2020 Invictus Games

The 2020 Invictus Games was an adaptive multi-sport event for wounded, injured and ill veteran and active defence personnel, that took place in The Hague, Netherlands in April 2022, after having been postponed twice. It was the fifth edition of the Invictus Games.^[1][2]

Invictus Games – The Hague 2020

Host city	The Hague, Netherlands
Nations	17
Debuting countries	2
Athletes	~500
Opening	16 April 2022 (2022-04-16)
Closing	22 April 2022 (2022-04-22)
Opened by	Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex
Main venue	Sportcampus Zuiderpark
Website	invictusgames2020.com
← 2018 Sydney 2023 Düsseldorf →

Hague skyline

Development and preparation

The games were to be held on 9–16 May 2020 at the Zuiderpark,^[3] but were postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. They were then postponed again to the spring of 2022.^[4] The opening ceremony on 16 April 2022 was attended by the event's founding patron Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, and his wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex.^[5] Also in attendance were Princess Margriet of the Netherlands, who is the Honorary Chair of the committee of recommendation of the 2020 Invictus Games and who christened the official Invictus Games Tulip in June 2021, and her son Prince Pieter-Christiaan.^[6][7] Representatives of participating nations were also present.^[6] King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands attended the closing ceremony on 22 April 2022.^[8]

The Royal Dutch Mint was announced as the sponsor and designer of the medals and other special sporty issues for the games.^[9]

The Games

Participating countries

The 18 participating countries of the 2018 Invictus Games were invited back, along with new invitations to Belgium and South Korea.^[10]

Due to COVID measures, Jordan, Afghanistan and New Zealand could not attend.^[11] The 17 participating countries were:

•   Australia
•   Belgium
•   Canada
•   Denmark
•   Estonia
•   France
•   Georgia
•   Germany
•   Iraq
•   Italy
•   Netherlands (host)
•   Poland
•   Romania
•   South Korea
•   Ukraine
•   United Kingdom
•   United States

Another team titled "Unconquered" also participated in certain events consisting of competitors from multiple nations.

Sports

There are 9 adaptive sports contested at the Games as well as the Land Rover Driving Challenge.^[12]

•   Archery
•   Athletics
•   Indoor rowing
•   Powerlifting
•   Road cycling
•   Sitting volleyball
•   Swimming
•   Wheelchair basketball
•   Wheelchair rugby
• Land Rover Driving Challenge

Medalists

Land Rover driving challenge

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Team	France Christophe Collot Franck Poirot	Romania Mihai Ion Toma Iulian Constantin Capatina	Georgia Murtazi Osepaishvili Onise Jugeli

Archery

Event	Class	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's recurve	Novice	Stéphane Pretot   France	Stuart Padley   United Kingdom	Jean-François Lavergne   Canada
	Open	Kim Kang-hun   South Korea	Emil Florin Cojocaru   Romania	Andrzej Skrajny   Poland
Women's recurve	Novice	Sherry Louise McBain   United Kingdom	Rose-Marie Maya   France	Anna-Sofia Puzanova   Ukraine
Team recurve	Novice	Denmark Uffe Christensen Bubby Jacobsen Jesper Smollerup	Poland Krzysztof Gozdzik Rafal Lis Waldemar Skoneczny	Canada Jean-François Lavergne Christopher Moores Wade Stach
	Open	Romania Iulian Constantin Capatina Emil Florin Cojocaru Eduard Vlad Romila	Ukraine Dmytro Afanasiev Serhii Kalytiuk Vasyl Stuzhenko	United Kingdom Anthony Booth Chaze Melluish Daniel O'Connor
Men's compound	Open	Marcel Neagu   Romania	Brett Campfield   United States	Douglas Godfrey, Jr.   United States
Women's compound	Open	Tiffany Hudgins   United States	Michelle Sanchez   United States	Kristel van Dinter   Netherlands
Team compound	Open	United States Brett Campfield Richard Devericks Douglas Godfrey, Jr.	Romania Florin Bolovan Marcel Neagu Mihai Ion Toma	Italy Massimo Addio Giuseppe Erriquez Andrea Preite

