Summer Universiade countries participants. Ministry of Sports of the Russian Federation

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Guide to the Summer Universiade 2017

These competitions have their own anthem, mascot and slogan, but there will be no Russian athletes.

Where and when

From August 19 to August 30 in Taipei. Brasilia and Turkish Izmir argued for the right to host the competition. Taiwan is the only country among the candidates that has not previously hosted the Universiade. Brazil hosted the University Games in 1963, and Turkey hosted athletes in 2005. Taipei's application was approved by the International University Sports Federation on November 29, 2011.

For the capital of the Republic of China, these competitions will generally become the largest and most significant sporting event in the entire history of the island state. All tickets for the Opening Ceremony, which will take place on August 19, were sold out a month ago.

Sports

Over the course of a week and a half, athletes will compete for 275 sets of awards in 22 sports. In addition to the fourteen compulsory events that are presented at each summer Universiade, the organizing committee added eight more. Six of them were previously held at collegiate games: archery, badminton, baseball, golf, taekwondo and weightlifting. Wushu and roller sports will make their debut at the Universiade this year.

Representatives of athletics will traditionally compete for the most awards - 50 sets of medals, in swimming athletes will compete for 42 sets, in taekwondo - for 23 sets.

Symbolism

The Chinese character that means “north” and is an abbreviation for Taipei was chosen for the Universiade logo. The lines as conceived by the designers reflect the city's constant desire for excellence and innovation. A mandatory element in the logo is five stars, which, like the Olympic rings, represent the five continents.

The official slogan of the competition is “For you. For youth."

The Universiade also has its own mascot - a black bear named Bravo. He was chosen as the mascot through an online vote. The white stripes on the chest are made in the shape of the letter V, which means victory. This letter is also the ribbon for the bear's gold medal.

Universiade

The Universiade also has its own hymn. The lyrics for the song Embrace the World with You were written by famous Chinese singer Chris Wu. In addition to national motifs, the composition uses a rumba rhythm. The song is about friendship and world peace.

Russian national team

The University Sports Federation has set a target of 40 gold medals for this Universiade. To accomplish this task, famous and titled athletes, winners and prize-winners of world championships and Olympic games will be involved. So our team will be represented by divers Ilya Zakharov and Evgeny Kuznetsov, archer Tuyana Dashidozhieva, weightlifter Artem Okulov and others.

Athletics representatives will not be able to compete at the Universiade. The Russian Student Union was unable to register athletes to participate in the games.

“Our athletes will not compete at the Universiade in any capacity, nothing happened. It was planned that 11 people would go there, but we never received any clarification from the International University Sports Federation on how neutral athletes would participate in the competition. It was not clear how to enter them into the database,” Sergei Seiranov, president of the Russian Sports Student Union, told TASS.

Where to watch

The World Summer Universiade can be watched on our website and TV channel “Match! Arena". The opening ceremony will take place on August 19 at 14:00.

August 20 “Match! Arena" will show competitions in diving, judo, fencing and swimming. Broadcasts start at 9:25.

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The 2017 Universiade in Taipei has come to an end, the Russian team took fourth place in the team competition at the 29th Summer World University Games.

6:07 31.08.2017

The 2017 Universiade in Taipei has come to an end, the Russian team at the 29th Summer World University Games took fourth place in the team competition, for the first time since 2001, in terms of the number of gold medals, it was not among the top three teams.

The Universiade lasted from August 19 to 30. During this time, 271 sets of awards were awarded in 21 sports, and more than 7.5 thousand athletes from 144 countries took part in the competitions. The Russian delegation included 348 athletes representing more than one hundred universities in the country, including student athletes from foreign universities.

The Japanese team took first place in the medal standings (37-27-37), the second position was taken by the South Korean team (30-22-30), and the Taiwanese team took third place (26-34-30). The Russian team won 25 gold, 31 silver and 38 bronze medals. In total, the Russians won 94 awards and in the total number of medals they were second only to the Japanese (101).

Russian athletes performed most successfully in rhythmic gymnastics, where they won seven gold, four silver and two bronze medals. They also showed good results in diving (4-3-3), where the country, in particular, was represented by world champions Ilya Zakharov and Evgeny Kuznetsov. The Russian team won the most awards in swimming - 16, but only two of them are gold (2-5-9).

The plight of track and field athletes

The last time the Russian team remained outside the top three was in 2001, when Beijing hosted the Universiade. In the Chinese capital, the Russians also finished fifth, behind the teams of Ukraine, Japan, the USA and China.

President of the Russian Student Sports Union Sergei Seiranov, commenting on the results of the competition, highlighted two reasons why the national team failed to maintain its leading position. The fact that Russian track and field athletes were unable to compete in Taipei was largely hindered. The ongoing suspension of the All-Russian Athletics Federation (ARAF) allowed the Russians to compete at the Universiade only in a neutral status, as happened at the recent World Athletics Championships, but a decision was made to abandon this idea. Although at the last Universiade, which was held in Kazan, track and field athletes brought the Russian team 29 medals, of which 12 were gold. In Taipei, 50 sets of medals were competed for in athletics.

