Championships

  BRUSSELS – The 2012 World University Championship season has successfully started with the 3rd World University Water Skiing Championship held in Santiago de Chile (CHI). This year, FISU has decided to offer the chance to all the persons attending a World University Championship –athletes, officials, spectators or even organizers – to participate in the […]

Fernando Costa (Portuguese Chess Federation) at the center with Fernando Parente and Roque Teixeira of the Organizing Committee of the 2012 WUC Chess   GUIMARÃES – Last Friday, January 13th, a meeting was held at the University of Minho’s Sports Services between the 12th World University Chess Championship Organizing Committee, represented by Fernando Parente and […]

BRUSSELS – As presented earlier this week, the program of the 2014 World University Championships will be completed during the next FISU Executive Committee meeting in May in Kazan (RUS). During this meeting the bids of the cities interested in hosting one of the 37 World University Championships will be evaluated and attribution will be […]

BRUSSELS – Although the 2012 World University Championships campaign is about to start, part of the program of the 2014 WUCs has already been attributed as well. Early nomination meaning early preparation, some FISU member associations decided to bid for the organization of a 2014 WUC in 2011 and were awarded the right to host the events. […]

BRUSSELS – Further to the first Executive Committee meeting held from November 28th to 29th, FISU appointed new committees. The World University Championships now have a new International Technical Committee (CTI) which will be chaired for the four next years by Leonz EDER (SUI), FISU Vice President assisted by two vice chairs, Luciano CABRAL (BRA) […]

BRUSSELS – The 2012 World University Championships are coming closer, and in order to insure a smooth running of the competitions, the delegations are required to send their entries on time according to the table which can be downloaded here. With 28 WUC organized in 2012, FISU hopes to break the record number of 6,000 […]

Medals of the University of Minho sport events   BRAGA – The Organising Committees of the 2012 World University Championships in Futsal and Chess will already be in action this December with the organisation of the European Universities Championships in Taekwondo. Indeed, the team behind these two FISU events will start training volunteers and testing […]

PARIS – For the first time in its history, France will host three World University Championships in the same academic year: Bridge in Reims (10/15 July 2012), Rugby 7s in Brive-la-Gaillarde (11/13 July 2012) and Match Racing in Nice (3-8 September 2012). The three web sites dedicated to each of these events are now available […]