Azerbaijan wins silver and bronze at World Summer Universiade
By Nazrin Gadimova
Azerbaijan won two silvers and a bronze during the ongoing World Summer Universiade. Ulviyya Kerimova and Kristina Iovu won silver in the belt wrestling and weightlifting accordingly. The bronze went to Azerbaijani judo wrestler Mammadali Mehdiyev.
The 27th World Summer Universiade kicked off in the capital of Tatarstan, Russia, on July 6-17.
Azerbaijan is represented at the university in a large format. Some of our athletes are already in Kazan.
The 27th World Summer Universiade-2013 in Kazan will be the first Universiade, and in fact the first multi-sport event in the history of modern Russia.
Kazan received in 2008 the overwhelming 20 votes out of 27 possible of the members of the Executive Committee of FISU to host the Summer Universiade-2013.
The Universiade is an International multi-sport event, organized for university athletes by the International University Sports Federation (FISU). The name is a combination of the words "University" and "olympiad".
The first official World Student Games were organised in 1924 and were held under the auspices of the Fédération Internationale du Sport Universitaire (FISU) from 1949. An alternative event was organised by the Union Internationale des Étudiants (UIE) from 1947-1962, including one unofficial Games in 1954.