Athletics

Men

Event	Class	Gold	Silver	Bronze
100 m	IT1	Kionte Storey   United States	Aleksi Beruashvili   Georgia	Ross Alewine   United States
200 m		Aleksi Beruashvili   Georgia	Kionte Storey   United States	Wolf Wolput   Belgium
400 m		Carlo Calcagni   Italy	Sébastien Peyen   France	Ross Alewine   United States
1500 m		Aleksi Beruashvili   Georgia	Wolf Wolput   Belgium	Oleksii Bobchynets   Ukraine
100 m	IT2	Marco Pisani   Italy	not awarded	not awarded
100 m	IT3	David Malenfant   Canada	Mattia Dal Pastro   Italy	Seo Won-bae   South Korea
200 m		David Malenfant   Canada	not awarded	not awarded
400 m		David Malenfant   Canada	Garrett Powers   Canada	not awarded
1500 m		Mattia Dal Pastro   Italy	David Malenfant   Canada	Roberto Como   Italy
100 m	IT4	Patrick Levis   Canada	Garrett Kuwada   United States	Akhmed Safarov   Georgia
200 m		Patrick Levis   Canada	Garrett Kuwada   United States	Jai Cheon   United States
400 m		Patrick Levis   Canada	Jai Cheon   United States	Garrett Kuwada   United States
1500 m		Patrick Levis   Canada	Garrett Kuwada   United States	Jai Cheon   United States
100 m	IT5	Micheal Nicholson   United States	Joel Rodriguez   United States	not awarded
200 m		Micheal Nicholson   United States	Joel Rodriguez   United States	not awarded
400 m		Micheal Nicholson   United States	Joel Rodriguez   United States	not awarded
100 m	IT6	Jacob Cox   United States	Michael Murphy   United States	not awarded
200 m		Jacob Cox   United States	Michael Murphy   United States	not awarded
400 m		Jacob Cox   United States	Michael Murphy   United States	not awarded
1500 m		Michael Murphy   United States	Jacob Cox   United States	not awarded
100 m	IT7	Andrew Holliday   United States	Rafael Morfinenciso   United States	Matthew Cable   United States
200 m		Andrew Holliday   United States	Rafael Morfinenciso   United States	Matthew Cable   United States
400 m		Fred Lewis   United States	Rafael Morfinenciso   United States	Jacob Anthony   United States
1500 m		Gérald Monnier   France	Andrew Wilkinson   Australia	Rafal Rutkowski   Poland
100 m	IT8	Mark Clougherty   United Kingdom	Daniel Phillips   United Kingdom	Joshua Smith   United States
200 m		Mark Clougherty   United Kingdom	Joshua Smith   United States	Daniel Phillips   United Kingdom
400 m		Mark Clougherty   United Kingdom	Joshua Smith   United States	Daniel Phillips   United Kingdom
1500 m		Joshua Smith   United States	Daniel Phillips   United Kingdom	Mark Clougherty   United Kingdom
Long jump	IJ5	Rafael Morfinenciso   United States	Artem Lukashuk   Ukraine	Ivan Heretsun   Ukraine
Shot put	IF1	Ross Alewine   United States	Dandy Wilson   United States	Imad al-Shuwaili   Iraq
Discus throw		Alexander Ulrich   Germany	Nathan King   Australia	Frederik De Keyzer   Belgium
Shot put	IF2	Rodion Sitdikov   Ukraine	Yaseen Mahdi   Iraq	Garrett Powers   Canada
Discus throw		Rene Hinrikus   Estonia	Luca Locci   Italy	not awarded
Shot put	IF3	Jacob Cox   United States	not awarded	not awarded
Discus throw		Hameed Hasan   Iraq	not awarded	not awarded
Shot put	IF4	Robert Dominguez   United States	Gabriel Ramon   Australia	Matthew Cable   United States
Discus throw		Shane Bramley   Australia	Dariusz Cegiełka   Poland	Rafael Morfinenciso   United States
Shot put	IF5	Serhii Priadka   Ukraine	Saif Lami   Iraq	Kang Cha-soo   South Korea
Discus throw		Steven James   Australia	Thomas Laronce   France	Carlos Jimenez   United States
Shot put	IF6	Giuseppe Campoccio   Italy	Rustum Rosul   Ukraine	Wessam al-Kadhemy   Iraq
Shot put	IF7	Viktor Lehkodukh   Ukraine	Austin Parker   United States	Joel Rodriguez   United States
Discus throw		George Vera   United States	not awarded	not awarded
Shot put	IF8	Shane Rossall   United Kingdom	Valentin Ciolan Uță   Romania	Charlie Dye   United Kingdom
Discus throw		Carnell Martin   United States	Stephen French   Australia	Joshua Smith   United States

