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The flag football competition at the 2022 World Games took place in July 2022, [1] in Birmingham, Alabama in the United States. [2]Originally scheduled to take place in July 2021, the Games were rescheduled for July 2022 as a result of the 2020 Summer Olympics postponement due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [3]
The IFAF Flag Football World Championship is held every two years in different countries. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 championships in Denmark were cancelled. The championship was rescheduled for 2021 in Jerusalem from December 6 to 8, with a record 42 teams featured, double that competing at the 2018 event in Panama . [ 2 ]
On July 20, 2020, the International World Games Association (IWGA), National Football League (NFL), and International Federation of American Football (IFAF) announced that flag football would join the existing lineup of 32 unique, multi-disciplinary sports for the 2022 World Games in Birmingham, Alabama. [13]
The sport is governed by the Mexican American Football Federation. In 2023, the International Federation of American Football (IFAF) ranked the Mexico women's team 2nd worldwide. [1] The women competed in the 2004 IFAF Flag Football World Championship, taking gold [2] against Finland. They won again in 2008, [2] this time defeating Canada.
USA Flag currently operates the largest National Championships flag football tournament in the United States, along with a club World Championships every January in Florida that eclipsed over 980 teams this past January 2023, the largest single weekend flag football tournament ever recorded. The USA Flag has grown exponentially each year.
He won a gold medal for the United States at the 2022 World Games, the sport's first appearance at the event. [4] He was named the most valuable player of the final game of the 2023 IFAF Americas Continental Flag Football Championship, where the United States went 7–0 to win the tournament. [5]
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Then the team defeated Mexico, winning the 2021 IFAF Women's Flag Football World Championship. At the 2023 Americas Championship both the women's and men's teams defeated Mexico to win gold. [6] During the 2022 World Games, the team again went to the finals with Mexico. [7] This time they won silver with a score of 39–6.