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34 unusual facts about Universiade


1972 Winter Universiade

The 1972 Winter Universiade, the VII Winter Universiade, took place in Lake Placid, New York, United States.

1985 Winter Universiade

The 1985 Winter Universiade, the XII Winter Universiade, took place in Belluno, Italy.

1987 Winter Universiade

The 1987 Winter Universiade, the XIII Winter Universiade, took place in Štrbské Pleso, Czechoslovakia.

1989 Winter Universiade

The 1989 Winter Universiade, the XIV Winter Universiade, took place in Sofia, Bulgaria.

2003 Winter Universiade

The 2003 Winter Universiade, the XXI Winter Universiade, took place in Tarvisio, Italy.

2009 Winter Universiade

The 2009 Winter Universiade, the XXIV Winter Universiade took place in Harbin, China.

2013 Winter Universiade

The 2013 Winter Universiade, the XXVI Winter Universiade, was a winter multi-sport event which took place in Trentino, Italy, between 11 to 21 December 2013.

2017 Winter Universiade

The 2017 Winter Universiade, the XXVIII Winter Universiade, is a multi sport winter event which will take place in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

Ali Darmar

Recently Anjelika Akbar, a concert pianist and a composer, performed at the Erzurum 2011 Winter Universiade preparations' gathering in Erzurum and her repertoire consisted of one of Darmar's compositions, along with the works of John Sebastian Bach, Ulvi Cemal Erkin and Ilhan Baran.

Bonnie Henrickson

Henrickson served as an assistant coach, under head coach Rene Portland, of the USA representative to the 1999 World University Games (also known as the Universiade).

Christopher Hedquist

Career highlights include: Bronze Medal 2003 U.S. National Championships, 4th 2003 Junior World Championships, 2004 Overall European Cup Champion, Gold 2005 World Universiade, 7th overall 2006-2007 World Cup

Debbie Ryan

Ryan served as the head coach of the USA representative to the 1999 World University Games (also known as the Universiade).

Delta City

The University Village will home the thousands of athletes for the 2009 Universiade.

Diane Valkenburg

She represented her country at the 2007 Winter Universiade held in Turin where she won the gold medal at the team pursuit together with Moniek Kleinsman and Janneke Ensing.

Didem Akın

Didem who could not stay away from basketball for a long time, served as assistant coach in Universiade, World University Summer Games 2005 held in Izmir.

Giuseppe Lolaico

Lolaico represented Italy Universiade team and finished as the runner-up at 2009 Summer Universiade in July.

Goran Nava

At the 2009 Summer Universiade, he finished second overall in the 800 metres with a time of 1:48.06, only 0.04 seconds behind the first-place Sajjad Moradi.

Graeme Dell

He has coached the British Universities (BUSA) National Football team at eight FISU World University Games (Universiade) in 1995, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007 and 2009, most recently losing in the semi-finals to Ukraine on penalty kicks, yet finishing in 4th place, Great Britain's highest finish since 1993 at that level.

Hideki Matsuyama

In 2011, Matsuyama won the gold medal at the 2011 World University Games.

Jaca

Jaca was the host city of the 1981 and 1995 Winter Universiades.

Janneke Ensing

She also represented her country at the 2007 Winter Universiade held in Turin where she won the gold medal at the team pursuit together with Moniek Kleinsman and Diane Valkenburg.

Jarun

Development increased in 1987 due to the building of the sports and leisure center (because of the Universiade in Zagreb the same year).

Julia Khakimova

At the 2005 Summer Universiade, Khakimova won a bronze medal in the individual women's foil event.

Keith Shevlin

His performances for the Seahawks gained international recognition when he was drafted into the Irish Squad for the Universiade tournament in Izmir, Turkey.

Kiradech Aphibarnrat

In 2007, he was on the gold medal team at the World University Games.

Kirk Furey

In 2001, Furey helped Team Canada win silver at the 2001 Winter Universiade in Zakopane, Poland.

Mark Ooijevaar

He won the Dutch Allround Championships for students in 2006 and was named in the Dutch national team to represent the country at the 2007 Winter Universiade held in Turin on both the 5000 and 10,000 metres distances.

Mel Lattany

He won a gold medal over 100 metres at the 1981 Summer Universiade, and over 200 metres at the 1981 IAAF World Cup.

Paul Hession

The following year Hession missed the World Championships but was rewarded with silver medal in the 200 m at the World University Games.

Shenzhen Bay Sports Center

It uses mostly for table tennis, swimming and football competitions and hosted opening ceremony and some competitions of the 2011 Summer Universiade.

Tom Shields

At the 2011 Summer Universiade in Shenzhen, Shields earned the first international medal of his career, a gold, in the 4×200-meter freestyle relay for his contribution in the heats.

Universiada Hall

Opened in 1961 for the II Summer Universiade, the arena has a seating capacity for 3,000 people and is the regular home venue of the Levski Sofia basketball team.

Van Nelson

He won the Amateur Athletic Union six-mile title then completed a 5000 meters/10,000 meters track double at the 1967 World Student Games.

Vladislav Polyakov

Two weeks later, at the 2005 Summer Universiade in Izmir, Turkey, Polyakov earned a silver medal in the 200 m breaststroke at 2:12.69, just 0.34 seconds off a leading time set by Poland's Sławomir Kuczko.


2007 Winter Universiade

The evening began with the "Princess of the Snow", Magda Gomes, who introduced the audience to a journey that joins Turin to the rest of the world through the student spirit of the Universiade.

2008 Philippine Collegiate Championship

The 1967 UE Red Warriors led by Robert Jaworski and Danny Florencio was the last team to participate in the Universiade's basketball tournament.

2017 Summer Universiade

The 2017 Summer Universiade, the XXIX Summer Universiade, is scheduled for Taipei, Taiwan.

Aikaterini Stefanidi

During the summer of 2011, she placed second at the European Athletics U23 Championships in Ostrava and third at Universiade (World University Games) in Shenzhen, China, after jumping a personal best of 4.45m to tie the Greek under-23 record.

Aurieyall Scott

Scott was entered into the Athletics competition at the 2013 Summer World University Games (Universiade) in Kazan, Russia, initially competing in 200 metres and the 4x100 relay.

Edmonton Energy

The Edmonton Energy formerly played their home games at the MacEwan Centre for Sport and Wellness at MacEwan University just north of Downtown Edmonton, but they now play at the "Butterdome" (or Universiade Pavilion), located at the University of Alberta in the Windsor Park/Garneau area.

John Dore

John was Assistant Coach of Canada's Junior Men’s National Team, in 1998, and led several national teams, including Canadian entries at World University Games (Universiade) and the Maccabiah Games (with Glen Grunwald, former general manager of the Toronto Raptors).

Kim Young-Gwon

Kim played for South Korea national under-20 football team, South Korea Universiade team and South Korea national futsal team when he studied at Jeonju University.

Masahiko Inoha

When he was at the university, he was a member of the Japan team that won the 23rd Universiade football competition hosted by İzmir, Turkey.

Noemi Batki

In August 2007 Batki won the gold medal at 24th Universiade in Bangkok, Thailand, in the 1 metre competition, sharing the same score as the Ukrainian diver Maria Voloschenko.

Oleh Vernyayev

At the 2013 Summer Universiade, Verniaiev led his Ukrainian team (Igor Radivilov, Oleg Stepko, Petro Pakhnyuk and Maksym Semiankiv) to a second place finish in the team final and qualified for the all-around final.

Siberian Federal University

Svetlana Boldykova, Master of Sports of International Level in snowboarding, silver champion of world cups, silver champion of the Universiade;