Multisports

Olympic Legends LONDON – Not only former Summer Universiade participants are doing very well at the current Olympic Games in London, where they are crowding the medal podiums in the different sports disciplines. Indeed, since installing the inaugural FISU/AIPS Young Reporters’ Program during the 2011 Summer Universiade in Shenzhen, a number of these Young Reporters […]

At the Olympic Games in London, former SU/WUC participants continue to climb the medal podium so we continue the list we started earlier. Below an update.   – Daniele Molmenti: London 2012 Men’s Kayak K1 gold medal and bronze, in Krakow Poland 2006 5th WUC, K1 – Illya Zakharov: London 2012 Men’s synchronized 3m springboard […]

Alexander Karpov, Director of the Volunteer Department KAZAN – The number of applications submitted by prospective volunteers for the 27th Summer Universiade via the official recruitment website makeureal.kazan2013.com exceeded 20,000. Yulia Vorozheva, a young citizen of Ekaterinburg, became the 20,000th candidate that put her name forward as a Kazan 2013 volunteer. She mentioned in her […]

Right: Former SU participants Charline Van Snick (BEL) and Éva Csernoviczki (HUN) together on the Olympic judo podium (Photo IJF)   While the London Olympics officially kicked-off last Friday July 27th, former FISU student-athletes have already mounted the medal podium and pocketed Olympic brass. Early in the Olympic tournament, a number of expected judo medals […]

Marat Bariev flanked by 2 Kazan SU volunteers in London KAZAN/LONDON – With just a few hours left to go to the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games, the ‘golden hundred’ of the Sochi 2014 Volunteer Team including Tatiana Nikulina, member of the Kazan 2013 team, and another five volunteers from Kazan are […]

TRENTO – On July 24th, 2012, it was the last day of a two day FISU working session in Trento (ITA), the hosting city of the 26th Winter Universiade from December 11th to 21st, 2013. The session was started with a welcome speech by the OC President Sergio Anesi. He also introduced new OC staff […]

TRENTINO – On July 23rd, only 10 days after the last working visit in Trentino, FISU delegates Milan AUGUSTIN, Director WU; Kole GJELOSHAJ, Director of Educational Services; Laurent BRIEL, Director of Development and Jiho KIM, Assistant to WU have met with members of the Organizing Committee of the 2013 Winter Universiade in Trento. The focus […]

Marching pass of the athletes CÓRDOBA – The 1st European Universities Games were launched Saturday July 14th with the Opening ceremony, which took part in the evening at the Fontanar Stadium in Córdoba, Spain. Over 2,000 people were present – including university teams participants, coming from 32 countries and with over 250 teams representing 151 […]