The first Summer Universiade in Turin in 1959 featured 7 sports. A little more than 50 years later Kazan sets a record in terms of the number of sports included in its Summer Universiade sports programme. For the first time in WUG history, 27 sports will be contested at the 2013 Games. Apart from 13 compulsory sports, such as athletics, basketball, fencing, football, artistic gymnastics, judo, swimming, diving, water polo, table tennis, tennis and volleyball, 14 optional sports are included in the Kazan 2013 sports programme: boxing, shooting, synchronous swimming, rowing, canoe sprint, sambo, wrestling, belt wrestling, chess, weightlifting, rugby 7, field hockey, badminton, beach volleyball. Five of the already mentioned sports – belt wrestling, rugby 7, sambo, symchronised swimming, boxing - will make a debut at the 2013 Summer Universiade. Read more

Sports development and popularisation of a healthy lifestyle are key social tasks of modern sports management. Staging the 2013 Summer Universiade in Kazan will undoubtedly facilitate the development of those sports that are part of the 27th Summer Universiade programme. The sports infrastructure constructed especially for the 2013 Games will serve as a foundation for developing summer sports, encouraging people to play sports and managing the training process of top Russian athletes. Hide

Artistic gymnastics

Athletics

Badminton

Basketball

Beach volleyball

Belt wrestling

Boxing

Canoe sprint

Chess

Diving

Fencing

Field hockey

Football

Judo

Rhythmic gymnastics

Rowing

Rugby 7

Sambo

Shooting sport

Swimming

Synchronised swimming

Table tennis

Tennis

Volleyball

Water polo

Weightlifting

Wrestling