The 2009 Summer Universiade, officially known as the XXV Summer

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, was celebrated in

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

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 –

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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 then-upcoming 2005–2007 period such as EuroBasket 2005, 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

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(1992 and 1996); for the

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bidding process, Belgrade was eliminated in the third round of

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voting, with the games ultimately being awarded to

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. Belgrade was also eliminated (this time in the first round) in the

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bidding process, with said games ultimately being awarded to

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. On 10 January 2005, Belgrade was announced as the host city of the 2009 Summer Universiade in

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, Austria. The host city announcement ceremony was attended by the now-deceased Belgrade mayor

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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, ; #Name, see below for other names) is the List of cities in Serbia, second largest city in Serbia and the capital of the autonomous province of Vojvodina. It is located in the southern portion of the Pannoni ...

Obrenovac Obrenovac ( sr-cyr, Обреновац, ) is a municipality of the city of Belgrade. According to the 2022 census results, the municipality has a population of 68,882 inhabitants, while the urban area has 25,380 inhabitants. The old name for Obreno ...

Pančevo Pančevo (Serbian Cyrillic: Панчево, ; ; ; ; ) is a list of cities in Serbia, city and the administrative center of the South Banat District in the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia. It is located on the shores of rivers Timiș (ri ...

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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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Red Star Stadium The Rajko Mitić Stadium (, ), previously known as Stadion Crvene zvezde (), 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, Crvena zvezda sinc ...

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— ceremonies, basketball, gymnastics * Stadion Crvena Zvezda — athletics *

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— football (final) * Tašmajdan Sports Centre Pool — swimming, diving * Tašmajdan Sports Centre Tennis Court — tennis * Belgrade Fair — judo, fencing, taekwondo * Železnik Hall — basketball * Železnik Stadium — football * New Belgrade Sports Hall — basketball * Dvorana Sumice — basketball * FK Obilić Stadium — 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

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* Millennium Center — basketball

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— volleyball

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* Smederevo City Stadium — football

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* FK Kolubara — football

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* Inđija Stadium — football

Jakovo

* FK Jakovo Stadium — football

Universiade Village

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, Violet,

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, Cyclamen, Gillyflower,

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, Jacinth,

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, and

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

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. It is located in

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with the closest venues to it being

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) and TK Gazela (

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Sports

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Participants

* (3) * (4) * (27) * (3) * (9) * (14) * (132) * (32) * (18) * (1) * (24) * (27) * (5) * (6) * (37) * (17) * (129) * (66) * (2) * (211) * (4) * (241) * (7) * (2) * (5) * (7) * (5) * * (52) * (9) * (21) * (99) * (18) * (3) * (8) * (41) * (2) * (2) * (59) * (52) * (165) * (116) * (41) * (130) * (73) * (12) * * (2) * (5) * (40) * (131) * (11) * (41) * (70) * (32) * (203) * (265) * (13) * (65) * (2) * (24) * (175) * (6) * (39) * (40) * (5) * (9) * (52) * (24) * (3) * (2) * (2) * (102) * (22) * (1) * (26) * (46) * (32) * (11) * (8) * (20) * (11) * (21) * (29) * (12) * (11) * (4) * (2) * (4) * (4) * (200) * (46) * (1) * (6) * (65) * (308) * (29) * (11) * (280) * (9) * (41) * (95) * (113) * (102) * (14) * (2) * (2) * (62) * (56) * (5) * (86) * (2) * (1) * (61) * (2) * (1) * (88) * (40) * (188) * (24) * (107) * * (14) * (13) * (2) * (9) * (2)

Medal table

Schedule

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Broadcasting

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provided cable broadcasting to European nations.

References

External links

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