Island Games 2021 postponed due Covid uncertainty

The Island Games are biannual international multi-sports events organised by the International Island Games Association (IIGA). Competitor teams each represent different island communities (with one team from the peninsula of Gibraltar) which are IIGA members. The next games were due to be in Guernsey in July 2021. Now organisers of the Island Games have postponed the 2021 event and said they were uncertain when the next competition would be held because of the effects of the coronavirus outbreak. The 2023 games are due to be held in Orkney.

Island teams include Isle of Man (Manx: Mannin), Orkney Islands (Old Norse: Orkneyjar and Scottish Gaelic Arcaibh),  Shetland Islands (Old Norse: Hjaltland and Scottish Gaelic: Sealtainn), Western Isles (Scottish Gaelic: Na h-Eileanan an Iar) and Ynys Môn. A total of twenty-seven islands or island groups have participated in the Island Games and are listed below:

Åland

 Alderney

Bermuda

Cayman Islands

Falkland Islands

Faroe Islands

Frøya

Gibraltar

Gotland

Greenland

Guernsey

Hitra

Isle of Man (Manx: Mannin)

Isle of Wight

Jersey

Menorca

Orkney Islands (Old Norse: Orkneyjar and Scottish Gaelic Arcaibh)

Rhodes

Saaremaa

Saint Helena

Sark

Shetland Islands (Old Norse: Hjaltland and Scottish Gaelic: Sealtainn)

Western Isles (Scottish Gaelic: Na h-Eileanan an Iar)

Ynys Môn

Iceland (Not currently members of  members of the IIGA)

Malta (Not currently members of  members of the IIGA)

Prince Edward Island (Not currently members of  members of the IIGA)

Images: Island Games XVII Gotland 2017 and International Island Games Association logo