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World Transplant Games Federation

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The World Transplant Games Federation
AbbreviationWTGF
Formation
  • 1978; 47 years ago (1978) / 1987 [1][2]
    (Established)
  • 29 June 2017; 7 years ago (2017-06-29)
    (Legally incorporated)
FounderDr Maurice Slapak
Founded atEngland
PurposePromoting amateur sport amongst organ transplant recipients and associated activities most notably the organisation of World Transplant Games events
HeadquartersThe Quay, 30 Channel Way, Ocean Village Southampton, UK
Region
Argentina, Australia, Austria, Canada, France, Greece, Hungary, Japan, Netherlands, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, England and Wales, United States
Services
  • Education/training
  • The advancement of health or saving of lives
  • Amateur sport
President
Liz Schick
AffiliationsInternational Olympic Committee
Websitewww.wtgf.org
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The World Transplant Games Federation (abbreviated as WTGF) is a United Kingdom-based non-profit organisation that aims to promote amateur sport amongst organ transplant recipients, living donors and donor families. The WTGF promotes the study of transplantation and aims to educate the public and raise awareness of the world shortage of donor organs. It shares new knowledge from biological/clinical studies and promotes the mental and moral improvement for recipients, living donors and donor families; and fosters international friendship and relations.

Established in 1978,[4] the WTGF was formally incorporated in 2017 and is responsible for the organisation of World Transplant Games events, including the Summer Transplant Games and the Winter Transplant Games, both held every two years, on alternate years.

The WTGF is affiliated with the International Olympic Committee (2013 and 2021)[5] and its headquarters are located in Winchester.

Presidents

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The leading executive officer of the WTGF is called the president; and since formation the following have served in this role:

Ordinal Officeholder Country Term start Term end Time in office Notes
1 Dr Maurice Slapak England 1978 (1978) 2004 (2004) 25–26 years [4]
2 Olivier Coustere France 2004 (2004) 2015 (2015) 20–21 years
3 Chris Thomas Australia August 2015 (2015-08) April 2023 7–8 years [6]
4 Liz Schick Switzerland April 2023 (2023-04) Incumbent

Members

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Source:[7]

60 Nations in 1 April 2025:

  1. Asia: 14 - BAN.CHN.HKG.IND.IRI.JPN.KAZ.MGL.NEP.PAK(NEW).PHI.SIN.THA.UAE
  2. Oceania: 2 - AUS.NZL
  3. Africa: 4 - ETH.KEN.RSA.UGA
  4. Americas: 10 - ARG.BRA.CAN.CHI.COL.MEX.PAN.PAR.URU.USA
  5. Europe: 30 - AND.AUT.BEL.BIH.BUL.CRO.CYP.CZE.DEN.FIN.FRA.GER.GBR.GRE.HUN.IRL.ISR.

ITA.NED.NIR.NOR.POL.POR.ROU.SLO.SVK.SPA.SWE.SUI.TUR

Journals

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Since 2010.[8]

World Cup

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1st Football World Cup was held in Italy in 2024 in men football and Chile was Champion.

Calendar

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[9]

European Heart and Lung Transplant Championships 2022 / 6–11 June 2022 / Belgium

European Transplant and Dialysis Sports Games 2022 / 21–28 August 2022 / Oxford, UK

Transplant Games of America / 29 July - 3 August 2022 / USA (San Diego)

Asian Transplant Games

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  1. 2002 Thialand
  2. 2008 Iran

European Transplant Games

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Source:[10]

The 15th European Heart & Lung Transplant Championships (12-17 July 2014). Vilnius Lithuania 15 countries participating - Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark,Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden and Switzerland. [11]

16th European Heart and Lung Transplant Championships in Vantaa.

ETSC 2024 will be held in Lisbon between Sunday 21st July and Sunday 28th July 2024.

Lisbon for the first time in history, the two Federations unite together in holding the 2024 European Transplant Sport Championships.

European Heart and Lung Transplant Championships

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The 16th European Heart and Lung Transplant Championships in Vantaa, Finland on 11.–16.7.2016.

The Games are open for all heart, lung and heart-lung transplant recipients.

Sports :volleyball, badminton, tennis, table tennis, cycling, ten-pin bowling, petanque, swimming, golf, cross-country running and athletics.

