Winter Games

  ST GALLEN – The Swiss University Sports Federation SHSV has announced the men’s and women’s curling teams to compete at the 26th Winter Universiade in Trentino (ITA) from 11-21 December, 2013. Both teams secured their place by winning the qualification tournament last September. With Patrick Poli, Rainer Kobler, Sven Iten, Mario Freiberger and Stefan […]

  GRANADA – The Organising Committee of the 2015 Winter Universiade in Granada, Spain, has launched its design competition for the official mascot of the Games. It is an open competition and the design proposals will be assessed by the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Granada. Pre-registration is not required and the […]

      KRASNOYARSK – Today the FISU Evaluation Committee represented by the FISU President Claude–Louis Gallien and Secretary-General/CEO Eric Saintrond continued the visit of sports facilities and hospitality infrastructures of Krasnoyarsk, the bidding city for the 2019 Winter Universiade. Among others they have visited the ice arena “Sokol”. The delegation was impressed by the […]

  KRASNOYARSK – The FISU Evaluation committee, represented by the FISU President Claude-Louis Gallien and Secretary-General/CEO Eric Saintrond, joined by staff member Natalya Kosterna, Executive Assistant arrived in Krasnoyarsk on 3 October, 2013. There they were welcomed by Oleg Matytsin, RSSU President and FISU 1st Vice-President. During several days the committee will evaluate sports venues […]

An international conference on “University Sport: Inspiring Innovation” will be held on 9-10 December 2013 in the framework of the 26th Winter Universiade in Trentino, to analyse the role of sports as a source of inspiration for research. The objective is to convey the idea that sports can inspire innovation, improve education efficiency and foster […]

The final session of this HOD meeting in Trento   TRENTO – Today, 28 September was the third and final day of the Heads of Delegations meeting in Trentino. Traditionally, this session was devoted to questions and answers as well as the team draws for the ice hockey and curling tournaments at the upcoming Winter […]

  TRENTO – The team draws for the ice hockey and curling competitions of the Trentino Winter Universiade took place during the third session of heads of delegation meeting in Trento this Saturday, 28 September, 2013.   The draw was made under the direction of Robert Philip, Vice-Chair of the Technical Committee for the Winter […]

Inspection of the slalom venue in Pozza du Fassa TRENTO – The heads of delegations’ meeting continued today with a very busy inspectio agenda of sports venues and hotels. The representatives of the delegations began the day with an inspection of the ice rink that will host the men’s ice hockey (some preliminaries and finals […]