World University Games Trivia

Here is some trivia about world student multi-event games, currently organized as the World University Games.

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Chamonix, France hosted the first Winter University Games in 1960, there were 13 medal events.
The first University Games staged in a non-European country was the 3rd Summer Universiade in Porto Alegre, Brazil.
The 8th Summer Universiade in Rome was held as part of the World University Athletics Championship.
For the 2015 event, Slovakia became the co-host with Granada in Spain and hosted the Nordic Skiing and Biathlon events when the Granada 2015 Organising Committee had difficulty hosting these particular events.
The Summer World University Games due to be held in Chengdu, China in 2021 was been postponed until 2022 due to the coronavirus pandemic.
As part of a new branding system by the FISU in 2020, Universiade was officially rebranded as the FISU World University Games.

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