By ArchiveSearch Staff
The World Masters Games 2017 took place in Auckland, surrounded by the city's harbours, beaches and coastal parks. The multi-sport festival is open to competitors of varying abilities across a wide range of disciplines, with minimum age brackets generally starting between 25 and 35 depending on the individual sport.
Auckland Host City
The International Masters Games Association described the 2017 Auckland edition, the ninth staging of the event, as the most successful in the history of the competition.
Attendance and Local Impact
Held under the motto "For the Love of Sport", the Auckland games drew 28,578 competitors and generated $34.2m in local GDP across 241,480 visitor nights, with 98 percent of participants rating the event positively ahead of the 2021 edition in Kansai.
