Rhine-Ruhr 2025 FISU World University Games

The Rhine-Ruhr 2025 FISU World University Games - formerly known as the Universiade - are the largest top-level student sporting event and the world's largest multi-sport event after the Olympic and Paralympic Games. The games are coming to the Rhine-Ruhr region and Berlin from July 16 to 27. Around 8,500 athletes and officials from over 170 countries are expected to take part in a total of 18 sports.

In Bochum, the Lohrheide Stadium in the district Wattenscheid will host the athletics competitions, while the Jahrhunderthalle will host a major international science congress and the 3x3 basketball competitions. The international "Ruhr Games 2025" will also take place on the site as a further sporting and cultural highlight. Germany has only hosted the event once before: in Duisburg in the summer of 1989.

Nine RUB athletes have been nominated for the FISU Games.

Click here to see the RUB squad

The other venues are Duisburg, Essen, Mülheim, Hagen and Berlin.

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