Athletics

The Athletics competition at the Belgrade Summer Universiade will be a very interesting competition to follow. With the earlier confirmed presence of Olympic Triple Jump Champion Nélson Évora (POR), European High Jump Champion Ariane Friedrich (GER), former Hammer Throw World Champion Betty Heidler (GER) and Olympic Silver Medallist Hannah Mariën (BEL), the Slovak Delegation announced […]

Ariane Friedrich in action   ADH, the German National University Sports Federation, will bring a star studded athletics team of Olympians with its delegation to the 2009 Summer Universiade in Belgrade. Germany’s hope for a medal in Athletics will be without a doubt on the shoulders of high jumper Ariane Friedrich for whom this will […]

 Nélson Évora, Portuguese Olympic Triple Jump Champion (2008)   FADU, the Portuguese FISU Member Association confirmed the presence of Olympic triple jump champion Nélson Évora (20/04/84) at the 2009 Summer Universiade. No doubt his presence will juice-up the triple jump competition and media attention at this year’s World University Summer Games. At twenty-four, Nelson Évora […]

    Excellent results and good impressions – that is the result of the work done by the Universiade sports and technical teams at the Artur Takac Memorial, the last test competition before the upcoming 25th Summer Universiade. The help of Universiade volunteers was once again immeasurable. The fourth international athletic meeting, Artur Takac Memorial […]

Former Universiade participant Eline Berings (BEL) recently won the gold medal on the 60m hurdles at the European Athletics indoor championship in Torino. The 23-year old Belgian athlete finished in 7.92, a Belgian record. Eline Berings participated at the 2007 Summer Universiade in Bangkok, Thailand where she finished 6th in the finals of the 100m […]