2015 Island Games

The XVI Island Games (also known as the 2015 NatWest Island Games for sponsorship reasons) was held in Jersey, Channel Islands, from 27 June to 3 July 2015.[1] This was the second time that the island has hosted the games, the first being in 1997.

2015 Island Games
Host Jersey
Teams participating24 islands
Athletes participating3,000
Events14 sports
Opening ceremony27 June 2015
Closing ceremony3 July 2015
Officially opened byWilliam Bailhache
Main venueFB Fields
Websitewww.jersey2015.com

The week long event saw around 3,000 competitors from 24 islands[2] take part in 14 sports.[3] The official mascot of the games was a real life infant silverback gorilla named Indigo who lives at Durrell Wildlife Park in Trinity, Jersey.[4]

Participating islands

24 island entities of the IIGA, from Europe, South Atlantic and the Caribbean area, competed in these Games.[5]

Sports
110m hurdles men finals at FB Fields on 30 June 2015.

Numbers in parentheses indicate the number of medal events contested in each sport.

  • Note: Archery and table tennis make their return to the Island Games. However, gymnastics and squash were dropped from these Games.

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Jersey)

Final medal table
RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Jersey*505330133
2 Isle of Man34272990
3 Guernsey28254295
4 Faroe Islands18182460
5 Gotland1781641
6 Cayman Islands1411833
7 Isle of Wight10131235
8 Saare County710320
9 Western Isles76619
10 Shetland68923
11 Gibraltar65617
12 Bermuda57416
13 Ynys Môn5038
14 Åland Islands391224
15 Menorca36615
16 Hitra2349
17 Sark1124
18 Rhodes1102
19 Greenland1001
20 Orkney0235
21 Falkland Islands0202
22 Saint Helena0011
23 Alderney0000
 Frøya0000
Totals (24 nations)218215220653
Source: [6]

References
  1. "Jersey.com page about the games". Archived from the original on 2015-02-04. Retrieved 2015-02-04.
  2. "Statistics from the official website". Archived from the original on 2015-02-04. Retrieved 2015-02-04.
  3. "The sports section of the official website". Archived from the original on 2014-12-25. Retrieved 2015-02-04.
  4. "Indigo's page on the Durrell website". Archived from the original on 2016-05-27. Retrieved 2015-02-04.
  5. "Participating Islands to Jersey 2015". Archived from the original on 2015-01-19. Retrieved 2015-02-04.
  6. Official Medal Table
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