Summer Games

Record breaking night in South Africa’s Varsity Sports opener   POTCHEFSTROOM, South Africa — The first sports event in South Africa’s premier university sport tournament ‘Varsity Sport’ concluded in spectacular fashion on Friday evening as records tumbled in an action-packed athletics competition. Varsity Sports is a group of university sports leagues in South Africa which […]

The Universiade Flame entering its home stretch before the start of the 29th Winter Universiade, just like the year’s first of two FISU Executive Committee meetings KRASNOYARSK — With the Universiade Flame approaching the city limits of this Siberian city for the cauldron lighting to open Winter Universiade 2019, a special guest opened the second […]

During the Executive Committee session of the International University Sports Federation (FISU) in Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation, the Summer Universiade 2021 was officially attributed to Chengdu, People’s Republic of China. KRASNOYARSK – The Summer Universiade 2021 will be held in Chengdu, the capital city of the Sichuan Province of China. The final step in awarding the […]

South Africa’s men’s Rugby 7s team emerged victorious at the FISU WUC Rugby 7s tournament last year, and will look to take that form into this summer’s Universiade, which sees Rugby 7s return to the programme for the first time since Kazan 2013. It may be still over 130 days until this summer’s Universiade in […]

NAPOLI – With five months to go before the Opening Ceremony of the Napoli 2019 Summer Universiade, the Organising Committee has received the green signal to go full steam ahead in completing all the work in progress in Naples and the entire Campania region.        The FISU Summer Universiade Supervision Committee (CSU) completed a […]

Montreal native Alex Kiss-Rusk had one of the most decorated careers in McGill Martlets basketball history. Canadian basketball standout Alex Kiss-Rusk in action for her university. Photo credit: McGill University Athletics The 6’4 center played on McGill’s women’s basketball season from 2013 to 2018, earning the school’s Female Athlete of the Year award in 2017 […]

FISU conducts Summer Universiade 2021 evaluation visit to Chengdu CHENGDU – A newly conceived 40,000-capacity stadium was one of the main venues visited by a FISU delegation in Chengdu, China ahead of the Summer Universiade 2021. Following the signing of a pre-attribution agreement between FISU and the city of Chengdu, this FISU delegation led by […]

A superb 2018 has evolved into an incredible start to 2019 for talented South African footballer Thembi Kgatlana, who undoubtedly reached the peak of her young career by stealing the show at the African Football Awards ceremony on Tuesday evening.   Just two years ago, Kgatlana was head down, buried in the books at the […]