University Sports South Africa will look back proudly on their achievements at the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games, after seeing a number of Universiade stars take their talents to the next level, and shine. Twelve former World Student Games athletes made the final 196-member South African squad that participated at the prestigious event in […]
Nigeria’s Oluwatobiloba Amusan on the 13th of April won gold in the women’s 100m hurdles clocking 12.68 Seconds at the Commonwealth Games in Australia. Amusan, who is a student of University of Texas at El Paso in the United States of America and studies human movement studies, made history as she became the first […]
Swiss Students Sport Award winner Salomé Kora (third from left) with her gold medal winning 4x100m athletics teammates at the Taipei 2017 Summer Universiade Swiss Olympic Executive Council member Mike Kurt has been appointed President of the Swiss University Sports Federation. The former world-class canoeist and university world championship competitor succeeds Andreas Csonka, who is […]
The 2018 athletics season is heating up, with university student-athletes posting some of the top times in the world Nigerian student athlete Divine Oduduru has started 2018 in fine form as the Texas Tech University freshman posted a time of 20.49 seconds in the 200m to set a new school record for the event. The […]
British & BUCS Records fall at BUCS Outdoor Athletics Championships Bath’s Cameron Chalmers won his fourth consecutive BUCS 400m title, with a new BUCS record of 45.71 More than 1,300 student athletes descended on Bedford International Athletics Stadium with some significant performances and records being set over the course of the three days […]
LAUSANNE – The rankings of the Women’s Heptathlon and 1,500m competitions from the 27th Summer Universiade, held from 6 to 17 July, 2013 in Kazan (RUS), were updated further to the suspension of two Russian female athletes by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). You can download the CAS decision here. Tatyana […]
Gabriela Szabo on the medal podium at the 1995 SU in FukuokaLAUSANNE – FISU’s slogan ‘Today’s Stars, Tomorrow’s Leaders’, is not an idle catchphrase. Sometimes, former student-athletes who competed in FISU’s major sporting events reach not only the pinnacle in their sport but go beyond and become leaders in society. That’s currently the case […]
Inaki Gomez KAZAN – When athletes finish their events at the 27th Summer Universiade in Kazan, Russia their lives continue. For Canadian Inaki Gomez, the 20-kilometer race walker who won Canada’s first medal at the games, a bronze back on July 9th, these competitions are just the beginning. “I flew early this morning to Zurich […]
