World Transplant Games Federation


The World Transplant Games Federation 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, 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 and its headquarters are located in Winchester.

Presidents

The leading executive officer of the WTGF is called the president; and since formation the following have served in this role:
OrdinalOfficeholderCountryTerm startTerm endTime in officeNotes
1Maurice SlapakEngland years
2Olivier CoustereFrance years-
3Chris ThomasAustraliaApril 2023 years
4Liz SchickSwitzerlandIncumbent-

Members

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60 Nations members in 1 April 2025:
  1. Africa: 4
  2. Asia: 14
  3. Oceania: 2
  4. Americas: 10
  5. Europe: 30

Events

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Journals

Since 2010.

World Cup

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

Calendar

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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

Games

Asian Transplant Games

  1. 2002 Thialand
  2. 2008 Iran

European Transplant Games

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The 15th European Heart & Lung Transplant Championships. 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.
16th European Heart and Lung Transplant Championships in Vantaa.
ETSC 2024 will be held in Lisbon between Sunday 21 July and Sunday 28 July 2024.
  • European Transplant Sport Championships or European Heart and Lung Transplant Sport Championships
  • European Heart and Lung Transplant Federation
  • European Transplant and Dialysis Sports Championships or European Dialysis and Transplant Sports Championships
  • European Transplant and Dialysis Sports Federation
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 Federation]

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  1. 1989
  2. 1990
  3. 1991
  4. 1992
  5. 1994
  6. 1996
  7. 1998
  8. 2000
  9. 2002
  10. 2004
  11. 2006
  12. 2008
  13. 2010
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  15. 2014
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  17. 2018:
  18. 2020: Cancelled
  19. 2022: Cancelled
  20. 2024:

[European Transplant and Dialysis Sports Federation]

2000 - 2020 in Hungary / 2020 - Ongoing in Ireland
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[European Heart and Lung Transplant Championships]

Participants: heart, lung and heart-lung transplant.
Sports: volleyball,badminton,tennis, table tennis, cycling, ten-pin bowling, petanque, swimming, golf, cross-country running and athletics.
Age groups
Previous Games
2024 Lisbon, Portugal
2022 Cancelled
2020 Cancelled
2018 Lignano Sabbiadoro, Italy
2016 Vantaa, Finland
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
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[European Transplant and Dialysis Sports Championships]

Participants: kidney, liver, heart, lung, pancreas, bonemarrow transplant recipients, dialysis patients.
Sports: volleyball, badminton, tennis, table tennis, cycling, petanque, swimming, darts, golf, virtual triathlon, mini-marathon and athletics.
Age groups
Previous Games
2026 Arnhem, Netherlands
2024 Lisbon, Portugal
2022 Oxford, UK
2020 Dublin, Ireland
2018 Cagliari, Italy
2016 Vantaa, Finland
2014 Krakow, Poland
2012 Zagreb, Croatia
2010 Dublin, Ireland
2008 Wurzburg, Germany
2006 Pécs, Hungary
2004 Ljubljana, Slovenia
2002 Balatonaliga, Hungary
2000 Athens, Greece
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MENA Transplant Games

Middle East Transplant Games Federation
MESOT : The Middle East Society for Organ Transplantation
1st Middle East Transplant Games Championship in Kuwait in 2001
14th Congress of the Middle East Society for Organ Transplantation 10–13 September 2014.
  1. 2001 Kuwait
  2. 2007 Kuwait
  3. 2010 Tunisia
  4. 2012 UAE
  5. 2014 Istanbul, Turkey
  6. 2016 Egypt Cancelled
  7. Next TBD

Latin American

11th Argentinean and 6th Latin American Games 2012 250 people from 7 nations
2014 Transplant Games of America inaugural 5K event.

USA

USA Games