2021 Islamic Solidarity Games

‌The 2021 Islamic Solidarity Games will be 5th edition of the event scheduled to be held from 9 to 18 August 2022 at Konya, Turkey under the aegis of Islamic Solidarity Sports Federation (ISSF). It will be the first time in history that the event will be organised by the Turkish Olympic Committee.

5th Islamic Solidarity Games
Host cityKonya
Country Turkey
MottoTBA
Nations participating55
Athletes participating6000 (expected)
Events380 in 19 Sports
Opening ceremony9 August 2022
Closing ceremony18 August 2022
Officially opened byRecep Tayyip Erdoğan
President of Turkey (expected)
Officially closed byTBA
Athlete's OathTBA
Judge's OathTBA
Torch lighterTBA
Main venueKonya Metropolitan Stadium
Websiteofficial

Formerly scheduled to take place from 20 to 29 August 2021, the event was postponed to be held from 10 to 19 September 2021 in July 2020 by the ISSF because the original dates were coinciding with the 2020 Summer Olympics, which were postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[1][2][3] In May 2021, the ISSF postponed the event to August 2022 citing the COVID-19 pandemic situation in the participating countries.[4]

History

The Games were originally scheduled to take place from 20 to 29 August 2021 in Konya, Turkey.[5] In May 2020, the Islamic Solidarity Sports Federation (ISSF), who is responsible for the direction and control of the Islamic Solidarity Games, postponed the games as the 2020 Summer Olympics were postponed to July and August 2021, due to the global COVID-19 pandemic.[6][7]

Bidding

On 22 / 23 December 2016, the Turkish Olympic Committee submitted its bid for 2021 Islamic Solidarity Games during a Coordination Meeting with Islamic Solidarity Sports Federation held in Istanbul, Turkey.[8]

On 13 April 2017, Istanbul was awarded the event during the 25th ISSF Executive Board meeting held at Baku, Azerbaijan.[9] In December 2019, Turkey requested to change the host city from Istanbul to Konya, which was subsequently approved by the ISSF. The host city contract was signed in a meeting on 19 December 2019 in Ankara, Turkey.[5]

Sports

In October 2019, Organizing Committee in cooperation with Islamic Solidarity Sports Federation (ISSF) announced following 24 disciplines from 21 sports to be contested in this edition of Islamic Solidarity Games. Some sports also included their paralympic counterpart as athletics, judo, swimming and weightlifting.[10] In March 2022, the final program was announced with 22 disciplines from 19 sports including 4 para sports.In relation with the program from 5 years early, the organizers choose to remove 6 sports: water polo, diving, field hockey, tennis, wushu and zurkhaneh. At their place they choose to add archery, boccia, fencing and kickboxing. At the paralympic events parapowerlifiting and blind judo was dropped and their place was added para table tennis and para archery. Along this events, in archery was included 4 extra events with the Traditional Turkish Archery discipline.[11]

Schedule

Source:[12]

Participating nations

Is expected that the 57 members of the Islamic Solidarity Sports Federation will present at the Games.

Below is a list of all the participating NOCs; the number of competitors per delegation is indicated in brackets.

References
  1. "New dates for Islamic Solidarity Games announced". The Nation. 14 July 2020. Retrieved 28 July 2020.
  2. Cakmak, Fatih (13 June 2020). "5th Islamic Solidarity Games in Turkey rescheduled". Archived from the original on 28 July 2020. Retrieved 13 August 2020.
  3. "Pakistan Olympic Association". www.nocpakistan.org. Retrieved 28 July 2020.
  4. "Report des 5e Jeux de la Solidarité Islamique Konya 2021". Islamic Solidarity Sports Federation. 4 May 2021. Archived from the original on 8 May 2021. Retrieved 15 May 2021.
  5. "Konya to host the 5th Islamic Solidarity Games". Daily Sabah. 19 December 2019. Retrieved 23 January 2020.
  6. Ali, Muhammad (16 May 2020). "5th Islamic Solidarity Games 2021 in Turkey postponed". Daily Times. Retrieved 17 May 2020.
  7. Iveson, Ali (17 May 2020). "Islamic Solidarity Games postponed to avoid Tokyo 2020 clash". InsideTheGames.biz. Retrieved 26 May 2020.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  8. "The 2nd Coordination Meeting 5o submit the file of organizing the 5th Islamic Solidarity Games in 2021". www.issf.sa.en. 5 January 2017. Retrieved 21 April 2020.
  9. "The 25th ISSF Executive Board Meeting". www.issf.sa.en. 13 April 2017. Retrieved 21 April 2020.
  10. "Meeting with Minister of Youth and Sports of Turkey and the 5th ISG Organizing Committee Konya 20201". www.issf.sa.en. 18 October 2019. Retrieved 21 April 2020.
  11. http://konya2021.com/sports.aspx?id=0
  12. http://konya2021.com/Schedule.aspx
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