The 2009 Summer Universiade, officially known as the XXV Summer

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, was celebrated in Belgrade, Serbia from July 1 to 12, 2009. The event has also been organised by a range of co-host cities mostly in

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(Serbian Autonomous Province), close to Belgrade. It was the largest sporting event ever to be organised by the city. At this Universiade the biggest star was the Russian rhythmic gymnast

Evgeniya Kanaeva Evgeniya Olegovna Kanaeva Order For Merit to the Fatherland, OMF (russian: Евгения Олеговна Канаева; born 2 April 1990) is a Russian individual rhythmic gymnast. She is the only individual rhythmic gymnast in history to wi ...

, who won 5 gold medals. Russia was the leading nation in the medal table, with the most gold medals (27) and most medals (76).

The bidding process

The bidding process for the 2009 Summer Universiade games began in early 2004. Together with Belgrade another two cities bid for the event – Monterrey in

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and

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in Poland. Working in Belgrade's favour were the various major sporting events the city was awarded to host in the upcoming 2005, 2006 and 2007 such as

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, the 2005 European Volleyball Championship, the 2006

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, and the

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2007. Furthermore, the city launched two unsuccessful candidate bids to organize the Summer Olympic Games: for the

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Belgrade was eliminated in the third round of

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voting, with the games going to

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. The

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ultimately went to

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. On 10 January 2005 in Innsbruck, Austria, Belgrade was announced as the host of the 2009 Summer Universiade. The ceremony of the host city announcement was attended by the now deceased Belgrade mayor Nenad Bogdanović.

Mascot

The mascot of the 2009 Summer Universiade is a sparrow bird. The organisers chose the sparrow not only because of its symbolic ties to the host city but also because it represents a fast, dynamic and skillful bird, attributes needed for those competing at Universiade. The mascot received a new more modern look in 2009 and a competition began to name the Belgrade sparrow. The three final names for the sparrow were published in the Serbian media in April 2009, with the finalists being Srba, Cvrle and Dživdžan. The final voting was left to the 10,000 Universiade volunteers who overwhelmingly chose the name "Srba".

Venues

The 2009 Summer Universiade took place in 69 venues across Belgrade and near bycities

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Novi Sad Novi Sad ( sr-Cyrl, Нови Сад, ; hu, Újvidék, ; german: Neusatz; see below for other names) is the second largest city in Serbia and the capital of the autonomous province of Vojvodina. It is located in the southern portion of the Pan ...

Obrenovac Obrenovac ( sr-cyr, Обреновац, ) is a municipality of the city of Belgrade. According to the 2011 census results, the municipality has a population of 71,419 inhabitants, while the urban area has 24,568 inhabitants. The largest Serbian th ...

, Pančevo,

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Vršac Vršac ( sr-cyr, Вршац, ; hu, Versec; ro, Vârșeț) is a city and the administrative centre of the South Banat District in the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia. As of 2011, the city urban area had a population of 35,701, while ...

and

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. Obrenovac hosted the water polo and volleyball competition, Inđija, Pančevo and Vršac the basketball, Novi Sad the athletics and volleyball, while Zrenjanin hosted the swimming competition. The venue for each sport can be found on the official website of the 2009 Summer Universiade in Belgrade. The opening and closing ceremonies took place at the

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, with a capacity of 20,000. A range of sports halls have undergone intense reconstruction to meet standards for the Universiade games. A number of venues were also newly constructed. File:Arena 2.JPG,

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— ceremonies, basketball, gymnastics *

Stadion Crvena Zvezda The Rajko Mitić Stadium ( sr, / , ), previously known as Red Star Stadium ( sr, / ), also known as Marakana ( sr-Cyrl, Маракана), is a multi-use stadium in Belgrade, Serbia which has been the home ground of Red Star Belgrade since ...

— athletics *

Partizan Stadium The Partizan Stadium (Serbian: Стадион Партизанa / ''Stadion Partizana'') is a football and track-and-field stadium in Autokomanda, Belgrade, Serbia. The home ground of FK Partizan, it was formerly known as JNA Stadium (Stadion J ...

— football (final) * Tašmajdan Sports Centre Pool — swimming, diving * Tašmajdan Sports Centre Tennis Court — tennis *

— judo, fencing, taekwondo *

Železnik Hall Železnik Hall ( sr, Дворана Железник, Dvorana Železnik) is a basketball arena in Belgrade, Serbia. The arena is currently used as a home arena to the KK FMP Beograd of the Basketball League of Serbia and the Adriatic League. The ...

— basketball * Železnik Stadium — football *

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— basketball * Dvorana Sumice — basketball *

FK Obilić Stadium Obilić Stadium ( sr, Стадион ФК Обилић / Stadion FK Obilić) is a football stadium in Belgrade, Serbia, located in Vračar municipality. The stadium has a seating capacity for 4,508 people. The venue was the home ground of FK O ...

— football * Omladinski Stadium — football * Lokomotiva Stadion — football * Voždovac Stadium — football * FK Srem Stadium — football * FK Teleoptik Stadium — football * FK Makiš Stadium — football * SRK Banjica — water polo

Vršac Vršac ( sr-cyr, Вршац, ; hu, Versec; ro, Vârșeț) is a city and the administrative centre of the South Banat District in the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia. As of 2011, the city urban area had a population of 35,701, while ...

* Millennium Center — basketball

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SPC Vojvodina SPC Vojvodina ( sr-cyr, СПЦ Војводина), short for Sports and Business Center Vojvodina ( sr, Спортски и пословни центар Војводина, Sportski i poslovni centar Vojvodina), commonly referred to as SPENS ( s ...

— volleyball

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* Smederevo City Stadium — football

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— football

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* Inđija Stadium — football

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* FK Jakovo Stadium — football

Universiade Village

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. During the construction of the village it was the largest development site in the

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with the closest venues to it being

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Sports

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Participants

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Medal table

Schedule

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Broadcasting

The host broadcaster of the 2009 Summer Universiade was Serbia's

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, the national broadcasting corporation. It used its first and second channel to broadcast the games as well as its digital channel. The games were produced and broadcast in

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provided cable broadcasting to European nations.

References

External links

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