Tafisa world challenge day

IS YOUR COMMUNITY READY TO
RISE TO THE CHALLENGE?

World Challenge

World challenge day

Would your neighbours benefit from positive experiences in Sport for All? As part of #TakeBackYourStreets, the TAFISA World Challenge Day is a friendly international competition in Sport for All and physical activity where communities from around the world compete to motivate as many people as possible to be physically active for 15 minutes on a single day – the last Wednesday each May. The event is a fun day that creates awareness and enthusiasm for physical activity and active living.

World Challenge Day is open to communities of any size from any country, and since its beginning in 1991, TAFISA World Challenge Day has been growing rapidly, gathering millions of participants every year.

TAFISA World Challenge Day has two enticing competition elements. WCD communities are automatically included in both:

One-On-One Community Challenge: Communities from around the world are paired according to size in this traditional WCD competition to be
the most active.
World Challenge Day Cup: Communities compete to be the most active with all other communities in their category, based on population.

TAFISA WORLD CHALLENGE DAY 2019 - WEDNESDAY 29 MAY

2019
TAFISA World Challenge Day will take place on May 29.

As a general guide to WCD, please see the 2018 Flyer and Intro Booklet linked below, or please contact the TAFISA office with your enquiry.

TAFISA WORLD CHALLENGE DAY 2018

IN ITS 26TH YEAR, THE TAFISA WORLD CHALLENGE DAY SAW MORE THAN
52 MILLION PEOPLE FROM OVER 51 COUNTRIES RISE TO THE CHALLENGE ON 30 MAY 2018.

Amongst the countries participating, the TAFISA World Challenge Day Cup saw 51 countries and 61 communities competing in a friendly competition in 5 categories. The results are as follows:

TAFISA World Challenge Day Cup Winners:

TAFISA World Challenge Day 2018 Cup Winners
Category 5	Belgrade, Serbia with 7.54% of the population participating
Category 4	Macao, China with 40.32% of the population participating
Category 3	Palma Soriano, Cuba with 46% of the population participating
Category 2	Kai, Japan with 81.81% of the population participating
Category 1	Altaneira, Brazil with 75.02% of the population participating

A full copy of the results for all communities participating in TAFISA World Challenge Day Cup can be found below.

Congratulations to all participating communities, and in particular the TAFISA WCD Cup winners. TAFISA is proud of, and sincerely grateful for, your contribution to the global Sport for All movement.

WORLD CHALLENGE DAY HISTORY

It all began in Canada, 1983. The city of Saskatoon initiated the first Canadian Challenge Day. Over fifty other communities accepted the Challenge – and more than 650,000 people took part. From Canada, the Challenge has taken its highly successful course around the world and gained international recognition. Apart from the national events, international rivalries including communities from all over the world became the rule and paved the way for the World Challenge Day.

TAFISA launched the international event and has coordinated the World Challenge Day (formerly International Challenge Day) since 1990. Since then more than 50 countries with thousands of communities and millions of participants have made the event the largest in the history of Sport for All.

Results from previous TAFISA World Challenge Days can be found below.