Women

Event	Class	Gold	Silver	Bronze
100 m	IT7	Emma Murfet   Australia	Chunte Gonzalez   United States	Heidi Dalhuisen   Netherlands
200 m		Lisa McCranie   United States	Emma Murfet   Australia	Chunte Gonzalez   United States
400 m		Jessica Garneau   Canada	Lisa McCranie   United States	Sally Renard   United Kingdom
1500 m		Sally Renard   United Kingdom	Jessica Garneau   Canada	Joanne Bradley   Canada
Long jump	IJ5	Vanessa Broughill   Australia	Emma Murfet   Australia	Angela Euson   United States
Shot put	IF1	Lisa Johnston   United Kingdom	Sabreen al-Dawahi   Iraq	not awarded
Discus throw	IF2	Rachel Williamson   United Kingdom	not awarded	not awarded
Shot put	IF4	Emma Murfet   Australia	Angela Euson   United States	Victoria Wales   United Kingdom
Discus throw		Chunte Gonzalez   United States	Joyce van den Waardenburg   Netherlands	Vanessa Broughill   Australia
Shot put	IF5	Beth Grauer   United States	Hyoshin Cha   United States	not awarded
Discus throw		Beth King   United States	not awarded	not awarded
Discus throw	IF 8	Lucy Holt   United Kingdom	Kristen Morris   United States	not awarded

Mixed

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
4 × 100 m relay	United States Kionte Storey Andrew Holliday Ross Alewine Matthew Cable	Canada Rock Ferland Garrett Powers Jessica Garneau David Malenfant	Belgium Patrice Lombet Wolf Wolput Thierry Dutrieux Peter Caubergh

Indoor rowing

Men

Event	Class	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Sprint	IR1	Micheal Nicholson   United States	not awarded	not awarded
Endurance		Micheal Nicholson   United States	not awarded	not awarded
Sprint	IR2	Nicolas Marfil   France	Brent Garlic   United States	Lenny Redrose   Australia
Endurance		Nicolas Marfil   France	Viktor Lehkodukh   Ukraine	Austin Parker   United States
Sprint	IR3	KC Higer   United States	Franck Poirot   France	Ihor Halushka   Ukraine
Endurance		Ihor Halushka   Ukraine	KC Higer   United States	Franck Poirot   France
Sprint	IR4	Peter Brown   Australia	Shane Rossall   United Kingdom	Patrick Levis   Canada
Endurance		James Saville   Australia	Patrick Levis   Canada	Peter Brown   Australia
Sprint	IR5	Ross Alewine   United States	Peter Brown   Australia	Dandy Alexander Wilson   United States
			Gregory Quarles   United States	Ihor Bezkaravainyi   Ukraine
Endurance		Ross Alewine   United States	Peter Brown   Australia	Gregory Quarles   United States
Sprint	IR6	Matthew Model   Australia	Matthew Cable   United States	Phillip Fong, Jr.   United States
				Przemysław Kowalski   Poland
Endurance		Matthew Model   Australia	Kasper Holm Henriksen   Denmark	Matthew Cable   United States

