Burkina Faso official Mamoudou H Dicko SHENZHEN – One of Africa’s representatives in the 2011 Summer Universiade in Shenzhen,China, Burkina Faso are in high confidence of landing a silver medal in the games. The Burkina-be delegation who arrived in the host city a week before the opening, have three athletes taking part in the […]
A victory round for the Touli twins SHENZEN – Five minutes to the race. You are preparing yourself mentally. You are not thinking of anything else, just the race. The race. That is only what is on your mind. Bang! The start gun goes off. You get off to a good start. You’re doing […]
Ratu Tabakaucoro (477) of Fiji sprints in the men’s 200-meter event (Photo: Christian V. Cruz) SHENZHEN – Less than one million in population, Fiji has pinned its hopes on five high school athletes at the 2011 Summer Universiade. A student from Marist Brothers High School, Ratu Tabakaucoro was one of the country’s five representatives […]
SHENZHEN – Olympic Triple Jump Champpion Nélson Évora successfully defended his Universiade title he won at the 2009 Summer Universiade in Belgrade,Serbia. “I’m in good shape, and this means I’m fit for Daegu [IAAF World Championship],” said Nélson Évora from Portugal, who won the triple jump competition of the Universiade today. His longest jump was 17,31m […]
The Paraguayan squad in their Universiade Village room – (f.l.t.r) Jesús Sánchez, Augusto Stanley, Adrían Ferreira & Ernesto Stanley (kneeling) SHENZHEN – Most of the people in this world, who do not follow soccer games, might not be able to tag Paraguay on the world map. Probably because they had never heard of it. Nevertheless, […]
SHENZHEN – Kenyan long distance runner Obed .k. Tiony has spoken out about his chances of success in the 2011 World University Games currently on-going in Shenzhen, China. Tiony, who is based here in China, is a student at the Shanghai University and he will be participating for his country in the 5,000 and 10,000 […]
SHENZHEN – Traditionally, the Charles Wendon Memorial Officials’ Race will be staged again at this Universiade. It will the 24th edition and the race will be held on August 19th, at 9h30 AM, following the Women’s 20 km walk at the same place. The distance will be 3 km. Elegible for the race are all […]
LONDON – British Universities & Colleges Sport (BUCS) and The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games (LOCOG) have been working together over the last twelve months to establish the BUCS Outdoor Athletics Championships as a test event for the London 2012 Olympic Games. Karen Rothery CEO for BUCS said, “BUCS is very proud […]
