Basketball at the Island Games
Basketball is an event at the Island Games, the biennial multi-sports event for island nations, territories and dependencies.
Basketball has featured in every Island Games since being first chosen as a sport in 1999, excluding the 2005 and 2025 games.
Each Island can enter one team per gender. The minimum age is 13 on the opening day of the games.[1]
Events
[edit]| Event | VIII 1999 |
IX 2001 |
X 2003 |
XI 2005 |
XII 2007 |
XIII 2009 |
XIV 2011 |
XV 2013 |
XVI 2015 |
XVII 2017 |
XVIII 2019 |
XIX 2023 |
XX 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Men's tournament | X | X | X | - | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | - |
| Women's tournament | X | X | X | - | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | - |
Top Medalists
[edit]| Gold Medals | Total Medals | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No: | Team | No: | Team | |
| Men's | 3 |  Bermuda  Rhodes
|
6 | Bermuda  Cayman Islands Rhodes  Saaremaa
|
| Women's | 6 2 |
 Menorca  Gotland
|
6 7 |
 Gibraltar Menorca
|
Men's Results
[edit]| Year | Games | Host | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
| 1999 | VIII | Gotland
|
Rhodes [2]
|
Cayman Islands
|
Gotland
|
| 2001 | IX |  Isle of Man
|
Rhodes
|
Cayman Islands
|
Gibraltar
|
| 2003 | X |  Guernsey
|
Rhodes
|
Cayman Islands
|
Bermuda
|
| 2007 | XII | Rhodes
|
Menorca
|
Bermuda
|
Rhodes
|
| 2009 | XIII |  Åland
|
Bermuda
|
Menorca
|
Rhodes
|
| 2011 | XIV |  Isle of Wight
|
Bermuda
|
Saaremaa
|
Rhodes
|
| 2013 | XV | Bermuda
|
Bermuda
|
Saaremaa
|
|
| 2015 | XVI |  Jersey
|
Saaremaa
|
Bermuda
|
Gibraltar
|
| 2017 | XVII | Gotland[3]
|
Cayman Islands
|
Gibraltar
|
Saaremaa
|
| 2019 | XVIII | Gibraltar[4]
|
Cayman Islands
|
Saaremaa
|
Gibraltar
|
| 2023 | XIX | Guernsey
|
Saaremaa
|
Menorca
|
Cayman Islands
|
Women's Results
[edit]| Year | Games | Host | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
| 1999 | VIII | Gotland
|
Gotland
|
Gibraltar
|
IOM
|
| 2001 | IX | Isle of Man
|
Cayman Islands
|
Gibraltar
|
Guernsey [5]
|
| 2003 | X | Guernsey
|
Guernsey [5]
|
Gibraltar
|
Cayman Islands
|
| 2007 | XII | Rhodes
|
Menorca
|
 Prince Edward Island
|
Bermuda
|
| 2009 | XIII | Åland
|
Menorca
|
Guernsey [5]
|
Gibraltar
|
| 2011 | XIV | Isle of Wight
|
Menorca
|
Gibraltar
|
Guernsey [5]
|
| 2015 | XVI | Jersey
|
Gotland
|
Menorca
|
Gibraltar
|
| 2017 | XVII | Gotland
|
Menorca
|
Gotland
|
Guernsey
|
| 2019 | XVIII | Gibraltar
|
Menorca
|
Gotland
|
Gibraltar
|
| 2023 | XIX | Guernsey
|
Menorca
|
Cayman Islands
|
Guernsey [6]
|
References
[edit]- ^ "International Island Games Association The Sports and Sports By-Laws" (PDF).
- ^ "Ynys Môn football Champs and Rhodes won the Basketball- the Games are closed". gotland-tv.se. Retrieved 24 Aug 2015.
- ^ NatWest Island Games XVII Gotland 2017
- ^ NatWest Island Games XVIII Gibraltar 2019
- ^ a b c d "Island Games 2015: Guernsey target women's basketball medal". BBC.
- ^ "2023 Island Games: Guernsey win rare basketball medal after Isle of Man victory". 14 July 2023.