Championships

GUIMARAES – Largo da Oliveira in Guimarães hosted the opening ceremony of the 12th World University Chess Championship. As a protocol procedure, the Portuguese national flag came up on stage accompanied with the national anthem. After this official action, all the teams of the eighteen different countries paraded with a musical group of Minho’s University […]

GUIMARAES – The 12th World University Championship of Chess is about to start. On 19th August all the participants took part in a technical meeting to establish all the rules of the tournament and to be introduced to the major names of the organization such as Eugen Fleischer, chair of FISU Chess Technical Committee, Kadirhan […]

Women’s Relay Podium ALICANTE – Relay is the most popular team competition in orienteering. The Relay Race took place in Santa Pola It was a very though relay competition for all teams with a number of three legs finished. All competitors struggled very hard to win the gold medal. In the women’s competition, the Swedish […]

LIBEREC – Yesterday, July 5th, once again stormy weather came spoiling the fun delaying the competition. Men’s Competition Philip Ericsson from Sweden cut through the Spanish domination in the men’s individual competition of the 14th WUC Golf in Liberec, Czech Republic. With his result of 64 and a total score of 200 Ericsson moves up […]

LIBEREC – The second competition day of the 14th World University Golf Championship awoke to the foggy weather, that was the reason for a 20 minutes delay of teetimes in the women’s competition. Despite the bad weather, after this small delay the first flights of women in the second round were released. Together with thirty […]

Women’s Sprint PodiumALICANTE – Today, Wednesday, July 4th, the Sprint distance competition took place in the heart of the City of Alicante from 16:30. First the competitors were carried to the Santa Barbara Castle, using the elevator. Inside the castle, a quarantine area with warm-up zone and controls was available and pre-start area was placed […]

The Netball America team with students from the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls, last week in Cape Town CAPETOWN – Netball is the biggest women’s sport – and the second biggest sport overall – in South Africa, with hundreds of thousands of girls and women exposed to the sport every year.  There is fierce […]

LIBEREC – Monday the 2nd of July from 8 pm at the sports hall of the Technical University in Liberec the official opening of the 14th World Universtiy Golf Championship took place. Before the eyes of the spectators 21 countries were presented and enrolled to hear the opening speech by Senate Deputy MD. Premysl Sobotka. […]