2021 Islamic Solidarity Games

‌The 2021 Islamic Solidarity Games (Turkish: 2021 İslami Dayanışma Oyunları) were the 5th edition of the event held from 9 to 18 August 2022 at Konya, Turkey under the aegis of Islamic Solidarity Sports Federation (ISSF). It was the first time in history that the event was organised by the Turkish Olympic Committee.

5th Islamic Solidarity Games

Host city	Konya
Country	Turkey
Nations	55
Athletes	4200
Events	380 in 19 Sports
Opening	9 August 2022
Closing	18 August 2022
Opened by	President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
Athlete's Oath	Öznur Cüre
Judge's Oath	Serkan Karademir
Main venue	Konya Metropolitan Stadium
Website	konya2021.com
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Formerly scheduled to take place from 20 to 29 August 2021, the event was postponed to be held from 10 to 19 September 2021 in July 2020 by the ISSF because the original dates were coinciding with the 2020 Summer Olympics, which were postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.^[1][2][3] In May 2021, the ISSF postponed the event to August 2022 citing the COVID-19 pandemic situation in the participating countries.^[4]

Bidding

On 22 / 23 December 2016, the Turkish Olympic Committee submitted its bid for 2021 Islamic Solidarity Games during a Coordination Meeting with Islamic Solidarity Sports Federation held at the country.^[5]

On 13 April 2017, Istanbul was awarded the event during the 25th ISSF Executive Board meeting held at Baku, Azerbaijan.^[6] In December 2019, Turkey requested to change the host city from Istanbul to Konya, which was subsequently approved by the ISSF. The host city contract was signed in a meeting on 19 December 2019 in Ankara, Turkey.^[7]

Venues

Venue Name	Sports
19 May Sports Hall	Taekwondo, Fencing
Cumhuriyet Football Field	Football
Karatay Congress and Sport Center	Volleyball, Basketball, 3×3 Karate
Konya Metropolitan Municipality Stadium	Football, Ceremonies
Konya Olympic Swimming Pool	Swimming, Para Swimming
Konya Athletic Field	Athletics, Para Athletics
Konya Technical University Sports Hall	Judo, Wrestling
Konya Velodrome	Artistic Gymnastics, Rhythmic Gymnastics, Cycling Track
Selcuk University 15 July Stadium	Football
Selçuklu Municipality International Sports Hall	Handball, Kickboxing
Saraçoğlu Sport Complex	Shooting, Para Shooting, Archery, Para Archery, Traditional Turkish Archery
TÜYAP Konya International Fair Center	Table Tennis, Para Table Teniis, Weightlifting, Bocce

Sports

In October 2019, Organizing Committee in cooperation with Islamic Solidarity Sports Federation (ISSF) announced following 24 disciplines from 21 sports to be contested in this edition of Islamic Solidarity Games. Some sports also included their paralympic counterpart as athletics, judo, swimming and weightlifting.^[8] In March 2022, the final program was announced with 22 disciplines from 19 sports including 4 para sports. In relation with the program from 5 years early, the organizers choose to remove 6 sports: water polo, diving, field hockey, tennis, wushu and zurkhaneh. At their place they choose to add archery, boccia, fencing and kickboxing. At the paralympic events parapowerlifiting and blind judo was dropped and their place was added para table tennis and para archery. Along this events, in archery was included 4 extra events with the Traditional Turkish Archery discipline.^[9]

2021 Islamic Solidarity Games sports programme

Aquatics  Swimming (details) (61)  Archery (details) (25)  Athletics (details) (43)  3x3 basketball (details) (2)  Bocce (details) (10)  Cycling (details) (12) Track cycling (8) Road cycling (4)  Fencing (details) (12)  Football (details) (1)  Gymnastics (details) Aerobic gymnastics (5) Artistic gymnastics (14) Rhythmic gymnastics (8)  Handball (details) (2)  Judo (details) (16)  Karate (details) (14)  Kickboxing (details) (31)  Shooting (details) (6)  Table tennis (details) (11)  Taekwondo (details) (16)  Volleyball (details) (2)  Weightlifting (details) (60)  Wrestling (details) (30)

Schedule

The Games were originally scheduled to take place from 20 to 29 August 2021 in Konya, Turkey.^[7] In May 2020, the Islamic Solidarity Sports Federation (ISSF), who are responsible for the direction and control of the Islamic Solidarity Games, postponed the games as the 2020 Summer Olympics were postponed to July and August 2021, due to the global COVID-19 pandemic.^[10][11]

