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A very popular snow discipline at the FISU World University Games, Alpine Skiing had its premiere at the event’s first edition in Chamonix, France, in 1960. Alpine Skiing is the sport with the highest country participation at the FISU Games, e.g. 42 countries participated in the 2019 Winter Unive...

From behind the scenes, to athlete profiles, and bonus content, make sure to explore the world surrounding the Lake Placid 2023 FISU Games.

On the World University Championships sports programme since 1996, Squash is a very popular sport among university students. While the first editions were primarily hosted in Europe, FISU Squash has travelled far and beyond European borders, being played in Africa, Asia and Oceania.

It’s global. It’s urban. It’s a show. The FISU University World Cup 3x3 event has become one of FISU's most exciting and popular sports events. With its rightful home on the university campus, the event and its student-athletes are helping take this format of the game to new heights.

Watch livestreams of the Samsun 2022 FISU World Cup Combat Sports here: https://www.fisu.tv/livestreams-samsun-2022-combat-sports

After resounding success, our newest sports property that pits university versus university is all set for a new discipline's debut in 2022. The first FISU University...

Beach Volleyball features on the World University Championships sports programme since 2002. No better place as Guadeloupe, a French DOM in the Caribbean, to host the inaugural edition of this FISU sport. Since then, the WUC has travelled to Europe, Asia and the Americas and has also been an opti...

Canoe sprint made its first appearance in the FISU sports programme at the Zagreb Summer Universiade in 1987, as an optional sport. In 1998 the sport was added to the World University Championships programme.

Triathlon entered the programme of the FISU World University Championships in 1992 with a first edition organised in Darmstadt (GER). Since then the championship has been hosted worldwide every two years. A popular championship among the student-athletes.

Watch replays of the FISU World University Championship Orienteering.

Watch full replays of the FISU World University Championship Futsal competitions

Events organised by the Chinese Taipei national university sports federation and its universities.

Events organised by the New Zealand national university sports federation and its universities.

FISU Cross Country events

With the roots of speed skating dating back to the 1951 World University Championship Cup, the sport has had a storied history within the university ranks. An optional sport at the Winter Universiade - and one of a handful of winter sports on the World University Championships sports programme as...

Weightlifting entered the programme of the FISU World University Championships in 2008 with a first edition organised in Komotini (GRE). A very popular sport with around 200 athletes from some 30 countries participating in each championship.

The first World University Badminton Championship was organised in Nicosia, Cyprus in 1990. Traditionally, all Asian countries have distinguished themselves in this discipline. Next to the WUC programme, Badminton also featured as an optional sport at the Summer Universiades in Asia (Bangkok & Sh...

Handball is the first sport ever organised as a World University Championship in 1963 in the Swedish city of Lund. Since then the discipline has grown to become one of the most important sports in the Championship programme. From 2022 Handball is played as a University World Cup format, with univ...

Floorball has been part of the programme of the World University Championships since 2002. An exciting indoor sport especially popular in the Scandinavian countries and also Europa, the WUC also travelled to Asia landing in Singapore in 2014. From 2022 onwards, Floorball will be played in a Unive...

Finswimming is a FISU Recognised Sport since 2017. The sport has been moved to the FISU University World Cup programme in 2019 and the 1st FISU University World Cup Finswimming will be organised in 2022 in Lignano Sabbiadoro, Italy.

Cheerleading’s story within the FISU programme is just starting to be written as Lodz, Poland hosted the first World University Cheerleading Championship in 2018. Earlier, the Kazan 2013 Summer Universiade had incorporated a cheerleading festival into its cultural events schedule. From 2022 onwar...

A recent addition to the FISU World University Championship programme, Sport Climbing saw its inauguration in Shanghai in 2016. This spectacular sport with a variety of disciplines is very popular among students.

American Football entered the programme of the FISU World University Championships in 2013. A spectacular game, the WUC attracts a lot of fans to the games. From 2022 onwards, American Football will be played in a University World Cup format, with university teams competing instead of national sq...

Rugby Sevens is a variant of Rugby Union in which teams are made up of seven players playing seven minute halves, instead of the usual 15 players playing 40-minute halves. A World University Championship sport since 2004, Rugby Sevens has also featured as an optional sport at the Summer Universia...

China has greatly contributed to the growth of university table tennis, which is why it was included as an optional sport in the Summer Universiade in Beijing in 2001. The continuously increasing number of participants finally provided table tennis the opportunity to join the list of compulsory s...

The gracious movements of the figure skaters always attract a big crowd at the FISU World University Games. Lots of excitement builds up in the arena when the skaters perform the most difficult spins and jumps. Traditionally, the competition ends with a Skating Gala with all medallists performing...

Watch the world's best student-athletes compete in Bridge & Chess

Ski Orienteering is one of the few winter sports on the World University Championships sports programme. Its first edition was held in 2016 in Tula, Russian Federation and was immediately a hit. Combining orienteering and cross-country skiing, it’s a very technical sport.

