Summer Games

The Mongolian delegation, comprised of the 33 student-athletes that will soon take on the competitions in sevens sports of the Napoli 2019 Summer Universiade, and the team-behind-the team, the coaches and officials ULAANBAATAR – Gathered at the nation’s national library, the Mongolian Student Sports Federation put on an fitting send-off to the Napoli 2019 Summer […]

MADRID – With interest in university sports at an all-time high, the Olympic Channel will follow up its successful foray from Winter Universiade 2019 by live streaming the Napoli 2019 Summer Universiade.   Coverage gets underway on 3 July at 21:00 CET with the Opening Ceremony and will be available worldwide* at olympicchannel.com, its mobile […]

Under the delegation motto “ Passion, Challenge, Success.” 82 Swiss athletes competing in 11 sports gathered late last week to collect the official team wear, to take some photos equipped in this team wear and to hear about what soon awaits them in southern Italy for the Napoi 2019 Summer Universiade.   Athletes hopping into […]

“All I want to do is try and get under the Olympic A qualifying time as many times as I can!”  The beauty of a FISU Summer Universiade is that it brings together student-athletes to compete against like-minded, but at the same time, totally diverse athletes from all corners of the globe.   Some student […]

Count on the 30th Summer Universiade #ToBeUnique     5971 officially entered athletes   2936 staying on cruise ship Athletes’ Village   1247 confirmed entries in Athletics alone   1000 performers at the Opening Ceremony   649   swimmers heading to Napoli 301   Italian competitors in the fray   222   medal events or finals   112   countries represented […]

The name Nadia Comaneci will forever be associated with a ‘Perfect 10’. At the young age of fourteen, the Romanian stunned the world during the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal by becoming the first gymnast ever to be awarded a perfect score of 10.0. The legendary athlete went onto receive six more perfect 10s en […]

SEOUL — With the expressed goal to promote sport development through identifying and training emerging global sports leaders, two FISU candidates were selected as this year’s Dream Together Master scholarship winners from Seoul National University’s Global Sport Management Graduate Program.    Chidiebere Ezeani of Nigeria and Razif Sazali of Malaysia were awarded scholarships, the sixth edition […]

EKATERINBURG – The Russian city of Ekaterinburg moved one step closer to being attributed the Summer Universiade 2023, as the FISU Evaluation Committee conducted a visit from 10-13 June.   The Committee was composed of FISU Vice President Marian Dymalski, FISU Treasurer Danzandorj Byayasgalan, FISU Secretary General-CEO Eric Saintrond and FISU Winter Universiade Director Milan […]