SHENZHEN – While athleticism itself is universial, every sport has its focus point. Basketball players need height and a sturdy hand. Football puts emphasis on pace and precision. Volleyball needs its players to have the best possible jump takeoff. Waterpolo players it seems, need to have all of the above, and much much more. […]
Shanghai: July 15, the International Swimming Federation Office (FINA) decided that Kazan will host the World Water Sports Championships 2015. Presentations of the World Water Sports Championships 2015 potential host cities were made early in the morning (Moscow time) in Shanghai’s “Shangri La” Hotel. Russian bid was the last – after Guadalajara (Mexico) and Hong […]
OTTAWA – Canadian Interuniversity Sport, in conjunction with Water Polo Canada, announced Tuesday the student-athletes and team personnel who will represent Canada in women’s water polo at the 26th Summer Universiade in August in Shenzhen, China. No less than seven of the 13 players selected are returnees from the squad that finished fourth in 2009, […]
SINGAPORE – The last day of competition was the most exciting in the whole tournament. The women’s final was fiercely contested between Namangan National University (NNU Uzbekistan) and Peking University Founder Technology College (PUFTC China). PUFTC had already met NNU in the preliminary rounds and prevailed by a single goal. The spectators in the […]
SINGAPORE – The 1st Asian University Waterpolo Championship is being organized in Singapore from July 8th to 14th. 159 students and officials from 7 competing countries, named Korea, Japan, Indonesia, Singapore, China, Pakistan, Uzbekistan took part in this championship organized by National University of Singapore and Singapore Swimming Association. It was also the second […]
