POZNAN – Just imagine a lake, a little bit more than two kilometers long, only dedicated for the practice of rowing and canoe-kayak. At a few hundred meters of the old city of Poznan, this venue, surrounded by trees and green grass offers to the 23 nations that will participate in the 4th WUC Canoe Sprint the best competition conditions an athlete can dream of.
All the most modern timing and scoring equipment, video checking for the referees are permanently at the disposal of the numerous international organizations that were held for more than 50 years here. The Malta Lake – this is the name venue – has hosted in the Month of August one regional competition, the World Masters Championships and the World Championships that ended only 3 days ago. Can you ever think about a better test event? If you do not want to paddle or to row, you can also ski as an artificial slope ends at a few yards from the lake. A few hundreds meters from there, the new Olympic swimming complex will be inaugurated in 2011: Poznan was 3 times candidate for the Summer Universiade and this 4,000 seats venue was built in this frame although Poznan did not win the bid.
Poznan is really dedicated to Sports: its brand new 48,000 seats football stadium will for example host games of the 2012 European Championship co-organized by Poland and Ukraine. And what about the 101 years old Polish University Association founded in 1909 and that only for 2010 is organizing the European University Basketball Championship and the World University Canoe Sprint Championship in Poznan, the European Universities Football and Volley ball Championship in Warszawa and the WUC Shooting in Wroclaw.
On Wednesday the CISCA members have arrived: CT Chair Zeljko Rajkovic (Serbia) was of course delighted by the top technical conditions of this competition. More delighted than CIC member Fernando Parente who was set immediately to work upon his arrival at the end of the afternoon until late in the evening in the Accreditation Center: because many teams have already arrived and were training during the whole day. Oleg Matysin, FISU Assessor and President of CISCA, was immediately at work and hold immediately after his arrival a meeting a working dinner with the Chairman of the Organizing Committee Tomasz Sponder, CT Chair Zeljko Rajkovic, the member of the Medical Committee Dr. Roland Questal and with FISU Staff delegate SU Director Marc Vandenplas.
(Source: Marc VANDENPLAS FISU Summer Universiade Director)
