2023 Winter Deaflympics

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20th Winter Deaflympics
Host cityErzurum
File:Flag of Turkey.svg Turkey
Nations34
Athletes534 (314 men and 220 women)
Events34 in 6 sports
Opening2 March 2024
Closing12 March 2024
Opened byMustafa Çiftçi
Winter
Summer

The 2023 Winter Deaflympics, officially known as the 20th Winter Deaflympics or XX Winter Deaflympics, was the 20th edition of the Winter Deaflympics, and took place between 2–12 March 2024 in Erzurum in Turkey.[1][2] The multi-sport event was originally planned to be held in 2023, but the event was pushed towards the early part of March 2024 due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The 2023 edition of the Winter Deaflympics was the third largest international sporting event to be held in Erzurum after the city had previously hosted the 2011 Winter Universiade and 2017 European Youth Olympic Winter Festival.[3] United States, Sweden, Canada and Finland withdrawn to send their delegations to the games due to security concerns and geopolitical tensions surrounding West Asia.[4] Israel also withdrew from the competition due to Turkey's souring diplomatic relations with Israel over the Israel-Gaza tensions.[2] Six sports were included in the final list of games programme including alpine skiing, chess, cross-country skiing, curling, futsal, and snowboarding. Futsal made its debut at the 2024 Winter Deaflympics.[5] Ice hockey, which was initially slotted by the organizers in the draft plan of the games, had to be scrapped from the agenda of action items due to the withdrawal of the United States of America, Sweden, Canada, and Finland.[4] Approximately 534 athletes from 34 countries competed at the games and a total of 34 events in 6 sports.[3] Eight countries including Algeria, Greece, Iran, Ireland, Latvia, Kuwait, Serbia and Thailand made their debuts at the Winter Deaflympics during the course of the multi-sport event.[3] Ukraine topped the medal table with a haul of 10 gold medals and a total of 19 medals.[6]

Bidding

Reports surfaced in 2018 over the formal launch of bidding processes by the International Committee of Sports for the Deaf to choose the official host cities for both 2021 Summer Deaflympics and 2023 Winter Deaflympics.[7] ICSD marked 1 July 2019 as the deadline for the bidding proposals to be submitted by the interested nations in order to finalise the host cities for both 2021 Summer Deaflympics and 2023 Winter Deaflympics.[7] The International Committee of Sports for the Deaf revealed that their bidding process to both events had been formulated in line with the core principles used by the International Olympic Committee’s Agenda 2020+5.[7]

Participating nations

In a press conference some days before the Games,the Erzurum Governor Mustafa Çiftçi confirmed that the USA, Canada, Sweden and Finland had withdrawn from taking part at the 20th Winter Deaflympics owing to the Israel-Palestinian conflict in the Middle East region and due to the political stance of the USA on Israel-Gaza tensions.This situation led to the cancellation of the ice hockey tournament, as the four countries along Turkey and Ukraine had registered their delegations for the event.[4][8]

Sports

The 2024 Winter Deaflympics featured a total of 34 finals in 6 sports were held, two less than 5 years before in the Province of Sondrio.Although originally planned, the men's ice hockey tournament and the mixed relay in the cross-country skiing ended up being canceled due to the lack of registered teams.Futsal made its debut,at the same time as the curling mixed doubles event,the mixed teams in chess and the parallel events at the alpine skiing,replacing the downhill events.Another drastic change happened in snowboarding with the reduction in the number of events from 10 to 6. Thus, border cross, big air and slopestyle were removed from the program because of Erzurum's infrastructure.In its place, two events were added in the banked slalom.[9].This was the last edition in which Chess was part of the sports program, as in September 2022, CISS decided that the sport from 2029 onwards will be relocated to the Summer Games.[10]

Calendar

Source:[11]

