The World Transplant Games Federation (abbreviated as WTGF) is a United Kingdom-based non-profit organisation that aims to promote amateur sport amongst organ transplant recipients, living donors and donor families. The WTGF promotes the study of transplantation and aims to educate the public and raise awareness of the world shortage of donor organs. It shares new knowledge from biological/clinical studies and promotes the mental and moral improvement for recipients, living donors and donor families; and fosters international friendship and relations.
Established in 1978, the WTGF was formally incorporated in 2017 and is responsible for the organisation of World Transplant Games events, including the Summer Transplant Games and the Winter Transplant Games, both held every two years, on alternate years.
The WTGF is affiliated with the International Olympic Committee (2013 and 2021) and its headquarters are located in Winchester.
The leading executive officer of the WTGF is called the president; and since formation the following have served in this role:
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60 Nations members in 1 April 2025:
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Since 2010.
1st Football World Cup was held in Italy in 2024 in men football and Chile was Champion.
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European Heart and Lung Transplant Championships 2022 / 6âÂÂ11 June 2022 / Belgium
European Transplant and Dialysis Sports Games 2022 / 21âÂÂ28 August 2022 / Oxford, UK
Transplant Games of America / 29 July - 3 August 2022 / USA (San Diego)
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The 15th European Heart & Lung Transplant Championships (12-17 July 2014). Vilnius Lithuania 15 countries participating - Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark,Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden and Switzerland.
16th European Heart and Lung Transplant Championships in Vantaa.
ETSC 2024 will be held in Lisbon between Sunday 21 July and Sunday 28 July 2024.
Lisbon for the first time in history (after 2016), the two Federations unite together in holding the 2024 European Transplant Sport Championships.
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2000 - 2020 in Hungary / 2020 - Ongoing in Ireland
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Participants: heart, lung and heart-lung transplant.
Sports: volleyball,badminton,tennis, table tennis, cycling, ten-pin bowling, petanque, swimming, golf, cross-country running and athletics.
Age groups (5âÂÂ17, 18âÂÂ34, 35âÂÂ44, 45âÂÂ54, 55âÂÂ59, 60âÂÂ64, 65âÂÂ69, 70+)
Previous Games
2024 Lisbon, Portugal 2022 Cancelled 2020 Cancelled 2018 Lignano Sabbiadoro, Italy 2016 Vantaa, Finland 2014 Vilnus, Lithuania 2012 Apeldoorn, Netherlands 2010 Växjö, Sweden 2008 Vichy, France 2006 Napol, Italy 2004 Dublin, Ireland 2002 Klagenfurt, Austria 2000 Sandefjord, Norway 1998 Bad Oeynhausen, Germany 1996 Lausanne, Switzerland 1994 Espoo, Finland 1992 Enschene, Netherlands 1991 London, Great Britain 1990 Paris, France 1989 Gorssel, Netherlands
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Participants: kidney, liver, heart, lung, pancreas, bonemarrow transplant recipients, dialysis patients.
Sports: volleyball, badminton, tennis, table tennis, cycling, petanque, swimming, darts, golf, virtual triathlon, mini-marathon and athletics.
Age groups (5âÂÂ17, 18âÂÂ34, 35âÂÂ44, 45âÂÂ54, 55âÂÂ59, 60âÂÂ64, 65âÂÂ69, 70+)
Previous Games
2026 Arnhem, Netherlands 2024 Lisbon, Portugal 2022 Oxford, UK 2020 Dublin, Ireland 2018 Cagliari, Italy 2016 Vantaa, Finland 2014 Krakow, Poland 2012 Zagreb, Croatia 2010 Dublin, Ireland 2008 Wurzburg, Germany 2006 Pécs, Hungary 2004 Ljubljana, Slovenia 2002 Balatonaliga, Hungary 2000 Athens, Greece
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Middle East Transplant Games Federation (METGF)
MESOT : The Middle East Society for Organ Transplantation
1st Middle East Transplant Games (METG) Championship in Kuwait in 2001
14th Congress of the Middle East Society for Organ Transplantation (MESOT) 10âÂÂ13 September 2014.
11th Argentinean and 6th Latin American Games 2012 250 people from 7 nations
2014 Transplant Games of America (TGA) inaugural 5K event.
USA Games