Qualification for the World Games (for the 2023 and 2024 seasons), which will be held from 12 to 18 August 2025 in Chengdu (China) for boules.World Games programme : For Pétanque, each qualified federation will send one Women's and one Men's event. In 2025 we will have one more event than in 2022 with the Women's Precision Shooting, the Men's Precision Shooting and the Mixed Doubles. The athletes will be fully supported for 6 or 7 days and, as the World Games are placed under the aegis of the International Olympic Committee, most of the National Olympic Committees will now cover all or part of their travel costs, as well as those of the so-called ‘extra-officials’ appointed by the federations - coaches, trainers, physiotherapists, masseurs.... - provided they mention this early enough. Qualified federations should not hesitate to remind their NOCs of this, as well as the fact that the World Federation (WPBF/FMBP) is now included in the official list published on the IOC website and that Pétanque & Lyonnaise are also included among the recognised disciplines - details see "read more"
International Ranking 2023
Thailand 293
France 240
Spain 127
Tunisia 118
Benin 113
Cambodia 87
Germany 83
Vietnam 81
Burkina Faso 70
Algeria 63
Poland 58
Togo 44
Senegal 43
Czech Republic & USA 40
Reminder - The following will qualify
The host country: China
The winners: Men's Triplettes 2023, Women's Triplettes 2023, Mixed Doubles 2023, Men's Triplettes 2024 (or the runner-up if this country has already qualified) + the top three finishers in the selected events or the runners-up if they have already qualified.
Current ranking according to events selected :
1) Thailand 181 points : Qualified in the men's triples
2) France 135 points
3) Tunisia 85 points
4) Spain 79 points
5) Vietnam 75 points: Qualified for the women's triplettes
6) Benin 71 points: Qualified in mixed doubles
7) Cambodia 53 points
8) Germany 52 points & Burkina Faso 52 points
10) Poland 44 points
11) Senegal 37 points & Algeria 37 points
13) Myanmar 35 points & Italy 35 points
15) United States 33 points
16) Congo 31 points
17) Togo 30 points
Note: This leaves one place for the world triples champion team in Dijon in December 2024, or for the runner-up if it is a country that has already qualified. The three remaining places will go to the three best federations in the above ranking who have not yet qualified, bearing in mind that all the points for a world championship in triples remain to be distributed, namely 60 points for the winners, 40 for the finalists, 25 for the semi-finalists, 15 for the quarter-finalists and 10 for the qualifiers.
