in a html comment about the situation so somebody else like me doesn't do it again. However, I would like to know where the medals for these 20 countries come from. Is the World Games source really that bad that it would omit 20 countries? I give up. Sorry. - Mnnlaxer &#124; talk  &#124; stalk 04:55, 11 November 2017 (UTC)
 * I have so reverted. That's a good suggestion to put a comment in the source html, and I have done so. In 2015, The World Games website did contain a very good, nearly comprehensive listing of almost all medal winners (they left out a bunch of speed skating events and a sumo medal stripped for doping). I don't know why the site has been deprecated in that regard.  I used that to meticulously research the medal winners and medal counts for all editions of the Games. I have the results in an Excel file that I could share. Jeff in CA (talk) 21:46, 11 November 2017 (UTC)

Medal count changes based on more accurate source for 2001 results
Thanks to the research contributions of Mohsen1248, who updated the medal table for the 2001 World Games to correct several newly-discovered errors and omissions in the original sources for the results of the Games, we now have a better medal count for 2001. The results from the 6th World Games in Akita, Japan, now include three overlooked events (Team Lifesaving overall (men and women), and men's Karate Kumite Openweight class) and corrections in the listing of medal winners for several other events. The source of these corrections is the archived website of the local Akita organizing committee for the 2001 World Games. Upon inspection of these archived published results, the errors in the original source become obvious.

In addition to the missing events, the original source lists silver medalist Kellie Shimmings as representing Austria in women’s 60kg karate kumite, rather than Australia. That source has the wrong medal winners for two of the long-distance men’s inline speed skating events; instead, it lists several DNF participants as having won medals in the 20km and 15km elimination races. And in two events, women’s doubles petanque boules and men’s overall waterski, the original source shows the gold and silver medalists in the opposite order of the those in the Akita organizing committee's result lists.

The overall correction changes the previously stated medal counts for 14 countries, in most cases by 1 or 2 total medals each: USA, GER, FRA, ITA, AUS, ESP, GBR, TPE, COL, RSA, BEL, AUT, NZL and GRE.

Please take the opportunity to comment on this update of the overall medal counts. I will proceed with making the appropriate edits to the list. If other mitigating information is brought up in regard to accuracy, these edits can be reverted if necessary to accommodate further discussion. Jeff in CA (talk) 20:55, 4 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Hi, I can say there is at least one more mistake for previous games, this guy who had won a bronze medal in 1993 edition is definitely from Iran and not Finland. he even mentioned that in his resume in his official website. Mohsen1248 (talk) 23:42, 4 February 2018 (UTC)