OC

Opening ceremony

●

Event competitions

1

Event finals

CC

Closing ceremony

August	5 Fri	6 Sat	7 Sun	8 Mon	9 Tue	10 Wed	11 Thu	12 Fri	13 Sat	14 Sun	15 Mon	16 Tue	17 Wed	18 Thu	Events
Ceremonies					OC									CC
Archery								5	6		2	2	6	4	25
Athletics				6	8	8	11	9							43
3x3 basketball									●	●	●	●	2		2
Bocce					●	●	●	10							10
Cycling	2	2	2	2			2		2						12
Fencing										2	3	3	4		12
Football				●		●		●		●		1			1
Gymnastics					●	2	6		●	8			2	4	27
Handball			●	●	●	●	●	●	●	2					2
Judo											7	7	2		16
Karate													7	7	14
Kickboxing												4	10	17	31
Shooting					●	●	2	1	●	●	2	1			6
Swimming			5	4	4	4	4		7	8	8	9	8		61
Table tennis			●	2	●	●	2		●	4	3				11
Taekwondo					4	4	4	4							16
Volleyball				●	●	●	●	●	●	●	2				2
Weightlifting							9	12	9	15	15				60
Wrestling						7	8	8	7						30
Daily medal events	2	2	7	14	16	25	48	49	25	39	42	27	41	32	381
Cumulative total	2	4	11	25	41	66	114	163	188	227	269	296	337
August 2022	5 Fri	6 Sat	7 Sun	8 Mon	9 Tue	10 Wed	11 Thu	12 Fri	13 Sat	14 Sun	15 Mon	16 Tue	17 Wed	18 Thu	Total events

Source:^[12]

Participating nations

It is expected that the 55 members of the Islamic Solidarity Sports Federation will present at the Games. In May 2022, Egypt announced it will not send athletes.^[13] In July 2022, Iraq withdrew from participation.

Below is a list of all the participating NOCs; the number of competitors per delegation is indicated in brackets.

Participating National Committees

Afghanistan (48)  Albania (16)  Algeria (127)  Azerbaijan (275)  Bahrain (49)  Bangladesh (42)  Benin (5)  Brunei (10)  Burkina Faso (7)  Cameroon (139)  Chad (43)  Comoros (9)  Djibouti (19)  Gabon (15)  The Gambia (25)  Guinea (15)  Guinea-Bissau (10)  Guyana (18)  Indonesia (82)  Iran (253)  Ivory Coast (10)  Jordan (58)  Kazakhstan (125)  Kuwait (61)  Kyrgyzstan (112)  Lebanon (34)  Libya (3)  Malaysia (56)  Maldives (36)  Mali (17)  Mauritania (13)  Morocco (185)  Mozambique (11)  Niger (11)  Nigeria (12)  Oman (30)  Pakistan (114)  Palestine (32)  Qatar (125)  Saudi Arabia (134)  Senegal (128)  Sierra Leone (23)  Somalia (4)  Sudan (67)  Suriname (12)  Syria (1)  Tajikistan (61)  Togo (9)  Tunisia (20)  Turkey (462) (host)  Turkmenistan (103)  Uganda (42)  United Arab Emirates (57)  Uzbekistan (265)  Yemen (25)

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Turkey)

2021 Islamic Solidarity Games medal table^[14]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Turkey (TUR)*	145	107	89	341
2	Uzbekistan (UZB)	51	42	65	158
3	Iran (IRI)	39	44	50	133
4	Azerbaijan (AZE)	29	36	34	99
5	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	27	23	39	89
6	Morocco (MAR)	15	13	34	62
7	Indonesia (INA)	13	14	29	56
8	Bahrain (BHR)	9	7	7	23
9	Kyrgyzstan (KGZ)	8	8	15	31
10	Algeria (ALG)	7	12	23	42
11	Kuwait (KUW)	5	9	2	16
12	Turkmenistan (TKM)	4	6	13	23
13	Qatar (QAT)	4	3	5	12
14	United Arab Emirates (UAE)	3	2	5	10
15	Saudi Arabia (KSA)	2	12	10	24
16	Cameroon (CMR)	2	6	5	13
17	Uganda (UGA)	2	5	2	9
18	Jordan (JOR)	2	4	6	12
19	Malaysia (MAS)	2	1	4	7
20	The Gambia (GAM)	2	0	0	2
21	Nigeria (NGR)	1	3	1	5
22	Senegal (SEN)	1	1	5	7
23	Ivory Coast (CIV)	1	1	3	5
24	Oman (OMN)	1	1	2	4
25	Libya (LBA)	1	0	3	4
26	Burkina Faso (BUR)	1	0	1	2
	Niger (NIG)	1	0	1	2
28	Pakistan (PAK)	1	0	0	1
29	Tajikistan (TJK)	0	3	5	8
30	Sudan (SUD)	0	2	1	3
31	Tunisia (TUN)	0	1	6	7
32	Lebanon (LBN)	0	1	3	4
33	Bangladesh (BAN)	0	1	2	3
	Palestine (PLE)	0	1	2	3
35	Djibouti (DJI)	0	1	1	2
36	Albania (ALB)	0	1	0	1
	Guinea (GUI)	0	1	0	1
	Mali (MLI)	0	1	0	1
	Togo (TOG)	0	1	0	1
40	Yemen (YEM)	0	0	2	2
41	Benin (BEN)	0	0	1	1
	Guinea-Bissau (GBS)	0	0	1	1
	Maldives (MDV)	0	0	1	1
	Sierra Leone (SLE)	0	0	1	1
Totals (44 entries)		379	374	479	1,232

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