The long track speed skating mixed team relay was contested for the first time in FISU World University Games history on Thursday and it was South Korea etching its name into the record books at the Lake Placid Olympic Oval. Minsun Kim and Hyunjun Ahn completed the historic nine-country race in 3:10.84, ahead of Japan […]
Thursday was a great day for USA biathlon as the country celebrated its first gold medal in an international competition in this discipline since 2017, courtesy of Bjorn Westervelt in the Lake Placid 2023 FISU World University Games men’s 12.5km pursuit. The University of Vermont student-athlete was in second place behind Ukraine’s Dmytrii Hrushchak going […]
The long track speed skating competition concluded Friday at the Lake Placid 2023 FISU World University Games with the women’s and men’s mass start races, won by Japan’s Misaki Shinno and Canadian David La Rue, respectively. Twenty-four female competitors, then 25 men took the ice at the same time for a 16-lap race totaling 6,400 […]
The achievements seem never ending for Czech alpine skier Jan Zabystran, who on Wednesday won his third medal of the Lake Placid 2023 FISU University Games. Zabystran captured gold in the men’s giant slalom thanks to a time of 2:01.23 at Whiteface Mountain, adding to a first triumph in the Super-G on Saturday and bronze […]
Impressive second runs by Switzerland’s Livia Tanno and South Korea’s Minsik Lee helped them overcome difficult snow conditions to win gold in snowboard slopestyle, Wednesday, at the Lake Placid 2023 FISU World University Games. “The conditions were really tough. Seeing a lot of the riders not landing their run, I decided to go for an […]
Japanese speed skaters pulled the delegation’s – and Lake Placid 2023’s – second podium sweep on Tuesday when Taiyo Nonomura, Kazuya Yamada and Motonaga Arito won gold, silver and bronze, respectively, in the men’s 1500 metres of the FISU World University Games. Arito was the first of the trio to hit the ice, in the […]
It has been no secret that the environmental question lies at the heart of Lake Placid 2023. Officials and organizers have all stressed the importance of making these FISU World University Games an eco-responsible event, with conferences – most notably the three-day Save Winter conference – investments and renovations all focused on this priority. The […]
It was sprint day in biathlon at Mt. Van Hoevenberg on Wednesday as Poland’s Anna Nedza-Kubiniec and Kazakhstan’s Bekentay Turlubekov came away with gold in the women’s 7.5km and men’s 10km races at the Lake Placid 2023 FISU World University Games. Turlubekov, a student from A. Myrzakhmetov Kokshetau University, made zero mistakes at the shooting […]
