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Rower cherishes Chengdu experience

Summer Games 18 September 2023

It was a silver-lined summer for South African rower Courtney Westley following her impressive feat at this year’s Chengdu FISU World University Games. The 21-year-old, who watched her older brother in regattas every weekend during her childhood, took up rowing just before starting high school. She then carried her newfound passion through to university level, […]

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Frozen socks and sauna help rowers adapt in Chengdu

Summer Games 6 August 2023

Zuzanna Jasińska women’s lightweight single sculls gold medal winner Extreme heat, humidity, and heavy rains – weather in Chengdu has sometimes been a challenge for athletes at these Chengdu FISU World University Games. Some of them, including rowers, try to face these unfavourable conditions in a creative way. It may not be as big an […]

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Tiana Fox: Multitalented athlete

Summer Games 5 August 2023

“I was in endurance sports, cross country, and track and field before I was recruited into rowing,” USA’s Tiana Fox said Saturday on the second of three days of rowing competition at the Chengdu FISU World University Games. “And so the coaches wanted to see how that would translate to rowing, and it did. So […]

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Road to Chengdu: meet Khadija Alajdi El Idrissi, Italian rower

Rowing 22 July 2023

She will be one of the rowers to watch at the upcoming Chengdu 2021 FISU World University Games. Captain of the Italian female team, Khadija Alajdi El Idrissi arrives in the Sichuan capital with a solid track record. At 22 years old, the member of the CUS Torino (the University Sport Center of Turin) has […]

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University Eights rowing race in Prague won by Charles University

Rowing 27 September 2021

    On 17 September, the 11th edition of the University Eights’ (Univerzitní osmy in Czech) rowing race took place on the Vltava river in Prague, gathering the best rowing teams from Czech Republic. It was a double win for Charles University this year, as both the men’s and women’s teams took the top spots […]

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3x3 Basketball, Beach Volleyball and Rowing selected as optional sports for potential Rhine-Ruhr 2025 Summer WUG bid

Summer Games 17 December 2020

Munich’s hosting of the 2018 World University Beach Volleyball Championships in the Olympiapark was a sporting and spectating success (© Andre Goerschel) Following an extensive coordination process, the German University Sports Federation (adh) has decided the sports programme for its bid to host the 2025 FISU World University Games in Germany’s Rhine-Ruhr region.   Based […]

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My greatest achievement - FISU medal

Rowing 30 August 2018

  For young up-and-coming South African rower Mzwandile Sotsaka, his podium finish at the FISU World University Championships in China is the pinnacle of his blossoming career so far, yet the determined rower insists this is just the start.   The 22-year-old University of Johannesburg student has been a rising star on the South African […]

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First WUC Rowing held outside Europe comes to successful close in Shanghai

Championships 13 August 2018

The ecstasy – and exhaustion – was readily apparent upon the double scull partners from Hungary and Italy during the World University Rowing Championship in Shanghai over the weekend SHANGHAI – When the fifteenth edition of the FISU World University Rowing Championship opened in the Chinese metropolis, it marked the first time in the championship’s […]