over 7000 people welcomed
athletes, officials, referees,
and volunteers of this year’s
European Universities Games.
At the opening ceremony
athletes, official, volunteers
and invited guests witnessed
welcoming speeches, music
performances, audio-visual acts
and an amazing march pass
with around 2000 athletes and
officials, proudly representing
their universities.
EUSA President Mr Adam
Roczek said: “It was a dream
to bring the games to Poland,
it has taken hard work and
time, but we can proudly say:
welcome to EUG Lodz 2022!
“Dear students, you are in the
heart of the games, your games,
games of equal opportunities,
play fair, compete in the right
way, be champions in and out of
the field.
After the march pass of the
athletes and delegation officials,
following the official speeches,
the event was opened by the
Rector of the Lodz University of
Technology and the President
of the Organising Committee,
Mr Krzysztof Jozwik. Present
at the opening ceremony were
also high representatives
of the City of Lodz, Polish
Ministry of Education and
Science, regional government,
University Sports Association of
Poland, International University
Sport Federation, European
Commission, and several
representatives of the partner
organisations.The European Universities
Games in Lodz featured
competitions in 20 sports
and included social, cultural
and educational programmes
and activities, where the
development of university sport
was primarily discussed. This
year’s edition of the Games
offered the athletes a chance
to compete in 3x3 Basketball,
Badminton, Basketball, Beach
Handball, Beach Volleyball,
Chess, Football, Futsal, Handball,
Judo, Karate, Kickboxing, Sport
Climbing, Swimming, Table
Tennis, Tennis, Volleyball,
Water Polo and featuring Sitting
Volleyball and Para Powerlifting
as promo sports.Within EUSA and its events,
strong emphasis is given to a
wide range of participation of
student athletes, representing
their universities from all over
Europe, including students and
volunteers with disabilities,working on gender equality
and safe, non-discriminatory
environment, promoting fair play
and university sport values and
integrity.Besides the exciting and
competitive sports competitions,
the programme of the European
Universities Games in Lodz had
a variety of workshops, open to
all participants free of charge.
The topics included volunteering,
dual career, inclusion, anti-
doping, development of personal
skills, ECO workshops, Sports
for people with disabilities and
many others.Activities such as a mobile post
office where you can buy the
specially created post stamps
with the face of the European
Universities Games mascot,
EUGenio, a public teqball
playing table, Mobile Museum,
EUSA exhibition and the
Museum Of Sport, Sambodrom
and Erasmus+ run were also
offered as part of the social
activities open for visiting.After 15 days full of sport, joy,
emotions, medals, friendships,
small and big victories and new
experiences, it was time to say
goodbye for two more years
until the forthcoming 7th editionof the Games, that will await
for us in Debrecen-Miskolc in
Hungary in 2024.Like the opening ceremony, the
closing ceremony was also full
of emotions, new beginnings,
many thankful messages and
happy faces. The audience was
able to enjoy many thankful
speeches, great impressions,
and a well-made audio-visual
presentation of all the sports
present at the Games.After the flag of EUSA was
dehoisted and given to the next
organisers of the European
Universities Games in Debrecen-
Miskolc in 2024, the ceremony
was closed and all those who
gathered were able to continue
to the last final of the Games
and cheer the last champions
for this edition of the games.EUSA would like to thank the
Lodz University of Technology,
University Sports Association of
Poland (AZS) and City of Lodz
for hosting such a great event
and all other Polish authorities
for their support and hospitality.PLEASE SEE
http://www.eug2022.eu
for more information