WomenAs the women completed their preliminary round yesterday, they had the day off today. Four men’s team had to play another game to end their preliminary round. Tomorrow’s Women’s Program Placing Game 6th & 5th JPN vs. GBR Semi-FinalsCAN vs. SVKCHN vs. FIN Men USA – JPN 3-6 (2-1, 0-2, 1-3)Although Team USA was […]
Biathlon: Russian and Ukrainian Pursuit The Biathlon Pursuit event is easy to understand: you start in the same position as the one obtained after the sprint competition. This means that the winner of the 10km sprint men, the Russian Artem Gusev was the first to take the start 2 seconds before the Ukrainian […]
Alexandra & Roman Zaretski, first WU participants for ISR and gold medallists Ice Dance The Figure Skating competition of the 24th Winter Universiade ended yesterday. As it has become a tradition, the day after the competition, all medalists of the different disciplines participated in the Figure Skating Gala of the Winter Universiade, as well […]
Women Curling Tie-breaker – Round 1GBR-CZE 8:5 Men Curling Tie-breaker – Round 1SUI-CHN 3:5
CHN vs. GBR Women FIN – SVK 7-2 (4-2, 2-0, 1-0)An early game at noon for Finland and Slovakia, where Team Suomi took an early lead. The Fins leave the ice with a 4-2 advantage after the first period and the Scandinavians will continue their lead for the rest of the game as Slovakia […]
Presidential visit to MaoershanThere was some excitement in the Maoershan venue for the visit of FISU President George Killian, and of his wife. Mr. Killian was hosted by the Mayor of the Village, Mr. Xu Wendong, by the Vice-Mayor and by our Vice-Chair of the Ice Hockey Technical Committee Mr. Zhiqiang, who is the coordinator […]
Mizue Hoshi, from Japan, running for the gold medal in the Women’s Giant Slalom The Alpine skiing competition continued today in Yabuli with the Women’s Giant Slalom. The conditions were almost perfect for this race with good visibility some light snowfall on a superb and well prepared slope. The first run went to Anne-Sophie […]
Team Sweden Women’s IndividualAfter today’s free skate competition the three medalists in the women’s competition are known. The Japanese skaters dominate the medal podium as Yukari Nakano and Nana Takeda win the gold and silver respectively while Kiira Korpi from Finland captured the bronze. Synchronized Skating – Free ProgramToday, the teams for synchronized […]
