What a Happy Technical Chair! Was there a more happy man Saturday morning in the Harbin Universiade than our Biathlon Technical Chair Ondrej Rybar? We are not writing about the fact he could be happy about the way biathlon events were perfectly run by the IBU Delegate Ubaldo Pruckner and himself. We are just talking […]
Today, February 27th, a day prior to the Closing Ceremony of the 24th Winter Universiade in Harbin, China, FISU traditionally held its closing press conference together with the Harbin Organizing Committee. FISU President Killian was very satisfied with the Games. ‘Well organized, these Games were a great success’, Mr. Killian said. ‘We had […]
The Men’s 30 km classic, mass start All the competitions ended today in Yabuli and the delegations are already busy with their departure. This will mark the end of their fantastic “Chinese experience”. All the athletes and organisers felt a bit sad this morning.But anyway, the show must go on, and we had a […]
Medal Podium Big Air Kazuhiro Kokubo reaches the skyWho else than the Japanese star Kazuhiro Kokubo could win the last snowboard event of the Universiade program, the so called Big Air. We have already said everything about this rider when he won the title two days ago in the half pipe competition. But do not […]
Women’s Curling Semi-FinalCHN-RUS 11:2 GBR-CAN 5:7 Bronze Medal GameRUS-GBR 8:4 Men’s Curling Semi-FinalSWE-CHN 8:7 NOR-KOR 5:2 Bronze Medal GameKOR-CHN 5:9
Women’s Team PursuitToday the Long Track Speed Skating competition at the 24th Winter Universiade ended with the Team Pursuit Race. The Chinese skaters once more delivered and won the gold. Silver and bronze went to Korea and Russia respectively. 1. CHN – 03:07.38 – UR (DONG FEIFEI, JI JIA, FU CHUNYAN)2. KOR – 03:12.37 […]
CAN vs. SVK WomenJPN – GBR 10-0 (6-0, 2-0, 2-0)Japan and Great Britain battled it out for the 6th and 5th place of the inaugural women’s ice hockey tournament at the Winter Universiade. Team Nippon clearly was the strongest of both teams taking the lead from the first face-off onwards. CAN – SVK 10-1 […]
Katarzina Karasinska from Poland, during the first run Women’s alpine skiing competition ended today with the women’s slalom. We had again shinny but windy conditions on the Daguokui slope of Yabuli. Polish team signed a superb double thanks to Katarzyna Karasinska and Aleksandra Klus. Katarzyna, this fantastic skier was the favourite. She won both […]
