The Cayman Islands first competed at the Olympic Games in 1976 , and has participated in each Summer Games since then, missing only the 1980 Summer Olympics by participating in the American-led boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics . The Cayman Islands have yet to win any Olympic medals.
15-762: The Island Games (currently known as the NatWest International Island Games for sponsorship reasons) are biennial international multi-sports events organised by the International Island Games Association (IIGA). Competitor teams each represent different island communities (with one team from the peninsula of Gibraltar ) which are IIGA members. Currently, all competitor teams represent non-sovereign territories of European nations—some within European waters and some further overseas. The most recent edition
30-716: A bid for the 2021 Games following the Faroe Islands' withdrawal from hosting. The bid was approved in July 2016. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic , the 2021 Games were cancelled and rescheduled for 2023 with Guernsey still as hosts, with future hosts pushed out by two years as well. Orkney will host the 2025 Games. They were awarded the right to host on 7 July 2018 at the AGM in Gibraltar. The Isle of Man made an official bid to host
45-407: A far cry from the current games, which now use synthetic tracks in stadiums capable of holding thousands of spectators. The Games of 1985 were so successful that organisers decided to hold a similar event two years later. The Games have grown from strength to strength, with limits now in place for the number of teams, and the number of sports at each Games, currently 12 to 14. Sark could be considered
60-541: Is the only member of the IIGA that is not an island or group of islands, as it is a peninsula of Iberia , sharing a land border with Spain . Ynys Môn (Anglesey), Frøya and Hitra have bridge or tunnel connections to their mainlands. Greenland is by far the largest island, and is magnitudes bigger than all the rest combined, but is very sparsely populated. Former members of the IIGA include the countries Iceland and Malta , Canada's island province Prince Edward Island , and
75-571: The Rhodes island of Greece . The IIGA constitution lists the criteria which apply to new applicants. These limit applications to island territories with populations less than 125,000. There must be a local association of governing bodies of at least two sports in the IIGA program at which the island can "adequately" compete. Membership is limited to 25. Cayman Islands at the Olympics After Jamaican independence in 1962,
90-532: The Cayman Islands became a separate British Overseas Territory . The Cayman Islands Olympic Committee was formed in 1973 and recognized in 1976. The Cayman Islands made its Winter Olympic Games début at the 2010 Winter Olympics . This article about sports in Cayman Islands is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article summarising a nation's participation in
105-840: The IIGA and so cannot compete at the Island Games. Of the 24 current IIGA members, two ( Bermuda and the Cayman Islands ) have competed in their own right at the Olympic Games . Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, the Falkland Islands, Gibraltar, Guernsey, the Isle of Man, Jersey and St. Helena have each sent teams to the Commonwealth Games . Islanders who have gone on to participate in Olympic Games events include: The host country chooses between 12 and 14 different sports for their games from this list: Notably,
120-581: The Island Games in 2029 in July 2023. In August 2018 it was reported that the Falkland Islands are considering hosting the Games in 2033. In December 2023 it was announced that the Faroe Islands would replace Ynys Môn as the hosts of the 2027 games due to funding having been directed to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Faroe Islands, who had submitted a bid for the 2031 games, expressed a desire to host
135-503: The Island Games' football tournament is one of the most well-established tournaments of non-FIFA international football . International Island Games Association The International Island Games Association ( IIGA ) is the organising body for the Island Games , a friendly biennial multi-sport competition between teams from several European islands and other small territories (24 members from 8 nations). The IIGA liaises with
150-616: The first Games Director, not only contacted the islands surrounding the United Kingdom , but also encouraged the countries of Iceland and Malta , the territories of Faroe Islands , Greenland , Saint Helena , the Channel Islands and others to participate. Initially, fifteen islands with 600 competitors and officials took part in seven sports, with the total cost of staging the Games being put at £ 70,000. The track and field events were held on an eight-lane grass track,
165-438: The games early, having previously guaranteed funding towards the games in 2018, and were selected as a replacement for Ynys Môn. A total of 28 islands, island groups or territories have participated in the Island Games; eleven of these have participated in every Island Games. Every island has won at least 4 medals with Alderney the only island awaiting their first Gold. Islands marked in grey are no longer members of
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#1732772297471180-438: The last tournament they would be sponsoring. At the time the replacement sponsor had not been confirmed. A traditional symbol of the games was started in 1991 when Åland asked all teams to bring some water from their islands, which was then mixed in a fountain. All future games has water from the previous fountain added to water from each island competing in the new games, creating a symbol of "mixing together". Guernsey put in
195-472: The member island associations and with sponsors of the games. It investigates whether islands wanting to join fit the membership criteria. The IIGA was founded in the Isle of Man in 1985. Constituents come from islands in, or associated with, eight sovereign states ( Denmark , Estonia , Finland , Malta , Norway , Spain , Sweden , and the United Kingdom ). The 24 current members of the IIGA are: Gibraltar
210-478: The most successful island, their population of 600 having acquired 20 medals by 2015, one for every 30 people. NatWest International has been the main sponsor of the Games since 1999. In April 2018, they signed a deal extending their sponsorship until at least 2021. In 2020, Natwest International confirmed the Guernsey games, originally scheduled for 2021, but delayed to 2023, due to the COVID-19 pandemic would be
225-523: Was the 2023 , which took place in Guernsey with around 2,200 competitors from 24 islands or island groups participating in 14 sports. The next games will be hosted by Orkney in 2025 . The Island Games began in 1985 as the Inter-Island Games , as part of the Isle of Man International Year of Sport, and were intended to be a one-off sporting celebration only. Geoffrey Corlett, who became
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