the wfdf ultimate and guts world championship 2016 concluded with three gold medal highlights games on saturday 26th june at allianz park in london. team usa uu. she won gold by winning in each of the finals of the mixed gender, women’s and men’s divisions before a capacity crowd of nearly 10,000. the finals of the men’s masters, women’s masters and guts frisbee championships were held on friday and, along with the preliminary and play-off rounds, were held at the university college london (ucl) sports ground in london colney. More than 3,000 athletes competed in the event, representing 115 ultimate teams and 8 guts teams from 39 countries.
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Saturday’s final championship action capped off the week-long event, which began on Sunday, June 19. In the mixed division, the United States team defeated Australia 15-6. In the women’s division, the experienced squad from the United States easily beat the young team from Colombia 17-7. In the men’s division, the United States defeated Japan 15-11 in a game with very few turnovers. Awards for best spirit, voted for by each team’s opponents, were awarded to the Finnish mixed team, the Indian women’s team and the New Zealand men’s team.
“It has been a successful week of discus sports and it was great to see so many countries participating with competitive and energetic teams,” said wfdf president robert “nob” rauch. “The United States’ gold medal sweep is the first since 1994 in a world championship game and is a testament to the quality and depth of the United States program, but we are pleased to see an up-and-coming team like Colombia enter the elite levels. while welcoming new entrants like egypt. We were also excited to introduce our longest-running video lineup, with a two-hour broadcast on CBS Sports Network in North America on Saturday and 39 games broadcast live with professional commentary throughout the week. with the quality of the work and programming, we are confident in the prospects of identifying our first global brand sponsor soon.”
video streams
There was a two-hour delayed telecast of the final gold medal games in North America on Saturday June 25 on the cbs sports network.
In addition, a total of 37 ultimate games and 2 guts games were broadcast live during the week. game streams are available at http://livestream.com, at http://wfdf.sport/live, wfdf’s facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/worldflyingdisc, wfdf’s youtube channel at wfdf at www.youtube.com/wfdfchannel and the world games channel at http://channel.theworldgames.org/.
medal ranking summary
gold
silver
bronze
spirit
united states
australia
canada
finland
united states
colombia
canada
indian
united states
japan
australia
new zealand
united states
canada
australia
new zealand
united states
canada
great britain
new zealand
united states
japan
great britain
united states
the usa team. uu. he finished with 7 medals (including being voted in the guts frisbee division as the team with the best spirit by his teammates while also winning gold). Canada ranked second with 4 medals, Australia and New Zealand tied for third with 3 (with New Zealand looking for spirit), hosts Great Britain and Japan tied for fifth with 2, and Colombia, Finland and India with 1.
background
This week’s competition was held in five divisions: Mixed Gender (30 teams), Men’s (31), Women’s (26), Men’s Master (17), and Women’s Master (11). In addition, there were 8 teams competing in the guts frisbee discipline.
a total of 39 countries competed in the wugc 2016. these are: australia, austria, belgium, canada, democratic republic of congo, people’s republic of china, colombia, czech republic, denmark, egypt, spain, finland, france, great Britain, Germany, Hong Kong China, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, South Africa, Russian Federation, Singapore, Slovakia, Republic of Korea , sweden, switzerland, united arab emirates and united states.
This year’s event represents the 14th edition of the Guts and Ultimate World Championships. the first event was held in 1983 in gothenburg sweden and now takes place every four years.
what is ultimate?
ultimate is a self-refereed, non-contact team sport played with a frisbee (also known as a frisbee). two teams of seven players compete on a playing field the same length as a football field, but narrower. at each end of the field of play is an end zone. each team defends one end zone. they score a goal if one of their players catches the puck in the opposing end zone. the player with the puck is called the thrower. the thrower cannot run with the disc. instead, they move the puck past their teammates in any direction. the defensive team gains possession of the puck if an offensive team’s throw is not caught by a player from the same team. then the defensive team becomes the offensive team and may attempt to score in the opposite end zone. a key element of the game is that there are no referees and the players make their own decisions on the field, under a code known as the “spirit of the game”.
what is gut frisbee?
guts is played by two teams of five players each. the field of play consists of two parallel goal lines 15 m long and 14 m apart. the teams stand in a line facing each other. each team defends a goal line. the puck is thrown back and forth between the teams. the goal is to throw the puck through the line of defending players. the throwing team scores a point when the other team fails to catch a correctly thrown disc. the receiving team scores a point when the disc is not thrown correctly. when the other team catches a correctly thrown disc, no points are scored. the team that first reaches 21 points wins the game.