Summer Games

    TAIPEI CITY – For the 365 Days Countdown to Taipei Universiade carnival held on 20 August at the Taipei’s Citizens’ Square, the square was transformed into a small Universiade stadium. Visitors became athletes, trying their hand at the sports at 22 booths and Athletes’ Village training courses. The various distinctive country booths showed […]

    TAIPEI CITY – With exactly a year to go, the accreditation process for the 2017 Taipei Summer Universiade has now opened, and the Accreditation and Entry Guidelines were released on 19 August. The event, which will take place from 19 to 30 August, will see about 12,000 delegation members from 150 countries. Taipei […]

  Fabian Hambüchen winning silver at the Kazan SU in 2013 (Photo by Alexander Vogel) RIO DE JANEIRO – 28-year old German gymnast Fabian Hambüchen, gold medal winner of the Gwangju Universiade at the horizontal bar and laureate of the ‘FISU Best Male Athlete Award’ in 2015, has won the Olympic gold medal in Rio […]

    RIO DE JANEIRO – Three years ago, on the track at the Central Stadium in Kazan at the 2013 Summer Universiade in Russia, Wayde van Niekerk and his South African teammates achieved bronze in the 4x400m relay. The then 21-year-old had come third in the semi-finals of his individual 400m race, failing to […]

CAPETOWN – The last three years have witnessed a meteoric rise for talented South African sprinter Wayde van Niekerk, who, from failing to qualify for the Universiade finals in 2013, is now a record-breaker, history-maker and the flag-bearer for his country at the Rio Summer Olympics. Having originally started out as a high-jumper at school, […]

    CAPETOWN – For proof that FISU’s Summer Universiades are indeed a stepping stone to greater heights for some of the world’s best athletes, look no further than the South African 2016 Rio Olympics squad, which contains seven Student Games medallists who will be gunning for glory on the biggest global sporting stage in […]

CALI – This week, FISU Secretary General/CEO Eric Saintrond travelled to Cali, Colombia to meet local authorities and present the project Universiade 2021. Already an organizer of the World Games in 2013 and many world championships including the World Junior Championships in Athletics (IAAF) in 2015, the city of Cali would make a perfect host […]

  SOUTH AFRICA – For 21-year-old South African rower Bradley Betts, last year’s Summer Universiade in Gwangju was not only an eye-opening experience, but a stepping stone to greater things. Betts’ love for rowing started eight years ago after he was invited to attend a rowing camp in his seaside hometown of Port Alfred in […]