XXIV Summer Deaflympics

Host city	Caxias do Sul,Brazil
Motto	Sport comes from our hearts (Portuguese:O esporte vem dos nossos corações)
Nations	72
Athletes	2466
Events	219 in 18 sports
Opening	1 May 2022
Closing	15 May 2022
Opened by	First LadyMichelle Bolsonaro
Main venue	Festa da Uva Main Paviliion
Website	website
Summer
← Samsun 2017 Tokyo 2025 →
Winter
← Sondrio Province 2019 Ankara-Erzurum 2023 →

The2021 SummerDeaflympics, officially known as the24th Summer Deaflympics or XXIV Summer Deaflympics, and commonly known asCaxias Do Sul 2021, was an internationalmulti-sport event held from 1 to 15 May 2022 in Brazil. The main host city wasCaxias do Sul,Brazil, originally scheduled for December 2021 but postponed until May 2022 due to theCOVID-19 pandemic.^[1][2] In addition to Caxias, there were events scheduled for the neighboring cities ofFarroupilha andFlores da Cunha. In April 2022, CISS has announced that due to theRussian invasion of Ukraine,Russian andBelarusian athletes were barred from competing in Caxias do Sul, and in the same press release it was also announced that the bowling tournament was scheduled to be held inKuala Lumpur,Malaysia, during October 2022.^[3]

This is also the first time since the2007 Winter Deaflympics, held inSalt Lake City, for the event to be held in the CISS Americas Region, and the third time for the Games to be held in theSouthern Hemisphere as the1989 games were held in Christchurch in New Zealand and2005 games Melbourne in Australia.

Due to the lack of interested parties, the process of choosing the venue for the Deaflympics was postponed several times, until the Brazilian Confederation of Sports for the Deaf presented an emergency proposal to host the next edition of the Summer Games. Accepted as host country for the 2021 Games at a meeting of theInternational Committee of Sports for the Deaf on 26 February 2020Caxias do Sul inRio Grande do Sul,was proposed as host city and the games were scheduled to take place from 5 to 21 December 2021 during the late spring and early summer at the host city. As a consequence of the postponement of the2020 Summer Olympics to 2021, it was announced in January 2021 as a result of theCOVID-19 pandemic the 2021 Summer Deaflympics was rescheduled to May 2022. This is also the first such instance in the history of the Deaflympics (the2011 Winter Games had been canceled in late 2010).^[1][2]

• Caxias do Sul, Brazil - Only bidder (replaced Tokyo)

Originally, the program for this edition would consist of 221 finals in 18 sports. However, due to problems with the available infrastructure and the low number of participants, the bowling events had to be removed from Caxias do Sul and was later relocated to Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia and will be held on 20–30 October 2022. Thus, the program will consist of 216 events in 18 sports. Medals disputed in Malaysia will later be added to the medal table and their results and the number of athletes will be added later to official statistics. New events were added in athletics, karate, orienteering, shooting, and swimming, whereas the number of events in bowling, judo, and taekwondo has been reduced. This will also be the first time since the2001 Summer Deaflympics that a women's handball tournament will be held.^[4][5]

Bowling was held between on 21–30 October 2022 inKuala Lumpur.^[6][7][8]

•  Bowling (details) (6)

In the following calendar for the events held in Caxias do Sul, each blue box represents an event competition. The yellow boxes represent days during which medal-awarding finals for a sport are held. The number in each yellow box represents the number of finals that are contested on that day.^[9] This schedule doesn´t include the bowling events.

April\May	30th Sat	1st Sun	2nd Mon	3rd Tue	4th Wed	5th Thu	6th Fri	7th Sat	8th Sun	9th Mon	10st Tue	11th Wed	12th Thu	13th Fri	14th Sat	15th Sun	Events
Ceremonies		OC														CC	—
Athletics								1	8	6	8		2	8	9	2	10
Badminton			●	●	1		●	●	●	●	●	5					6
Basketball			●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●		●	●	2			2
Beach volleyball				●	●	●	●	●	●	●		●	2				2
Cycling			2		2		2		2		2						10
Football	●		●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	1	1		10
Golf								●	●	●	●	2					10
Handball			●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	2		2
Judo				6	6	2											14
Karate			6	7	3												16
Orienteering							2	2	1		2		2		2		2
Shooting			●	1	1	1	1		1	2	2	2	2				13
Swimming			5	5	6	5	5	6	5	6							38
Table tennis						●	1		1	●	●	2					4
Taekwondo							3	4	4								10
Tennis				●	●	●	●	●		●	●	2	2	1			5
Volleyball					●	●	●	●	●		●	●	●	2			2
Wrestling											●	8		●	8		16
Daily medal events			13	19	19	8	13	13	22	16	24	13	10	22	22	2	214
Cumulative total			13	32	51	59	72	85	107	129	145	158	168	190	212	214	214
April\May	30th Sat	1st Sun	2nd Mon	3rd Tue	4th Wed	5th Thu	6th Fri	7th Sat	8th Sun	9th Mon	10st Tue	11th Wed	12th Thu	13th Fri	14th Sat	15th Sun	Events

Belarusian andRussian will not compete at the event after a ban as a result of theRussian invasion of Ukraine.Great Britain andChina also withdrew from the competition because of the worsening conditions related to theCOVID-19 pandemic at the country.

