2008 World Mind Sports Games
Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men 's Individual Kang Dongyun 7p Park Jungsang 9p Li Zhe 6p
Women 's Individual Song Ronghui 1p Lee Minjin 5p Pak Chi-eun 9p
Open Jo Tae-Won 7d Ham Youngwoo 7d Lee Yong Hee 6d
Men 's Team South Korea China Japan
Women 's Team China South Korea Japan
Pair Go Huang Yizhong 7p ／ Fan Weijing 2p Chou Chun-Hsun 9p ／ Hsieh Yi-Min 4p On So Jin 4p ／ Lee Ha Jin 3p
Events -- Go
Main article : Go at the 2008 World Mind Sports Games Under the auspices of the International Go Federation 560 players participated in six medal events in Beijing . South Korea won half of the 18 medals and all were swept by competitors from Eastern Asia .
The first World Mind Sports Games (WMSG) were held in Beijing, China from October 3 to 18, 2008, about two months after the Olympic Games. They were sponsored and organised by the International Mind Sports Association with the General Administration of Sport of China and the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Sport. Five mind sports participated in the first Games: bridge, chess, draughts (checkers), go (weiqi), and xiangqi (Chinese chess). Thirty-five gold medals were contested by 2,763 competitors from 143 countries. According to the World Bridge Federation, it incorporated the World Team Olympiad (1960-2004) and some established youth events in the Games as the stepping stone on the path of introducing a third kind of Olympic Games (after the 'regular' Olympics and the Paralympics).