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2013 Summer Universiade

The 2013 Summer Universiade, officially known as the XXVII Summer Universiade (Russian: XXVII Летняя Универсиада; Tatar: XXVII Җәйге Универсиада), was held in the city of Kazan, Russia, the most northerly city ever to host a Summer Universiade.[2] Over 10,400 university athletes from 162 countries participated in 13 mandatory and 14 optional sports,[citation needed] making the 2013 Universiade the biggest ever in the history of the event. For the first time in history a Cultural Universiade was also included, with many festivals and shows held simultaneously with the sporting events. The Universiade was organized by the International University Sports Federation (FISU) and by the authorities of the Russian Federation.

XXVII Summer Universiade
Host cityKazan, Russia
Nations162[1]
Athletes10,442[1]
Events351 in 27 sports[1]
Opening6 July 2013
Closing17 July 2013
Opened byPresident Vladimir Putin
Athlete's OathAliya Mustafina
Judge's OathYevgeny Sadovyi
Torch lighterYekaterina Gamova, Irek Zaripov, Nail Yakupov and Tagir Khaibulaev
Main venueKazan Arena
Websitekazan2013.com (archived)
Summer
Winter
Swimming 4 × 200 m Men's Freestyle Final

Bidding process

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Kazan had bid twice for the Universiade; the first attempt was for the 2011 Summer Universiade, but Kazan lost to Shenzhen by just two votes. The city was the only bidder for the 2013 Summer Universiade, and was acclaimed as host city by FISU.

The games

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Park of the Cultural Universiade

Transportation

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Prior to the Universiade, Kazan International Airport was totally rebuilt as a hub, the new Kazan-2 transit rail-bus terminal was built, the old Kazan-1 rail terminal was rebuilt, and the fast rail aeroexpress with Siemens trains was inaugurated between the Kazan-1 rail terminal downtown and the airport.

Zones of activity of the Universiade were connected by renewed highways with two-level flyovers, including the completed "Big Kazan Ring" with a new LRT (fast tram). In addition, a Kremlin bridge over the Kazanka River was rebuilt. The key transportation connector to the sporting and other venues from the Universiade Village was the Kazan Metro (subway) that had been built in 2005 and was expanded before the Universiade.

A large part of design works was carried out by JSC Institute Tatdorproject (autoroads, pedestrian crosses, transport junctions), Roszheldorproject (arrangement of intermodal transportation), Energoprojekt (reconstruction of Kazan International Airport), etc.

The Cultural Universiade was held in the Cultural Park at Palace Square downtown near the Kazan Kremlin, at various theatres and performance venues in the Kremlin, and at other places throughout the city.

Venues

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A total of 27 new stadia were built as venues for the event. The Games used 64 venues in all, 36 of which were constructed specifically for the 2013 Summer Universiade. The 64 venues were concentrated in 4 zones across the city of Kazan. These included the area of Pobeda Avenue with the Kazan Area, the Aquatics Palace of Water Sports, the Combat Sports (Boxing) Palace, and the area of Orenburgsky Trakt where the Universiade Village was located, as well as the Tennis Academy and Gymnastics Palace. In addition, many sports venues for training functions were located elsewhere in Zarechye (Novo-Savinovsky and Airbuilders districts), and some of them in downtown Kazan.

 
Rowing Center
Venue[3] Sports Seats Year opened
Kazan Arena Opening and closing ceremonies 45,000 2013
Central Stadium athletics, football 26,920 1960
TatNeft Arena volleyball 10,000 2005
Basket-Hall Arena basketball 7,500 2003
Tennis Academy tennis, badminton 7,200 2010
Kazan Hippodrome beach volleyball 6,000 2005
«Sankt Peterburg» volleyball centre volleyball 4,600 2010
Aquatics Palace swimming, diving, synchronised swimming 4,200 2012
Rowing Centre rowing 3,000 2011
USC «Tolar» volleyball, rugby 3,000 and 1,000 2009
Field Hockey Centre field hockey 2,400 2007
«Ak Bars» combat sports palace judo, kurash, sambo 2,000 2010
Boxing and Table tennis centre boxing, table tennis 2,000 2010
SC «KAI-Olymp» football, basketball, water polo 1,500 and 1,000 2010
SC «Bustan» volleyball, swimming 1,500 and 1,000 2010
USC «Zilant» volleyball 1,000 2009
USC «Miras» football, basketball 1,000 2010
«Burevestnik» swimming pool water polo 1,000 2010
USC «Olympiets» volleyball 700 2010
«Akcharlak» swimming pool swimming 500 2010
SC «Forward» basketball 296 2009
OSC «Triumph» basketball, volleyball 296 2010
OSC «Vatan» basketball, volleyball 296 2010
USC «Moskva» volleyball 2010
USC «Tezuche» volleyball 2010
SC «Itil» basketball 2009
SC «Ak Bure» water polo 2010
SC «Batyr» 1987