Table of all medal-winning nations with medal type breakdown by year
The results from the 2001 World Games are from the archived website of the Akita, Japan, organizing committee. For example, the following are some of the errors that were found in an original IWGA source, which necessitated the use of the Akita archives: o Karate Men's Openweight - missing from original source o Karate Women's 60kg - A 2001 silver medal that was misidentified for AUT in the original source is now correctly attributed to AUS (for Kellie Shimmings) o Lifesaving - 2 medal events (M and W overall points) were missing from original source o Women's Petanque - original source showed the gold and silver medalists in reverse order o Men's Waterski - original source showed the gold and silver medalists in reverse order o Men's 15km Speed Skating Points+Elimination - original source had all three medal winners wrong o Men's 20km Speed Skating Elimination - original source had all three medal winners wrong The Soviet Union, which amassed 36 total medals in 1989, is counted separately from its successor states, including Russia. This is consistent with the separate counting of medals for other states that sub-divided into their constituent successor states following their initial participation in the World Games. These include Czechoslovakia (Czech Republic and Slovakia) and Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro). The 1981 mixed badminton title was won by a pair of players from Sweden and Great Britain. Both nations are counted as having won a gold medal. In 2009, Ukraine was stripped of two gold medals in bodybuilding for doping, and Qatar and Brazil were each stripped of a silver medal. This table does not include those stripped medals, and neither does it include possible reallocation of those medals, as the results at the World Games website do not reflect a reallocation. It does include all other 2009 bodybuilding medals, which were not stripped. In 2009 and 2013, Hungary was stripped of a gold medal and a silver medal, respectively, in sumo for doping. This table reflects the reallocation of medals for these two events. The 1993 bronze medalist in men's 75kg karate kumite was from Iran, not Finland as stated in an IWGA source. The 2013 road speed skating races (8) are included. See https://worldgames2013.sportresult.com/NH/en/300/Medal/Medals?sport=RR&medalKind=DefaultSports The Bahrain ISO code (BHR, not BRN) is corrected. The two speed skating races conducted on 29 July 1981 are included. 1997 World Games:‎ Bronze medalist Anna Dogonadze was representing Georgia in 1997 (not Germany as when she won a gold medal in 2005), and in Aerobics the bronze-medal British pair of Alastair Rates / Helen Carpenter-Waters are wrongly listed for USA in IWGA website. 1993 Taekwondo 83kg silver medalist Paolo Borgato is from Italy but wrongly listed for USA by IWGA. One of the bronze medalists is also from USA, and in Taekwondo you can't have more than one competitor per event. 1993 Taekwondo Women's +65kg gold and silver medalists are reversed by IWGA. Source (https://www.taekwondodata.com/resultlist_display.html?tnid=70&cid=senior) says Germany won the gold and Egypt the silver. It also has the detailed results if you click on the names. 1993 Waterski Women's tricks bronze medalist, Julia Gromyko, is from Belarus but wrongly listed for Bulgaria by IWGA. 1993 Women's Acrobatic Gymnastics Group Balance event: there was a tie for bronze medal between Belarus and China. The IWGA only gave it to Belarus. However, the official document (http://www.sportsacrobatics.info/results/1993WG_ExF.pdf), page 4, also shows China as joint bronze medalist. 1993 Men's synchronized trampoline: the IWGA shows medals for FRA-DEN-SWE in that order, but other sources show it should be GER-SWE-DEN. o A Dutch newspaper dated 2 August 1993 shows Germany as gold medalists (https://www.krantenbankzeeland.nl/issue/pzc/1993-08-02/edition/0/page/16?query=). o A Swedish newspaper dated 1 August 1993 shows Germany (but curiously the wrong pair, Ralf Gehrke/Christoff Emmes) as gold medalists and the Swedes as silver medalists (https://www.dn.se/arkiv/sport/dubbla-trampolinmedaljer/). o Danish website (http://gym.wheeler.dk/nyheder/fem-danske-gymnaster-til-world-games/) refers to Denmark as bronze medalists in 1993. o Two websites show the gold medalists as Christian Kemmer / Martin Kubicka (http://www.sport-komplett.de/sport-komplett/sportarten/w/worldgames/hst/33.html  and  https://www.tsb.gd/ueber-uns/geschichte/) 1989: Nadine Visconti, gold medalist in Field Archery, is from France, but she is wrongly listed for Italy by IWGA. 1989: Liang Jun, finswimming gold medalist, is from China, but he is wrongly listed for Chinese Taipei. He even won a relay medal in the same competition for China. 1989: The pair of David Morrison and Kirsten Murphy, bronze medalists in Artistic Skating, is from Australia, wrongly listed for USA. Murphy even won an individual medal for Australia in the same competition. 1989: Three Australia medals were wrongly shown as being won by USA, all in inline speed skating (1 silver and 2 bronze). Tony Keefe and Tony Hanley are both from Australia, but all of their medals were listed for USA by IWGA. 2009: There were joint silver medalists in men's team overall lifesaving (IWGA error in its lookup site, but the result is correct on the IWGA detailed results page). 2009: Beach handball was an invitational sport 2017 doping: The German women's bowling gold medalist was stripped of the medal for doping, and medals were reallocated. (update per https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1067082/bowling-kickboxer-and-indoor-rower-stripped-of-world-games-medals-for-doping)

Posted at this Talk page on 4 October 2019; last updated 22 October 2019. Jeff in CA (talk) 00:46, 4 October 2019 (UTC)

Colombia’s total bronze medal count
Colombia won all its 2001 medals in inline speed skating, including 5 bronze medals. The current IWGA table only credits 4 bronze medals. Therefore, the overall total bronze to date is 26, not 25.Jeff in CA (talk) 22:16, 4 October 2021 (UTC)