BELGRADE – Today, March 21st, the Team Draw for the 2009 Summer Universiade was held. The event was led by FISU Secretary-General/CEO Eric Saintrond. The following team sports were involved: Water Polo, Basketball, Football and Volleyball, all for both Men and Women.

The Team Draw ended the Heads of Delegation meeting in Belgrade. 88 delegates from 45 participant countries travelled to Belgrade, Serbia to attend the Heads of Delegation meeting from March 19th to 21st.

The meeting of the Heads of Delegation is the most important event preceding the Summer Universiade. It gives the delegates the opportunity to see where they will be residing and where their athletes will compete.

The Heads of Delegation finished a very busy schedule, which started with the visit of the University Village. The meeting was well received by the delegates and FISU President George Killian was satisfied with the work done by the Organizing Committee. ‘Although there were some issues in the past due to the economic crisis, Belgrade Universiade is on track and I’m fully confident the Games will go well’, Mr. Killian said to the gathered press during the press conference today. ‘I’m sure on the 1st of July, the OC and FISU will be extremely proud with what has been accomplished. One of the greatest assets is your volunteers, who are enthusiastic university students, Serbia’s future. Without volunteers nothing happens’, Mr. Killian praised the high number of volunteers registered for the Games.

The 25th Summer Universiade will take place from July 1st to 12th.

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FISU stands for Federation Internationale du Sport Universitaire (International University Sports Federation), founded in 1949. FISU’s main responsibility is the supervision of both Summer and Winter Universiades as well as the World University Championships. The Universiade is an international sporting and cultural festival which is staged every two years in a different city and which is second in importance only to the Olympic Games.

The Summer Universiade consists of 12 compulsory sports (Athletics – Basketball – Fencing – Football – Gymnastics – Swimming – Diving – Water Polo – Tennis – Table Tennis – Judo – Volleyball) and up to three optional sports chosen by the host country. The record figures are 9,006 participants in Bangkok, Thailand in 2007 and 174 countries in Daegu, Korea in 2003.

The Winter Universiade consists of 7 compulsory sports (Alpine skiing – Nordic skiing composed of jump, cross country & combined – Biathlon – Ice Hockey – Short-Track – Speed Skating – Figure Skating – Curling) and one or two optional sports also chosen by the host country. The Winter Universiade gathered a record 2,511 participants in Torino in 2007 and a record number of 50 countries in Innsbruck, Austria in 2005.

The World University Championships are organized every even year in sports which do not figure on the compulsory Universiade program. In 2006 28 different WUC were staged all over the world.

For more info or pictures, do not hesitate to contact FISU Media department at media@fisu.net or surf to www.fisu.net.

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Women’s Water Polo

 

Group A

Group B

1

SRB

AUS

2

JPN

CHN

3

RUS

HUN

4

CAN

ITA

	Men’s Water Polo
	Group A	Group B	Group C	Group D
1	SRB	MNE	ITA	HUN
2	FRA	AUS	ESP	JPN
3	CRO	GRE	RUS	POL
4	MEX	CAN	CHN	USA

 

	Women’s Volleyball
	Group A	Group B	Group C	Group D
1	SRB	POL	CHN	THA
2	ITA	ESP	TPE	JPN
3	GBR	TUR	SLO	RUS
4	BRA	MGL	CAN	SWE

 

	Men’s Volleyball
	Group A	Group B	Group C	Group D
1	SRB	TUR	CAN	GER
2	RUS	BRA	UKR	CZE
3	SWE	MNE	SLO	POL
4	LIB	SUI	GBR	UAE
5	KOR	CHN	JPN	HKG
6	RSA		EGY	AUS

 

	Women’s Basketball
	Group A	Group B	Group C	Group D
1	SRB	AUS	RUS	POL
2	USA	CAN	TPE	CZE
3	FRA	SVK	HUN	TUR
4	GBR	JPN	MOZ	CHN

 

	Men’s Basketball
	Group A	Group B	Group C	Group D
1	SRB	LTU	CAN	JPN
2	GRE	ROM	ITA	UKR
3	AUS	UAE	CHN	BUL
4		MEX

 

	Men’s Basketball
	Group E	Group F	Group G	Group H
1	TUR	RUS	GER	KOR
2	POR	ISR	LAT	FIN
3	IRI	BRA	RSA	USA
4		GAB

 

	Women’s Football
	Group A	Group B	Group C	Group D
1	SRB	RUS	BRA	IRL
2	CHN	GBR	KOR	FRA
3	POL	EST	GER	HUN
4	CAN	TPE	RSA	JPN

 

	Men’s Football