Fast, faster, fastest! Short Track is all about speed and strategic thinking. Although the Korean and Chinese skaters often excel at the Winter Universiade, they are always challenged by athletes from many other countries. A need for speed? Check out short track!

As a sport that has its roots in the army, Biathlon has become a very exciting and popular sport for university students. Biathlon was included in the sports programme for the first time during the 1983 Winter Universiade that took place in Sofia, Bulgaria.

After resounding success in its inaugural edition in 2019, The event is held every two years, the best university football teams from around the world battle it out to be crowned World University Champions

Snowboard is one of the youngest Universiade disciplines and was introduced during the 17th Winter Universiade (1995) in Jaca, Spain. In the early Universiade editions, the Swowboard competitions featured only Giant Slalom and Parallel Giant Slalom. Showcasing the growth of the sport, the Winter...

From the very first Summer Universiade in Torino 1959, Volleyball has been a compulsory and successful sport. The level of the games and the continuous increasing number of participating teams reflected on the interest Volleyball generated among our member federations.

Tennis is one of the university sports with the oldest history in the FISU sports programme. It has featured at every International Summer Sports Week starting from 1949 in Merano (ITA) and celebrated its debut as a compulsory sport at the first Summer Universiade in Turin in 1959. From the very ...

When Taekwondo became a modern sport, it preserved the spirit of a two-thousand–year-old martial art, as well as its force and appeal. Also called foot fencing, this sport has been added to the Universiade sports programme in Taipei 2017 after being a part of the World University sports programme...

Sailing was an optional sport at the Summer Universiade 1999 in Palma de Mallorca. It was added to the official sports programme of the championships in 2002 and has been organized ever since. The category of sailing at the World Univsersity Championships is called match racing in which two simil...

Grace and beauty are what best describes a Rhythmic Gymnastics competition. Up to now it is the only compulsory women-only discipline in the programme of FISU events. Rhythmic Gymnastics is without any doubt the preferred discipline by the audience as the fans are coming in droves to the see comp...

Athletics is a perfect example of the Olympic motto ‘Citius, Altius, Fortius’ (‘Faster, Higher, Stronger’). The competitions require athletes to run faster, throw further, jump higher and leap longer than their rivals. Athletics is the largest individual sport in the programme of the Summer Unive...

In 1996, the championship season opened with the first World University Archery Championship in Vaulx-en-Velin, France. After 11 editions as a WUC and 5 editions as an optional sport at the Summer Universiade, Archery will become a compulsory sport on the SU programme in 2019.

Ski Cross, Moguls, Half Pipe, Aerials and Slope Style: Freestyle Skiing is a very young and spectacular sport that includes all those events. It has recently gained more attention from the public and it has experienced phenomenal growth also in the international student sports community.

With more than 300 participating athletes, Fencing is among the most popular sports at the Summer Universiade. Valentina Vezzali, Time Nagy, Xue Tan, Stanislav Podzniakov, Pavel Kolobkov and Marcel Fisher are just few names who won Olympic as well as Summer Universiade medals, reflecting on the h...

Judo has always been intimately linked to the university world. After a brilliant career in the World University Championship programme, Judo was introduced in the Universiade programme in 2007 (Bangkok). It’s evolution in terms of participation level is still amazing and this is also true in ter...

During the first Summer Universiade in Turin (ITA) 1959, 12 records were broken, setting the milestone for another 12 Universiade records just two years later in Sofia (BUL). This is typically Swimming: a very high level sport in a dramatic setting.

The story of Shooting Sport in FISU started in Pilsen, Czech Republic, in 2003, where the first edition of the competition was staged after it was postponed due to a flooding of the venue in 2002, the original World University Championships year. An optional sport on the Summer Universiade a coup...

From an optional sport at the 21st Winter Universiade in Tarvisio (2003), Curling became a compulsory sport at the 23rd edition in Torino (2007). Since then, there always has been a reserve list as all spots for the men’s and women’s tournament are always taken and the competition is fierce!

Cross-Country Skiing, has been a compulsory sport since the inaugural edition of the Winter Universiade that took place in Chamonix, France, in 1960. It is one of the oldest sports in the FISU World University Games sports programme and it was also proposed during the International Winter Weeks i...

The fastest team sport in the world was added to the sports programme of the Winter Universiade for the 2nd edition in Villars, Switzerland in 1962. In 2009, at the 24th edition in Harbin, China, the women’s tournament was added as well. Simply the right decision as both exciting tournaments alwa...

Water Polo is one of the fastest and toughest team sports, which can best be described as a combination of Swimming, Handball, Football, Rugby and Wrestling. As far as numbers go, Water Polo steadily increased from one Universiade to the next. A women’s tournament has been included since Belgrade...

Basketball is one of the few sports which have featured at every International University Sports Week before joining the list of compulsory sports at the Universiade in Turin in 1959. It is one of the most anticipated tournaments of the Universiade as it gathers only high level players.