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European University SportEuropean University SportNewsletter of the European University Sports Association 9/2005

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The German University Sports Federation (ADH) hosted the 3rd EUSA Executive Committee meeting this year. The meeting took place in Darmstadt from October 14 to 16, 2005. The most important decisions, made on the EUSA Executive Committee meeting, are:

EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY CHAMPIONSHIPS 2006

BEACHVOLLEYBALLThe deadline for the candidatures for the organisation of the 3rd EUC Beach Volleyball has been postponed. The potential hosts are asked to send the bidding documents to the EUSA office until November 15th, 2005.

KARATEThe Executive Committee decided to organise the EUC Karate biannually in the future. The next championship will be organised in 2007. The deadline for the bids is January 31, 2006.

ROWINGAfter the great success of the 1st EUC Rowing and the proposal by the team leaders and EUSA Technical Dele-gate to organise the championship annually, the Executive Committee decided to attribute the organisation of the 2nd EUC Rowing to Brive la Gaillarde (FRA). The event will take place from September 2 to 3, 2006.

FOOTBALL (women)The Executive Committee agreed on the proposal by the organisers of the next EUC to apply the system of 7 play-ers per team in Football women. The member federations are asked to appoint the teams until December 31, 2005. Countries may also nominate the winner of this year.

SEMINAR FOR THE ORGANISERS The EC considered organising an additional annual semi-nar for the organisers of EUSA events (EUC, Symposium, GA). Such a seminar will take place from February 4 to 6, 2006 in Eindhoven for the first time, and will contain information about standards and procedures of the organi-sation, sharing of best practice and networking. Two per-

sons from each Organising Committee, EUSA Technical Delegates and EUSA EC representatives will be invited.

EUSA PATRONAGEEUSA granted its patronage for a traditional tournament “EuroMilano 2005” to be held on November 18 and 19, 2005.

EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY CHAMPIONSHIPS 2007

FUTSALEUSA Executive Committee received a bid from the Slov-enian University Sports Association to organise the Eu-ropean University Futsal Championship in Koper in July 2007. SUSA, who celebrates its 10th years in 2007, will on that occasion organise several events with EUFC being one of its highlights. A year after the World University Fut-sal Championship will be also organised in Koper. The Executive Committee considered the bid on its 2nd EC meeting and intends to attribute the 4th European Uni-versity Futsal Championship to Koper. All the member federations are asked to oppose or present an own bid for European University Futsal Championship 2007 until November 30, 2005. The final decision will be made on the Executive Committee meeting in Wroclaw on December 1, 2005.

ALL OTHER SPORTSThe Executive Committee decided to set the deadline for the bids for the European University Championships in 2007 to January 31, 2006. The decision on the organis-ers will be made on the Executive Committee meeting in February 2006.

EUSA Executive Committee Meeting



GREAT BRITAINBUSA Chief Executive Greg Jones has announced his retirement from the Association. Equally well at home on the Domestic and In-ternational circuits, Greg has done much behind the scenes to move BUSA to the position we enjoy to-day as the largest and most successful student sports as-sociation in Europe. More: www.busa.org.uk

MALTAMalta University Sports Club in-formed us, that a new Executive Committee has been elected. The President of MUSC became Mr. Eman Pulis, the Secretary Gen-eral is Mr. Ray Bartolo.Contacts info: Website: www.musc.org.mtE-mail: [email protected] Telephone: +356 99263626

SLOVENIAThe Slovenian University Sports Association (SUSA) signed con-tracts on cooperation on the field of the university sports with University of Primorska and Uni-versity of Maribor. SUSA will in partnership with universities and university sports associations in Maribor and Koper organise in the next 3 years two WUC (Table Tennis, Futsal) and one EUC (Futsal).

The President of SUSA spoke about the role of Slovenian University Sports Association and university sport in the field of higher education to the participants of the 8th ENAS Conference “The future demand of University Sports”,which was held from November 9-13, 2005 in Maribor. 80 people from 17 countries participated on the conference. More: http://hochschulsport.rwth-aachen.de/enas/

Member NewsRUSSIAThe General Conference of the Russian Students Sports Union (RSSU) on its meeting held in Moscow on September 29 & 30, 2005, elected Mr. Oleg Matyt-syn, the Rector of the Russian State University of Physical Education, Sport and Tourism as the new President of the RSSU.

ALBANIAEUSA received the request from the Albanian Students Sports Association to join EUSA. The decision will be made on the next EUSA General Assembly in Wroclaw in December 2005.

EUSA GENERAL ASSEMBLYThe 7th EUSA General Assembly will take in Wroclaw (POL) from December 2 to 4, 2005. The agenda with the documents has already been sent to all EUSA federations. The delegates will discuss annual report of the Executive Committee and Student Commission, annual accounts and budget for 2006, activity plan and elect new Executive Committee.

EUSA EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETINGSThe next EUSA Executive Committee meeting will be held in Wroclaw / POL on December 1 and 2, 2005.

EUSA SYMPOSIUMThe 4th EUSA Symposium took place in Madeira, in the City of Funchal from September 14th to 18th, 2005. Over 30 participants from 9 European countries took part on the event, which was organised on a high professional level. The conclusions from the Symposium are a part of the SCT report, which was already sent to EUSA member federations and will also be published on EUSA website. Since the EUSA EC decided to organise the Symposium on biannual basis in the future, the next event will take place in 2007.



a capacity of 9,952 beds housed the participants. 16 spon-sors supported the Games. In total some 38,366 people were accredited in 35 different categories. Totally 140 hours of broadcasting were transmitted, 1,213 Turkish and 180 foreign press members from 31 countries followed the Games. 22 stations broadcasted the Games worldwide. 143 teams competed at the Games with 357 thousand spectators supporting them. 1,385 news items about the Games were published; 98 per cent of them were positive. It is supposed that this news reached approximately 390 million people.

