All-time World Games medal table

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:

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Italy[a][b]	179	195	171	545
2	Germany[c]	176	133	170	479
3	United States[d]	172	147	125	444
4	Russia[e]	136	111	72	319
5	France	125	127	137	389
6	China	114	76	40	230
7	Ukraine[f]	74	73	68	215
8	Japan	72	61	70	203
9	Great Britain[d][g]	69	67	99	235
10	Spain	55	51	62	168
11	Sweden[g]	50	47	59	156
12	Netherlands	47	50	60	157
13	Belgium	47	47	52	146
14	South Korea	47	26	37	110
15	Colombia	45	58	38	141
16	Hungary[h]	38	29	37	104
17	Australia	37	56	53	146
18	Chinese Taipei	37	45	41	123
19	Switzerland	32	39	22	93
20	Canada	29	33	48	110
21	Denmark	28	15	17	60
22	Poland	24	26	32	82
23	Brazil[f]	19	14	21	54
24	Austria	18	26	22	66
25	Norway	17	20	36	73
26	Mexico	16	15	20	51
27	Soviet Union[e]	15	13	8	36
28	Bulgaria	15	6	14	35
29	Czech Republic	14	21	24	59
30	New Zealand	14	17	14	45
31	Belarus	14	8	27	49
32	Israel	13	7	15	35
33	Finland[i]	12	25	24	61
34	Thailand	12	17	15	44
35	Egypt	9	16	23	48
36	Portugal	9	11	16	36
37	Indonesia	9	8	8	25
38	Kazakhstan	8	9	10	27
39	South Africa	7	14	18	39
40	Slovenia	7	14	14	35
41	Argentina	7	11	19	37
42	Slovakia	7	9	12	28
43	Croatia	6	11	11	28
44	Greece	6	11	9	26
45	Venezuela	5	10	13	28
46	Iran[i]	5	10	7	22
47	Romania	5	10	5	20
–	Individual Neutral Athletes[j]	5	6	5	16
48	Malaysia	5	3	7	15
49	Vietnam	5	3	1	9
50	Moldova	5	0	0	5
51	Turkey	4	7	12	23
52	Chile	4	7	7	18
53	Mongolia[k]	4	7	4	15
54	Lithuania	4	5	9	18
55	Uzbekistan	4	5	7	16
56	Hong Kong	4	5	6	15
57	United Arab Emirates	4	4	8	16
58	Serbia	4	2	3	9
59	Azerbaijan	3	7	3	13
60	Estonia	3	5	2	10
61	Morocco	3	4	6	13
62	Ireland	3	4	5	12
63	Fiji	3	0	0	3
64	Philippines	2	7	7	16
65	Ecuador	2	4	6	12
66	Singapore	2	3	5	10
67	Bosnia and Herzegovina	2	1	3	6
68	Algeria	2	1	0	3
69	El Salvador	2	0	1	3
	Tunisia	2	0	1	3
71	Cambodia	2	0	0	2
72	Jordan	1	3	3	7
	Luxembourg	1	3	3	7
74	U.S. Virgin Islands	1	3	1	5
75	India[l]	1	2	5	8
76	Peru	1	2	4	7
77	Guatemala	1	2	2	5
78	Qatar[f]	1	2	1	4
79	Brunei	1	2	0	3
80	Paraguay	1	1	0	2
81	Bolivia	1	0	1	2
	Georgia	1	0	1	2
	Saudi Arabia	1	0	1	2
84	Armenia	1	0	0	1
	Benin	1	0	0	1
	Costa Rica	1	0	0	1
87	Czechoslovakia	0	3	0	3
88	Bahrain	0	2	1	3
89	Kyrgyzstan	0	1	4	5
90	Ivory Coast	0	1	3	4
91	Dominican Republic	0	1	1	2
	Latvia	0	1	1	2
	Madagascar	0	1	1	2
94	Cuba	0	1	0	1
	Cyprus	0	1	0	1
	Lebanon	0	1	0	1
	Liechtenstein	0	1	0	1
	San Marino	0	1	0	1
99	Montenegro	0	0	4	4
100	Jamaica	0	0	2	2
101	Bahamas	0	0	1	1
	Cameroon	0	0	1	1
	Kuwait	0	0	1	1
	Monaco	0	0	1	1
	Namibia	0	0	1	1
	Nigeria	0	0	1	1
	Pakistan	0	0	1	1
	Panama	0	0	1	1
	Yugoslavia	0	0	1	1
Totals (109 entries)		2,000	1,970	2,071	6,041

1. The results from the 2001 World Games are from the archived website of the Akita, Japan, organizing committee.^{[2][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20]}
2. Italy was stripped of a gold medal in women's muaythai and a bronze medal in women's powerlifting for doping at the 2022 World Games. This table reflects the reallocation of medals for those events.^[21]
3. In 2017, Germany was stripped of a gold medal in women's bowling for doping. This table reflects the reallocation of medals for that event.^[22]
4. The 1997 bronze medalists in aerobics mixed pair were from Great Britain, not United States as stated in IWGA source.^[23]
5. 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).
6. 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]
7. 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.
8. In 2009 and 2013, Hungary was stripped of a gold medal and a silver medal, respectively, in sumo for doping. This table reflects the reallocation of medals for these two events.^[3][4][5]
9. The 1993 bronze medalist in men's 75kg karate kumite was from Iran, not Finland as stated in IWGA source.^[24]
10. Athletes from Russia and Belarus competed at the 2025 World Games as independents.
11. In 2013, Hungary was stripped of a silver medal in men's middleweight sumo due to doping. Mongolia was elevated to bronze due to medal reallocation. This table reflects the reallocation which is not counted in IWGA source.^[5]
12. 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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