World School Sport Games
The Gymnasiade, or World Gymnasiade, or World School Sport Games, or ISF World School Sport Games is an international multi-sport event which is organised by the International School Sport Federation. It is the largest event among many other sport events held by the ISF. Aligned with the philosophy of the organisation, only individuals between the ages of 13 and 18 are eligible to compete.
The current regulations estipulate that the program of Gymnasiade is composed of twelve mandatory individual sports with five optional sports. The current obligatory sports are: archery, athletics, boxing, chess, fencing, gymnastics, judo, karate, swimming, taekwondo, tennis, and wrestling. At the edition held in 2018, the organizing committee chose as optional sports: petanque, road cycling, surfing, and golf.
The first edition of the Gymnasiade was held in 1974 in Wiesbaden, Germany and it featured solely gymnastics, athletics and swimming competitions. Since then, numerous editions of Gymnasiade had been held. In 2018, Morocco staged the event, receiving more than 3000 young athletes representing 58 countries. It was the biggest edition so far and the first ever International Multisport event for youth held in Africa. The 2022 edition took place in May 2022 and was hosted in Normandy, France.
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Source:ISF World School Summer Games U18
First held in 1974 the ISF World Gymnasiade is a multi-sport games organised by the International School Sport Federation for athletes in the under 18 age group. The 1974 athletics competition was not included as part of the main event held in Wiesbaden. The event was originally held every 2 years but after 1990 was only held every 4 years. From 1974 to 2009 only three compulsory sports made part of the event program: gymnastics, athletics, swimming.The 2020 Gymnasiade was scheduled to host in Jinjiang, China during 17–24 October, but after several postponements due to COVID-19 pandemic, ISF decided to cancel this event.
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ISF World School Summer Games U15
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| 1 | 2021 |  ISF World School Winter GamesAges: TBDSource: The 2023 Winter Gymnasiade was scheduled to host in Erzurum, Turkey during 11–18 February, but after the earthquake near the Syria–Turkey border regions, ISF decided to cancel the event.
Sports: alpine ski, freestyle ski, snowboard cross and freestyle, biathlon, cross country ski, ski jumping, curling, speed skating and hockey. ;Main sports
Source: ;Team Sports ;Individual Sports ‡ No event but recognized in 2017 Not Recognized: Cycling and Petanque in 2018 Games. Past Sports: Floorball, Baseball, Cricket, Triathlon Results2024 U18Source:2025 U15Source:SportsSummer sportsWinter sportsEvents GamesSource:
ISF Combat Games
From August 22–26, 2018, the first ever World Schools Championships in sambo took place in Oryol, Russian Federation. Exclude Sambo and Boxing. Source : ISF Inclusive GamesFirst games in 2019.
World Teacher Games 2025. May 05 - May 10. France. ISF Beach Games2020 Cancelled, 2022 Argentina.ISF She RunsISF Active Girls' Lead1st - 2019 Paris France 2nd - 2021 Brussels Belgium RegionalPan American3rd Pan American Schools Games - Aracaju - Brazil 2017EuropeanFirst European Schools Games Caen, France 2–8 July 1992.Quadrennial event introduced in 1992 to fill the void created by the reduction in frequency of the ISF World Gymnasiade from every 2 to every 4 years. Both the 1996 and 2000 events are believed to have been cancelled. Venues: 1992 Caen, 2004 Milan World School ChampionshipISF International School Sport Federation World School Championship. |