EUSA Magazine 2019-20

EUROPEAN UNIVERSITIES

CHAMPIONSHIPS 2019 –

FACTS AND FIGURES

The 2019 European Universities Championships was another

milestone season for EUSA, which celebrated its 20th anniversary

year in style as a record number of participants took part in the

biggest EUSA Championship sports programme to date.

A total of 21 different sporting
competitions made up the 2019
Championship programme,
which took place at 16 separate
events in 14 host cities in nine
different countries across
Europe.

The Championships, which
started in 2001 and have been
organised biennially since 2011,
began on June 23 with both the
EUSA Golf and EUSA Badminton
Championships, which took
place in Antequera, Spain and
Lodz, Poland, respectively.

The month of July saw a total
of 13 different events taking
place across Europe before the
very last Championship, EUSA
Rowing in Jonkoping, Sweden,
which brought the season to
a close over the first week of
September.

Four new sports were introduced
into this year’s Championship
programme, namely Water Polo,

Beach Handball, Orienteering

and Kickboxing, which formed

part of the Combat Sports

Championship in Zagreb, Croatia

which for the first time was

made up of four different sports:

Judo, Karate, Kickboxing and

Taekwondo.

Two cities hosted a European

Universities Championship for

the first time: Bydgoszcz in

Poland, where EUSA Handball

took place, as well as Jonkoping

in Sweden, which played host to

the 11th edition of EUSA Rowing.

The two oldest sports in the

programme, Basketball and

Volleyball, were hosted for the

15 th time following their first

instalment as the first two

Championships ever organised

by EUSA in 2001.

In total, 5 242 participants

from 570 universities from 43

different countries participated

in the 2019 European

Universities Championships,

making it the largest edition

of the Championships in EUSA

history following the previous

total of 4 132 participants in

2017.

As was the case in 2017, EUSA

Football topped the highest-

attendance list with a total of

613 participants, an increase

of 110 participants compared

to 2017. EUSA Rowing was the

second-most attended event

with 504 participants, followed

by Karate with 446.

EUSA would like to thank all

participants and congratulate

all those who achieved success

in this year’s Championships,

while extending our utmost

appreciation to all local

organising committees and

volunteers, European sports

governing bodies and the

International University Sports

Federation for their support.

Following the culmination of

the Championships, the German

University Sports Federation

topped the Most Active NUSA

results chart, with the French

University Sport Federation

just behind in second place

and the Portuguese Academic

Federation of University Sport

in third.

Based on the results achieved

according to each participating

country’s national body, the

French University Sport

Federation won the Most

Successful NUSA award,

followed by the German

University Sports Federation and

the Sports Students’ Union of

Ukraine.

ATHLETES’ PARTICIPATION

PER GENDER

TOP 10 PARTICIPATION

PER SPORT

SPORT/CHAMPIONSHIP 2013 2015 2017 2019

Football 467 407 503 613

Rowing 414 540 509 504

Karate 311 117 261 446

Futsal 481 427 260 436

Volleyball 328 350 282 405

Handball 308 231 363 352

Basketball 396 372 367 349

Judo 193 178 252 300

Taekwondo 152 132 217 243

Kickboxing – – – 235

ATHLETES’
AVERAGE AGE

23.02 22.

59%

Male 41%

Female

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