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Brasilia showcased combat sports at their very best

Championships 8 June 2026

Five continents represented, five disciplines on the programme and dozens of beautiful medals awarded to so many inspirational student-athletes. Look back on a thrilling event. The combat sports fans were spoilt for choice last week with the best student-athletes in the world competing in ju-jitsu, karate, muaythai, wrestling and wushu right in Brazilia. Did you […]

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FISU student-athletes take 54 medals home from the Milano Cortina Games

Winter Games 24 February 2026

With podiums – and 19 Olympic golds – in biathlon, cross-country skiing, curling, figure skating, freestyle & freeski, short track speed skating, snowboard and speed skating, current and past FISU World University Games and Universiade participants made us proud it Italy. Biathlon Suvi Minkkinen from Finland claimed the only FISU student-athlete medal in biathlon by […]

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From football to athletics

Summer Games 24 July 2025

Five years ago, Niklas Strohmayer-Dangl was a football player in the fourth tier of Austrian competition. Fast-forward to Rhine-Ruhr 2025 and he’s now placed eighth in the men’s 400m hurdles of the FISU World University Games, on Wednesday, 23 July. The entrepreneurship student at IU Internationale Hochschule in Erfurt, Germany, grew up playing football in […]

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Smashing on the Los Angeles sand

Summer Games 23 July 2025

It simply was not Austria’s day. On Wednesday, 23 July at the Rhine-Ruhr 2025 FISU World University Games in Duisburg, Magdalena Rabitsch and Anja Trailovic stumbled against Poland in their third and final match of the women’s preliminary round, losing 21-12 and 21-19. “The Polish team was very strong, and we knew. We just couldn’t […]

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EUSA celebrates it's 25 anniversary in style in Vienna

Austria 18 November 2024

FISU President Leonz Eder and Secretary General and CEO Eric Saintrond attended the EUSA Conference on 16 November as well as the gala dinner in the evening. FISU awarded EUSA for the outstanding cooperation and support between the two entities. Over 150 participants from all over Europe, as well as guests from visiting countries and […]