Women

Event	Class	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Sprint	IR3	Rachel Williamson   United Kingdom	not awarded	not awarded
Endurance		Kerrie Tessier   Australia	not awarded	not awarded
Sprint	IR5	Lucy Holt   United Kingdom	Emilea Mysko   Australia	Kelly Leonard   United Kingdom
Endurance		Lucy Holt   United Kingdom	Emilea Mysko   Australia	Beth King   United States
Sprint	IR6	Sarah Petchell   Australia	Lisa McCranie   United States	Victoria Ross   United Kingdom
Endurance		Victoria Ross   United Kingdom	Katrin Tukkia   Estonia	Sally Renard   United Kingdom
				Lisa McCranie   United States

Powerlifting

Event	Class	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's lightweight	IP4	Jacob Cox   United States	James Stride   United Kingdom	Antonio Auricchio   Italy
Men's middleweight	IP5	Jonathan Platt   United Kingdom	Ameer al-Graishi   Iraq	Falih al-Delfi   Iraq
Men's heavyweight	IP6	Gregory van Olm   Canada	Gabriel Ramon   Australia	Matthew Cable   United States
Women's lightweight	IP1	Taryn Barbara   Australia	Hyoshin Cha   United States	Emilea Mysko   Australia
Women's middleweight	IP2	Lisa McCranie   United States	Angela Euson   United States	Émilie Poulin   Canada
Women's heavyweight	IP3	Sarah Petchell   Australia	Chunte Gonzalez   United States	Joyce van den Waardenburg   Netherlands

Road cycling

Men

Event	Class	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Time trial	IHB1	Austin Parker   United States	Kim Jong-suk   South Korea	Lenny Redrose   Australia
Road race		Lenny Redrose   Australia	Austin Parker   United States	Kim Jong-suk   South Korea
Time trial	IHB2	Janno Lepik   Estonia	Kim Young-min   South Korea	James Saville   Australia
Road race		Janno Lepik   Estonia	Kim Young-min   South Korea	James Saville   Australia
Time trial	IReB1	Carlo Calcagni   Italy	Gregory Quarles   United States	Joshua Smith   United States
Road race		Carlo Calcagni   Italy	Gregory Quarles   United States	Garrett Kuwada   United States
Time trial	IRB1	Na Hyeong-yoon   South Korea	Raphaël Legros   Belgium	Eric Estievenart   Belgium
Road race		Raphaël Legros   Belgium	Na Hyeong-yoon   South Korea	not awarded
Time trial	IRB2	Francesco Mottola   Italy	Peter Caubergh   Belgium	Nicolas Melen   France
Road race		Nicolas Melen   France	Peter Caubergh   Belgium	Francesco Mottola   Italy
Time trial	IRB3	Gérald Monnier   France	Kasper Holm Henriksen   Denmark	James Rogers   United Kingdom
Road race		Gérald Monnier   France	Ashley Muir   Australia	Kasper Holm Henriksen   Denmark
Time trial	ITB1	Michael Murphy   United States	Jacob Cox   United States	not awarded
Road race		Michael Murphy   United States	Jacob Cox   United States	not awarded

Women

Event	Class	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Time trial	IHB2	Tisha Knickerbocker   United States	Hyoshin Cha   United States	not awarded
Road race		Tisha Knickerbocker   United States	Hyoshin Cha   United States	not awarded
Time trial	IReB1	Kerrie Tessier   Australia	Beth King   United States	Victoria Wales   United Kingdom
Road race		Kerrie Tessier   Australia	Beth King   United States	Victoria Wales   United Kingdom
Time trial	IRB2	Kristen Morris   United States	Emilea Mysko   United States	not awarded
Road race		Kristen Morris   United States	Emilea Mysko   United States	not awarded
Time trial	IRB3	Casey Turner   United States	Vanessa Broughill   Australia	Colleen Swifte   Australia
Road race		Casey Turner   United States	Colleen Swifte   Australia	Lisa McCranie   United States

