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Known as the "Little Olympics", it is a world-scale comprehensive sports meeting sponsored by the International Du E Sports University Federation, which is limited to college students and people who have graduated less than two years (the age limit is 17-28). Founded in 1959, formerly known as the International Universiade.

In the early 1920s, international university organizations at that time began to plan and hold the World Universiade. 1923 in may, the world university sports conference was held in Paris, and the conference decided to hold the first international university games the following year. 1924, the first international Universiade was held in Warsaw, with three events: track and field, swimming and fencing. Since then, the sports meeting has been held irregularly, and it was held for 8 times in 1939 * * *. Later, due to the interruption of the World War II Games, 1947 resumed. However, since 195 1, due to the changes in the international situation, it has been divided into two sports meetings, one in the west is called "International Student Games" and the other in the east is called "Youth Student Games" or "Youth Goodwill Games". These two camps organize and hold their own university sports meeting.

1957, in order to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the French National Union of Students, the International Universiade and the International Cultural Festival were held in Paris. With the unanimous consent of the representatives of 30 countries attending the meeting, it is decided to hold a world-wide college sports competition on a regular basis in the future, named "World University Games", which will be held every two years in principle.

From 65438 to 0959, the first World Universiade was held in Turin, Italy, with 985 athletes from 45 countries participating. Up to 1999, the Universiade has been held for 20 times.

Generally, the Universiade will include nine officially stipulated events, including track and field, swimming, diving, water polo, gymnastics, fencing, tennis, basketball and volleyball, but the host country has the right to add 1 event. For example, the host country Bulgaria 1977 increased wrestling, Mexico 1979 increased football and Japan 1985 increased judo.

1960, the Universiade was held in Chamonix, France, imitating the Olympic system. At first, the Summer Olympic Games and the Winter Olympic Games were held in odd years and even years respectively. From 198 1, held in the same year. Up to 1999, the Universiade has been held for 19, and the competition events include speed skating, short track speed skating, figure skating, alpine skiing, cross-country skiing, platform skiing, biathlon, ice hockey, nordic combined and skateboarding.

China participated in some track and field events of the first Universiade from 65438 to 0959. From the second session to the eighth session 196 1, China did not send a delegation to participate. From 65438 to 0975, China was accepted as a full member of the International University Sports Federation. From the 9th session of 1977, China sent a delegation to participate in all previous World University Games.

Since the Universiade is a large-scale comprehensive sports meeting in the world, second only to the Olympic Games, since the first competition was held in 1959, all countries in the world have attached great importance to it and sent the best athletes to participate. Since 1960s, * * * has broken 65,438+08 world records in track and field and swimming at previous Summer Universiade (see below).

The track and field world record created by the Summer Universiade.

Second session: Sofia (Bulgaria),1961August 25th to September 3rd.

Men's high jump: 2.25m vaieriy brume Soviet Union.

Women's discus: 58.06 meters Tamara beats the Soviet Union.

The 6th session: Turin (Italy), 1970, from August 26th to September 6th.

Women's Long Jump: 6.84m Heide Roosendahl, Federal Republic of Germany.

Men's pole vault: 5.46m.

Ninth session: Sofia (Bulgaria),1977 August 17 to August 28th.

Men's 800m: 1 min 43.40 sec Alberto Juantorena, Cuba.

Men 1 10 meter hurdles:13second 2 1 Alejandro casas Cuba

Tenth session: Mexico City (Mexico),1979 September 2 to 13.

Men's 200m: 19.72 Pietro Mennea.

Session 13: August 24th to September 4th, Kobe (Japan), 1985.

Men's high jump: 2.4 1m Igol Paklin and the Soviet union.

The swimming world record created by the World University Summer Games

The fifth session: August 27th to September 4th, Tokyo (Japan), 1967.

Men's 400 m freestyle: 4 minutes 08 seconds 2 Gregory Charlton USA

Men's1500m freestyle: 16 minutes 34 seconds 6 Michael Burton USA.

Men's 100 meter backstroke: 59.5 seconds, douglas russell, USA.

59 seconds 3 Charles hickok Cox, USA.

Men's 200m backstroke: 2 minutes 09.4 Charles hickok, USA.

Men's 100 meter butterfly: 56.5 seconds, douglas russell, USA.

56 seconds 3 douglas russell, USA

Men's 200m butterfly: 2 minutes 06.0 John Ferris USA

Men's 4× 100 meter medley relay: 3 minutes 57 seconds 2.

Charles hickok Cox, USA

Kenneth Merton, USA

Douglas russell USA.

Kenneth Walsh, USA

Session 13: August 24th to September 4th, Kobe (Japan), 1985.

Men's 100 meter freestyle: 49 seconds 14 Matt Biondi, USA.

A brief introduction of the last two World University Games is as follows:

The 9th World Universiade was held in Catania, Sicily, Italy from August 19 to August 3 19, 1997. More than 6,000 athletes from 160 countries and regions participated in track and field, swimming, diving, tennis, fencing, football, basketball, volleyball, water polo, gymnastics (including rhythmic gymnastics) and other 10 events. The top three medals are the United States (20 gold 19 silver and 22 bronze), Ukraine (17 gold, 6 silver and 4 bronze) and Japan (14 gold and 8 silver1bronze). China sent 1 16 athletes to participate in eight events except swimming and water polo, and won 10 gold medal, 9 silver medals and 7 bronze medals, ranking fifth.

1From July 3rd to June 3rd, 999, the 20th Universiade was held in Palma, Spain. 5776 athletes from 1 14 countries participated in 12 events such as track and field, swimming, judo, sailing, diving, tennis, fencing, football, basketball, volleyball, water polo and gymnastics. Results The United States ranked first in the gold medal list with 30 gold medals, 19 silver medals and 15 bronze medals, Russia ranked second with 14 gold medals, 18 silver medals and 12 bronze medals, and Cuba ranked second with 12 gold medals and bronze medals. Japan ranked fourth with 1 1 gold medal, 13 silver medal and 17 bronze medal. China sent 174 athletes to participate in 9 events except sailing, football and water polo, and * * * won 9 gold medals, 6 silver medals and 10 bronze medals, ranking fifth.

The Universiade did not break a world record, but set a Universiade record of 10. The reason may be that since the mid-1980s, competitive sports have been strongly impacted by the wave of professionalization and commercialization, and some top athletes have not participated in the Universiade without appearance fees.

However, according to a statistical data 1999 published in the first month, the World Universiade since the 1990s is still at a fairly high level, just as many Olympic stars made their debut at the Universiade in the 1960s and 1980s, many athletes who won medals at the Olympic Games today are still outstanding athletes who participated in the Universiade. In the192 Barcelona Olympic Games and196 Atlanta Olympic Games, outstanding college students who "hung gold and silver" won 80 gold medals, 84 silver medals and 62 bronze medals in the competitions organized by the International University Sports Federation (see the table below). Among these athletes who stepped onto the Olympic podium from the Universiade, michael johnson and mike powell are famous. Basketball players larry bird, charles barkley and arvydas sabonis, cyclist Jenny Longo, fencer giovanna trillini, gymnast Xiong Wei Sachl Bo, etc.

Facing the comments of the news media, the International University Sports Federation denied that the level of the Universiade was gradually declining. However, under the changing international sports situation, how to attract top athletes to participate in the competition through reasonable commercial operation and improve the appreciation of the competition and the overall sports level is indeed to continue to run the world well in 2 1 century.