Zuzanna Jasińska women’s lightweight single sculls gold medal winner Extreme heat, humidity, and heavy rains – weather in Chengdu has sometimes been a challenge for athletes at these Chengdu FISU World University Games. Some of them, including rowers, try to face these unfavourable conditions in a creative way. It may not be as big an […]
“I was in endurance sports, cross-country, and track and field before I was recruited into rowing,” USA’s Tiana Fox said Saturday on the second of three days of rowing competition at the Chengdu FISU World University Games. “And so the coaches wanted to see how that would translate to rowing, and it did. So that […]
She will be one of the rowers to watch at the upcoming Chengdu 2021 FISU World University Games. Captain of the Italian female team, Khadija Alajdi El Idrissi arrives in the Sichuan capital with a solid track record. At 22 years old, the member of the CUS Torino (the University Sport Center of Turin) has […]
On 17 September, the 11th edition of the University Eights’ (Univerzitní osmy in Czech) rowing race took place on the Vltava river in Prague, gathering the best rowing teams from Czech Republic. It was a double win for Charles University this year, as both the men’s and women’s teams took the top spots […]
Munich’s hosting of the 2018 World University Beach Volleyball Championships in the Olympiapark was a sporting and spectating success (© Andre Goerschel) Following an extensive coordination process, the German University Sports Federation (adh) has decided the sports programme for its bid to host the 2025 FISU World University Games in Germany’s Rhine-Ruhr region. Based […]
For young up-and-coming South African rower Mzwandile Sotsaka, his podium finish at the FISU World University Championships in China is the pinnacle of his blossoming career so far, yet the determined rower insists this is just the start. The 22-year-old University of Johannesburg student has been a rising star on the South African […]
The ecstasy – and exhaustion – was readily apparent upon the double scull partners from Hungary and Italy during the World University Rowing Championship in Shanghai over the weekend SHANGHAI – When the fifteenth edition of the FISU World University Rowing Championship opened in the Chinese metropolis, it marked the first time in the championship’s […]
SHANGHAI — The opening ceremony of 2018 FISU World University Rowing Championship kicked off at Oriental Land Theatre in Shanghai Water Sports Center in Dianshan Lake where 16 events will take place from the 9-12 August. A total of 397 athletes and officials from 23 countries and regions are set to compete in China’s most […]
