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FISU opens Bidding Procedure for 2019 Universiades

On September 1st, 2012, FISU officially opens the bidding for the 2019 Winter and Summer Universiades. The Games are already attributed for 2013, 2015 and 2017, i.e. Trento, Italy; Granada, Spain and Almaty, Kazakhstan will host the 26th, 27th and 28th Winter Universiade respectively, while Kaza...

5th WUC Canoe Sprint: Day 2

  KAZAN – Yesterday, August 31st, day 2 of the 5th World University Canoe Sprint Championship which is taking place at the Rowing Centre ended in Kazan. 8 medal events yesterday morning allowed Team Poland to take the top spot in the overall medal standings with host Russia settling for the four...

6th World University Match Racing Championship in Nice coming up

NICE - The sixth edition of the World University Match Racing Championship runs from Monday September 3rd to Saturday 8th in Nice (Alpes-Maritimes), France. The opening ceremony of the event will be held on Monday, at the heart of the prestigious Villa Massena, located on the Promenade des Anglai...

5th WUC Canoe Sprint: Day 1

KAZAN – Yesterday, August 29th, the canoeists at the 5th World University Canoe Sprint Championship come into action. The competitions kicked off early in the morning at the Rowing Centre on Kaban Lake in Kazan. Polish athlete Tomasz OLSZEWSKI easily won the first men's singles 1,000 m qualifyin...

5th WUC Canoe Sprint solemnly opens in Kazan

KAZAN - The 5th World University Canoe Sprint Championship opening ceremony took place at the Rowing Centre yesterday, August 28th. The ceremony was attended by Chairman of the 2012 FISU WUC Organising Committee and Tatarstan's Minister of Youth Affairs, Sports and Tourism Rafis Burganov; 1st De...

Three 2012 FISU WUCs in Kazan: Challenge and testing

KAZAN - The competitions of the 5th World University Canoe Sprint Championship kick off today, August 29th at the Rowing Centre. Yesterday, the 2012 WUC Canoe Sprint organisers held a pre-championship press conference to provide journalists with an insight into how Kazan was getting ready to host...

Host Germany rules the 10th WUEC Podium

AACHEN - The gold medal in dressage, in the Team Combined competition and in the individual combined competition is the impressive outcome of the German riders Charlotte Rehborn, Lisette Ahrens and Nadine Kraft. This means that three out of four world championship titles stay in Germany. The host...

10th WUEC: Finalists in Showjumping and Dressage known

AACHEN - They are official – the finalists in the showjumping and dressage competition at the WUEC 2012 in Aachen. Diana Marsa from Spain and the Norwegian Emil Flamm will compete for the gold medal at the jump parcours today, Sunday 26th of August. In the dressage square Charlotte Dobretsberger ...

Kazan 2013 Ambassador holds Canoe Sprint Masterclass

Kazan 2013 Ambassador Sergey Ulegin holds canoe sprint masterclass KAZAN - Sergey Ulegin, Merited Master of Sports, Beijing Olympic silver medallist, two-time world champion, five-time European champion and Ambassador for the 2013 Summer Universiade, conducted a masterclass for young rowers of K...

Kazan ready to host 5th WUC Canoe Sprint

The brand new rowing center KAZAN - Past weekend was especially busy for a number of functional areas within the Kazan 2013 Executive Directorate as participants of the 5th World University Canoe Sprint Championship - one of the test events in the run-up to the 27th Summer Universiade - started ...

Universiade Flame crosses Equator

Tall Ship Sedov, a fantastic vessel KAZAN - The container with the 2013 Summer Universiade Flame inside has crossed the equator in the Atlantic Ocean aboard the ship Sedov which on July 15th departed from the French port of Brest on its year-long worldwide voyage. Exhibitions are set up aboard ...

World's Top Student Rowers come to Kazan for 2012 WUC Canoe Sprint

KAZAN - Participants of the 5th World University Canoe Sprint Championship are arriving in Kazan. Over 150 athletes from Russia, Czech Republic, Serbia, Moldova, Australia, Poland, France, Japan, Italy, Brazil, Belarus, Hungary, Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Cyprus, Uzbekistan and Latvia came...

13th WUC Futsal: Ukraine (M) & Brazil (W) pocket Gold

Team Ukraine celebrates its gold BRAGA - After eight days of competition at the 13th World University Futsal Championship after 47 games (37 men and 10 women) and many, many hours of play, reached the end of the tournament that brought the final classification. Men's Competition: 1st Ukraine, 2...

Chinese rule 12th WUC Chess

GUIMARAES - The 12th World University Chess Championship hosted in Guimarães, Portugal was dominated by the Chinese student-chess players. In the final round of the event, played on August 25th, the attention was focused on table one where Xiangzhi Bu (CHN) was facing Nikita Matinian (RUS). Bu, w...

13th WUC Futsal: Russia and Ukraine will face off in the Finals

BRAGA - Russia and Ukraine will play for the gold today, August 25th. Russia smashed Thailand eight to one yesterday, while Ukraine beat Portugal with a more modest one to nothing. Portugal and Thailand will also be facing each other tomorrow, for the last slot on the podium.  Spain and Brazil w...

Chess shows its Competitive Side in Guimarães

GUIMARAES – The participants of the 10th WUC Chess returned to the trays on the 24th August around 4pm for the 8th round of the competition. On the 7th round, on 23rd August, everyone was surprised by the draw between the number one of the women's classification Tan Zhongyi (CHN) and Marta Przez...

First Round Showjumping at 10th WUEC

AACHEN - The Deutsche Bank stadium on the venue of the CHIO normally hosts the world's best competitors in dressage. Because the student riders are presenting their skills in both, dressage and showjumping, the arena doesn't only show the gracious presentation of horses in the dressage test but a...

10th WUEC: FISU Family Members visit Stables

Visiting the stables AACHEN - At the third completion day of the 10th World University Equestrian Championship 2012 in Aachen/Germany the FISU representatives and CISCA members Bayasgalan Danzandorj (FISU Treasurer), Csaba Hedi (CIC) and Paulo Ferreira (FISU Director WUC) visited the stables tog...

10th WUEC: Participants qualify for Dressage Semi-Final

AACHEN - With the second and third round the dressage took center stage at the 10th WUC Equestrian in Aachen on Thursday, August 23rd. In the morning the number of participants was cut down from 39 to 18 riders. So in the afternoon the teams from Ireland, Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands, France...

12th WUC Chess: Chinese Players taking the Lead

GUIMARAES - Bu Xiangzhi (CHN) leads the WUC with a total of 5 points in 6 rounds. Yesterday, August 23rd, during the 7th round, all attention was turned to the game between Bu and Polish player Tazbir Marcin, who has 4.5 points. The men's classification has the Chinese in the 1st place followed b...