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The EMG were held for the first time ever in Malmö, Sweden from the 29th of august to the 7th of September 2008. The Games benefit from the patronage of the International Masters Games Association (IMGA), which is recognised by the International Olympic Committee, and which through the European Masters Sports Association embodies the Olympic idea that sport is a human right for people of all ages regardless of race, social class, gender and economic circumstance. The European Masters Games will take place every four years,.
The EMG are for people who see sport as an enjoyable path to fitness as well as an opportunity to use physical activity as a mean to satisfy other individuals and social needs.

The European Masters Games were created with a view to:

- Promoting the philosophy of "sport for life" and "sport for all".
- Motivating a goal-orientated and long-term attitude towards sport and physical fitness.
- Offering a broad-based participation in an open sports event featuring a number of disciplines in a truly multi national environment.
- Encouraging mature individuale from all over Europe to participate in sport regardless of sex, race, religion or sports status.
- Setting an example by the participants to inspire the youth of Europe to acknowledge that competitive sport may continue throughout life.

Expressions such as "senior" or "veteran" are often applied to mature athletes. Masters are competitors who comply with the International Sports Federations' rules regarding the minimum age in their respective sport, normally between 30 and 40 years.
Most Masters' sports are furthermore organised in age categories of five or ten years intervals.
Participants in Masters Games may be former World Champions or Olympians, national representatives, club athletes or social level sportspeople.
They participate for a multitude of reasons, with the level of competition ranging from elite to social standard. Participants compete as individuals and not in national teams. There are no qualification or selection criteria to compete in the European Masters Games. The only entry requirement is that competitors satisfy the minimum age for competition specified in the technical rules of the respective international sports federations.

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