Universiade Village

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The Universiade Village

The Universiade Village is a residential neighborhood for 14,500 residents that was constructed within the Kazan Federal University campus to house competitors and officials during the Kazan 2013 Summer Universiade. Nearly 400 sporting and cultural events have been staged on the campus since it opened its doors in 2010. Shortly after the first move-in phase, an open-air step aerobics marathon was held that brought together up to 1,000 Universiade Village residents. The campus had already hosted football, volleyball, and chess championships that can rightfully be called 'international' as a number of international students competed in them.

Torch relay

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The length of the relay was about 104,000 kilometers, and 2,013 torchbearers were enlisted to participate in the relay. After touring through 51 cities on five continents, the torch arrived in Vladivostok on 24 January, and on 25 January, the Russian leg of the Universiade torch relay began. The Russian section of the Universiade Torch Relay was held between January and July 2013. The Universiade Torch Relay celebrations took place in 30 cities across Russia, as well as 44 cities and towns of municipal districts of Tatarstan. The torch arrived at the Kazan Arena on the night of 6 July for the lighting of the cauldron at the Opening Ceremony.

Medals

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Medals

A total of 351 sets of medals were distributed during the two weeks of the competition. The medal design featured a globe emblazoned with the emblem and logo of the Universiade, and surrounded by a circle featuring the slogan of the Universiade.

Opening and closing ceremonies

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Flags of participating nations on balloon at closing ceremony

The 2013 Summer Universiade opening and closing ceremonies were held on 6 and 17 July 2013, with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Premier Dmitry Medvedev in attendance accordingly. The ceremonies took place in the new Kazan Arena stadium with a seating capacity of 45,000 people.

Notable songs performed during the opening ceremony, composed by Igor Krutoy include;

In the handover segment of the closing ceremony, the Korean branch of the boy group EXO performed their hit song "Wolf", the title track from their first full-length album XOXO, at the closing ceremony while Russian artists as Serebro and Zemfira made a huge shows.[4]

Sports

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The sports at street playbill

For the first time in the history of the Universiades, twenty-seven sports were included in Kazan 2013.

The optional sports chosen were badminton, beach volleyball, belt wrestling, boxing, canoeing, chess, field hockey, rugby sevens, sambo, shooting, synchronized swimming, rowing, weightlifting, and wrestling. Of the optional sports chosen, belt wrestling, boxing, sambo, rugby sevens, and synchronized swimming made their debut at the 2013 Summer Universiade.

Participants

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A total of 162 nations were officially entered prior to the opening ceremony. In the list below, the number of athletes from each nation is given in parentheses. The largest national teams were from Russia, Ukraine, Canada, the U.S., Poland, Japan and China.[5]

Medal table

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From the official website's medal tally information:[11]

In April 2014, Roxana Bârcă from Romania, started a two-year doping ban for the use of Methasterone, and lost the gold medal at the Women's 5000 metres. The ban lasted from 11 July 2013 to 3 September 2015.[12]

On 8 August 2016, the International Weightlifting Federation announced the disqualification of several athletes who participated in the competition due to the retesting of the anti-doping exams, with which several medals are redistributed.[13][14]

On 18 May 2017, the rankings of the Women's Heptathlon and 1,500m were updated further to the suspension of two Russian female athletes by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) and the medal table was updated.[15]

On 13 November 2020, the rankings of the Women's 3000m steeplechase were updated further due to the suspension of two Russians, one Ukrainian and one Turkish female athletes by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).[16]

On 12 August 2022, the results of Russian Irina Tarasova between July 2012 and July 2016 were annulled by the Athletics Integrity Unit for doping violations. This means that her gold medal in the women's shot put has been stripped.[17]

