Summer Games

While heavy rains and winds lashed across Italy in recent weeks causing massive damage in areas, the spirit of university sport is going strong in the Veneto. For the region in Italy’s northeastern corner in the heart of the Dolomites that means citizens and students alike are rebuilding and repairing for the Winter National University […]

 “The energy over there was unreal” James Linde of Canada (left), ebullient after the athletics 200 metre final at the Taipei 2017 Summer Universiade, is flanked by France’s Jeffrey John and Slovakia’s Jan Volko on the awards stand 18 months after his silver medal performance at the 2017 Summer Universiade in Taipei, Canadian sprinter James […]

First of its kind Athletes’ Village at the 2019 Summer Universiade NAPOLI — With just about 8 months to go for the Napoli 2019 Summer Universiade, the competing student-athletes are in for a real treat. For the first time in multi-sport event history, part of the athletes’ village will be housed on board a luxury […]

NAPOLI — The power of the university sport movement is in the volunteers and this is certainly in the case when it comes to the hosting of the Universiades.   The Napoli 2019 organising committee has opportunities available to join the team that will play a central role in making the world’s premiere university summer […]

FISU President Oleg Matytsin marked the start of the Buenos Aires 2018 Youth Olympic Games by officially opening the University Sports House in the Youth Olympic Park, alongside Argentina University Sports Federation (FeDUA) President Emiliano Ojea   The University Sports House is a mobile booth created together by FISU and FeDUA to help inform Youth […]

The biannual FISU Executive Committee meetings today focused on the efforts, directions and decisions of the upcoming Universiades, the World University Championships and the World University Leagues LAUSANNE – The FISU Executive Committee continued with the second and final day of the meetings in the home of International university sport, as a number of important progress reports […]

Gwangju may witness next Unified Korean team   BRUSSELS — The artistic and culturally vibrant South Korean city of Gwangju, which successfully hosted the Gwangju 2015 Summer Universiade in the past, is now all set to host the highest swimming meet in the world. The world class aquatics venues of Gwangju 2015 will be under […]

 “You can be successful in both, sports and studies”   Student. Athlete. Olympian. Academic. Universiade gold medallist. These are just some of the words that could be used to describe Madeleine Pape, but she is much more than just the sum of these parts.   A former track athlete from Australia, who represented her country […]