Universiade 2005 World University Summer Games 10 - 21 August 2005

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The meaning of Universiade

The word “Universiade” comes from “university” and “Olympiad”, and means Olympic Games for students.

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 10 compulsory sports and up to three optional sports chosen by the host country.

The ten compulsory sports are Athletics Basketball Fencing Football Gymnastics Swimming Diving Water Polo Tennis Volleyball

The Winter Universiade consists of 6 compulsory sports and one or two optional sports also chosen by the host country.

The compulsory sports are :

Alpine skiing
Nordic skiing (jump, cross country, combined)
Ice Hockey
Short-Track
Speed Skating
Figure Skating
Biathlon

Meeting place for students from all over the world

The Universiades and Championships are open to all student athletes that have not been out of university or its equivalent for more than a year and that are between 17 and 28 years old. Any association which belongs to FISU may enter a team or an individual competitor. Entries are accepted from any country which is eligible for the Olympic Games and from any national federation which is affiliated to an appropriate International Federation.

23rd Universiade 2005 Overall Sports Programme

1) Athletics 2) Basketball 3) Volleyball 4) Football 5) Waterpolo 6) Fencing 7) Diving 8) Swimming 9) Tennis 10) Gymnastics 11) Sailing 12) Wrestling 13) Tae kwon do 14) Archery

Competition Schedule

Days 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Activity We Th Fr Sa Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su Opening                       Athletics             Men Basketball   Women Basketball   Fencing         Men Football             Women Football             Artistic Gymnastic                 Ritmic Gymnastic                   Swimming             Tower and Trampoline Jumping           Waterpolo*         Tennis       Women Volleyball       Men Volleyball     Tae kwon do               Wrestling               Sailing             Archery             Closure                        * Only Men

Draft Plan for training and competition

Universiade 2005 Athlets Village

World University Summer Games Athletes Village consist of six different types of houses along with its social facilities and business buildings. The Houses constructed by the Municipality, will accommodate athletes participating in 23rd University Summer Games .They will be handed over to their actual owners after the Games.

The flowery terraces and green touch, that will combine the advantages of common life, providing parking lots, training facilities, shopping center, sporting areas, social facilities, leisure possibilities and economic infrastructure solutions, of the World University Summer Games Athletes Village, will carry on, the lively memories of 23.rd University Summer Games, going to host thousands of athletes from the five continents.

The construction of the World University Summer Games Athletes Village, which is founded on a 350.000sqm area and consisting of 934 houses and social facilities, has reached 50% completion. The construction of the village housing the residences along with health-doping center, press support units, public relations units and religious center, will be completed in February, 2005.

World University Summer Games Athletes Village is being constructed on a valley as terrace houses. These terrace houses ascending like a stair way, and not obstructing each others view are offering an independent villa comfort and ten storey high buildings having complete view of the valley, also intends to offer all the advantages of modern

About the host city

Izmir(Smyrna)

In the western part of Turkey,
the pearl of the Aegean shores
and sea; standing at the
intersection of Cesme , Kusadasi,
Selcuk, Ephesos and Bergama,
it is a city of modern, tolerant,
friendly and smiling people
and will be host to
the 23rd Universiade in 2005...