Universiade

The Universiade - also the world sports games for students - is an international multisport event that has been held every two years since 1959 and is organized by the Fédération Internationale du Sport Universitaire (FISU). Alternating with the sport-specific student world championships in even years, the Universiades are held in uneven years. The word Universiade is a combination ( suitcase word ) of university and Olympiad .

Similar to the Olympic Games , the Universiade is held in winter and summer. With around 13,000 participants from 141 nations (as of 2017), the Summer Universiade is the second largest multisport event in the world after the Summer Olympics.

sports

Sports represented at the Summer Universiade are: athletics , basketball , fencing , soccer , gymnastics , rhythmic gymnastics , swimming , diving , water polo , tennis , table tennis , judo and volleyball . For the 2017 Summer Universiade, the list of mandatory sports will be expanded to include Taekwondo and, in 2019, archery . In addition to these compulsory sports, the respective organizer can optionally include three other sports from the FISU sports canon.

The following eight sports are part of the fixed program of the Winter Universiaden : Alpine skiing , Nordic skiing ( cross-country skiing , ski jumping , Nordic combined ), figure skating , ice hockey , short track , biathlon , snowboard and curling . At the Winter Universiade, the organizer can also choose up to three optional sports.

Venues

The first Summer Universiade was organized by the FISU in 1959 in Turin (Italy) and the first Winter Universiade in 1960 in Chamonix (France). Before that it was only the “World Winter and World Summer Games of Students”. The last Summer Universiade 2017 in Taipei (Taiwan) was the 29th Summer Universiade and the Winter Universiade 2017 in Almaty (Kazakhstan) the 28th Winter Universiade.

A Summer Universiade took place in 1989 in Duisburg , the only German city to date. In Austria, the Winter Universiades took place in Innsbruck both in 1968 and 2005 , with Seefeld also appearing as a joint venue with Innsbruck in 2005 .

Brasilia withdrew from the alignment planned for 2019 because the financial situation was too risky. On March 5, 2016, the FISU awarded the organization to Naples and the Campania region .

Duisburg 1989

Duisburg 1989

Duisburg 1989

Duisburg 1989

Duisburg 1989

year	Summer Universiade		Winter Universiade
1959	01	Turin	-
1960	-		01	Chamonix
1961	02	Sofia	-
1962	-		02	Villars
1963	03	Porto Alegre	-
1964	-		03	Špindlerův Mlýn
1965	04th	Budapest	-
1966	-		04th	Sestriere
1967	05	Tokyo	-
1968	-		05	innsbruck
1970	06th	Turin	06th	Rovaniemi
1972	-		07th	Lake Placid
1973	07th	Moscow	-
1975	08th	Rome	08th	Livigno
1977	09	Sofia	-
1978	-		09	Špindlerův Mlýn
1979	10	Mexico city	-
1981	11	Bucharest	10	Jaca
1983	12	Edmonton	11	Sofia
1985	13	Kobe	12	Belluno
1987	14th	Zagreb	13	Štrbské Pleso
1989	15th	Duisburg	14th	Sofia
1991	16	Sheffield	15th	Sapporo
1993	17th	Buffalo	16	Zakopane
1995	18th	Fukuoka	17th	Jaca
1997	19th	Sicily	18th	Muju
1999	20th	Palma de Mallorca	19th	Poprad
2001	21st	Beijing	20th	Zakopane
2003	22nd	Daegu	21st	Tarvisio
2005	23	Izmir	22nd	Innsbruck / Seefeld
2007	24	Bangkok	23	Turin
2009	25th	Belgrade	24	Harbin
2011	26th	Shenzhen	25th	Erzurum
2013	27	Kazan	26th	Trentino
2015	28	Gwangju	27	Granada , Osrblie / Štrbské Pleso
2017	29	Taipei	28	Almaty
2019	30th	Naples	29	Krasnoyarsk
2021	31	Cheng you	30th	Lucerne
2023	32	Ekaterinburg	31	Lake Placid

Number of athletes: Beijing / China (2001) : 4484, Daegu / South Korea (2003) : 4462, Izmir / Turkey (2005) : 5338, Bangkok / Thailand (2007) : 6006

Individual countries

For Germany , the participants are nominated by the General German University Sports Association. Articles on Germany at individual Universiaden exist for 2009 , winter 2013 and summer 2017 .

For Austria , the “Universiade Team Austria” is nominated by “Unisport Austria”, which is based in the Federal Ministry for Science, Research and Economy, and sent to the Universiades. For Austria's successes at Universiades up to 2013 see Universiade / Austria , see also summer 2017 .

For Liechtenstein , the Liechtenstein University Sports Association (LHSV) has been a member of the FISU since 2011 and has organized the feeding of Liechtenstein athletes since then. See also summer 2017 .

See also: Category: National team at the Winter Universiade 2013 and Category: Country team at the Summer Universiade 2017

Eternal medal table

The eternal medal table is a list of all medals , sorted according to participating countries, that have been awarded in the history of the Universiade. The athletes (or teams) who rank first, second or third receive medals as an award. The winner will receive a medal known as the " Gold Medal ". The second receives a silver medal, the third a bronze medal .

