GWANGJU – “She didn`t gain the reputation as the best junior right wing handballer that easy.” Says Anna Vyakhireva (RUS)`s coach. Anna or as she likes her friends to call her ‘Anya’, was born on the 13th of March, 1995, in Volgograd, Russia. She comes from a humble labor family, both of her parents […]
Gwangju – Uganda has been participating in the Universiade since 1973. To date, athletes from Uganda have won various medals for outstanding performances. For the first time in the history of the Universiade, Uganda brings a female basketball team to compete in the women’s tournament. The delegation of Uganda for the 28th Summer […]
GWANGJU – Gymnast Fabian Hambüchen finished his student-athlete career and the artistic gymnastics competition at the 2015 Gwangju Summer Universiade with a gold medal in his prime discipline, the horizontal bar. The sport management and communication student from the German Sport University Cologne placed himself in front of the two Japanese Shogo Nonomura and […]
Teacher Na Yu Mi with one of her pupilsGWANGJU – Athletes of today are the leaders of tomorrow and young people of today are the Universiade athletes of tomorrow. The Korean teachers didn’t want to keep away their pupils from a big event that’s taking place in their city. Na Yu Mi, a design […]
GWANGJU – Alongside the hosting of the 28th Summer Universiade in Gwangju, Korea, FISU has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the International School Sport Federation (ISF). FISU President Claude-Louis Gallien and the ISF President Laurent Petrynka signed a MOU between both federations. This signature features in wide array of partnerships already signed by FISU […]
GWANGJU – We often find families interested in the same sports, like the William sisters, the Murray brothers and others. But it is not often that they are twins and identical. Well the 28th Universiade in Gwangju Korea will see the identical duo of Chandril Sood and Lakshit Sood, from India feature in the […]
GWANGJU – Happiness and sadness, hope and sorrow, will and despair, a mix of emotions has been expressed by Atef Ben Chaabane, the Tunisian head of delegation. Tunisia, a small country in Northern Africa was represented in the 28th Summer Universiade by two judo athletes Sarra Mzoughi and Hamza Barhoumi. The two representatives of […]
GWANGJU – Members of the Young Reporters’ Programme were taken on a tour of the Athletes’ Village by SU Manager Jing Zhao. The Village is quite an impressive, the accommodation facilities which looked up to par, a very functional medical center and also information areas. Catching the attention was the Center for Sexual […]
