SAO PAULO – Athletes, officials and authorities linked to university sport attended and participated in the Awards Ceremony ‘Best of the Year 2010’, sponsored by CBDU on November 16th, in Sao Paulo. During the event, the CBDU awarded and paid tribute to athletes in 16 sports categories during the 2010 season and also […]
ERZURUM – In Erzurum, host city of the 25th Winter Universiade, EWUOC 2011 staged FIS Continental Cups as test events serving as the last preparations for the upcoming Universiade next January. Unfortunately the Snowboarding Test event had to be cancelled due to the lack of snow. The test events were witnessed by FISU Staff […]
ERZURUM – AIPS members will be visiting Erzurum and inspecting the media facilities at the venues. The visit will last for 3 days, with 19 local and 14 foreign AIPS members participating. The media members will start their first inspection from Cemal Gürsel Stadium. They will be inspecting the ice arenas for ice hockey, figure […]
The Vice-Mayor of Sochi Anatoly Rykov, the Mayor of Kazan Ilsur Metshin and the Director General of the Kazan 2013 Executive Committee Vladimir Leonov KAZAN – This unanimous opinion was expressed at the Moscow-Kazan-Sochi spacebridge titled «From the 2013 Universiade to the 2014 Olympics: impact of sporting events on regional development». The event saw […]
KAZAN – From December 16th to 19th, the Boxing and Table Tennis Centre hosts republican competitions – Tatarstan Cup and Individual U-21 (Boys and Girls) Table Tennis Championship. Apart from the strongest junior athletes of the Tatarstan Republic, the competitions assembled 1975-born and older players. The medal ceremony will be held on December 19th. […]
OTTAWA – Canadian Interuniversity Sport announced Wednesday the student-athletes and coaches who will represent Canada in alpine skiing and snowboarding at the 2011 Winter Universiade in Erzurum, Turkey. Canada did not participate in these two sports at the last Games in Harbin, China, in 2009. Head coach and team leader Vincent Lavoie of Laval University […]
CHIANG MAI – On December 15th, the Opening Ceremony of the 15th edition of the ASEAN University Games took place in the Maejo University in Chiang Mai, Thailand. For the first time eleven countries are taking part in these Games until December 23rd. As it is the first participation of Myanmar, all ASEAN countries […]
Thomas Mörgeli, Head of the Swiss delegation, with some of the team officials SWITSERLAND – Exactly 259 days before the opening of the 2011 Summer Universiade in Shenzhen, the leading team of the Swiss delegation had a first meeting with all team leaders of the different sports. Thomas Mörgeli, Head of Delegation, Fredi Schneider, […]
