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 (ISF). 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.ISF World Gymnasiade. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 28 December 2009
The current regulations estipulate that the program of Gymnasiade is composed of twelve mandatory individual sports with five optional sports (three optional sports, along with two additional, chosen by the organizing committee). 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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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 (FRG). 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.
# Year Host Dates Sports Nations Top nationGymnasiade (Athletics, Swimming, Gymnastics)1 1974 Wiesbaden 23–28 September 2 13 2 1976 Orléans 21–27 June 3 26 3 1978 İzmir 18–24 July 3 17 4 1979 Turin 1–7 June 3 20 5 1982 Lille 1–6 June 3 24 6 1984 Florence 5–9 June 3 19 7 1986 Nice 2–7 June 3 22 8 1988 Barcelona 3–9 June 3 23 9 1990 Bruges 20–27 May 3 30 10 1994 Nicosia 14–21 May 3 26 11 1998 Shanghai 12–19 October 3 33 12 2002 Caen 27 May–3 June 3 35 13 2006 Athens/Thessaloniki 26 June–3 July 3 36 14 2009 Doha 7–12 December 3 39 Gymnasiade (World School Sport Games)15 2013 Brasília 28 November–4 December 8 35 16 2016 Trabzon 11–18 July 12 28 17 2018 Marrakesh 2–9 May 18 58 U18 Gymnasiade (World School Sport Games)18 2022 Normandy 14–22 May 20 69 19 2024 23–31 October 26 71 20 2026 Belém
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.
2013: 2016: 2018: 2022: 2024:
ISF World School Summer Games U15
#YearHostDatesSports1 2021 Belgrade 11–19 September 142 2023 Rio de Janeiro 19–27 August 183 2025 Zlatibor 4–14 April 25
ISF World School Winter Games Ages: 13 to 18
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Year Host Dates 2025 Lucerne 11–19 February (not held)2027 São Roque and Campos do Jordão10–17 July 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.
2018 Trial Edition: 2018 Winter Games was held in 5 to 10 February the city of Grenoble in France. During five days, 500 young athletes coming from 19 countries participated in this multi winter sports event.
Countries: Germany, England, Argentina, France, Hungary, Russia, Republic of Belarus, Austria, Belgium, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Scotland, Chile, Turkey, Spain, Estonia and Ukraine.
Sports: alpine ski, freestyle ski, snowboard cross and freestyle, biathlon, cross country ski, ski jumping (all mentioned events were supported by FIS), curling, speed skating and hockey.
Main sports
Alpine Skiing Biathlon Cross Country Snowboard
Demonstration Sports
Speed Skating Ski Jumping Ice Hockey
Recognized Sports 21 sports in 2015 and 31 in 2017 and 45 sports in 2025.
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Individual Sports
‡ No event but recognized in 2017
Not Recognized: Cycling and Petanque in 2018 Games.
Past Sports: Floorball, Baseball, Cricket, Triathlon
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Sports Summer sports
Winter sports
Events Games Source:
# Events First 1 ISF School U18 Summer Games 19742 ISF School U18 Winter Games 20183 ISF School U15 Summer Games 20214 ISF Combat Games 20175 ISF Inclusive Games 20196 ISF Educational Games 20147 ISF E-Sport Games 20198 ISF World Cool Games 20199 ISF Universal Teacher Games 202110 ISF Beach Games 202211 ISF She Runs 2019
ISF Combat Games 2017 ISF Combat Games consisted of four combat sports: Judo, Karate, Taekwondo and Wrestling. In 2017, 300 athletes from 6 countries (India, China, Russia, Brazil, UAE and France) attended the ISF Combat Games.
ISF Combat Games consist of the following sport disciplines: Judo Karate Taekwondo Wrestling
EditionYearCityCountryDate 1 2017 Agra 7–14 July 2 2019 Budapest 16–20 June
From August 22–26, 2018, the first ever World Schools Championships in sambo took place in Oryol, Russian Federation.
Exclude Sambo and Boxing.
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ISF Inclusive Games
First games in 2019.
2019 Póvoa de Varzim Portugal
ISF Educational Games
1st 2014 in Greece 2nd 2015 in Greece 3rd 2016 in Greece 4th 2017 in Greece 5th 2018 in Greece 6th 2019 in Greece 7th 2020 in Greece
ISF E-Sport Games First games in 2019.
2019 Kiev Ukraine 2020 Kiev Ukraine 2021 Kiev Ukraine 2022 Kiev Ukraine
ISF World Cool Games First games in 2019.
2019 Kiev Ukraine 2020 Kiev Ukraine 2021 Kiev Ukraine
ISF Universal Teacher Games First games in 2021.
World Teacher Games 2025. May 5 - May 10. France.
ISF Beach Games 2020 Cancelled, 2022 Argentina.
ISF She Runs ISF Active Girls' Lead
1st - 2019 Paris France
2nd - 2021 Brussels Belgium
Regional Pan American 3rd Pan American Schools Games - Aracaju - Brazil 2017
European First 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 (FRA), 2004 Milan (ITA)
World School Championship ISF International School Sport Federation World School Championship.
See also FINA Youth World Swimming Championships Junior World Gymnastics Championships SELL Student Games Universiade Youth Olympic Games World Youth Championships in Athletics
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