Summer Games

Tayla Lovemore won two gold medals for South Africa at last year’s Napoli 2019 Summer Universiade. Now she relishes the opportunity to be back in the pool again as her focus turns on the Tokyo Olympics in 2021.   The 25-year-old has competed internationally in various events such as the World Championships in Canada (2016)/ […]

Always a Summer Universiade draw, the rhythmic gymnastics competition in Sicily held up its bargain as the entire event would go on to include 33 Olympic medal winners and 48 world champions amongst its competitors Sicily has seen its fair share of occupiers over the centuries: the Romans, the Phoenicians, the Saracens, the Normans, the […]

CHENGDU – In the world of venture capital, a unicorn is a near-mythical company that has reached a valuation of over one billion U.S. dollars. You might hear about them from time-to-time, but it isn’t something one often finds while out for a city stroll or walk in the woods.   Well, for the Chengdu […]

When we think of sporting nations we often think of athletic powerhouses like Russia, Great Britain, or China who claim dozens of medals at major sporting events. But some of the most inspiring stories come from athletes representing smaller nations, with smaller populations, in faraway corners of the world.   One such story is that […]

Swimming once again took centre stage during the Summer Universiade in Fukuoka, Japan The Fukuoka 1995 Summer Universiade took place in a time of turmoil but once again exhibited the power of sport to build bridges between peoples of all countries and backgrounds.   While war was raging in ex-Yugoslavia, athletes from both sides of […]

More than 1,500 creative proposals were received for the concept of the Chengdu 2021 FISU World University Games’ opening and closing ceremonies, as a result of an open worldwide call earlier this year. This week, the Organising Committee of the next summer edition of the Games released the results, the sheer number of which set […]

The German Federal Government and State Government of North Rhine-Westphalia support German University Sports Federation (adh) application to host the summer edition of the 2025 Games   Over the past few months, the German University Sports Federation (adh) has laid the foundation to formally bid to host the largest university multi-sports event, the FISU World […]

FISU President Oleg Matytsin and FISU Secretary General-CEO Eric Saintrond congratulated the newly appointed Mayor of Chengdu, Wang Fengchao, who will also assume the responsibility of overseeing preparations for next summer’s FISU World University Games in the city.   “On behalf of FISU, we are all looking forward to the Chengdu 2021 FISU World University […]