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Although the programme of the European University Championships 2005 has not been completed yet (EUC Tennis still has to be held end of this month), we can be more than satisfied with participation this year. The number of countries participating at EUSA events increased once more in comparison to previous years. 25 EUSA member federations were present on the EUCs, where we had 50% more participants then last year.

Country Gold Silver Bronze TOTALRUS-Russia 26 16 23 65UKR-Ukraine 18 16 18 52POL-Poland 12 8 8 28TUR-Turkey 10 11 6 27ITA-Italy 5 6 13 24FRA-France 5 3 7 15GER-Germany 4 5 8 17GBR- Great Brit. 3 9 7 19EST-Estonia 3 1 2 6NED-Netherland. 2 1 2 5CZE- Czech Rep. 2 0 2 4CRO-Croatia 2 0 0 2HUN-Hungary 1 2 2 5SCG-Serbia & M. 1 2 2 5ESP-Spain 1 1 2 4AUT-Austria 1 0 1 2ROM-Romania 1 0 1 2LAT-Latvia 1 0 0 1SLO-Slovenia 1 0 0 1SUI-Switzerland 0 2 3 5POR-Portugal 0 2 0 2IRL-Ireland 0 1 4 5GRE-Greece 0 1 3 4BEL-Belgium 0 1 2 3SVK-Slovakia 0 1 2 3FIN-Finland 0 1 1 2LTU-Lithuania 0 1 1 2MDA-Moldova 0 1 0 1TOTAL medals-EUSA members 99 92 120 311ALL Universiade medals 197 196 244 637

EUSA Members Medal Distribution -Summer Universiade Izmir 2005

FISUSUMMER UNIVERSIADEThe 23rd Summer Universiade in Izmir, Turkey was a success. A record number of participants – 7,805 from 131 countries – was registered. Among the participating countries almost all EUSA member federa-tions were present. During the Games a total of 18,536 staff worked for the Izmir organiza-tion, with 2,853 directors and 450 sports technical person-nel. 1,283 referees and judges took care of the ten com-pulsory and four optional sports. 59 sports facilities were used as venues and a specially built Athletes’ Village with

2005 2004Participants 1.508 1.017Teams 193 92Universities 121 75Countries 25 23

1 POL 43,002 GER 37,003 SCG 22,004 SLO 19,005 NED 17,006 GBR 16,007 CRO 15,008 TUR 15,009 CZE 13,00

10 LAT 12,00

The ranking list for the 2005 is as follows(after 8 of 9 EUCs)



TENNISThe 2nd European University Tennis Championship will be organised by the French University Sports Federation in Rouen from November 28 to December 3, 2005. More in-formation about the event are available on the website: http://www.sportu-hnormandie.com/Contenu/index.php?IdContenu=57

Place: Rouen /FRADate: 28.11. – 03.12.2005 E-mail: [email protected]. +33 (0)2 3210 0703, Mobile: +33 (0)6 1679 2669, Fax. +33 (0)2 3210 0723 Entry fee: 20 € per personParticipation fee: 45 € per person per day

EUSA EVENT CALENDER The University Sports Event Calendar which is published on our website www.eusa-unisport.org serves as an overview of existing university sports activities throughout Europe. If you are organising university sport events, we kindly invite you to publish them within our calendar.

BADMINTONThe 2nd European University Badminton Championship took place in Mainz, Germany from October 26 to 30, 2005. 80 participants (10 university teams) from 9 European countries took part on the event, which was organised on a high professional level. The European university champions for 2005 became:

Men single:Marcel Reuter; University of Saarbrucken / GERWomen single:Mariya Martynenko; University of KharkovPolitechnical Institute / UKRMen double:Fuchs and Spitko; University of Saarbrucken / GERWomen double:Matusewicz and Kurdelska; AZS Warszaw / POLMixed double:Szkudlarczyk and Matusewicz; AZS Warszaw / POLYou can find all the relevant information, more results and photos on the official website of the championship:http://www.euc-badminton-2005.de.

Multi Sport Events

EuroMilano ITA Milano 18.11.2005-19.11.2005

Nikolausturnier GER Münster 02.12.2005-03.12.2005

Single Sport Events

Volleybal NL Amsterdam 18.11.2005-20.11.2005

Football GER Dortmund 07.01.2006-08.01.2006



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EUSA-Event CalendarEUSA-Event Calendar

For more events please see: www.eusa-unisport.org / Event Calendarwww.fisu.net

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EUSA events &FISU events, organised by member federations of EUSA

EUC Volleyball Eindhoven / NED

EUC Football Eindhoven / NED

EUC Tennis Eindhoven / NED

EUC Basketball Braga / POR

EUC Futsal Novi Sad / SCG

EUC Badminton Lisbon / POR

EUC Handball Besancon / FRA

EUC Rowing Brive / FRA

EUC Beach Volleyball to be attributed

EUSA General Assembly to be attributed

2006

2005

EUC Tennis

Rouen / FRA 28.11.-03.12.05

EUSA General Assembly

Wroclaw / POL 02.12.-04.12.05

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