Winter Games

Official presentation by Paolo Bouquet FISU OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCED TODAY: “THE 2013 WINTER UNIVERSIADE WILL BE IN TRENTINO” TRENTO –  It’s official: the XXVI edition of the Winter Universiade will be hosted by Trentino. The announcement came late this morning from the International University Sports Federation delegates during a press conference that took place at the […]

    GRANADA – The CEO of Granada 2015, Aurelio Ureña, has been supporting the volunteers who work at the FIS World Junior Snowboard Championship in Sierra Nevada. The 2015 Granada team is providing assistance to the organization of the FIS event taking place this week inSierra Nevada. In addition, Aurelio Ureña, was present both […]

  Brussels. From March 21st till March 22nd a delegation from the 2017 Almaty Winter Universiade Organizing Committee met with FISU Director for the Winter Universiade Milan Augustin. Under the lead of the new OC Executive Director, M. Ramazan Tungushbayev, the delegates had the opportunity to meet with Andrew Sharp – Executive Director of EPG […]

    TRENTINO – Earlier this month FISU has announced the removal of the rights fromMaribor to host the 2013 Winter Universiade as its Organizing Committee had been facing difficulties. Due to the serious delays in the construction of the sports infrastructures necessary for the organization of the games, the recent lack of government funding […]

  GRANADA –Sierra Nevada is preparing for what will be the second world championship in its history. At a press conference yesterday the World Junior Granada Snowboarding Championship was presented, to be held in theSierra Nevada from March 22nd to April 1st with the participation of 300 athletes from 36 countries. The event will host […]

  ALMATY – On October 28th two hundred students of the Academy of Sport and Tourism marched down the Abai avenue in Almaty from Central Stadium to Baluan Sholak Sports Palace as a part of the bidding campaign of Almaty to host the 2017 Winter Universiade. They were waving flags with logo of FISU and […]

 A spectator record a the the Ski Jumping competitions   BRUSSELS – The East Anatolian city of Erzurum, which successfully hosted the 25th Winter Universiade earlier this year puts its legacy of the Games to work. The city built and developed excellent venues for snow and ice sports, with the ski jumping facility as unquestionable […]

  LAUSANNE – “Today, May 26th, FISU representatives Roger ROTH (SUI), CTI WU Chair;  Marie LUNDMARK (FIN), CT Chair Figure Skating; Milan AUGUSTIN (SVK), Director Winter Universiade and Jiho KIM (KOR), Assistant to WU met with the Director General of ISU Fredi SCHMID (SUI) in order to discuss the essential points concerning the technical nature […]