Swimming

Men

Event	Class	Gold	Silver	Bronze
50 m freestyle	ISA	Micheal Nicholson   United States	Austin Parker   United States	not awarded
50 m backstroke		Austin Parker   United States	Micheal Nicholson   United States	Rafal Konopka   Poland
50 m breaststroke		Micheal Nicholson   United States	not awarded	not awarded
50 m freestyle	ISB	Garrett Kuwada   United States	Antonio Auricchio   Italy	Ivan Lepekha   Ukraine
100 m freestyle		Garrett Kuwada   United States	Antonio Auricchio   Italy	Giuseppe Spatola   Italy
50 m backstroke		Andrii Badarak   Ukraine	Benito Versluijs   Netherlands	Garrett Kuwada   United States
50 m breaststroke		Ronald van Dort   Netherlands	Garrett Kuwada   United States	Andrii Badarak   Ukraine
50 m freestyle	ISC	Isaiah Staley   United States	Richard Gray   United Kingdom	Roberto Como   Italy
100 m freestyle		Isaiah Staley   United States	KC Higer   United States	not awarded
50 m backstroke		Isaiah Staley   United States	not awarded	not awarded
50 m breaststroke		Isaiah Staley   United States	A. al-Zahri   Iraq	KC Higer   United States
50 m freestyle	ISD	James Saville   Australia	Peter Brown   Australia	August O'Niell   United States
100 m freestyle		James Saville   Australia	Peter Brown   Australia	Andrew Blackburn   United States
50 m backstroke		Andrew Blackburn   United States	August O'Niell   United States	Nathan King   Australia
50 m breaststroke		August O'Niell   United States	Michael Murphy   United States	Andrew Blackburn   United States
50 m freestyle	ISE	Gert van 't Oever   Netherlands	Christopher O'Brien   Australia	Sean Walsh   United States
100 m freestyle		Gert van 't Oever   Netherlands	Christopher O'Brien   Australia	Andrew Wilkinson   Australia
50 m backstroke		Christopher O'Brien   Australia	Gert van 't Oever   Netherlands	Benjamin McComb   United Kingdom
50 m breaststroke		Christopher O'Brien   Australia	Gert van 't Oever   Netherlands	Rafal Rutkowski   Poland

Women

Event	Class	Gold	Silver	Bronze
50 m freestyle	ISC	Rachel Williamson   United Kingdom	Kerrie Tessier   Australia	not awarded
50 m backstroke		Rachel Williamson   United Kingdom	Kerrie Tessier   Australia	not awarded
50 m breaststroke		Rachel Williamson   United Kingdom	Kerrie Tessier   Australia	not awarded
50 m freestyle	ISD	Kristen Morris   United States	Kelly Leonard   United Kingdom	Lisa Johnston   United Kingdom
100 m freestyle		Kristen Morris   United States	Rachel Williamson   United Kingdom	Lisa Johnston   United Kingdom
50 m backstroke		Kristen Morris   United States	Kelly Leonard   United Kingdom	Lisa Johnston   United Kingdom
50 m breaststroke		Kristen Morris   United States	Kelly Leonard   United Kingdom	Lisa Johnston   United Kingdom
50 m freestyle	ISE	Taryn Barbara   Australia	Casey Turner   United States	Angela Euson   United States
100 m freestyle		Taryn Barbara   Australia	Casey Turner   United States	Angela Euson   United States
50 m backstroke		Angela Euson   United States	Taryn Barbara   Australia	Casey Turner   United States
50 m breaststroke		Taryn Barbara   Australia	Sally Renard   United Kingdom	Emma Murfet   Australia

Mixed

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
4 × 50 m freestyle relay	Australia Andrew Wilkinson James Saville Peter Brown Christopher O'Brien	United States Sean Walsh Robert Dominguez August O'Niell Ross Alewine	United States Brett Campfield Daniel Clarke Andrew Blackburn Garrett Kuwada

Team sports

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Sitting volleyball	Poland	Georgia	United States
Wheelchair basketball	United States	Netherlands	United Kingdom
Wheelchair rugby	United States	United Kingdom	Australia

Media and broadcast

The games were documented in a Netflix documentary called Heart of Invictus.^[13] Alex Jones and JJ Chalmers covered the event in a 6 episode nightly recap programme on BBC One from 17 to 22 April 2022.^[14] On 8 April 2022, the British embassy in The Netherlands announced the podcast series Invictus Voices, which features interviews with the competitors.^[15]

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