Championships

  OPORTO – The Organizing Committee of the 2013 European Universities Championship and 2014 World University Beach Volleyball Championship held a campaign to promote its Facebook page in the 2nd Portuguese University tournament of the sport, in Oporto. The initiative had a lot of smiles from the participants and was undoubtedly an original action. Now […]

CAPE TOWN – South Africa has been chosen to host the first ever World University Netball Championships (WUNC), to be held at the Good Hope Centre in Cape Town from July 2 to 7. “This is a great honour for South Africa and will do much to develop the sport in this country,” said FISU […]

BRUSSELS – A selection of the photos and videos of the 18th World University Cross-country Championship which took place in Lodz, Poland on April 14th are now online as well. The photos of this event can be found on the FISU Flickr page, while the videos can be found on the FISU You Tube page. The […]

LODZ– The 18th World University Cross-country Championships that took place in Lodz (Poland) on the 14th April, added more names to the long list of cross-country World University Champions. The Organising Committee, composed by young men & women from the Technical University of Lodz, did an excellent job by delivering a top quality event to the […]

LODZ– Japan was the outstanding performer at the 18th World University Cross-country Championships by winning both male and female team titles. This was in addition to the silver and bronze medals won in the individual male competition. Race day started with the women’s individual race with 61 competitors from 16 countries at the start line. The […]

LODZ– The final day of preparations for the 18th World University Cross-country Championship saw all teams arrive safely in Lodz. In total, the official numbers have 23 countries represented, with a total of 76 male and 61 female athletes. In total, 48 officials are accompanying the teams present, accounting for 185 overall participants. Teams present are […]

WUC Cross-country underway  LODZ – With one day to go, WUC Cross-country is in full swing with final preparations underway for the 18th edition of one of the oldest World University Championships on the FISU programme. Algeria, Australia, Austria, Canada, China, Estonia, France, Germany, Great Britain,  Japan, New Zealand, Portugal, Romania, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, […]