The
2009 Summer Universiade, officially known as the
XXV Summer Universiade were celebrated
in Belgrade
, Serbia
from 1 July
to 12 July 2009. The event has also been organised by a range
of co-host cities mostly in Vojvodina
(Serbian Autonomous Province), close to
Belgrade. It is 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
.
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 now
deceased Belgrade mayor
Nenad
Bogdanović.
Mascot
Srba - 2009 Summer Universiade mascot
The mascot of the 2009 Summer Universiade is a
sparrow bird. The organisers chose the sparrow not
only because of its symbolic ties to the host city but also because
it represents a fast, dynamic and skilful bird, attributes needed
for those competing at Universiade. The mascot received a new more
modern look in 2009 and a competition began to name the Belgrade
sparrow. The three final names for the sparrow were published in
the Serbian media in April 2009, with the finalists being Srba,
Cvrle and Dživdžan. The final voting was left to the 10,000
Universiade volunteers who overwhelmingly chose the name
Srba.
Venues
The 2009
Summer Universiade took place in 69 venues across Belgrade and near
bycities Inđija
, Novi Sad
, Obrenovac
, Pančevo
, Smederevo
, Vršac
and Zrenjanin
. Obrenovac hosted the water polo and
volleyball competition, Inđija, Pančevo and Vršac the basketball,
Novi Sad the athletics and volleyball, while Zrenjanin hosted the
swimming competiotion. The venue for each sport can be found on the
official website of the 2009 Summer Universiade in Belgrade.
The
opening and closing ceremonies took place at the Belgrade
Arena
, with a capacity of 20.000. A range of
sports halls have undergone intense reconstruction to meet
standards for the Universiade games. A number of venues were also
newly constructed.
File:Stadion Partizana Beograd.jpg|Partizan
Stadium
File:Arena 2.JPG|Belgrade ArenaFile:Fk Red Star stadium.jpg|Red Star
Stadium
File:BeogradskiSajam1.jpg|Belgrade Fair
File:SRC Tasmajdan.JPG|SRC TašmajdanFile:Spens.jpg|SPENS
(Novi
Sad)File:Vrsac, Centar Milenjum.jpg|Millennium
Center
(Vršac)
University Village
The University Village was home to all athletes participating at
the 2009 Summer Universiade games. Often referred to as
Belville, the village has been newly built and comprises
14 buildings containing modern apartments. The Belville complex
consists of a residential area comprising 120,000 m², commercial
and business facilities comprising 34,800 m² and educational
facilities comprising 6,100 m². The complex also includes 22,000 m²
of office space. The Belville complex was completed in May 2009 and
officially opened in June 2009. 2000 Apartments have been offered
for sale in spring of 2008, and the new owners will be allowed to
move in in
October 2009.
Each building has been named after a flower. They are Iris
Marigold,
Dandelion,
Violet,
Lily of
the Valley ,
Sunflower,
Mimosa,
Cyclamen,
Gillyflower,
Syringa,
Jacinth,
Rose,
Tulipa, and
Lily. During the
construction of the village it was the largest development site 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).
File:Universiade Belgrade 2009 1.jpg|2009 Summer Universiade
villageFile:Universiade2009construction1.jpg|2009 Summer
Universiade village under construction.
