Winter Games

  1st HoD Meeting in Trento  TRENTO – The 2013 Winter Universiade has officially begun. The 26th edition of the games got underway with the opening meeting, in which Trentino received substantial praise in hosting the games from FISU President Claude-Louis Gallien. Rather than the normal six-year preparation, Trentino had only 18 months to get […]

TRENTO – The men’s ice hockey competition of the 26th Winter Universiade Trentino 2013 will be launched one day prior to the official Opening Ceremony which is on 11 December. The tournament will start on 10 December with the 12 registered men’s teams competing in three groups of four teams: the “Gianmario Scola” Arena of […]

  The 26th Winter Universiade gets under way in exactly one week in Trentino, Italy, and the excitement can be felt within the delegations as well. Biggest Canadian Delegation to WU OTTAWA – Canada will once again be among the largest delegations at the biennial competition. But this time a record of 149 Canadians, including 107 […]

  TRENTO – Two weeks before the Opening Ceremony of the 2013 WU Trentino, the Organising Committee is working hard to be ready and deliver a great Universiade. During the last days of preparations, the sport department met with the volunteers of the different sport clusters in order to give them some important information about the […]

TRENTO – On 13 and 14 November 2013 the FISU Protocol Team, composed of Kole Gjeloshaj, Director Educational Services, and Gwenaëlle Brugallé, Language Services Coordinator, was in Trento to meet with the Trentino 2013 OC Protocol Team headed by Marilena Defrancesco. During this two-day meeting, the teams covered all aspects related to protocol as well […]

LAUSANNE – The delegation of Almaty, host city of the 28th Winter Universiade 2017, met FISU Staffs for the two days working session in FISU Headquarters, from 12th to 13th November 2013.     The delegation of Almaty was composed by: KHAIDAROV Khairbolat Salamatovich – Head of the Department of Physical Culture and Sports in […]

  Pope Francis meets the Trentino WU Delegation with FISU President Gallien   ROME – Today 6 November, Pope Francis officially lit the Universiade Torch for the Trentino 2013 Winter Universiade during a brief and private ceremony, prior to the Popes’s General Audience on the Saint Peter’s square in Rome. The ceremony of the lighting […]