Winter Universiade 2017

[hckošice 15,520]

4 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

But GBR has two ice hockey teams, something we of course can't expect from a small Central European country without any sort of an ice hockey tradition 

 

GBR has 1113 registred female ice hockey players, we have 743

[dcro 10,210]

22 minutes ago, hckosice said:

 

GBR has 1113 registred female ice hockey players, we have 743

 

GBR has 60 million inhabitants, Slovakia has 5.

 

So they will really need to have around 9000 registered players to be on par with SVK.

[hckošice 15,520]

2 minutes ago, dcro said:

 

GBR has 60 million inhabitants, Slovakia has 5.

 

So they will really need to have around 9000 registered players to be on par with SVK.

 

yay.. but still from 1113 female players is still easier to form a let say competitive "hobby" students team than from 743 

[Dragon 2,026]

4 hours ago, heywoodu said:

 

Also called 'Netherlands B' 

http://bucs.org.uk/news.asp?itemid=22502&itemTitle=GB+flag-bearer+selected+for+2017+Winter+Univerisade&section=8&sectionTitle=News

which flag will they carry?

[heywoodu 16,004]

5 minutes ago, Dragon said:

http://bucs.org.uk/news.asp?itemid=22502&itemTitle=GB+flag-bearer+selected+for+2017+Winter+Univerisade&section=8&sectionTitle=News

which flag will they carry?

True  

[heywoodu 16,004]

Just heard Bruna (Moura) will be Brazil's only participant in Almaty, meaning she'll carry the Brazilian flag at the opening ceremony and I'm already as proud as can be just by the thought of it 

[heywoodu 16,004]

Three days and three hours until the opening ceremony and not even a sign of any athletes' profiles or any sort of somewhat detailed information on the official website...this is getting rather shameful... 

Edited January 26, 2017 by heywoodu

[heywoodu 16,004]

NETHERLANDS  

 

Speed skating

Men
Ronald Ligtenberg
Olof Gerritsen
Martijn van Oosten
Bart Vreugdenhil
Tom Kant
Gerwin Coljé
Joep Kalverdijk 

 

Women
Annemarie Boer
Aveline Hylkem
Ariane Smit
Dione Voskamp
Sanne Westerveld
Willemijn Cnossen

Figure skating
Men
Thomas Kennes
Michel Tsiba

Alpine skiing
Men
Maarten Meiners
Olaf Borsboom

Snowboarding
Men
Bart Falhaber

 

Women
Dana Albers
Yvette Heijt

[heywoodu 16,004]

Last Winter Universiade we had 7 athletes....not very much a coincidence that that was the Universiade with no speed skating  

 

Now we have 7 in other sports and 13 in speed skating  

 

Like usual though, we're not exactly strong in university sports, even in speed skating. Even from watching national championships on TV, I only know Bart Vreugdenhil, who was 18th at the Dutch Allround Championships last weekend (and that's without at least 2-3 skaters who would easily have been ahead of that). Gerritsen was 17th there. Van Oosten was 7th in the Dutch Sprint Championships last weekend where most top athletes were participating, so he might be able to do something good....although the presence of Roman Krech is making gold nearly impossible and I guess the Polish will have some strong names as well. 

[heywoodu 16,004]

22 hours ago, heywoodu said:

Three days and three hours until the opening ceremony and not even a sign of any athletes' profiles or any sort of somewhat detailed information on the official website...this is getting rather shameful... 

 

Still nothing about athlete's profiles, but at least the well-known results lay-out for multi-events can finally be found on FISU's website:

http://wuni2017.sportresult.com/fisu/en/-360

Edited January 27, 2017 by heywoodu