Lacrosse at the 2022 World Games

The lacrosse competition at the 2022 World Games will take place in July 2022,[1] in Birmingham in United States, at the University of Alabama Birmingham. Originally scheduled to take place in July 2021, the Games have been rescheduled for July 2022 as a result of the 2020 Summer Olympics postponement due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [2] Women's tournament will be played as official event and men's tournament as invitational event. This will be the first time, when both men's and women's field lacrosse will be played in a six-a-side format. This will be also an absolute debut of the men's tournament in World Games programme, because in 2017 women's played for the first time in the history of this discipline in the World Games. The games will be played in a Sixes format, with both teams having six players on the field. The game is played in eight-minute quarters and emphasizes speed and efficiency.

Lacrosse
at the 2022 World Games
VenuePNC Field
Location Birmingham, United States
DatesJuly 2022
Nations9

Qualification

A total of 8 teams for each gender will compete in the lacrosse event at the 2022 World Games.

Qualification for the men's tournament of the 2022 World Games was based primarily on final placement at the 2018 World Lacrosse Championship.[3][4] The Iroquois team, who took third at the 2018 championship, were initially disqualified as the Iroquois confederacy does not have a National Olympic Committee; after the ruling was overturned, the Irish team vacated their place in their favour. Lacrosse was invented by Indigenous nations including the Iroquois or Haudenosaunee peoples, and the game has spiritual significance for them.[5]

For the women's tournament, the 2021 World Lacrosse Women's World Championship was supposed to be the basis for qualification. Like their men's counterpart, the Haudenosaunee will be eligible to qualify.[3] However the Women's World Championship was postponed to July 2022.

Women's teams
  •  Australia
  •  Canada
  •  Czech Republic
  •  Great Britain
  • Iroquois
  •  Israel
  •  Japan
  •  United States

Men's teams
  •  Australia
  •  Canada
  •  Germany
  •  Great Britain
  • Iroquois
  •  Israel
  •  Japan
  •  United States

Medal table
RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
Totals (0 nations)0000

References
  1. "The World Games 2022 Sports programme". Retrieved 2020-08-27.
  2. "2021 WORLD GAMES POSTPONED TO 2022 TO AVOID TOKYO OLYMPIC CLASH". reuters.com. Retrieved 2020-08-27.
  3. "World Lacrosse Announces Teams for Men's Lacrosse Competition at TWG 2022". The World Games 2022 | Birmingham, USA. 7 September 2020. Retrieved 6 February 2022.
  4. "Teams qualified for lacrosse at the 2022 World Games". worldlacrosse.sport. Retrieved 2020-08-27.
  5. Glennon, Michael (2020-09-05). "Ireland sacrifice place for good of 'Medicine Game'". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
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