Gold for Japan ERZURUM – February 3rd – The Ski Jumping competition ended today with the Team event. Thanks to the regularity of Shotaro Hosada, Yumu Harada and Sho Suzuki, Japan gained the Gold Medal followed by Slovenia and Poland, three countries which are traditionally really strong in Ski Jumping events. This concluded a fantastic […]
Seppi Stiegler (USA), Winner of the Men’s Slalom Another Gold for USA ERZURUM – February 6th- The Alpine Skiing competition ended today in Konakli with the Men’s Slalom with 104 competitors coming from 30 different countries! The weather was foggy and the slope very technical that’s why a lot of skiers did not finished the […]
ERZURUM – February 5th –The “mass start” event was the last in the biathlon competition at the Universiade. No one was happier today than the FISU biathlon technical delegate, Czech Ondrej Rybar. And we are not referring to how smoothly all the events ran under the supervision of himself and the IBU delegate Ubaldo Prucker. […]
Another Gold for Ukraine ERZURUM – February 4th – Who but the Ukrainians could hope to take the mixed relay? The team was totally irresistible, with the Medallists from the previous events: Artem Pryma, Sergii Semenov, Svitlana Krykonchk and Vita Semerenko — they finished 2 minutes 28 seconds ahead of the Russians (!) and 3 […]
Jennifer Vanwagner gained the Gold ERZURUM – February 3rd- The Alpine Skiing competition continued today in Konakli with the Women’s Giant Slalom. Despite the very low temperature, the sun was shinning and the snow conditions were excellent. 83 competitors were registered for this event and the level was quite high. We must underline that […]
Shion Kokubun in action ERZURUM – Another busy day today February 3rd at the figure skating arena of the 25th Winter Universiade. As it was the case the previous days, the skaters could count on a full capacity crowd to present their performances. In the ladies’ individual short program, the spectators saw a wide […]
Difficult weather conditions during the Men’s Giant Slalom Bernhard Graf gained the Gold ERZURUM – February 4th- The Alpine Skiing competition continued today in Konakli with the Men’s Giant Slalom. Despite the very low temperature and the bad weather, 108 competitors were registered for this event and the level was quite high. Bernhard Graf from […]
Bronze medallist Daisuke Murakami ERZURUM – Two major competitions in figure skating today, February 2nd: the men’s individual free program and the ice dance free program in front of another full house at the ice arena. Silver medallist Sergey Voronov In the men’s individual, the three Turkish skaters were well cheered by the public, […]
