With approximately 41% of its population under thirty, Krasnoyarsk is a young city with a vibrant sport culture that continues to grow years after hosting the Winter Universiade in 2019. On 2 March 2019, famous Russian figure skater Alexei Yagudin skated his way into spectators’ hearts during the opening ceremony of the Krasnoyarsk 2019 […]
The Pala Tazzoli venue in TorinoTURIN, Italy – A FISU delegation led by FISU Games Winter Director Milan Augustin conducted a preliminary inspection visit to Turin, Bardoneccchia and Pragelato in Italy, to meet with the Candidature Committee and visit the sport and non-sport venues of the proposed Torino 2025 FISU World University Games. Turin city and the Piedmont region had […]
Team selections for the Lucerne 2021 Winter Universiade, set to take place from 11-21 December 2021, have been announced by FISU for Curling and Ice Hockey events. Secretary General and CEO of FISU, Eric Saintrond, expressed his delight about the announcement of the team selections. “It is fantastic to see announcement of the […]
As Kazakhstan’s largest metropolitan city, Almaty is home to one-third to the country’s universities making it the perfect candidate for the 28th Winter Universiade. The Almaty 2017 Winter Universiade drew a record 57 countries with 2,481 participants, including 1,620 athletes. President Nursultan Nazarbayev declared the Winter Universiade open at the opening ceremony on 29 […]
The Slovenian Alpine skier – who raced to three medals across three Winter Universiades – reminisces about his life-changing experiences Slovenian alpine skier Andrej Šporn, triple Universiade medallist and Olympian Andrej Šporn is a three-time Winter Universiade medalist – and these days, as he puts it, a “professional father.” Šporn, 39, who retired […]
The 27th Winter Universiade was one of a kind, with Slovakia and Spain joining forces to put on the largest multi-winter-sport event for university students. The Slovak cities of Strbské Pleso and Osrblie teamed up with the southern Spanish city of Granada. Granada fell on hard financial times in 2015 and was unable to […]
It was the men’s ice-hockey final, played at the Gianmarco Scola Ice Arena in the mountain village of Alba di Canazei, that capped off a successful 26th edition of the Winter Universiade. When it was staged, Trentino 2013 was the biggest Winter Universiade in history in terms of numbers of participants, eventually surpassed by […]
Unlike the first Summer Universiade Turkey hosted back in 2005, the home team did not punch above its weight in the first winter edition it organised. In fact, Turkey won just a single medal at the 2011 Erzurum Universiade, compared to 27 in Izmir six years earlier. But these Games were all about Turkey taking […]