Athletes age groups (5–17, 18–34, 35–44, 45–54, 55–59, 60–64, 65–69, 70+)

Previous games 

  2014 Vilnus, Lithuania
  2012 Apeldoorn, Netherlands
  2010 Växjö, Sweden
  2008 Vichy, France
  2006 Napol, Italy
  2004 Dublin, Ireland
  2002 Klagenfurt, Austria
  2000 Sandefjord, Norway
  1998 Bad Oeynhausen, Germany
  1996 Lausanne, Switzerland
  1994 Espoo, Finland
  1992 Enschene, Netherlands
  1991 London, Great Britain
  1990 Paris, France
  1989 Gorssel, Netherlands

Source:[16]

2018 - Lignano Sabbiadoro (Italy)

2020 Cancelled.[17]

2022 Cancelled.[18]

2024 Games:[19]

2024 Medals:[20]

European Transplant and Dialysis Sports Championships

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The 9th European Transplant and Dialysis Sports Championships in Vantaa, Finland on 10.–17.7.2016.

The Games are open for all kidney, liver, heart, lung, pancreas, bonemarrow transplant recipients and dialysis patients.

The sports are volleyball, badminton, tennis, table tennis, cycling, petanque, swimming, darts, golf, virtual triathlon, mini-marathon and athletics.

Social sport of the Games is floorball. Athletes are divided into age groups (18–29, 30–39, 40–49, 50–59, 60–69, 70+)

Previous Games 

  2014 Krakow, Poland
  2012 Zagreb, Croatia
  2010 Dublin, Ireland
  2008 Wurzburg, Germany
  2006 Pécs, Hungary
  2004 Ljubljana, Slovenia
  2002 Balatonaliga, Hungary
  2000 Athens, Greece

2018

2020

2022

2024

MENA Transplant Games

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Middle East Transplant Games Federation (METGF) [21]

[22] MESOT : The Middle East Society for Organ Transplantation

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1st Middle East Transplant Games (METG) Championship in Kuwait in 2001 [24]

  1. 2001 Kuwait
  2. 2007 Kuwait [25]
  3. 2010 Tunisia
  4. 2012 UAE 4th Middle East Transplant Games [26][27]
  5. 5th Middle East Transplant Games which took place in Istanbul, Turkey. 14th Congress of the Middle East Society for Organ Transplantation (MESOT) 10th -13th September 2014. [28]
  6. 2016 Egypt Cancelled
  7. Next TBD

Latin American

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11th Argentinean and 6th Latin American Games 2012 250 people from 7 nations [29]

2014 Transplant Games of America (TGA) inaugural 5K event. [30]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ https://wtgf.org/history/
  2. ^ https://wtgf.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/TransWorld_1__2013.pdf
  3. ^ "Search: The World Transplant Games Federation". Registered charities in England and Wales. Charity Commission. n.d. Retrieved 13 September 2019.
  4. ^ a b c "About us: Past Presidents". The World Transplant Games Federation. 2019. Retrieved 13 September 2019.
  5. ^ "SPORT FOR ALL: IOC SIGNS AGREEMENT WITH WORLD TRANSPLANT GAMES FEDERATION" (Press release). International Olympic Committee. 30 March 2017. Retrieved 13 September 2019.
  6. ^ "About us: Our team". The World Transplant Games Federation. 2019. Retrieved 13 September 2019.
  7. ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20250331201215/https://wtgf.org/member-countries/
  8. ^ https://wtgf.org/publications-and-resources/
  9. ^ https://wtgf.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/TW2023_02_Online_v6.pdf
  10. ^ https://etdsf.org/
  11. ^ https://wtgf.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/TW_14_2_Combined.pdf
  12. ^ https://www.ehltf.org/news/preparations-for-etsc-2024-are-going-according-to-plan
  13. ^ https://etdsf.org/
  14. ^ https://etdsf.org/images/pdf/results%20former%20games/ETDSC%202010_Dublin_results.pdf
  15. ^ https://ehltf.org/ehltf
  16. ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20190224232103/https://www.vantaa2016.fi/en/vantaa2016/games/ehltc
  17. ^ https://ehltf.org/ehltf/our-games
  18. ^ https://harefieldhamsters.org/european-heart-and-lung-transplant-championships-2022/
  19. ^ https://www.eu-tsc.org/about
  20. ^ https://www.eu-tsc.org/sports/medal-table
  21. ^ https://www.kuna.net.kw/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=1492160&language=en
  22. ^ https://www.mesot-tx.org/
  23. ^ https://www.ectrx.org/pdf/20161431.pdf
  24. ^ https://kuwaittransplant.org/about-us-2/
  25. ^ http://www.tond.org.tr/announcements.htm
  26. ^ https://wtgf.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/TransWorld_1__2013.pdf
  27. ^ https://www.dawn.com/news/772179/siut-athletes-bag-six-medals-in-middle-east-transplant-games
  28. ^ https://wtgf.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/TW_14_2_Combined.pdf
  29. ^ https://wtgf.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/TransWorld_1__2013.pdf
  30. ^ https://wtgf.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/TW_14_2_Combined.pdf
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