Lusofonia Games

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The Lusofonia Games (Template:Langx) was a multinational multi-sport event organized by the ACOLOP, which involves athletes coming from Lusophone (Portuguese-speaking) countries. Most countries competing are members of the CPLP (Community of Portuguese Language Countries), some with significant Portuguese communities or history with Portugal.[1] Participating countries are founding members Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Guinea-Bissau, Macau (Chinese SAR), Mozambique, Portugal and São Tomé and Príncipe, and associate members India, Equatorial Guinea, and Sri Lanka. In addition, Ghana, Flores (an island of Indonesia), Mauritius and Morocco have also expressed the desire to participate in future events.[2]

This event is similar in concept to the Commonwealth Games (for members of the Commonwealth of Nations) and the Jeux de la Francophonie (for the Francophone community).

Editions

Year Edition Date Host country Host city Champions Athletes (nations)
2006 I 7–15 October File:Flag of Macau.svg Macau Macau Template:Flagicon Brazil (57 medals) 733 (11)
2009 II 11–19 July File:Flag of Portugal.svg Portugal Lisbon Template:Flagicon Brazil (76 medals) 1300 (12)
2014 III 18–29 January File:Flag of India.svg India Goa[3] Template:Flagicon India (92 medals) 7000 (12)
2017 - Cancelled File:Flag of Mozambique.svg Mozambique Maputo — Cancelled
2021 - File:Flag of Angola.svg Angola Luanda — Competition Discontinued
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Inaugural edition

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Participating countries (purple) and host city (yellow square) of the 1st Lusofonia Games.

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In competition were a total of 48 events distributed between 8 sports: athletics, basketball, beach volleyball, football, futsal, table tennis, taekwondo, volleyball. Portugal and Brazil were the top medal collectors of the Games, managing to grab 85% of the titles. These two countries acquired 71% of the total medals of the Games. All delegations won medals.

List of countries/territories

Countries that have participated

All-time medal table

Lusophony Games medal count[5]
Pos Country Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 Template:Flaglink 64 43 32 139
2 Template:Flaglink 55 72 48 175
3 Template:Flaglink 38 29 35 102
4 Template:Flaglink 16 15 33 64
5 Template:Flaglink 10 13 18 41
6 Template:Flaglink 9 12 25 46
7 Template:Flaglink 8 7 10 25
8 Template:Flaglink 3 8 16 27
9 Template:Flaglink 2 1 1 4
10 Template:Flaglink 1 3 7 11
11 Template:Flagicon East Timor 0 0 2 2
12 Template:Flaglink 0 0 0 0
Total 206 203 227 636

Sports

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Football match: India vs Mozambique, during the 2014 Lusophony Games at Tilak Maidan Stadium, Vasco da Gama, India.

So far there are not any regulations concerning the list of sports that should be included in the Games schedule. The sports chosen for the 1st edition were discussed and deliberated by the ACOLOP's members on general assembly, but without any principle of future 'core' and 'rotating' sports from a list of approved ones.

However, on 14 October 2006, the president of the organizing committee for the 2009 Lusophony Games, José Vicente de Moura, mentioned the possibility of the ACOLOP proposing four or five core sports to be included on every future edition, plus the prerogative for the host country to propose three of four more to a maximum of nine sports. In 2009 edition (Lisbon) 1500 athletes participated from 12 countries. In the football tournament five U-20 national teams competed.[6] The sport marked with an asterisk (*) means that it was a demonstration event.

See also

References

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External links

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