Medal table
| 1 |
|
27 |
22 |
27 |
76 |
| 2 |
|
22 |
21 |
15 |
58 |
| 3 |
|
21 |
11 |
15 |
47 |
| 4 |
|
20 |
21 |
32 |
73 |
| 5 |
|
13 |
13 |
13 |
39 |
| 6 |
|
7 |
11 |
13 |
31 |
| 7 |
|
7 |
5 |
5 |
17 |
| 8 |
|
6 |
14 |
11 |
31 |
| 9 |
|
6 |
10 |
8 |
24 |
|
| 10 |
|
5 |
5 |
9 |
19 |
| 11 |
|
5 |
2 |
1 |
8 |
| 11 |
|
5 |
2 |
1 |
8 |
| 13 |
|
4 |
8 |
9 |
21 |
| 14 |
|
4 |
2 |
5 |
11 |
| 15 |
|
4 |
0 |
6 |
10 |
| 16 |
|
3 |
5 |
5 |
13 |
| 17 |
|
3 |
3 |
11 |
17 |
| 18 |
|
3 |
1 |
3 |
7 |
| 19 |
|
3 |
1 |
1 |
5 |
| 20 |
|
3 |
0 |
2 |
5 |
| 20 |
|
3 |
0 |
2 |
5 |
| 22 |
|
2 |
7 |
6 |
15 |
| 23 |
|
2 |
2 |
5 |
9 |
| 23 |
|
2 |
2 |
5 |
9 |
| 25 |
|
2 |
2 |
2 |
6 |
| 26 |
|
2 |
1 |
2 |
5 |
| 27 |
|
2 |
0 |
2 |
4 |
| 28 |
|
2 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
| 28 |
|
2 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
| 30 |
|
1 |
3 |
4 |
8 |
| 31 |
|
1 |
2 |
5 |
8 |
| 32 |
|
1 |
2 |
4 |
7 |
| 33 |
|
1 |
2 |
1 |
4 |
| 33 |
|
1 |
2 |
1 |
4 |
| 35 |
|
1 |
1 |
4 |
6 |
| 36 |
|
1 |
1 |
1 |
3 |
| 36 |
|
1 |
1 |
1 |
3 |
| 36 |
|
1 |
1 |
1 |
3 |
| 36 |
|
1 |
1 |
1 |
3 |
| 40 |
|
1 |
0 |
1 |
2 |
| 41 |
|
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
| 41 |
|
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
| 41 |
|
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
| 44 |
|
0 |
2 |
4 |
6 |
| 45 |
|
0 |
2 |
1 |
3 |
| 45 |
|
0 |
2 |
1 |
3 |
| 45 |
|
0 |
2 |
1 |
3 |
| 48 |
|
0 |
1 |
6 |
7 |
| 49 |
|
0 |
1 |
3 |
4 |
| 50 |
|
0 |
1 |
2 |
3 |
| 50 |
|
0 |
1 |
2 |
3 |
| 52 |
|
0 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
| 53 |
|
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
| 53 |
|
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
| 53 |
|
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
| 56 |
|
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
| Total |
204 |
203 |
262 |
669 |
Sports at the 2009 Summer Universiade
Archery
Athletics
Basketball
Diving
Fencing
Football
Gymnastics
Judo
Swimming
Table tennis
Taekwondo
Tennis
Volleyball
Water polo
Schedule
Participants
- (3)
- (4)
- (27)
- (3)
- (9)
- (14)
- (132)
- (32)
- (18)
- (1)
- (24)
- (27)
- (5)
- (6)
- (37)
- (17)
- (129)
- (66)
- (2)
- (211)
- (4)
- (241)
- (7)
- (2)
- (5)
- (7)
- (5)
- (52)
- (9)
- (21)
- (99)
- (18)
- (3)
- (8)
- (41)
- (2)
- (2)
- (59)
- (52)
- (165)
- (116)
- (41)
- (130)
- (73)
- (12)
- (2)
- (5)
- (40)
- (131)
- (11)
- (41)
- (70)
- (32)
- (203)
- (265)
- (13)
- (65)
- (2)
- (24)
- (175)
- (6)
- (39)
- (40)
- (5)
- (9)
- (52)
- (24)
- (3)
- (2)
- (2)
- (102)
- (22)
- (1)
- (26)
- (46)
- (32)
- (11)
- (8)
- (20)
- (11)
- (21)
- (29)
- (12)
- (11)
- (4)
- (2)
- (4)
- (4)
- (200)
- (46)
- (1)
- (6)
- (65)
- (308)
- (29)
- (11)
- (280)
- (9)
- (41)
- (95)
- (113)
- (102)
- (14)
- (2)
- (2)
- (62)
- (56)
- (5)
- (86)
- (2)
- (1)
- (61)
- (2)
- (1)
- (88)
- (40)
- (188)
- (24)
- (107)
- (22)
- (14)
- (13)
- (2)
- (9)
- (2)
Broadcasting
The host broadcaster of the 2009 Summer Universiade was Serbia's
RTS, the national
broadcasting corporation. It used its first and second channel to
broadcast the games as well as its digital channel. The games were
produced and broadcasted in
high definition television.
Eurosport provided cable broadcasting to
European nations.
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