2009 Summer Universiade

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Name = XXV Summer Universiade

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Events = 21 sports
Opening ceremony = July 1, 2009
Closing ceremony = July 12, 2009
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Stadium = Stadion Crvena Zvezda
The 2009 Summer Universiade, officially known as the XXV Summer Universiade are due to be celebrated in Belgrade, Serbia from 1 July to 12 July 2009. It will be the largest sporting event ever to be organised by the city.

The bidding process

The bidding process for the 2009 Summer Universiade games began in early 2004. Together with Belgrade another two cities bid for the event - Monterrey in Mexico and Poznań in Poland. Working in Belgrade's favour were the various major sporting events the city was awarded to host in the upcoming 2005, 2006 and 2007 such as Eurobasket 2005, the 2005 European Volleyball Championship, the 2006 European Water Polo Championship, and the European Youth Olympic Festival 2007. Furthermore the city launched two unsuccessful candidate bids to organize the Summer Olympic Games: for the 1992 Summer Olympics Belgrade was eliminated in the third round of International Olympic Committee voting, with the games going to Barcelona. The 1996 Summer Olympics ultimately went to Atlanta. [cite web|url=http://www.okscg.org.yu/s101e.htm|title=History of the Olympic Committee of Serbia|publisher=Olympic Committee of Serbia|accessdate=2007-05-19] [cite web|url=http://www.olympic.org/uk/games/past/index_uk.asp?OLGT=1&OLGY=1996|publisher=Official Website of the Olympic Movement|title=Atlanta 1996|accessdate=2007-05-19]

On January 19 2005 in Innsbruck, Austria Belgrade was announced as the host of the 2009 Summer Universiade. The ceremony of the host city announcement was attended by the Serbian president Boris TadićFact|date=September 2008 and the now deceased Belgrade mayor Nenad Bogdanović.

Venues

The 2009 Summer Universiade will take place in 69 venues across Belgrade and near by cities Pančevo, Obrenovac, Smederevo, Zemun and InđijaFact|date=September 2008 . The opening and closing ceremonies will take place at Stadion Crvena Zvezda with a capacity of 55,000. A range of sports halls have undergone intense reconstruction to meet standards for the Universiade games. A number of venues are also being newly constructed.

University Village

The University Village will be home to all athletes participating at the 2009 Summer Universiade games. Often referred to as "Belville", the village has been completely newly built and when completed in late 2008 it will comprise of 14 buildings containing modern apartments. Each building will be named after a flower and the construction site is currently the largest in the Balkans. It is located in New Belgrade with the closest venues to it being Belgrade Arena (basketball and table tennis), EXPO XXI (wrestling and taekwondo) and TK Gazela (tennis)

Broadcasting

The host broadcaster of the 2009 Summer Universiade will be Serbia's RTS, the national broadcasting corporation. It will use both its first as well as second channel to broadcast the games. The games will be produced and broadcast in high definition television. Eurosport will provide cable broadcasting to European nations.

ports at the 2009 Summer Universiade

Main Events

Optional Events

References

External links

* [http://www.universiade-belgrade2009.org/en/ Belgrade 2009 Summer Universiade]
* [http://www.fisu.net/site/page_1068.php FISU - Belgrade 2009 Summer Universiade]