Summer Games

 Chinese Delegates at the accreditation desk   Heads of Delegations of Universiade Belgrade 2009 participant countries will visit Belgrade between March 19th and 22nd. The meeting of Heads of Delegations is the most important event preceding the Summer Universiade and the last test undertaken by international officials as to the readiness of Serbia to host […]

Accreditation is ready    The Organizing Committee of the 2009 Summer Universiade is ready to host the Heads of Delegation meeting which will take place in Belgrade from March 19th to 21st. Today, March 17th, FISU President George Killian and Secretary-General/CEO Eric Saintrond already arrived in Belgrade. They were accompanied by a number of the […]

On March 11th and 12th, a scientific conference under the slogan ‘Medicine, Sport and Youth at Universiade’ was hosted by the municipality of Star Grad.Organizers of the conference were the municipality of Stari Grad, Stari Grad Health Center, Company “Universiade Belgrade 2009” and City Secretariats for Health Care and Sport. ‘The Universiade consists, in fact, […]

  Promotion of Universiade Belgrade 2009 was organized today in Banja Luka. In the Government of the Republic of Srpska Press Center, the world’s biggest sports event in 2009 was presented to representatives of the University, officials, businessmen and media. University delegation was headed by the president of UB2009 Executive Committee, Nebojsa Ilic. Radmila Hrustanovic, […]

On Saturday March 7th, the first part of general training of Universiade Beograd 2009 volunteers started. Training session will be held on the premises of Tourism College in Novi Beograd. The first session was a motivational training. More than 300 volunteers turned up. All training sessions are compulsory. They will be held every weekend until […]

Former Universiade participant Eline Berings (BEL) recently won the gold medal on the 60m hurdles at the European Athletics indoor championship in Torino. The 23-year old Belgian athlete finished in 7.92, a Belgian record. Eline Berings participated at the 2007 Summer Universiade in Bangkok, Thailand where she finished 6th in the finals of the 100m […]

The Executive Committee of the Polish University Sports Association (ASZ) and the Authorities of the City of Poznan regretfully informed FISU they resign from further bidding to organize the 2015 Summer Universiade. ‘The financial crisis in the world’s economy disables the Polish government from providing financial guarantees to cover the costs’, the official communiqué read. […]

FISU CT Chair Mr. Julius Kralik and FISU Sports Department Manager Michal Buchel had the opportunity to meet Mr. Mohamed El Motakawel, the FEI Chair of the Referees Committee in Lyon during the Junior Women Foil World Cup. The main topic of the meeting was to set up the nomination of the upcoming Summer Universiade […]