Summer Games

In March 2019, with athletes outfitted in Siberian-ready parkas for the Krasnoyarsk 2019 Winter Universiade, the Chengdu 2021 candidature committee received the news any bidding city wants to hear – that they won the right to host the FISU World University Games during the summer of 2021.   With the International University Sports Federation (FISU) Executive […]

Preparation work for the Chengdu2021 FISU World University Games next summer are in full swing. While 13 entirely new facilities are coming up, renovation of 36 existing venues is speeding up, as the summer games approach in just over one year.   The National Key Table Tennis Training School, which will be a training venue during the […]

Take a trip back through 60 years of Universiade history. The 29th stop on the FISU history tour takes us back to the junction of Rhine and Ruhr Rivers in Germany for the Duisburg 1989 Summer Universiade.   After the roaring success of Zagreb 1987, hopes were high for the Summer Universiade set for two […]

Take a trip back through 60 years of Universiade history. The 28th stop on the FISU history tour takes us back to the Bulgarian capital again for the Sofia 1987 Winter Universiade.   FISU turned to a familiar partner in Sofia to organise the 1989 Winter Universiade, tasking the Bulgarian capital to host the Universiade […]

Since Ekaterinburg earned hosting duties to the FISU World University Games in 2023, the organisers are actively engaged to impress participants and spectators with an innovative programme. By adding cultural competitions to the traditional sports program, they surely aim at something more than enriching the heritage of the event.   The cultural conception of the […]

Take a trip back through 60 years of Universiade history. The 27th stop on FISU’s Universiade history tour takes us to Zagreb along the Sava River for the 14th edition of the Summer Universiade.   The Zagreb 1987 Summer Universiade picked up right where things left off two years before in Kobe, continuing to raise […]

Ekaterinburg successfully hosted competitions from the 2018 FIFA World Cup one year before earning the right to hold the Summer Universiade in 2023. (Image: Ekateringburg 2023) On the eve of the start to the Napoli 2019 Summer Universiade, the FISU Executive Committee entrusted the right to host the FISU World University Games to Ekaterinburg in […]

For three-time Universiade participant Kimberly Hyacinthe, cultural experiences at the FISU World University Games were as memorable as the competitions themselves.   Hyacinthe, a Canadian sprinter, participated in the 2009 Summer Universiade in Belgrade, 2011 in Shenzhen, and 2013 in Kazan, winning two gold medals and making lifelong memories in the process. She still recalls the […]