Its inclusion has been confirmed by the International World Games Association (IWGA) sport director Sebastian Garvins in outlining the competition programme for the Chengdu 2025 event in an update given to the Annual General Meeting of the World Flying Disc Federation (WFDF).

Disc golf will be a medal sport featuring a 16 mixed pairs competition involving 32 athletes.

The discipline of ultimate was also confirmed for the Chengdu 2025 programme and received the same athletes’ quota as last year's World Games in Birmingham in Alabama.

Disc golf, formerly known as frisbee golf, is a flying disc sport using a similar process to golf in which players complete a hole by throwing a disc from a tee pad or area toward a target, known as a basket, throwing again from where the previous throw landed, until the basket is reached.

"After a 24 year hiatus, we are excited to announce that disc golf will again be a medal sport at the World Games,"Robert Rauch, the WFDF President, said.

“With the support of long-time Board member Fumio Morooka, I had originally submitted our application to the IWGA back in 1994, and flying disc was first on the programme as a medal sport in the World Games in 2001 in Akita, Japan featuring both ultimate and disc golf.

"With the tremendous growth of disc Golf due to the [COVID-19] pandemic, it is fitting to see its return to the programme."

Details on the exact format for the disc golf competition have yet to be determined as discussions are only now starting between the Local Organising Committee and the IWGA sport department.

WFDF has also celebrated the fact that its secretary general, Volker Bernardi, has been re-elected to a three-year term on the IWGA Executive Committee on which he has served since 2018.

Rauch also accepted the awards for The World Games Athlete of the Year and Team of the Year on behalf of the winners.

With 35,769 votes in the final round, in a vote that came down to the final minutes of voting over the month long process, Valeria Cardenas of Colombia secured the individual title.

Valeria was a bronze-medalist with her team at The World Games 2022.

In the team ranking, the flying disc squad from Germany, having upset the top seeds United States in the preliminary rounds and eventually coming in fourth at Birmingham 2022, won the competition with 13,262 votes.