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3x3 Basketball, Beach Volleyball and Rowing selected as optional sports for potential Rhine-Ruhr 2025 Summer WUG bid

Summer Games 17 December 2020

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 […]

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#UniSportsClassics re-premieres the Kazan 2013 Women's Volleyball finals today

Summer Games 10 December 2020

For the Russian women’s volleyball team at the Kazan 2013 Summer Universiade, the road in the women’s volleyball final can only follow one of two routes:   Either its a classic Cinderella story of defeating the defending Universiade champions on their home court.   Or it’ll be an emotional heartbreaker when they play the perennial […]

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Winter Universiade 2019 curling venue becomes home ground for Yenisey volleyball club

Winter Games 31 October 2019

KRASNOYARSK – Designing a winning legacy for a sports facility doesn’t happen by chance. It’s a philosophy the Siberian sports family of the 29th Winter Universiade have taken to heart and are executing across the city’s competition venues, both those newly constructed and the ones revamped and revitalised. Commissioned in 1981, the Ivan Yarygin Sports […]

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Italy win men's Volleyball on home soil

Volleyball 14 July 2019

NAPOLI, 13 July – After 49 years of waiting, Italy finally won the men’s volleyball gold medal, on home soil yet again. The last time Italy had won gold in the event was at Turin 1970. In front of a passionate home crowd, Italy beat Poland 3-2 (16-25, 25-20, 22-25, 25-23, 15-10) in a nail […]

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Canadian women and German men emerge victorious at WUC Beach Volleyball

Championships 13 July 2018

  Nicole and Megan McNamara capped an undefeated run through the tournament with a three set win over the Spain’s Belén Carro and Paula Soria to earn the 2018 world university women’s title.   Coming into the tournament ranked No. 14, Germany’s Dan John and Eric Stadie upset the seeding system and their compatriots, David […]

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Watch it! Highlights & interviews from WUC Beach Volleyball

Championships 12 July 2018

DAY 3 HIGHLIGHTS — WEDNESDAY DAY 2 HIGHLIGHTS — TUESDAY  DAY 1 HIGHLIGHTS — MONDAY   MUNICH 2020 BEACH VOLLEYBALL – STADIUM STORIES     OLYMPIAN NICOLE LAIRD: “TOKYO OLYMPICS IS DEFINITELY IN MY EYESIGHT” THE TWIN TOWER INTERVIEW WITH TEAM GERMANY’S DAVID & BENNET PONIEWAZ  SRI LANKAN ON WORLD BEACH VOLLEYBALL SCENE: ‘THERE’S A […]

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Successful start for Cyprus and Canada at WUC Beach Volleyball

Championships 10 July 2018

On Monday, the ninth edition of the FISU World University Beach Volleyball Championship got underway in Munich‘s Olympic Park. 64 men‘s and women‘s teams from 29 different nations opened the tournament at 9 am, including two men‘s and women‘s teams from Germany.  Germany successfully hosted the World University Beach Volleyball Championship in the Munich Olympic […]

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Acrobatics, academics and an Olympic champion help open WUC Beach Volleyball

Championships 9 July 2018

On Sunday evening the 2018 FISU World University Beach Volleyball Championship opened with Jonas Reckermann, Olympic gold medalist in 2012, bringing the FISU flag to the Center Court.    MUNICH – The participating nations marched into the Center Court of the beach volleyball facility of the Technical University of Munich (TUM) in front of around […]