GRANADA – Today, 3 February, one day prior to the Opening Ceremony that officially starts the second part of the 27th Winter Universiade in Granada, Spain, the men’s ice hockey tournament already began. Kazakhstan and Japan faced-off in the first regulation game of the 2015 Granada Winter Universiade, followed by Korea vs Canada and […]
GRANADA – The first Heads of Delegation meeting for the 2015 Winter Universiade in Granada, Spain was held on the evening of 1 February. The meeting which was attended by over 75 people, including the delegates, FISU Vice President Leonz Eder, Chair of the Winter Universiade Supervision Committee Kairis Ulp, the Chair of […]
STRBSKE PLESO/GRANADA – The flame of the Universiade is on its way to Granada from Slovakia. Yesterday, 1 February, Francisco Ledesma, Councilor of Economy and Finance of the City Hall of Granada and acting on behalf of José Torres Hurtado, President of the Organizing Committee, collected it in Slovakia. Together with Francisco Ledesma, the […]
STRBSKE PLESO – Today, 1 February, was the last day of competition here in Strbske Pleso, while biathlon already ended yesterday, and the athletes were able to enjoy exceptional competition conditions with bright sunshine and quality snow. This was the case pretty much all week so the participants were delighted with their stay in […]
STRBSKE PLESO – It has been said repeatedly, the Russian team overwhelmingly dominates the cross-country competition at this Universiade. It owes its dominance to its selection system that allows the best athletes to participate at the Universiade in perfect conditions and with exceptional technical support. Team Russia, gold medallist, men’s relay The other teams […]
Russian and Kazakh relay OSRBLIE – Russia continues its harvest of medals in biathlon. Indeed, the mixed relay (men’s 2×7.5km & women’s 2x6km) was held on 30 January, 2015 in the National Biathlon Centre in Osrblie and the race was exciting until the end. The Russian team, which started as the favourite, was composed of […]
STRBSKE PLESO – As described previously, women’s ski jumping quietly continues its development. In this context, FISU has introduced a new competition format in its sports programme and it shows that the ski jump competition is becoming increasingly popular with female athletes. PUSTKOVA Vladena, from Czech Republic, bronze medallist Indeed, the ski jump team event […]
OSRBLIE – In the morning of 27 January, 2015, Russian biathletes distinguished themselves during the men’s 10km sprint. Indeed, Yaroslav Ivanov (Surgut State University) finished on the highest step of the podium ahead of his compatriots Maksim Burtasov (State Geodesic Academy of Siberia) and Yuri Shopin (Ulyanovsk State Pedagogical University) on the course of the […]
