Nicole van der Merwe (Courtesy: imageSA)The 2020 World University Championships are just over a month away, with WUC Cross-country being the first of 29 events on the FISU Championship calendar this year. As a curtain raiser for the only Championship taking place on African soil, Morocco hosted the FASU (Federation of African University Sport) […]
MARRAKECH – The first-time hosts in Morocco want to make the 2020 World University Cross-country Championship a huge success. The event, which will kick off the 2020 World University Championship season, will start on 7 March. The official team hotel for the 2020 WUC Cross-country in Marrakech“We want to make it a real festival of […]
Alexander Panzhinskiy and Olga Tsareva win the sprints at Cross-country Skiing Russian Cup KRASNOYARSK – As November gave way to the last month of the year, this Siberian city got even closer to the Winter Universiade 2019 that it will host from 2-12 March. One of the main Universiade venues – the Raduga Cluster […]
While this comes from the FISU World University Cross-country Championship in Entebbe, Uganda in 2014, the view will be quite the same: some of the world’s fittest athletes battling it out on grass and mud for long distance running dominance ST. GALLEN, SWITZERLAND — With the FISU World University Cross-country Championship returning to Switzerland this […]
Visually-impaired South African runner Louzanne Coetzee says she’s proud and excited to represent her country at the upcoming 2018 FISU World University Cross-country Championship in Switzerland, as she prepares to break new personal ground. Coetzee was born visually-impaired, but gradually lost all her sight owing to a condition called Leber’s Amaurosis, a genetic disorder […]
GALLEN – The FISU inspection team for the 2018 WUC Cross-country, composed by the Technical delegate Carlos Cardoso, WUC Assistant Pauline Hamonic and Paola Matringe, travelled to the City of St. Gallen, Switzerland in order to evaluate the progress of the local Organizing Committee. They met with OC Chair Daniel Studer, Technical Chair Hanspeter […]
CASSINO – The 20th World University Championship Cross-country 2016, hosted in Cassino, Italy has been a successful event. FISU praised the Organising Committee, headed by the ex-rector of the University, Prof. Ciro Attaianese, for the excellent work and especially for the design of the track which allowed everyone to see the running athletes. Hundreds […]
CASSINO – On 11 March, the Opening Ceremony of the 20th World University Championship Cross-country 2016 took place at the Manzoni theatre in Cassino, Italy at 5:00 pm. 19 delegations from 5 continents for a total of 124 athletes attended the event. During the Ceremony Mr. Leonz Eder, FISU 1st Vice-President, Prof. Ciro […]
