The bid was
represented by Russia's top brass.
MOSCOW, July 2.
/TASS/. The Executive Committee of the International University Sports
Federation (FISU) has chosen Russia’s Urals city of Yekaterinburg to host the
2023 Summer Universiade.
The decision was
announced at the FISU Executive Committee’s meeting in Italy’s Naples.
Yekaterinburg’s bid
was represented by Russian Sports Minister Pavel Kolobkov, Governor of the
Sverdlovsk Region Yevgeny Kuyvashev, Rector of the Urals Federal University
Viktor Koksharov and Head of the Sergei Seyranov.
Russia will host the
Summer Universiade for the second time following the competitions held in Kazan
in 2013. Back during the USSR (1973), Moscow hosted the Summer Universiade. In
March 2019, Russia held the Winter Universiade in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia.
The Summer
Universiade is an international sporting and cultural festival, which is staged
every two years in a different city. The name of the international sports event
is a combination of two words - ‘University’ and ‘Olympiade.’
It is only second to
the Olympic Games. The program of the Summer Universiade currently includes 18
sports: Basketball, Water Polo, Volleyball, Judo, Rugby Sevens, Athletics,
Table Tennis, Swimming, Diving, Artistic and Rhythmic Gymnastics, Archery, Tennis,
Football, Taekwondo, Fencing, Shooting and Sailing.
The 2019 Summer
Universiade is due to be held in Naples from July 3 to 14, and in 2021 the
event will be hosted by China’s Chengdu.
Source: ITAR-TASS
02-07-2019
