World Games Bidding

The World Games 2017 will take place in Wroclaw, POL. The decision was announced by Ron Froehlich, President of the International World Games Association, on 12 January 2012, on the occasion of the awarding ceremony at the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, SUI. It concluded a bid process that extended over many months and involved formidable applicants and candidates.

Four cities had submitted an official Bid Application by the 31 May 2011 deadline.

Budapest (HUN)

Cape Town (RSA)

Genoa (ITA)

Wroclaw (POL)

After a thorough review of the questionnaires and the supporting documents, and with the visits to the cities concluded, the shortlist of Candidate Host Cities was announced by the IWGA on 10 July 2011.

Budapest (HUN)

Cape Town (RSA)

Wroclaw (POL)

Following further evaluation of the candidates' bid files, the IWGA Executive Committee made its final recommendation to the 33 Member Federations for ratification at the 2012 IWGA General Meeting in Québec, CAN. The contract with the future Host City was concluded at the same time.

The World Games 2017 Wroclaw

"We are happy to present our sports in Wroclaw in the summer of 2017, and we are sure that we will be offered optimal conditions for our sportsmen and women there."

Under the theme "Creating Perfection Is A Process", the Wroclaw Organizing Committee and a creative agency visualize how athletes, urban planners and craftsmen thrive for excellence and work towards a common goal: The World Games 2017!