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ERZURUM – Host country Turkey will be participating with 153 student-athletes in the Games. FIGURE SKATING Rana Belkıs, Cenk Ertaul, Jessıca Wılhelmsson and Amil Akbulut( Head Coaches) Renk Kemaloğlu (Bilgi), Beril Bektaş(Anadolu), Kutay Eryoldaş(Hacettepe), Ali Demirboğa(Kocaeli) ve Engin Ali Artan (Dokuz Eylül), Natalıa Dubova, Oleg Voyko ,Alper Uçar(Anadolu), Alisa Agafonova’dan (Kharkov Ünv) CURLING Brıan Gray, […]

  ERZURUM – With a few days left to the Opening Ceremony of the 25th Winter Universiade in Erzurum, Turkey, the athletes start to arrive. The first foreign delegation to arrive in Erzurum was Japan. A first group of a total of 110 persons arrived in Erzurum. WU General Coordinator Bekir Korkmaz welcomed the 55 […]

The Master Control Room at the IBC is ready for the Universiade   ERZURUM – The fever is rising in Erzurum, host city of the 25th Winter Universiade. With five days left to countdown before the Games kick-off with the Opening Ceremony, the city is buzzing with activity. Rehearsals are everywhere, as the Organizing Committee […]

    ERZURUM – Today, January 21st, FISU President George E. Killian arrived in Erzurum, host city of the 25th Winter Universiade. Prior to the Games, President Killian will chair the FISU Executive Committee meeting which will take place on January 24th and 25th. Mr. Killian will also give a press conference on January 26th, […]

 The dignitaries cut the ribbon to officially open the Village   ERZURUM – Today, January 21st, the Athletes’ Village of the 25th Winter Universiade in Erzurum, Turkey, was officially opened. The ribbon was clipped by the Governor of Erzurum Sebahattin Öztürk, the WU General Coordinator Bekir Korkmaz, the Mayor of the Village Yahya Pasinlioglu as […]

  KAZAN – On January 21st, 30 volunteers from Tatarstan will travel to Erzurum (Turkey), host city of the 25th Winter Universiade that will run from January 27th to February 6th. The best Kazan 2013 volunteers that were selected within the Team 2013 Project will head to Turkey for the internship. Team 2013: Season 1 […]

WU info desk at Ankara Airport ERZURUM – Today, January 20th, early in the morning around 01h30 am, the last group of the FISU Staff arrived in Erzurum to set up the temporary FISU Headquarters for the 25th Winter Universiade. The following days many teams will enter Turkey through the international airports of Ankara and […]

  PARIS – FFSU held its General Meeting in Paris on January 15th. During this meeting the FFSU awarded its first ‘National Challenge for Sports Associations’. This award rewards the best French ‘sporty’ Universities and Schools following a number of criteria: athletic performance, rate of graduates within the institution, percentage of women, number of students […]