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2011 WU Update – Day 3 – Short Track Speed Skating: Finals 500 m

Winter Games 29 January 2011

ERZURUM – Yesterday, January 28th, we witnessed an All-Asian podium in the men’s and women’s 1,500 m. Today, a more ‘international’ podum could be witnessed.   Final Women’s 500m In the women’s final the audience witnessed a thrilling race where Canadian Valérie Lambert wriggled herself between the Asian short track powers and captured a silver […]

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2011 WU Update - Day 2 - Freestyle Skiing

Winter Games 28 January 2011

ERZURUM –  January 28th As you know, Freestyle Skiing is part of the 2011 Winter Universiade Program as an optional discipline for the second time in FISU history. Indeed, two years ago, during the 2009 Winter Universiade in Harbin, China, we had already the Ski Cross and the Freestyle Ski Jumping events. Today, for the […]

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2011 WU Update - Day 2 - Ski Jumping

Winter Games 28 January 2011

Elena Runggaldier (ITA) jumps to gold   ERZURUM – Today, January 28th, the 25th Winter Universiade really took off with student-athletes competing in a wide array of sports. Below an overview of today’s snow sport competitions. Ski Jumping For women ski jumpers the Winter Universiade is an important event. Indeed, ski jumping for women is […]

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2011 WU Update: Swiss are Ready

Winter Games 3 January 2011

SWITZERLAND – During the first screening process, the Swiss University Sport Federation has called up 45 athletes and 21 officials in the sports disciplines Curling, Cross-country Skiing, Figure Skating, Nordic Combined, Alpine Skiing, Ski Cross, Ski Jump and Snowboard for the Swiss Team participating at the 25th Winter Universiade in Erzurum.  With Tamara Wolf, Mirena Kueng, […]

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2011 WU Update: Biathlon Test Event – Day 2

Winter Games 23 December 2010

    ERZURUM – Yesterday, December 23rd, the Organizing Committee of the 25th Winter Universiade in Erzurum held its 2nd official Test Event for biathlon. All the functional staffs smoothly and perfectly prepared the test event and it started on time as scheduled. All key persons and relevant staff as well as volunteers transferred their […]

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2011 WU Update: Biathlon Test Event

Winter Games 22 December 2010

  ERZURUM – Yesterday December 21st, the Organizing Committee of the 25th Winter Universiade in Erzurum held the official Test Event for biathlon. The IBU Technical Delegate (TD) Ubaldo PRUCKER (ITA) was present to help and support the OC, while FISU was presented with Milan AUGUSTIN (Director to the Winter Universiade) and Jiho KIM (Sport […]

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2011 WU Update: CIS Announces Canadian Curling Teams

Winter Games 20 December 2010

OTTAWA – Canadian Interuniversity Sport announced Monday the 10 CIS student-athletes and the team officials who will represent Canada in curling at the 2011 Winter Universiade in Erzurum, Turkey. The 24th Winter World University Games will run from January 27 to February 6. The curling tournament kicks off on Jan. 28 with the finals set […]

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2011 WU Update: Erzurum Winter Universiade on the Big Screen

Winter Games 10 December 2010

General Coordinator Bekir Korkmaz being filmed   ERZURUM – Can Saraçoğlu, an experienced Turkish film director of nature sports, is filming a documentary of the 2011 Winter Universiade on behalf of the General Coordination of Erzurum 2011 WU. The shooting of the 12-part documentary film, which will last for 2 months, will be done both […]