So following the World Ultimate and Guts Championships of a month ago, Australia has been ranked as among the top five Ultimate nations world-wide, and invited to compete at the 2009 World Games in Kaohsiung, Chinese Taipei, in July 2009.
The teams selected to play the Games are:
1. Canada (Bronze medalists at 2005 World Games)
2. United States of America (Gold in 2005)
3. Japan (4th in 2005)
4. Great Britain (taking the slot Finland held in 2005)
5. Australia (Silver in 2005)
6. Chinese Taipei (host - Germany hosted the previous games)
Many Aussies will recall the amazing hospitality of Kaohsiung, which hosted the first Asia-Oceania Ultimate Championships last year (where we picked up Silver again, this time behind Japan).
The World Games is a quadrennial event held the year after the Olympic Games. It is
held under the auspices of the International World Games Association (IWGA) and is
made up of 32 International Sports Federations. It was previously held in Akita, Japan and Duisburg, Germany. For more information about the World Games go to:
http://www.worldgames2009.tw/
3 comments:
Relive 2005 World Games all over again here
Does your ranking imply we qualified 5th this time round?
The ranking is how WFDF put it out. Apparently there's some complicated system. But it looks about right to me? Pottsy has suggested they publish the system, for interest.
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