Multisports

AUS Award Winners   ADELAIDE – The best achievements in the world of university sport were honoured in an awards ceremony at the Australian University Sport (AUS) national conference in Adelaide last week. Bringing together university sporting staff and athletes from around the country, the awards night recognised the champions of 2010, with eight major […]

Roslyn Morris and Leonz Eder   LAUSANNE – On May 17th, FISU EC Member and International Press Committee (CIP) Chair Leonz Eder went to Lausanne, headquarters of the AIPS, in order to meet with Roslyn Morris, Secretary General of the International Sports Press Association (AIPS). They discussed the content of the Young Sports Journalists Seminar […]

    KAZAN – The Kazan 2013 Executive Directorate and Kazan Dance Theatre agreed to cooperate in the preparations of the 27th World University Summer Games in Kazan. The solemn agreement signing ceremony that took place in the Kazan National Cultural Centre saw attendance of Deputy Director of the Kazan 2013 Executive Directorate Igor Sivov, […]

  KAUNUS – On May 13th, took place the Opening Ceremony of the 27th edition of the SELL Games. The SELL Games were organised in Kaunus by the Lithuanian Students Sports Association (LSSA) who’s President, Ceslovas Garbaliauskas is a FISU committee member. 1,800 student’s athletes coming from twelve countries competed in 10 sports from May […]

  SHENZHEN – A total of 100 torchbearers continued the Universiade torch relay through Guangzhou University Town yesterday, the third leg of the Games torch relay. There were more torchbearers than in each of the two previous relays at Beijing and Shenzhen universities, more than half of whom were college students from around the country. […]

  KAZAN – Six winners of the ‘Faces of the Universiade’-Contest that are to travel to China to become part of the Shenzhen 2011 victory ceremony escort team were announced today in Kazan. The names of other winners that are to take part in the 2013 Summer Universiade medals ceremonies were revealed as well. All […]

SHENZHEN – Shenzhen University (SZU) was overwhelmed by cheering crowds yesterday when the Universiade torch relay passed on campus. Mayor Xu Qin ignited the torch in front of SZU’s old library and declared the start of the second leg of the Games torch relay, which involved 90 torchbearers. Xu passed the torch to Gu Jialiang, […]

  KAZAN – A short list of 30 volunteers to travel to the 2011 Summer Universiade in Shenzhen was revealed on May 10th. Among the lucky ones there are young people from Vladivostok, Volgograd, Krasnodar, Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, Nevinnomysk, Ryazan, Saratov, Tyumen, Elista, Yakutsk and Kazan. Half of the selected volunteers are from Tatarstan. All […]