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‘Crazy gang’ Italy win women’s volleyball gold

Summer Games 24 July 2025

Italy beat Japan in the women’s volleyball gold medal match on Wednesday and then immediately entered another competition – to decide who would lead the post-match celebrations in Berlin. The team with big ambitions and even larger personalities looked comfortable from the opening exchanges at the Max-Schmeling-Halle, losing only the second set en route to […]

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Home-court advantage

Summer Games 24 July 2025

Wednesday, 23 July marked the debut of the judo competition at the Rhine-Ruhr 2025 FISU World University Games. A discipline based on the philosophy of maximizing efficiency and minimising effort, where a single, well-executed move can immediately end a bout, and sometimes secure a medal. That’s exactly what happened on the day for Helen Habib, […]

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From fencers to volunteers: a homecoming at the FISU Games

Summer Games 24 July 2025

“If you want to see the whole world, come to the FISU Games.” These words come from Rajan Prashar and Tariq Hussain, former FISU World University Games fencers representing India, who are now returning to the Games in a new role — as fencing venue volunteers. “It is the love for fencing and world sport […]

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Not just about medals

Summer Games 24 July 2025

Together they sat in the stands watching badminton matches in Mülheim an der Ruhr. Three officials and four student-athletes. One of them had just stepped off the court on Wednesday, 23 July, the second day of singles and doubles action at the Rhine-Ruhr 2025 FISU World University Games. Two male and two female players are […]

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From football to athletics

Summer Games 24 July 2025

Five years ago, Niklas Strohmayer-Dangl was a football player in the fourth tier of Austrian competition. Fast-forward to Rhine-Ruhr 2025 and he’s now placed eighth in the men’s 400m hurdles of the FISU World University Games, on Wednesday, 23 July. The entrepreneurship student at IU Internationale Hochschule in Erfurt, Germany, grew up playing football in […]

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Smashing on the Los Angeles sand

Summer Games 23 July 2025

It simply was not Austria’s day. On Wednesday, 23 July at the Rhine-Ruhr 2025 FISU World University Games in Duisburg, Magdalena Rabitsch and Anja Trailovic stumbled against Poland in their third and final match of the women’s preliminary round, losing 21-12 and 21-19. “The Polish team was very strong, and we knew. We just couldn’t […]

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Bullseye!

Summer Games 23 July 2025

Sixty archers approach the line. The venue goes silent, followed by the swooshing sound of 60 arrows flying off the bowstring, again and again. Archery is a sport that requires precision, focus and accuracy, and at the Rhine-Ruhr 2025 FISU World University Games competition, victory is achieved in that quiet environment. Each of the archers […]

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“I feel so happy to represent my country”

Summer Games 23 July 2025

The -87kg semifinal between Ukraine’s Artem Harbar and Michael Rodriguez of the United States on Tuesday, 22 July was one of the most anticipated matchups of the men’s taekwondo competition at the Rhine-Ruhr 2025 FISU World University Games. It was the final before the final, as the saying goes, a much-anticipated bout between a veteran […]