72 National Deaf Sports Federations sent their delegations to Caxias do Sul and Kuala Lumpur:^[5]

Source:^[10]

  *   Host nation (Brazil)

2021 Summer Deaflympics medal table

Rank	NDSC	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Ukraine (UKR)	64	39	42	145
2	United States (USA)	20	11	24	55
3	South Korea (KOR)	17	20	21	58
4	Iran (IRI)	14	12	14	40
5	Japan (JPN)	12	8	10	30
6	Poland (POL)	8	22	12	42
7	Turkey (TUR)	8	19	17	44
8	France (FRA)	8	3	5	16
9	India (IND)	8	1	8	17
10	Germany (GER)	5	8	6	19
11	Kenya (KEN)	5	7	12	24
12	Italy (ITA)	4	11	8	23
13	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	4	7	18	29
14	Czech Republic (CZE)	4	1	3	8
15	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	3	13	14	30
16	Croatia (CRO)	3	1	0	4
17	Lithuania (LTU)	2	5	3	10
18	Malaysia (MAS)	2	4	1	7
19	Venezuela (VEN)	2	3	12	17
20	Latvia (LAT)	2	2	1	5
21	Slovakia (SVK)	2	1	2	5
22	Cuba (CUB)	2	1	0	3
	Mexico (MEX)	2	1	0	3
24	Portugal (POR)	2	0	2	4
	Slovenia (SLO)	2	0	2	4
26	Finland (FIN)	2	0	0	2
27	Greece (GRE)	1	2	6	9
28	Colombia (COL)	1	2	1	4
29	Algeria (ALG)	1	1	3	5
30	Singapore (SGP)	1	1	1	3
31	Dominican Republic (DOM)	1	1	0	2
32	Estonia (EST)	1	0	2	3
33	Denmark (DEN)	1	0	1	2
	Mongolia (MGL)	1	0	1	2
	Netherlands (NED)	1	0	1	2
	United Arab Emirates (UAE)	1	0	1	2
37	Chile (CHI)	1	0	0	1
	Ecuador (ECU)	1	0	0	1
39	Hungary (HUN)	0	4	4	8
40	Kyrgyzstan (KGZ)	0	2	4	6
41	Spain (ESP)	0	2	1	3
42	Argentina (ARG)	0	1	2	3
	Bulgaria (BUL)	0	1	2	3
44	Austria (AUT)	0	1	1	2
45	Canada (CAN)	0	1	0	1
46	Brazil (BRA)*	0	0	6	6
47	Armenia (ARM)	0	0	5	5
48	Uzbekistan (UZB)	0	0	3	3
49	Saudi Arabia (KSA)	0	0	2	2
50	Israel (ISR)	0	0	1	1
	Serbia (SRB)	0	0	1	1
	Sweden (SWE)	0	0	1	1
	Thailand (THA)	0	0	1	1
Totals (53 entries)		219	219	288	726

On 30 March 2022:^[11]

A: Brazil / Greece / Italy / Poland

B: United States / Turkey / Lithuania / Kenya / Ukraine

A: Kenya / United States / Argentina / Poland / Israel

B: Greece / Venezuela / Lithuania / Brazil / Ukraine /Chinese Taipei

A: Brazil / Japan / United States / Poland / Kenya

A: Argentina / Ukraine / Egypt / France / South Korea

B: Brazil / Italy / Cameroon / Iran / Netherlands

C: Turkey / United States / Iraq / Germany / Mali

D: Poland / Greece / Mexico / Senegal / Uzbekistan

A: Brazil / Argentina / Turkey / Denmark / Kenya

A: Brazil / Serbia / Germany / Kenya

B: Croatia / Denmark / Turkey / Ghana

A: Brazil / Ukraine / Japan / Mexico

B: United States / Poland / Turkey / Italy

A: Brazil / France / Italy / Mexico / Venezuela

B: Ukraine / Poland / Turkey / Japan / Ghana

A: Ukraine 1 / Ukraine 2 / Canada / Czech Republic / Lithuania

A: Brazil / Austria / Finland / Ghana 1

B: Germany 2 / Iran / Estonia / Japan 1

C: Ghana 2 / Czech Republic 1 / Germany 1 / Ukraine 1 / Canada

D: Czech Republic 2 / Italy / Ukraine 2 / Japan 2

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