On 9 September 2023, the Court of Arbitration for Sport annulled the results from Tatiana Kashirina who won the gold medal on +75kg event in Weightlifitng over four years of her results due to drugs offenses, stating, "All the competitive results obtained by Tatiana Kashirina from 1 April 2013 until 19 June 2017 were disqualified, with all the resulting consequences, including the forfeiture of any titles, awards, medals, points and prize and appearance money".[18]

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  Russia (RUS)*1507261283
2  China (CHN)28272378
3  Japan (JPN)24293386
4  South Korea (KOR)17141243
5  Belarus (BLR)13131541
6  Ukraine (UKR)12283676
7  United States (USA)11151440
8  South Africa (RSA)75214
9  Italy (ITA)6172245
10  Australia (AUS)64616
11  Lithuania (LTU)61411
12  France (FRA)5101126
13  Poland (POL)591630
14  Germany (GER)46919
15  Chinese Taipei (TPE)44715
16  Hungary (HUN)43916
17  Brazil (BRA)43411
18  Mongolia (MGL)361726
19  Thailand (THA)36716
20  Canada (CAN)35917
  Czech Republic (CZE)35917
22  Azerbaijan (AZE)34714
23  North Korea (PRK)3227
24  Kazakhstan (KAZ)2101628
25  Uzbekistan (UZB)271019
26  Iran (IRI)2439
27  Turkmenistan (TKM)231015
28  Kyrgyzstan (KGZ)22913
29  Israel (ISR)2114
30  Turkey (TUR)2057
31  Portugal (POR)2024
32  Armenia (ARM)15511
33  Mexico (MEX)14611
34  Slovakia (SVK)1326
35  Cuba (CUB)1225
36  Great Britain (GBR)1146
  Romania (ROU)1146
38  Austria (AUT)1034
39  Latvia (LAT)1023
40  Belgium (BEL)1012
41  Botswana (BOT)1001
  Philippines (PHI)1001
  Virgin Islands (ISV)1001
44  Moldova (MDA)021012
45  Tajikistan (TJK)0235
46  Serbia (SRB)0189
47  Bulgaria (BUL)0134
  Jamaica (JAM)0134
49  Argentina (ARG)0112
  Finland (FIN)0112
  Georgia (GEO)0112
  Spain (ESP)0112
53  Albania (ALB)0101
  Chile (CHI)0101
  India (IND)0101
  Indonesia (INA)0101
  Ireland (IRL)0101
  Kenya (KEN)0101
  Madagascar (MAD)0101
  Senegal (SEN)0101
61  Malaysia (MAS)0033
62  Netherlands (NED)0022
  Switzerland (SUI)0022
64  Croatia (CRO)0011
  Egypt (EGY)0011
  Estonia (EST)0011
  Greece (GRE)0011
  Ivory Coast (CIV)0011
  New Zealand (NZL)0011
  Slovenia (SLO)0011
  Venezuela (VEN)0011
Totals (71 entries)3523504661,168
  • Record (*)

Russia got almost half of gold medals and more than a quarter of all medals. This is more than any other nation in this games and in the history of Universiades. The media explained this by the fact that the Russian team featured nineteen reigning Olympic champions, who were all listed as students, more than all other teams taken together, in an apparent attempt to make a good impression in Russian language media.[19] There were 67 Universiade records, 38 of them set by Russian athletes.

On 19 July 2013, Vladimir Putin congratulated Russian athletes, and responded to criticism by saying that all critics of Russia's [calling it USSR] achievements should take Viagra.[20]

Schedule

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The competition schedule at stops

The competition schedule for the 2013 Summer Universiade is shown as follows:[21]

