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All-time World Games medal table
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This is the all-time medal table of the World Games as of the 2025 edition. In the history of the games, Russia (2001, 2005, 2009 and 2017) has led the total medal count four times, and Italy (1985, 1989 and 2013) three times. The United States have claimed that honor twice (1981 and 1997), while Germany (West Germany in the first three editions) led the overall count in 1993. China led in 2025.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7] Ranked by gold, then silver, then bronze:
- The Soviet Union, which amassed 36 total medals in 1989, is counted separately from its successor states, including Russia. This is consistent with the separate counting of medals for other states that sub-divided into their constituent successor states following their initial participation in the World Games. These include Czechoslovakia (Czech Republic and Slovakia) and FR Yugoslavia (2001)/SUSM (2005) (Serbia and Montenegro).
- In 2009, Ukraine was stripped of two gold medals in bodybuilding for doping, and Qatar and Brazil were each stripped of a silver medal. This table does not include those stripped medals, and neither does it include possible reallocation of those medals, as the results at the World Games website do not reflect a reallocation.[3]
- The 1981 mixed badminton title was won by a pair of players from Sweden and Great Britain. Both nations are counted as having won a gold medal.
- Athletes from Russia and Belarus competed at the 2025 World Games as independents.
- IWGA source mistakenly attributed Liem Swie King who won a bronze medal from 1981 World Games as an athlete from India instead of Indonesia. This medal table reflects the correct count.
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