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The World Firefighter Games is an International sporting event that welcomes all full-time part-time, Structural Firefighters, Bush fire firefighters & Volunteer firefighters, Aviation Fire Services. Military Emergency Response personnel and their immediate direct family from all across the globe. The Games are held biennially in different countries around the world and offer over 50 different sports including sports such as: Archery, Rugby Sevens, Windsurfing, Poker, Swimming, Athletics, Softball, Poker to name a few with the "Toughest FireFighter Alive" being the blue riband event. ==History== The concept began in 1988 with the first ever World Firefighters Games held in Auckland, New Zealand from 22 to 29 April 1990, with 1800 Athletes and 1400 Supporters coming from 17 different countries, the first Games were a huge success. The purpose of the games was to introduce the four following concepts within the services: # To promote health and fitness # To provide a forum for information exchange between Fire Services # To foster comradeship amongst firefighters # To encourage family participation The motivation behind the games was to overcome some of the problems with entering the World Police and Fire Games, in that the games are only open to full-time paid firefighters. As most fire services globally use mostly volunteer personnel the World Firefighters Games allows entrants that are full-time, part-time and volunteer, as well as the families of fire service personnel to enter. After the first Games companies registered their business interests in the concept in an attempt to make a profit from the games by registering the names etc. However when the Games were held in Perth, Western Australia in 1994 the organising committee felt so strongly about the Games belonging to the firefighters, and not to take away from the original concept of the Games, that they bought the rights from the original owners and Perth has now become the home of the World Governing Body, "World Firefighters Games WA Inc". The World Governing Body for the World Firefighters Games licenses each fire department and allows use of the name etc. for the running of the event, the governing body is entirely a Non-Profit Organization and all proceeds are donated to charity. The Largest Games were held in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA from 16–22 May 1992 with approximately 4,000 athletes and 14,000 supporters and spectators. LA 2014 was cancelled by the "proprietor" of the games sometime during the week of 19 May 2014. The 2016 Games Host will be announced as soon as possible, these games will be run under the auspices of World Firefighters Games WA Inc.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=() )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「World Firefighters Games」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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