OC Opening ceremony ● Event competitions 1 Event finals CC Closing ceremony
July 5th
Fri 		6th
Sat 		7th
Sun 		8th
Mon 		9th
Tue 		10th
Wed 		11th
Thu 		12th
Fri 		13th
Sat 		14th
Sun 		15th
Mon 		16th
Tue 		17th
Wed 		Events
Ceremonies OC CC
  Athletics 2 6 11 10 7 14 50
  Badminton ● ● 1 ● ● 5 6
  Basketball ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● 1 1 2
  Beach volleyball ● ● ● ● 1 1 2
  Belt wrestling ● 7 5 7 19
  Boxing ● ● ● ● ● 10 10
  Canoeing ● 6 18 24
  Chess ● ● ● ● ● 3 3
  Diving ● ● 2 2 ● 2 2 4 12
  Fencing ● 2 2 2 2 2 2 12
  Field hockey ● ● ● ● ● ● ● 1 1 2
  Football ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● 1 1 2
  Gymnastics 1 1 2 10 ● 2 6 22
  Judo 4 4 4 4 2 18
  Rowing ● 5 8 13
  Rugby sevens ● ● ● 2 2
  Sambo 6 6 6 18
  Shooting 6 4 4 8 8 4 34
  Swimming 4 5 5 7 4 7 8 2 42
  Synchronized swimming ● ● ● 2 2 42
  Table tennis ● ● ● ● 2 1 2 2 7
  Tennis ● ● ● ● ● ● ● 2 5 7
  Volleyball ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● 1 1 2
  Water polo ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● 1 1 2
  Weightlifting 3 2 2 2 3 3 15
  Wrestling 4 3 4 3 4 3 21
Total events 27 32 30 44 30 40 17 26 56 40 9 351
Cumulative total 27 59 89 133 163 203 220 246 302 342 351
July 5th
Fri 		6th
Sat 		7th
Sun 		8th
Mon 		9th
Tue 		10th
Wed 		11th
Thu 		12th
Fri 		13th
Sat 		14th
Sun 		15th
Mon 		16th
Tue 		17th
Wed 		Events

Marketing

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Logo, emblem and mascot

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Every Universiade logo must contain the Latin letter "U", designating a sporting event held under the auspices of the International University Sports Federation (FISU). The logo of the 2013 Summer Universiade represents a vertical rectangular design that comprises the words "Universiade", "Kazan", "Russia", "2013" and the five stars of the International University Sports Federation (FISU).

The emblem of the 2013 Summer Universiade takes its origin from an image of a tulip, a common element of Tatar ornaments that symbolizes revival.

Uni, a kitten rendering of the symbolic winged snow leopard, was chosen as the mascot for the Kazan 2013 Summer Universiade. The winged snow leopard is the national symbol of the Republic of Tatarstan. A stylized version of this creature is represented on Tatarstan's coat of arms.

Slogan

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Each Universiade host city chooses a slogan for their edition of the Games, according to their ideals and goals, and as approved by FISU. The slogan of the Kazan 2013 Summer Universiade was 'U are the world', which has two meanings: 'You are the world' and 'Universiade is the World'.

Partners

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The League of Partners was founded in November 2010 to ensure a multilateral partnership between business circles and the Kazan 2013 Organizing Committee. The League includes the companies that signed partnership agreements with the executive committee of the 27th World University Summer Games. The main mission of the League of Partners is to enlist the support of corporations through a partnership contract with the Kazan 2013 Executive Committee, and also to consolidate all efforts under the unified vision of the Universiade. To achieve that, the partner companies were to implement joint projects aimed at further developing specialized industries that will be part of the Kazan 2013 legacy.

Tickets

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Tickets price ran between 700 and 6000 Russian rubles for the opening and closing ceremonies, and 30 to 200 RR for sporting events. Tickets began to be sold on the Internet one year before the Universiade.

Media support

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Street info point with volunteers
 
Souvenir shop
 
Bags for athletes and spectators

Some 1,200 journalists from 170 countries were assisted by the Main Press Center (MPC), the International Broadcasting Center (IBC) at Kazan Arena, and the International Info Center at Universiade Village.

The games were televised by Eurosport as well as by 12 other international and 3 Russian TV networks.

Legacy

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After the Universiade, the venues and stadia were to be consigned over to high schools and universities of Kazan, to children and youth sport schools, and to Olympic reserve schools. The Universiade Village was to be integrated into the main campus of the Federal University system.

Coins

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10 ruble coins

The Central Bank of Russia issued commemorative coins dedicated to the 27th Summer Universiade Kazan 2013, including silver 3-ruble and 25-ruble, and gold 50-ruble, coins along with 10,000 ruble coins soon to appear in the banks of Russia. The Bank also planned to put into circulation two kinds of 10-ruble base-metal coins to mark the Universiade. These commemorative coins are accepted without limitation for all types of payment as legal tender in the Russian Federation.[22]

References

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