“The second blow is that we knew that China was ignoring the Universiade, but that they would bring such “passengers,” Seyranov said about the second reason. “Imagine table tennis, and the Chinese only have one gold! As a result, all these medals that The Chinese (badminton, rollersports, table tennis) were supposed to win, and three Asian countries played against each other: Japan, South Korea, Taiwan.”

Well-deserved victories

It was also understandable that the Japanese team, whose capital would host the Summer Olympic Games in three years, wanted to show its best side. “Japan has never shown such an attitude towards the Universiades before,” Seiranov noted. “It’s a shame that in the end they remained in fourth overall team place, everyone worked with great dedication - all members of the national team.”

This was also noted by the country's leadership. Throughout the tournament, the President of Russia noted the contribution to the success of the national team of Universiade winners.

Following the results of the competition, Vitaly Mutko, Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation for Sports, Tourism and Youth Policy, sent a government telegram to the athletes. “You showed your best sporting qualities, confidently fought against worthy opponents, and brought well-deserved medals to Russia,” the telegram said.

Medal table

№	Teams	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Sum	Glasses
1	Japan	37	27	37	101	202
2	South Korea	30	22	30	82	164
3	Taiwan	26	34	30	90	176
4	Russia	25	31	38	94	175
5	USA	16	19	16	51	102
6	Ukraine	12	11	13	36	71
7	DPRK	12	5	6	23	52
8	Italy	9	6	16	31	55
9	China	9	6	2	17	41
10	Iran	8	4	11	23	43
11	Poland	7	9	9	25	48
12	Germany	7	6	11	24	44
13	Mexico	6	5	11	22	39
14	Hungary	5	5	4	14	29
15	France	4	5	8	17	30
16	Canada	4	5	4	13	26
17	Australia	4	3	2	9	20
18	Dominican Republic	4	2	0	6	16
19	Serbia	4	0	0	4	12
20	Türkiye	3	7	6	16	29
21	Kazakhstan	3	6	7	16	28
22	Belarus	3	4	2	9	19
23	Romania	3	2	6	11	19
24	Azerbaijan	3	1	4	8	15
25	Lithuania	3	1	3	7	14
26	Armenia	3	1	2	6	13
27	Thailand	2	5	6	13	22
28	Brazil	2	4	6	12	20
29	Portugal	2	1	2	5	10
30	Hong Kong	2	0	2	4	8
31	Netherlands	2	0	1	3	7
32	Macau	2	0	0	2	6
33	Colombia	1	3	7	11	16
34	Finland	1	1	2	4	7
35	Switzerland	1	1	1	3	6
36	Uganda	1	1	1	3	6
37	Cuba	1	1	0	2	5
38	Vietnam	1	0	4	5	7
39	Czech Republic	1	0	2	3	5
40	Austria	1	0	1	2	4
41	Ireland	1	0	0	1	3
42	Kyrgyzstan	1	0	0	1	3
43	Jamaica	1	0	0	1	3
44	South Africa	0	5	0	5	10
45	United Kingdom	0	3	6	9	12
46	Malaysia	0	3	4	7	10
47	Algeria	0	3	2	5	8
48	Cyprus	0	2	0	2	4
49	Latvia	0	1	2	3	4
50	Sweden	0	1	1	2	3
51	Bahamas	0	1	1	2	3
52	Slovakia	0	1	1	2	3
53	Mongolia	0	1	0	1	2
54	Estonia	0	1	0	1	2
55	India	0	1	0	1	2
56	Spain	0	1	0	1	2
57	Argentina	0	1	0	1	2
58	Burkina Faso	0	1	0	1	2
59	Philippines	0	1	0	1	2
60	Indonesia	0	0	3	3	3
61	Croatia	0	0	3	3	3
62	Jordan	0	0	1	1	1
63	Norway	0	0	1	1	1
64	Moldova	0	0	1	1	1
65	New Zealand	0	0	1	1	1
66	Belgium	0	0	1	1	1

Teams are awarded points according to the following principle: gold - 3 points, silver - 2 points, bronze - 1 point

From August 19 to 30, the XXIX World Summer Universiade took place in Taipei (China). Over 10 thousand athletes and officials from 170 countries took part in it.

During the competition, 275 sets of awards were awarded in 22 sports: badminton, basketball, baseball, water polo, volleyball, golf, judo, athletics, table tennis, swimming, diving, artistic gymnastics, archery, tennis, taekwondo, weightlifting, fencing, football, rhythmic gymnastics, and for the first time competitions were held among men and women in billiards, roller sports and wushu.

The Russian sports delegation includes 348 athletes and 169 specialists. Among the athletes are 13 Honored Masters of Sports and 81 Masters of Sports of international class. Among them Ilya Zakharov(Olympic and world champion in diving), Vera Biryukova(Olympic champion in rhythmic gymnastics), Evgeny Kuznetsov(Olympic medalist and world champion in diving), Maria Paseka(four-time Olympic medalist and world champion in artistic gymnastics), Tim Turieva(world weightlifting champion) and Artyom Okulov(world champion in weightlifting).

