2019 Aurora Games – Wikipedia

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The 2019 Aurora Games was a female international multi-sport event that was held between 20 and 25 August 2019 in Albany, New York, United States of America. Planned to be a biennial event, the Times Union Center served as host venue. Albany shall also serve as host city for the 2021 and 2023 Aurora Games.^[1]

The Aurora Games, designed as a multisport women’s version of the Laver Cup,^[2] has in addition featured musical performances, food tastings, sports clinics, autograph sessions and the “Conversations with Champions” series of seminars. The keynote speaker for the Aurora Games was Judge Rosemarie Aquilina,^[3] who presided over the case of the disgraced USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar.^[4]

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The Games[edit]

Times Union Center was the host venue for all events of the Aurora Games

Sports[edit]

The 2019 Aurora Games programme featured seven sports. Team and individual competitions consisted of athletes from 15 countries participating as part of All-star teams known as Team Americas and Team World. Said teams were led by honorary captains Jackie Joyner-Kersee and Nadia Comăneci with the teams competing for the Babe Didrikson Zaharias Trophy. Team Americas captured the first Trophy, defeating Team World in six of the seven events.

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Results[edit]

Event	Winning team	Results	Attendance	Notes
Basketball	Team World	85-77	2,517	15 assists by Laia Palau^[5]
Beach Volleyball	Team Americas	3 matches won 1 match lost	3,291	Gold medal game won by April Ross and Alix Klineman^[6]
Figure Skating	Team Americas	192.5 (Americas) 182.5 (World)	3,634	Team Americas prevailed in the short program with a score of 79.0 In the long program, Team Americas won with a score of 113.5 Alysa Liu became the first American woman to land a quadruple lutz in competition^[7]
Gymnastics	Team Americas	158.5	4,210	Balance Beam, Artistic Floor and Aesthetic Gymnastics won by Team Americas Power Tumbling won by Team World Parkour had a tie score of 34
Ice Hockey	Team Americas	3-1	2,851	Team World Goal by Annina Rajahuhta Team Americas Goals by Hannah Brandt, Kali Flanigan and Taylor Marchin^[8]
Table Tennis	Team Americas	5 Matches won 0 matches lost
Tennis	Team Americas	3 matches won, 2 matches lost	3,920	Bianca Andreescu Canada defeated Victoria Azarenka in a 6-2 final to win the fifth and deciding game^[9]

Rosters[edit]

Team Americas[edit]

THIS IS AN INCOMPLETE LIST

Honorary captain: Jackie Joyner-Kersee

Team World[edit]

THIS IS AN INCOMPLETE LIST

Honorary captain: Nadia Comăneci

Athlete Advisory Committee[edit]

The Athlete Advisory Committee is chaired by Donna de Varona.^[10]

Name	Title	Nationality	Notes
Tenley Albright	Advisory Board Member	United States	Medalist, 1952 and 1956 Winter Games
Doug Beal	Advisory Board Member	United States	Former CEO, USA Volleyball
Jane Blalock	Advisory Board Member	United States	Former LPGA golfer, Legends Hall of Fame, Founder and CEO of Legends Tour
Nadia Comăneci	Advisory Board Member	Romania	9-time medalist, 1976 and 1980 Summer Games
Bart Conner	Advisory Board Member	United States	2-time medalist, 1984 Summer Games
Chris Evert^[11]	Advisory Board Member	United States	18-time Grand Slam Champion
Jackie Joyner-Kersee	Advisory Board Member	United States	6-time medalist, 1984, 1988, 1992 and 1996 Summer Games
Nancy Kerrigan	Chair-Figure Skating	United States	2-time medalist, 1992 and 1994 Winter Games Winter Games
Ilana Kloss	Advisory Board Member	South Africa	CEO, World Team Tennis
Marti Malloy	Advisory Board Member	United States	1-time Medalist, 2012 Summer Games
Shannon Miller	Chair-Gymnastics	United States	7-time Medalist, 1992 and 1996 Summer Games
Digit Murphy	Advisor Board Member	United States	Former NCAA coach: Brown Bears, 2-time champion, 2013 and 2015 Clarkson Cup
Judy Murray	Advisory Board Member	Scotland	Tennis coach, motivational speaker
Monica Seles	Chair-Tennis	Serbia	9-time Grand Slam Champion
Kelli Stack	Chair-Ice Hockey	United States	2-time medalist, 2010 and 2014 Winter Games