Sports

Only seven sports were presented at the first Universiade in Turin, Italy in 1959. More than half a century later Kazan sets a record by including 26 sports in the programme of the 27th World University Summer Games: track and field athletics, swimming, rhythmic gymnastics, table tennis, basketball, diving, fencing, football, judo, artistic gymnastics, volleyball, tennis and water polo. Kazan chose a record number of optional sports, 13 of which were approved. The Kazan Universiade will feature the most popular and developed sports in Russia and Tatarstan: boxing, trap and skeet shooting, synchronised swimming, rowing racing, kayak/canoe racing, sambo, belt wrestling, chess, weightlifting, rugby-7, field hockey, badminton, beach volleyball. It’s for the first time that the Universiade will feature six new sport events: badminton, chess, belt wrestling, rugby-7, sambo and beach volleyball.

• Artistic gymnastics
• Track and field athletics
• Belt Wrestling
• Water polo
• Rowing racing
• Beach Volleyball
• Basketball
• Fencing
• Tennis
• Chess
• Badminton
• Synchronized swimming
• Table Tennis
• Diving
• Judo
• Volleyball
• Boxing
• Field hockey
• Rugby-7
• Sambo
• Trap and skeet shooting
• Swimming
• Weightlifting
• Kayak/canoe sprint
• Rhythmic gymnastics
• Football
• Wrestling