Summer Universiade 2009

The 2009 Summer Universiade , officially the XXV. Summer Universiade was held in Belgrade , Serbia , from July 1st to July 12th, 2009.

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Applications for the 2009 Summer Universiade began in early 2004. In addition to Belgrade, the cities of Monterrey in Mexico and Poznań in Poland applied . One advantage for Belgrade was the fact that some major events were to be held there in the years to come. These included the 2005 European Basketball Championships , the European Volleyball Championships , the 2006 European Water Polo Championships and the 2007 European Summer Olympic Youth Festival .

On January 19, 2005, at a ceremony in Innsbruck, Belgrade was announced as the venue for the Summer Universiade. The late Mayor of Belgrade Nenad Bogdanović was present .

mascot

Srba - mascot

The mascot of the Universiade is a sparrow with a cap. This was chosen because the sparrow is not only symbolically connected to the host city, but also because it has speed, dynamism and skill as properties that the participants also need for the competitions. The name was determined in a competition. In April 2009 the three names Srba, Cvrle and Dživdžan remained. The final name was chosen by the 10,000 volunteers at the Universiade. They chose the name Srba.

Sports facilities

The Universiade was held in 69 different sports venues in Belgrade and the surrounding area. Other cities with sports facilities were Inđija , Novi Sad , Obrenovac , Pančevo , Smederevo , Vršac and Zrenjanin . Water polo and volleyball competitions were held in Obrenovac, basketball competitions in Inđija, athletics and volleyball in Novi Sad, basketball in Pančevo and Vršac and swimming competitions in Zrenjanin.

The opening and closing ceremonies took place in the Belgrade Arena , with a capacity of 20,000 spectators. Many sports facilities have been brought up to the latest standards for the Universiade, and some have even been newly built.

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  Belgrade Arena

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  Red Star Stadium

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  Belgrade fair

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  Tašmajdan sports center

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  SPENS (Novi Sad)

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  Millennium Center (Vršac)

Accommodation

All participants of the Universiade will be accommodated in the athletes' village "Belville". The accommodations were newly built and consist of 16 buildings with apartments of 120,000 m² of living space. There is also business and office space of 56,800 m² and a further 6100 m² of otherwise usable space. The whole complex was completed in May 2009 and officially opened in June. 2000 apartments were offered for sale beforehand and the owners can move into them after the games.

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  2009 athletes' village

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  2009 athletes' village under construction.

sports

• Archery
• basketball
• Diving
• fencing
• Soccer
• Apparatus gymnastics
• athletics
• Judo
• Rhythmic sports gymnastics
• swim
• Table tennis
• Taekwondo
• tennis
• volleyball
• Water polo

TV broadcast

The Serbian state broadcaster RTS took over the coverage of the Universiade. The games were broadcast in high definition format. The broadcaster Eurosport took over the further reporting.

Medal table

space	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	Russia	27	22nd	27	76
2	People's Republic of China	22nd	21st	15th	58
3	South Korea	21st	11	15th	47
4th	Japan	20th	21st	32	73
5	United States	13	13	13	39
6th	Ukraine	7th	11	13	31
7th	Chinese Taipei	7th	5	5	17th
8th	Italy	6th	14th	11	31
9	Poland	6th	10	8th	24
10	Serbia	5	5	9	19th
11	Australia	5	2	1	8th
11	Iran	5	2	1	8th
13	France	4th	8th	9	21st
14th	Belarus	4th	2	5	11
15th	Spain	4th	0	6th	10
16	Mexico	3	5	5	13
17th	Germany	3	3	11	17th
18th	United Kingdom	3	1	3	7th
19th	Switzerland	3	1	1	5
20th	Netherlands	3	0	2	5
20th	Portugal	3	0	2	5
22nd	Canada	2	7th	6th	15th
23	South Africa	2	2	5	9
23	Turkey	2	2	5	9
25th	Brazil	2	2	2	6th
26th	Cuba	2	1	2	5
27	Slovenia	2	0	2	4th
28	Azerbaijan	2	0	0	2
28	Hong Kong	2	0	0	2
30th	North Korea	1	3	4th	8th
31	Hungary	1	2	5	8th
32	Kazakhstan	1	2	4th	7th
33	New Zealand	1	2	1	4th
33	Romania	1	2	1	4th
35	Czech Republic	1	1	4th	6th
36	Kenya	1	1	1	3
36	Lithuania	1	1	1	3
36	Moldova	1	1	1	3
36	Senegal	1	1	1	3
40	Bulgaria	1	0	1	2
41	Honduras	1	0	0	1
41	Latvia	1	0	0	1
41	Sweden	1	0	0	1
44	Egypt	0	2	4th	6th
45	Croatia	0	2	1	3
45	Mongolia	0	2	1	3
45	Vietnam	0	2	1	3
48	Thailand	0	1	6th	7th
49	Slovakia	0	1	3	4th
50	Armenia	0	1	2	3
50	Belgium	0	1	2	3
52	Israel	0	1	1	2
53	Algeria	0	1	0	1
53	Austria	0	1	0	1
53	Ecuador	0	1	0	1
56	Denmark	0	0	1	1
total		204	203	262	669

credentials

1. ↑ Maskota Univerzijade - Srba . Well Dlanu.com. Archived from the original on April 6, 2009. Retrieved July 26, 2009.
2. ↑ Trećina Univerzijade biće održana u Vojvodini . Blic.rs. Retrieved October 22, 2008.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Universiade Belgrade 2009 on Eurosport . Universiade Belgrade 2009. Accessed on May 8, 2008.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  

Web links

Commons : 2009 Summer Universiade  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• 2009 Summer Universiade opened in Belgrade. In: German Olympic Sports Confederation (July 2, 2009)
• Results from 2002