Alberta Winter Games

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Alberta Winter Games
Location of Alberta Games
Status	Active
Genre	Multi-sports event
Frequency	Biennial
Location(s)	Various
Country	Canada
Inaugurated	1976; 48 years ago (1976), Winter
Organized by	Sport Alberta
Website	albertasport.ca/alberta-games/summer2020/

The Alberta Winter Games (AWG) is a Canadian provincial multi-sport event hosted in the province of Alberta. It is the winter portion of the multi-sport Alberta Games, which also involves the Alberta Summer Games and is strictly for amateur athletes. The inaugural year for the Alberta Winter Games was in 1976 and was hosted in Banff, Alberta.

This event is held independently from the national Canadian event, the Canada Winter Games. Since 2000, the Alberta Winter Games and the Alberta Summer Games have been held every two years in the same calendar year, a change made in order to help to align the Alberta Games' cycle with the Canada Games.

A total of 19 sports are a part of the Alberta Winter Games and include the following:

• Canada Games
  • Canada Summer Games
  • Canada Winter Games
• Western Canada Summer Games
• BC Games
  • BC Summer Games
  • BC Winter Games
• Saskatchewan Games
• Manitoba Games
• Ontario Games
• Quebec Games

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