OC Opening ceremony ● Event competitions 1 Gold medal events CC Closing ceremony
February/March 29th
Thu 		1st
Fri 		2nd
Sat 		3rd
Sun 		4th
Mon 		5th
Tue 		6th
Wed 		7th
Thu 		8th
Fri 		9th
Sat 		10st
Sun 		11th
Mon 		12th
Tue 		Events
Ceremonies OC CC —
File:Alpine skiing pictogram.svg Alpine skiing 2 2 2 2 2 10
File:Chess pictogram.svg Chess 2 ● 1 ● ● ● ● ● 2 5
File:Cross country skiing pictogram.svg Cross-country skiing 2 2 2 2 8
File:Curling pictogram.svg Curling ● ● ● ● ● 1 ● ● ● ● ● 2 2
File:Futsal pictogram.svg Futsal ● ● ● ● ● ● ● 1 1 1
File:Snowboarding pictogram.svg Snowboarding 2 2 2 6
Daily medal events 6 2 6 2 4 2 4 0 5 3 34
Cumulative total 6 8 14 16 20 22 26 26 31 34 34
February/March 29th
Thu 		1st
Fri 		2nd
Sat 		3rd
Sun 		4th
Mon 		5th
Tue 		6th
Wed 		7th
Thu 		8th
Fri 		9th
Sat 		10st
Sun 		11th
Mon 		12th
Tue 		Events

Medal table

Source:[12]

  *   Host nation (Turkey)

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1File:Flag of Ukraine.svg Ukraine (UKR)105419
2File:Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg China (CHN)77620
3File:Flag of Austria.svg Austria (AUT)61310
4File:Flag of Poland.svg Poland (POL)5409
5File:Flag of Italy.svg Italy (ITA)1326
6File:Flag of France.svg France (FRA)1258
7File:Flag of Croatia.svg Croatia (CRO)1102
8File:Flag of Iran.svg Iran (IRI)1001
File:Flag of Latvia.svg Latvia (LAT)1001
File:Flag of Spain.svg Spain (ESP)1001
11File:Flag of Japan.svg Japan (JPN)0437
12File:Flag of Germany.svg Germany (GER)0325
13File:Flag of South Korea.svg South Korea (KOR)0224
14File:Flag of Hungary.svg Hungary (HUN)0123
15File:Flag of Brazil.svg Brazil (BRA)0112
16File:Flag of Kazakhstan.svg Kazakhstan (KAZ)0011
File:Flag of Serbia.svg Serbia (SRB)0011
File:Flag of Slovakia.svg Slovakia (SVK)0011
File:Flag of Switzerland.svg Switzerland (SUI)0011
Totals (19 entries)343434102

References

  1. ↑ "Winter Deaflympics 2024". www.deaflympics.com. Retrieved 2024-11-21.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 AA, Daily Sabah with (2024-02-16). "Turkish deaf sports ring in excitement for hosting 20th Deaflympics". Daily Sabah. Retrieved 2024-11-21.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Ukraine tops the medals table at the 20th Winter Deaflympics in Turkey". Inside the Games. Retrieved 2024-11-21.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Minute, Turkish (2024-01-25). "US, 3 others skip Olympics for deaf athletes in eastern Turkey due to security concerns". Turkish Minute. Retrieved 2024-11-21.
  5. ↑ "Croatia wins first medal at Winter Deaflympics in Turkey". Croatia Week. 2024-03-04. Retrieved 2024-11-21.
  6. ↑ "Ukraine wins the Winter Deaflympics for the first time in history, winning a record 19 medals | УНН". unn.ua. 2024-11-20. Retrieved 2024-11-21.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 "Cities invited to bid for 2021 Summer and 2023 Winter Deaflympics". Inside the Games. Retrieved 2024-11-21.
  8. ↑ "Erzurum 2024". www.deaflympics.com. Retrieved 2024-11-21.
  9. ↑ Итоги Эрзурума (deafnet.ru) (in Russian)
  10. ↑ [1] (deaf.be)
  11. ↑ https://winterdeaflympics2023.com/erzurum-2023-winter-deaflympics-calendar/
  12. ↑ [2]
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