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Malaysia, Hong Kong dominate WUC Squash

September 12, 2016

The 9th edition of the FISU World University Squash Championship came to an end on 11 September. The event was hosted in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The hosts came prepared as Malaysian student-athletes mounted the podium several times. Indeed, With Malaysia’s win in the mixed team event, the country achieved its best ever haul in the history of the FISU WUC Squash since its inaugural edition in 1996 keeping four medals in Malaysia, i.e. two golds (women’s individual – Wee Wern & mixed team), one silver (men’s individual – Ivan) and one bronze (women’s individual – Nazihah Hanis). Hong Kong players were also predominantly present on the podium with Tsz Fung Yip taking gold and Chi Him Wong bronze in the men’s individual, Tsz Wing Tong winning silver in the women’ individual and another silver for the Hong Kong Team in the Team event. The remaining bronze medals went to Great Britain’s Joshua Masters (men’s individual) and Nada Mohamed Mahmoud Moha Elkalaawy (women’s individual), while the team bronze went to Japan and South Africa.

A full report of all matches can be found on wucsquash2016.com

Results can be found here: tournamentsoftware.com/sport/matches.aspx?id=1776B136-8175-43D0-82CD-5D010118E520

About FISU

Founded in 1949, FISU stands for Fédération Internationale du Sport Universitaire (International University Sports Federation). FISU was formed within university institutions in order to promote sports values and encourage sports practice in harmony with and complementary to the university spirit. Promoting sports values means encouraging friendship, fraternity, fair-play, perseverance, integrity and cooperation amongst students, who one day may have responsibilities and even key positions in politics, the economy, culture and industry.

Open to student-athletes aged between 17 and 25 (for 2016 and 2017 events, the upper age is still 28), the FISU sporting events are the Summer and Winter Universiade and the World University Championships. The Universiades are multisport events staged in odd-numbered years, while the World University Championships are single-sport events staged in odd-numbered years. Besides its sporting events, FISU stages educational events, i.e. the FISU Forum on University Sport, the FISU World Conference on Development through Sport, the FISU World Conference on Innovation – Education – Sport, the FISU Sport Education Summit and the FISU Seminars.

FISU’s motto being “Excellence in Mind and Body”, all events include educational and cultural aspects into sports competitions, bringing together sport and academia from all over the world to celebrate in a true spirit of friendship and sportsmanship. FISU cooperates for developing its events and programmes with all major international sport and educational organisations. As major outcomes of those collaborations, in 2015, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) proclaimed the International Day of University Sport to be celebrated on September 20, and the Anti-Doping Textbook and teaching material were developed with the World Ant-Doping Agency (WADA).

FISU is composed of 170 Member Associations (National University Sports Federations). Every four years, the FISU General Assembly elects the members of the FISU Executive Committee, its board of directors. Fourteen permanent committees advise the Executive Committee in their specialised areas. For the daily administration of FISU, the FISU Executive Committee relies on the Secretary General, who is assisted by the FISU staff. The FISU headquarters is in Lausanne, Switzerland.

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