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#WUAlmaty2017: Update Ice Hockey – Day 7

Winter Games 5 February 2017

  Men’s Classifications Round KOR vs GBR Great Britain made history today here in Almaty. It won its first game at the Winter Universiade. Team GB beat Korea in the classification round. It was Charnock who netted the puck in a powerplay five minutes into the first period. In the second period Team GB widened […]

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#WUAlmaty2017: Update Curling - Day 6

Winter Games 4 February 2017

      ALMATY – At the conclusion of the Winter Universiade Games curling round robin – being held in the Almaty Arena, Kazakhstan – on Saturday (4 February), seven of the eight teams for the play-offs were decided. One tie-breaker is required on Sunday (5 February).     The tie-breaker will be between Switzerland […]

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#WUAlmaty2017: Update Ice Hockey – Day 6

Winter Games 4 February 2017

      ALMATY – While the preliminary round has ended, teams are moving to the next phase in the competition.   Men’s Quarterfinals In the men’s tournament, eight teams qualified for the quarter finals, i.e. Russia, Japan, Canada, Latvia, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Swede and host Kazakhstan. Two quarterfinals were played today.   RUS vs […]

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#WUAlmaty2017: Russia’s Elena Radionova wins Figure Skating Gold at her First Universiade

Winter Games 4 February 2017

    ALMATY — Less than a month after her eighteenth birthday, Russia’s Elena Radionova was in Almaty, Kazakhstan with a gold medal around her neck.   The athlete from the Russian State University for Physical Education, Sport, Youth and Tourism has been figure skating since she was four-years-old and her successes are proof of […]

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#WUAlmaty2017: Who runs the World? Girls from Iran!

Winter Games 4 February 2017

    ALMATY – The Islamic Republic of Iran is represented by three athletes at the 28th Winter Universiade. All of them are alpine skiers. And all of them are women! One of the representatives is Forough Abbasi, who became the second women of Iran to attend the Winter Olympics in Sochi in 2014. “That […]

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WU Almaty 2017 Opening of the World Conference on Innovation - Education - Sport

Winter Games 3 February 2017

ALMATY – The FISU World Conference on Innovation – Education – Sport started this morning at the Kazakh Academy of Sport and Tourism in the City of Almaty, Kazakhstan. This FISU World Conference is an important part of the extensive programme of FISU Education activities, and during two days scientists and academic experts from all […]

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#WUAlmaty2017: Update Curling – Day 5

Winter Games 3 February 2017

    ALMATY – Great Britain’s men’s team have become the first team to qualify for the curling play-offs in the 2017 Winter Universiade, being held in the Almaty Arena, in Almaty, Kazakhstan.   Skip Bruce Mouat’s team kept their 100% round robin record intact, in the penultimate day of the round robin, with a […]