1981 World Games

Host City Santa Clara
Country USA
Held 24 July – 2 August 1981
Competitors 84
Countries 20

Events

Event Gender Held Status Competitors Countries
Singles Men Medal 4 4
Doubles Men Medal 8 4
Singles Women Medal 4 4
Doubles Women Medal 8 4
Doubles Mixed Medal 8 5
Event Gender Held Status Competitors Countries
-48 kg Men Medal 4 4
-52 kg Men Medal 4 4
-56 kg Men Medal 4 4
-60 kg Men Medal 4 4
-64 kg Men Medal 4 4
-68 kg Men Medal 4 4
-73 kg Men Medal 4 4
-78 kg Men Medal 4 4
+84 kg Men Medal 4 4
-84 kg Men Medal 4 4
Event Gender Held Status Competitors Countries
Trampoline Individual Men Medal 3 2
Trampoline Synchro Men Medal 6 2
Trampoline Double Mini Men Medal 3 2
Trampoline Tumbling Men Medal 3 1
Trampoline Individual Women Medal 3 2
Trampoline Synchro Women Medal 4 1
Trampoline Double Mini Women Medal 3 2
Trampoline Tumbling Women Medal 3 1

Medal table

Pos Country 🥇 Gold 🥈 Silver 🥉 Bronze Total
1 South Korea KOR 9 2 1 12
2 United States USA 5 11 5 21
3 Canada CAN 4 2 3 9
4 China CHN 4 0 0 4
5 Mixed team MIX 1 0 0 1
6 England ENG 0 2 0 2
= Spain ESP 0 2 0 2
8 Mexico MEX 0 1 3 4
9 Denmark DEN 0 1 2 3
= Ivory Coast CIV 0 1 2 3
11 Argentina ARG 0 1 1 2
12 Sweden SWE 0 1 0 1
13 Italy ITA 0 0 6 6
14 Germany GER 0 0 3 3
= Indonesia INA 0 0 3 3
16 Japan JPN 0 0 2 2
= Netherlands NED 0 0 2 2
18 Chinese Taipei TPE 0 0 1 1
= India IND 0 0 1 1
= Scotland SCO 0 0 1 1

Medal winners

Event 🥇 Gold 🥈 Silver 🥉 Bronze
Singles, Men Chen Changjie CHN Morten Frost DEN Prakash Padukone
Liem Swie King
IND
INA
Doubles, Men Sun Zhian / Yao Ximing CHN Thomas Kihlström / Stefan Karlsson SWE William Gilliland / Daniel Travers
Hariamanto Kartono / Rudy Heryanto
SCO
INA
Doubles, Mixed Gillian Gilks / Thomas Kihlström MIX Nora Perry / Michael Tredgett ENG Imelda Wiguna / Christian Hadinata
Lene Køppen / Steen Skovgaard
INA
DEN
Singles, Women Zhang Ailing CHN Hwang Seon-Ae KOR Lene Køppen
Fumiko Tokairin
DEN
JPN
Doubles, Women Zhang Ailing / Liu Xia CHN Nora Perry / Jane Webster ENG Hwang Seon-Ae / Kim Yeon-Ja
Fumiko Tokairin / Sonoe Otsuka
KOR
JPN
-48 kg, Men Gwon Gi-Mun KOR Dae-Sung Lee USA Aldo Codazzo
Reinhard Langer
ITA
GER
-52 kg, Men Yang Gi-Mo KOR Franco Benito ESP Fernando Celada
Dominic Maelionico
MEX
ITA
-56 kg, Men Chung Bum-Soo KOR Óscar Aguilar MEX Serge Langlois
Geremia Di Costanzo
CAN
ITA
-60 kg, Men Lee Jun-Gul KOR Jorge García ESP Raffaele Marchione
Juan Mangoni
ITA
ARG
-64 kg, Men Kim Jung-Guk KOR Alfonso Qahhaar USA Luigi Sienore
Kone Sowleymane
ITA
CIV
-68 kg, Men Kim Jung-Guk KOR Raúl Busca ARG Antonio Hernández
Ruben Thijs
MEX
NED
-73 kg, Men Oh Il-Nam KOR Kim Cheol-Ho USA Patrice Remarck
Helmut Gärtner
CIV
GER
-78 kg, Men Lee Dong-Jun KOR Jersey Long CAN Andreas Scheffler
Luigi D'Oriano
GER
ITA
+84 kg, Men Darrell Henegan CAN Park Chong-Man KOR Harry Prijs
Miguel Esquivel
NED
MEX
-84 kg, Men Jung Chan KOR Cisse Abouaye CIV Tom Federle
Sun Hsin-Nien
USA
TPE
Trampoline Individual, Men Yves Milord CAN Steve Elliott USA Rand Wilson USA
Trampoline Synchro, Men Karl Heger / Steve Elliott USA Paul Rugheimer / Carlos Villarreal USA Brett Brown / Alan Gauthier CAN
Trampoline Double Mini, Men Brett Brown CAN Karl Heger USA Tim Cleave CAN
Trampoline Tumbling, Men Steve Elliott USA Randy Wickstrom USA Steve Cooper USA
Trampoline Individual, Women Bethany Fairchild USA Christine Tough
Barbara Letho
CAN
USA
Trampoline Synchro, Women Norma Letho / Barbara Letho USA Bethany Fairchild / Mary Borkowski USA
Trampoline Double Mini, Women Christine Tough CAN Bethany Fairchild USA Norma Letho USA
Trampoline Tumbling, Women Angie Whiting USA Kristi Laman USA Stacey Hansen USA