Championships

Swiss representative Monika Seps (copyright ASVZ/Hansjörg Egger, 2010)   ZURICH – Less than a month before the start of the 11th FISU World University Chess Championship most of the participants are known. 27 nations have entered and about 100 players of both sexes will participate in the contest which will take place in Zurich, Switzerland, […]

    MACEIO – Maceió starts to get into the mood of the FISU World University Championship. The city will host the 6th World University Beach Volleyball Championship in 2012. Luciano Cabral, President of the Brazilian University Sports Confederation (CBDU) and FISU Vice-President, gave to mayor Cicero Almeida the FISU flag and the document that […]

The Team Medal Podium   MELBOURNE – The UK team came into the competition as a known force in university squash, with team stars Joel Hinds and Emma Chorley highly ranked 101st and 154th in the world respectively. So it was no surprise that the UK fielded two finalists in the individual competition, including one […]

    MELBOURNE – Great Britain, Canada, Hong Kong and the USA have advanced through the group stage of the teams competition after a hotly contested day on the courts. The British juggernaut still hasn’t dropped a game and will face their rivals from across the pond, the USA this evening with the winner to […]

  MELBOURNE – Competitors from Great Britain, Canada, Hong Kong and the USA remain undefeated after the first round of teams competition at the World University Squash Championships held at Monash University today. The Hong Kong and British contingents continued their dominance from the individual competition failing to drop a set. Individual champions Joel Hinds […]

Women’s Podium   MELBOURNE – The individual competition of the World University Squash Championships (WUSC) wrapped up yesterday at Melbourne’s Monash University with Annie Au from Hong Kong taking the honours in the women’s competition and Joel Hinds claiming the title in the men’s. But the British camp should be pleased to have occupied three […]

  MELBOURNE – Dynamic Hong Kong, China brother/ sister duo Leo and Annie Au’s dream of becoming the first siblings to make the final round of the World University Squash Championships came to an end yesterday, with Leo bowing out in the semi-finals. 21 year old Annie, a student at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, had […]