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The Gateball joins the worldwide sports festival in Taiwan.
Gateball Demonstrative Event of
"World Games 2009 Kaohsiung" is held.

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The 8th World Games 2009 was held in Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
The World Games is an international multi-sporting event of non-Olympic sports.
At the same time Gateball Demonstrative Event was held as a commemorative event.
The GB Tournament was held on July 18-19 at Kaohsiung City Gateball Stadium.
Having participated is Japan, China, Korea, Macao China, Singapore, India and Chinese Taipei. 130 teams, 800 players.
The games were "3 persons Game" and "5 persons game".
It was a new style games.
The court condition was a little bit bad because of rain the day before.
However, all games were exciting.
As a result, the winner was China's team.
The 2nd and 3rd places were Chinese Taipei's teams.
 
Opening Ceremony
About 80,000 spectators in the opening ceremony
About 80,000 spectators in the opening ceremony


Address of Opening ceremony by Ma Ying-jeou, the President of the Republic of ChinaAddress of Opening ceremony by Ma Ying-jeou, the President of the Republic of China   Dignitary address (from right)
 KOC President, Chu Chen
IOC Vice-President, Chiharu Igaya
IWGA President, Ron Froehlich

Introduced the President Ma Ying-jeou on a big screen Introduced the President Ma Ying-jeou on a big screen    

Every player wore a special order number in Three-person Game.@ Every player wore a special order number in Three-person Game.    Chinese Taipei's players oath Chinese Taipei's players oath

Address of opening ceremony of GB tournament by Kiyoko Ono, Chairperson of WGU Address of opening ceremony of GB tournament by Kiyoko Ono, Chairperson of WGU   Japan's teamsJapan's teams

The team representatives of seven counties and regions participated in. The team representatives of seven counties and regions participated in.
  Ms. Ono and Wang Jin-Pyng(center),the new President(CHINESE TAIPEI GATEBALL ASSOCIATION)Ms. Ono and Wang Jin-Pyng(center),the new President(CHINESE TAIPEI GATEBALL ASSOCIATION)


The popular appeal of Gateball to the world.

A Commemorative part was held on July 15 in Kaohsiung.
The president of International World Games Association and the members of the Chinese Taipei Olympic committee, and a lot of people related to sports were invited to this commemorative party.
Chairperson Kiyoko Ono met a lot of persons concerned, and appealed to the world for the Gateball.


Japanese traditional dance and music were introduced as welcome show.

Japanese traditional dance and music were introduced as welcome show.

 

IWGA President, Ron Froehlich and WGU Chairperson, Kiyoko Ono