FISU EC Attributes Universiades for 2015
Brussels – May 23rd, 2009 – Today, the second day of the FISU Executive Committee Meeting, was dedicated to the attribution of the Universiades for 2015.
Representatives of the EC have been visiting the bidding cities from April through May and made an extensive evaluation report of all candidates which the chairs of both Evaluation Committees – Leonz Eder (SUI) for Winter and Stefan Bergh (SWE) for Summer – presented before each presentation of the bid cities.
The candidates for the 2015 Winter Universiade were:
Granada, Spain
The candidates for the 2015 Summer Universiade were:
Edmonton, Canada
Gwangju, Korea
Taipei City, Chinese Taipei
After deliberation of the Board, FISU President George E. Killian (USA) announced the winners of the 2015 Universiades.
The 27th Winter Universiade has been attributed to Granada, Spain.
The 28th Summer Universiade has been attributed to Gwangju, Korea
‘Granada and the Sierra Nevada is a well known snow sports area’, Eduardo Valenzuela, Bid Director said. ‘Thanks to the Winter Universiade we will be able to start developing the ice sports as well. This will make the region a complete winter sport hotbed.’
‘Many civilians walked 2,015 steps every day in support for the bid while more than 150,000 citizens have volunteered to help promote the bid’, Mayor Park Kwang-tae said. Our citizens will be ecstatic. We will host the best Games.’
‘I’m happy that FISU has the opportunity to go back to Spain for the Winter Universiade, FISU President Killian said. We’ve been in Spain twice before and we know they will do a good job. With the choice of a Summer Candidate it was more difficult. We had three excellent candidates who spent a lot of time and energy in preparing their bids. Unfortunately, there can be only one winner.’
Representatives of the EC have been visiting the bidding cities from April through May and made an extensive evaluation report of all candidates which the chairs of both Evaluation Committees – Leonz Eder (SUI) for Winter and Stefan Bergh (SWE) for Summer – presented before each presentation of the bid cities.
The candidates for the 2015 Winter Universiade were:
Granada, Spain
The candidates for the 2015 Summer Universiade were:
Edmonton, Canada
Gwangju, Korea
Taipei City, Chinese Taipei
After deliberation of the Board, FISU President George E. Killian (USA) announced the winners of the 2015 Universiades.
The 27th Winter Universiade has been attributed to Granada, Spain.
The 28th Summer Universiade has been attributed to Gwangju, Korea
‘Granada and the Sierra Nevada is a well known snow sports area’, Eduardo Valenzuela, Bid Director said. ‘Thanks to the Winter Universiade we will be able to start developing the ice sports as well. This will make the region a complete winter sport hotbed.’
‘Many civilians walked 2,015 steps every day in support for the bid while more than 150,000 citizens have volunteered to help promote the bid’, Mayor Park Kwang-tae said. Our citizens will be ecstatic. We will host the best Games.’
‘I’m happy that FISU has the opportunity to go back to Spain for the Winter Universiade, FISU President Killian said. We’ve been in Spain twice before and we know they will do a good job. With the choice of a Summer Candidate it was more difficult. We had three excellent candidates who spent a lot of time and energy in preparing their bids. Unfortunately, there can be only one winner.’