Our athletes to participate in 27th Summer Universiade

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ Over mongolian 200 athletes left Friday for Kazan, Russia to participate in the 27th World University Summer Games. Mongolian athletes, who will compete in 15 types of sport, have the opportunity to win medals in boxing, judo, freestyle wrestling, shooting and chess. The 27th World University Games will start on July 6th and end on July 17th, 2013. The history of the 27th World University Summer Games started long before its due date. Kazan was announced as the host city for the 2013 Summer Universiade in Brussels on May 31, 2008. 20 out of 27 members of the FISU Executive Committee gave their votes to the capital of the Republic of Tatarstan, Russian Federation. The 27th World University Summer Games in Kazan will be the first Universiade, and even more, the first high-profile multi-sport event in the history of modern Russia.