AUSTRALIA – Forty Australian university track and field athletes will call Gwangju, South Korea, their ‘home’ for the duration of the 28th Summer Universiade, which begins on the 3rd of July. The ‘City of Light’ will play host to 10,000 university students from 170 nations. There are 21 sports to be contested in […]
CANADA – Karleigh Parker has catapulted herself, quite literally, onto the Canadian Summer Universiade team. Parker along with Lindsey Bergevin have been selected as the pole vault competitors for team Canada. Parker secured her place on the team with a vault of 4.15m (the Universiade standard) at her final track meet competing for Western […]
STATEMENT FROM THE FISU MEDICAL COMMITTEE CHAIR, Lawrence D. RINK, M.D. FISU wants everyone to know about a recent outbreak of Middle-East respiratory syndrome, Corona virus (MERS-Cov), in the Republic of Korea. This was first noted when a patient developed symptoms on May 11th. That patient had returned from […]
SEOUL – The Gwangju Universiade Organizing Committee (GUOC) held a conference with the heads of 21 national sports associations on 4 June at the Korea Press Center. Each leader represented the national sports associations of the 21 disciplines of the Gwangju Universiade. Officials who attended the conference include the GUOC President Kim Hwang-sik, […]
GWANGJU – The Gwangju Universiade Organizing Committee (GUOC) will help the national team of Nepal for their participation at the Summer Universiade. The GUOC, co-headed by Presidents Yoon Jang-hyun and Kim Hwang-sik, has begun a fund-raising event among the GUOC executives and staff members. The collected money from the May 21-29 fund-raising event will […]
LAUSANNE – The International University Sports Federation (FISU), the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and the Gwangju Universiade Organising Committee (GUOC) have partnered to develop a new resource to support universities from all over the world, in introducing the topic of the fight against doping in sport. The FISU-WADA-GUOC Anti-Doping Programme aims to […]
GWANGJU – On 15 May, the Gwangju 2015 Universiade Organizing Committee (GUOC) signed a partnership agreement with VIPS steakhouse. VIPS is a Korean restaurant chain owned by CJ Foodville of CJ Group. The restaurant serves top-quality steaks on high temperature barbeques and a seasonal salad bar that carries a wide variety of dishes […]
GWANGJU – The Gwangju Universiade has begun its preparation efforts in earnest with a series of test events and the opening of the Main Operation Center (MOC). With the games less than 50 days away, the Gwangju Universiade Organizing Committee (GUOC) is conducting the final-stage inspections while getting ready to imprint the cultural […]
