Summer Games

President Medvedev with the Universiade Medallists   On July 17th, 2009, President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev met the winners and medallists of the Russian delegation at the 25th Summer Universiade in Belgrade, Serbia. The meeting was held in Ekaterininsky Hall of the Kremlin in Moscow. The Russian delegation headed the medal table tally […]

In the Friendship Park, Belgrade at 9h30 on July 11th, the ‘Charles Wendon Memorial Race for Officials’ took place over 3 km. This event, the 19th in the series, was seen following the half marathon on part of the half marathon course. 36 competitors from nine countries took part in the race. In a tight […]

  How can you see that the Universiade is coming to an end? Well, stroll through the Athletes’ Village and go to the main square. You will find the athletes swapping their team uniforms with each other. This makes it difficult to talk to an athlete, because the guy wearing a shirt that says ‘Australia’, […]

Performers from Shenzhen, the next Summer Universiade host in 2011 Today, July 12th, the curtain fell on the 25th Summer Universiade hosted in Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. For 12 days student-athletes from all over the world competed against each other in 14 different sports and lived together in harmony in a fantastic Athletes’ Village. […]

  Yesterday, July 10th, the football tournament at the Universiade came to an end with the men’s and women’s finals. After an interesting 90 minutes, the Ukrainians celebrated a 3:2 victory over Italy. ‘We played well and won’, said Volodymyra Lozinskyi, coach of the champions. ‘It is difficult to play against a team that has […]

  The Russian team was too strong today as the Russian players managed to win the gold medal against Brazil. Serving and receiving have now become crucial. Teams that couldn’t count on that could not hope to win a match. That’s one of the reasons explaining Russians’ domination.The players were also very strong on defence and […]

The Universiade Swimming Pool: the place of broken records     If there is one sport at the Universiade that vouches for Universiade Records to be broken, then it is without doubt swimming. Already from the first day of the competition four records were broken. Until now 24 records have been sharpened. Revelation of the […]

 Full attendence at the joint FISU/OC UB2009 Press Conference   With the end of the 25th Universiade coming near, FISU and the Organizing Committee of the 2009 Summer Universiade held a joint press conference at the MPC today, July 10th. At the joint conference it was stated that the organization of the Universiade in Belgrade […]