Athletics

The 2018 athletics season is heating up, with university student-athletes posting some of the top times in the world Nigerian student athlete Divine Oduduru has started 2018 in fine form as the Texas Tech University freshman posted a time of 20.49 seconds in the 200m to set a new school record for the event. The […]

    British & BUCS Records fall at BUCS Outdoor Athletics Championships  Bath’s Cameron Chalmers won his fourth consecutive BUCS 400m title, with a new BUCS record of 45.71 More than 1,300 student athletes descended on Bedford International Athletics Stadium with some significant performances and records being set over the course of the three days […]

  LAUSANNE – The rankings of the Women’s Heptathlon and 1,500m competitions from the 27th Summer Universiade, held from 6 to 17 July, 2013 in Kazan (RUS), were updated further to the suspension of two Russian female athletes by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). You can download the CAS decision here.   Tatyana […]

  Gabriela Szabo on the medal podium at the 1995 SU in FukuokaLAUSANNE – FISU’s slogan ‘Today’s Stars, Tomorrow’s Leaders’, is not an idle catchphrase. Sometimes, former student-athletes who competed in FISU’s major sporting events reach not only the pinnacle in their sport but go beyond and become leaders in society. That’s currently the case […]

Inaki Gomez KAZAN – When athletes finish their events at the 27th Summer Universiade in Kazan, Russia their lives continue. For Canadian Inaki Gomez, the 20-kilometer race walker who won Canada’s first medal at the games, a bronze back on July 9th, these competitions are just the beginning. “I flew early this morning to Zurich […]

  Abigail DzamesiKAZAN – “It’s the first time our group has run together,” says Abigail Dzamesi, one of the four female Ghanaian 4×100 runners who currently studies at Ghana University. While other groups need years of training, the athletes from Ghana reached the final only by their first try. That may be partly due to […]

  Leon Hunt KAZAN – Begin to jog forward. Reach your left hand back. Start running faster. Feel the baton hit the palm of your hand. And take off toward the finish line. Leon Hunt is the anchor in the 4×100-meter men’s relay race. He is one of six athletes representing the U.S. Virgin Islands […]