Universiade handwritten newspaper

In the early 1920s, at that time, international student organizations had begun to plan to organize the World University Games. 1923 In May, at the World University Sports Conference held in Paris, it was decided to hold the first International University Games the following year. 1924, the first International University' s Games was held in Warsaw, with three events: track and field, swimming and fencing. Since then, the Games have been held in 1939 from time to time, with a total of eight sessions. After the sports meeting, 1947, which was interrupted by World War II, resumed. However, due to the change of 195 1 international situation, it was divided into two sports meetings, namely, the International Student Games in the west, the Youth Student Games or the Youth Friendship Games in the east, which were held by their own organizations and the Universiade respectively.

1957, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the founding of the League of French Nations, an international Universiade and an international cultural festival were held in Paris. After the meeting, representatives of 30 countries unanimously agreed to organize college sports competitions around the world on a regular basis in the future, which is called the "World Universiade" and will be held every two years in principle.

1959, the first Universiade was held in Turin, Italy, and 985 athletes from 45 countries participated in the competition. Since then, the biennial event has been held for 20 times by 1999.

The official events of the Universiade generally include track and field, swimming, diving, water polo, gymnastics, fencing, tennis, basketball and volleyball, and the host country has the right to add one. For example, the host country Bulgaria added wrestling in 1977, Mexico in football in 1979 and Japan in judo in 1985.

1960, the fake Olympic system, and also held the winter universiade in Chamonix. Initially, the Summer Games and the Winter Games were held in odd-numbered years and even-numbered years respectively. Since 198 1, they were held in the same year. By 1999, winter universiade had hosted more than 19 competitions, including speed skating, short track speed skating, figure skating, alpine skiing, cross-country skiing, platform skiing, biathlon, ice hockey, nordic combined and snowboarding.

In the 1st 1959 Universiade, China participated in some track and field competitions. From 196 1 to the second session of the eighth session, China did not send a delegation to participate. 1975, China was accepted as a full member of the International University Sports Federation. Since the 9th Session of 1977, China has sent delegations to participate in the Universiade so far.

As the Universiade is the world's largest comprehensive sports meeting after the Olympic Games, 1959 organized its own competition for the first time, and all countries in the world attached great importance to it and sent the best athletes to participate. Since the age of 60, a total of 18 people have broken the world records of track and field and swimming in all previous Summer Universiade.