Summer Games

Albina and her frien Julia from Kazan   Some of the future Universiade hosts are present in the Athletes’ Village with an information office. Smart thinking, as some of their future ‘customers’ are living in the Village. Present here in Belgrade are Erzurum, the Turkish host of the 2011 Winter Universiade; Shenzhen, the Chinese host […]

1976 Olympic Champion Isato Igarashi follows attentively the Artistic Gymnastics competition in Belgrade   With the Artistic Gymnastics competitions finished and the Rhythmic Gymnastics event ready to start here at the 25th Summer Universiade in Belgrade, FISU Media had a chat with FISU Executive Committee member Hisato Igarashi from Japan. Mr. Igarashi has followed the […]

Aussie Head of Delegation Martin Roberts    Martin Roberts and Aaron Schulha; an Australian and a Canadian. What do they have in common besides the Commonwealth bond? Well, at a certain point in their athletic career, both where high profile athletes participating at the Universiade. As a swimmer, Martin won two gold medals at the […]

The World continues to see an increase in the H1N1 Influenza. There are as of July 7, 2009, 100,000 cases worldwide and over 10,000 cases with four (4) deaths in the European Region (one of six regions of the WHO). Serbia is in this region and has reported over twenty (20) cases. There are multiples […]

Mrs. Sala Al Hamed HoD of Qatar and Miss Balsam Al-Ayoub, HoD of Kuwait taking notes at a HoD Meeting           Universiades always provides a good opportunity to get in contact with people from all over the world and discuss the further development of university sports in different countries. This possibility […]

FISU President Killian congratulates the gold medallist of the Men’s 50m Butterfly   The competitions of the 25th Summer Universiade are halfway. A perfect opportunity to have a closer look at the medal table so far. If we take the number of gold medals as a point of reference, then Korea takes the lead with […]

  Tension is rising for the swimmers here at the 25th Summer Universiade in Belgrade as the swimming competition will start tomorrow July 5th. The swimming will take place at the Sports & Recreational Center ‘Tasmajdan’ which is located in Belgrade, some 6 km from the Athletes’ Village and is equipped with an eight-lane 50m-outdoor […]