Let us remind you that athletes born in 1989-1999 are allowed to participate in the XXIX World Summer Universiade. Participants born in 1993-1999 are eligible for basketball competitions.

The opening ceremony of the Universiade took place August 19 at Taipei Stadium. Closing ceremony – August 30.

The television broadcast of the competition in the Russian Federation was carried out by the Match TV channel.

At the previous XXVIII World Summer Universiade in 2015 in Gwangju (Republic of Korea), the Russian team took second place in the team standings and first in the standings for the total number of awards, winning 122 medals (34 gold, 39 silver and 49 bronze).

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41 sets of awards were drawn. The Russians added four gold, three silver and seven bronze medals to their treasury. The Russian team in the overall team standings rose from sixth position to fourth with eight gold, 11 silver and 20 bronze medals.

Artistic gymnastics.

Kirill Prokopyev won gold in the floor exercise (14.800 points). Silver goes to South Korean Hansol Kim (14.7000), bronze goes to Japanese Wataru Tanigawa (14.658). Russian Daniil Kazachkov is sixth (14.183).
Daria Spiridonova is the Universiade champion on uneven bars.
Liliya Akhaimova and Maria Paseka won silver (13.983) and bronze (13.916) in the vault. Canada's Brittany Rogers won (14.250).
Vladislav Polyashov won silver on the horizontal bar (14.166). The Frenchman Axel Auge won (14.166), the bronze went to the Japanese Wataru Tanigawa (13.866), and the fourth was the Russian Alexey Rostov (13.733).
Liliya Akhaimova won bronze in the floor exercise (13.533), followed by Romanian Larisa Iordache (13.800).

Swimming.

The Russian team (Anastasia Guzhenkova, Valeria Salamatina, Maria Baklakova, Arina Openysheva) won the 4x200m freestyle relay with a score of 7.55.28. The Russians snatched 0.04 seconds from the Americans in the fight for gold. Bronze – Japanese (7.59.59).
Rustam Gadirov won bronze in the 200m breaststroke (2:09.72), Mikhail Dorinov was fourth (2:09.92). American Andrew Wilson won (2:08.45), Kazakhstan's Dmitry Balandin (2:09.70) took silver.

Archery.

The Russian men's compound archery team (Anton Bulaev, Alexander Dambaev, Viktor Kalashnikov) won the Games gold in the team tournament, defeating their opponents from Iran in the final - 232:227. In the fight for bronze, the South Koreans were more accurate than the Mexicans - 235:223.
Diana Tontoeva, Maria Vinogradova and Alexandra Savenkova won silver in the team tournament in compound archery. In the final, the Russian team lost to the South Korean team - 229:232. Bronze - Turkish women.

Judo.

In the judo tournament, the Russians took three bronze medals - from Albert Oguzov (up to 60 kg), Musa Tumenov and Angela Gasparyan (both in the absolute category). The victories were won by the Japanese Taiko Fujisaka (up to 60 kg), Mai Umekita (up to 48 kg), Yoga Ota and Akari Inoe (both in the absolute category).

Taekwondo.

Gulzhigit Kochkorbaev won bronze in the weight category up to 58 kg. In the semi-finals he failed to beat the Portuguese Rui Braganca.

Football.

Russian football players took first place in Group C, winning all three meetings. In the final round the Americans were defeated - 8:0. Evgeniy Ivashchenko, Kamil Mullin and Mikhail Pogorelov scored doubles, Roman Minaev and Ivan Sergeev scored. On August 25, the Russians will play in the quarterfinals with the Uruguayans.

Basketball.

Russian basketball players suffered a second defeat in Group D, this time from the Ukrainians - 65:72 (14:9, 12:24, 18:12, 21:27). The most productive among the Russians were Ruslan Abdulbasirov (21 points), Alexander Platunov (15) and Sergei Mitusov (14). Tomorrow, August 24, the Russians will play with the Australians.

Russian basketball players reached the quarterfinals from first place in Group D, having won all three meetings at the preliminary stage. In the final round, the Russians defeated the Australians - 63:58 (17:17, 12:14, 14:10, 20:17). The most productive among the Russians were Yulia Gladkova (27 points + 11 rebounds) and Ekaterina Ryabova (12+7).

Volleyball.

Russian volleyball players took first place in Group D, winning three matches. In the final round, the Russians defeated the Brazilians - 3:1 (21:25, 25:15, 25:21, 25:21). The most productive among the Russians was Angelina Lazarenko (18 points). On August 25, the Russian team will play in the quarterfinals with the Thai team.

Baseball.

Russian baseball players took last, fourth place in Group B, losing all three matches. Today the Russians were unable to provide serious resistance to the Mexicans - 0:15.

Athletics.

Daria Maslova (Kyrgyzstan) won the 10,000 m race with a score of 33:19.27.

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