Summer Universiade

→ Main article : Eternal medal table of the Summer Universiade

The five best nations

Eternal medal table of the Summer Universiade (as of February 17, 2018)
space	Abbreviation	team	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	RUS	Russia	823	673	637	2133
2	United States	United States	490	425	387	1302
3	CHN	People's Republic of China	425	295	244	962
4th	JPN	Japan	324	316	407	1047
5	COR	South Korea	207	195	208	610

Current nations competed as:

(As of February 17, 2018)
Abbreviation		team	gold	silver	bronze	total
RUS	URS	Soviet Union (1959–1991)	409	329	253	991
	RUS	Russian Federation (since 1996)	414	344	384	1142

Winter Universiade

The five best nations

Eternal medal table of the Winter Universiade (as of February 17, 2018)
space	Abbreviation	team	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	RUS	Russia	261	234	209	704
2	COR	South Korea	104	74	65	243
3	JPN	Japan	83	94	90	267
4th	CZE	Czech Republic	76	82	55	213
5	CHN	People's Republic of China	72	61	74	205

Current nations competed as :

(As of February 17, 2018)
Abbreviation		team	gold	silver	bronze	total
CZE	TCH	Czechoslovakia (1959–1991)	53	59	23	135
	CZE	Czech Republic (since 1993)	23	23	32	78

(As of February 17, 2018)
Abbreviation		team	gold	silver	bronze	total
RUS	URS	Soviet Union (1959–1991)	95	85	62	242
	RUS	Russian Federation (since 1996)	166	149	147	462

Forerunner events before 1959

As early as 1910, there were precursor events to the Universiade, often referred to as the Student World Games in German-speaking countries . From 1939 onwards, these were mostly divided into two parts for political reasons. The organizing international umbrella organizations were

• CIE ( Confédération internationale des étudiants ), founded in 1919, dissolved in 1940.
• IUS ( International Union of Students ), French UIE (L'Union Internationale des Étudiants), founded in Prague in 1946, from 1949 only " Eastern Bloc ".
• FISU ( Fédération Internationale du Sport Universitaire ), founded in 1949, only from 1957 with " Eastern Bloc ", 1957 still without the GDR.

In the following, all forerunner events before 1959 are listed that were organized by one of the three umbrella organizations mentioned or are mentioned on the adh website . (en) = Link to the event on the English Wikipedia

Precursor events to the Universiade

year	event	Org.	city	country
1910	International student world games	?	Rome	Italy
1920	Academic Olympiad	?	Berlin	Germany
1923	International Universities Championships (en)	CIE	Paris	France
1924	Summer Student World Championships (s)	CIE	Warsaw	Poland
1925	Academic Olympiad	?	Warsaw	Poland
1927	Academic Winter Games	?	Cortina d'Ampezzo	Italy
1927	Summer Student World Championships (s)	CIE	Rome	Italy
1928	Summer Student World Championships (s)	CIE	Paris	France
1930	International University Games (s)	CIE	Darmstadt	Germany
1933	International University Games (s)	CIE	Turin	Italy
1935	International University Games (s)	CIE	Budapest	Hungary
1937	International University Games (s)	CIE	Paris	France
1939	International University Games (s)	CIE	Monte Carlo	Monaco
1939	World University Games (s)	NSDStB	Vienna	German Empire
1947	International University Games (s)	CIE?	Paris	France
1947	1st World Festival of Youth and Students (en)	UIE	Prague	Czechoslovakia
1949	2nd World Festival of Youth and Students (en)	UIE	Budapest	Hungary
1949	Summer International University Sports Week (en)	FISU	Merano	Italy
1951	3rd World Festival of Youth and Students (en)	UIE	East Berlin	German Democratic Republic
1951	Summer International University Sports Week (en)	FISU	Luxembourg	Luxembourg
1953	4th World Festival of Youth and Students (en)	UIE	Bucharest	Romania
1953	Summer International University Sports Week (en)	FISU	Dortmund	Germany
1955	5th World Festival of Youth and Students (en)	UIE	Warsaw	Poland
1955	Summer International University Sports Week (en)	FISU	San Sebastian	Spain
1957	6th World Festival of Youth and Students (en)	UIE	Moscow	Soviet Union
1957	World University Games (s)	CIE	Paris	France

The World Festival of Youth and Students takes place at irregular intervals of three to eight years up to the present, most recently in 2017 in Sochi, Russia . It is organized by the World Socialist Federation of Democratic Youth and therefore does not see itself as politically neutral.

Web links

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

• International University Sports Federation (FISU)
• Unisport Austria
• Results from 2002

2001

• Report on the 2001 Beijing Summer Universiade

2011

• Summer Universiade Shenzhen (China) 2011
• Athletics competition results

2013

• Summer Universiade Kazan (Russia) 2013
• Athletics competition results

2015

• Winter Universiade Granada (Spain) 2015
• Winter Universiade Štrbské Pleso and Osrblie (Slovakia) 2015
• Summer Universiade Gwangju (South Korea) 2015

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Summer Universiade. Summer Universiade Sports Program. In: fisu.net. FISU , accessed July 11, 2013 . 
2. ↑ Daniel Etchells: Brasilia pull out of hosting 2019 Summer Universiade , on: insidethegames.biz, January 5, 2015, accessed on August 24, 2016
3. ↑ Official attribution of the Universiade 2019 to the city of Naples , on: fisu.net, May 29, 2016, accessed on August 24, 2016
4. ↑ Record delegation for the Universiade in Taipei , Sport, on: vaterland.li, July 14, 2017, accessed on August 22, 2017
5. ^ Political division of the association on www.adh.de
6. ↑ ^{a b c d} Origins of the Universiade at www.adh.de