Snowboard The first finals took place today in Maoershan. Snow showers have taken the place of the yesterday’s sunshine which illuminated this outstanding venue. The snow did not look to border at all the very promising young French snowboarder girl Claire Chapotot, 18 years old, who has beaten the Czech Klara Koukalova after an exciting […]
GBR vs. KAZ Today, February 20th, at the 24th Winter Universiade in Harbin, China, the women had a practice day, while the men’s teams played their third day of competitions. Men KAZ – GBR 8-0 (4-0, 1-0, 3-0)Great Britain participated for the first time in the ice hockey tournament at the 2007 […]
Team China Women Round 1 19 Feb CAN-RUS 13:9CHN-GBR 11:3 SWE-JPN 13:6USA-KOR 1:12 CZE-POL 10:5 Round 2 19 Feb CZE-CHN 2:9 JPN-POL 5:8 CAN-USA 13:3 SWE-RUS 4:8 GBR-KOR 9:3 Round 3 20 Feb KOR-POL 9:5 RUS-USA 8:5 GBR-CZE 5:6 JPN-CAN 3:12 SWE-CHN 3:9 Men Round 1 19 Feb USA-GBR 5:6 SWE-CAN 8:5 KOR-SUI 4:3 CHN-JPN […]
For the first time ever in China an international downhill competition took place today and it went to Swiss skiers. Indeed, the Yabuli ski resort was the place to be for this “first” and the organisers made this competition a huge success. They had to work for months with technicians from the FIS to gain […]
The weather seemed it wanted to celebrate the start of the competition in this very beautiful venue of Maoershang: a beautiful sun and a thermometer that has climbed to -12°C have presided the qualifying rounds of the men and women snowboard cross events. Instead of the classical 4 men/women races that will take place […]
Korea takes first Harbin WU gold Today, February 19th, Korea pocketed the first gold medal of the Winter Universiade in Harbin, China. A fierce ‘Asian’ contest took in Heilongjiang Speed Skating Gym as women speed skaters fought very hard in the race to the 500m Speed Skating gold. Lee Sang Hwa beat all other skaters […]
Today, February 18th, the Harbin Organizing Committee hosted a ceremony for the first issuing of the Harbin WU Commemorative stamp. FISU President George Killian, an avid stamp collector specializing in University Sports and Basketball, was all ears when the two artists responsible for the artwork of the stamps, Ms. Shang Yu and Mr. Wang […]
A couple of hours before the Opening Ceremony of this 24th Winter Universiade, the competitors were already busy on the Yabuli slopes for the first training sessions.Indeed, Yabuli will host five sports: alpine skiing, ski jumping, cross-country skiing, nordic combined and freestyle skiing. The athletes’ village is almost full and all the participants are very […]
