News

July 9, 2006
Singles Winners, and Championship concludes
The championship concluded with the singles finals: 1. HOU Yingchao (CHN) 2. WANG Zhen (CHN) 3. WU Chih-Chi (TPE) & ZHAI Yiming (CHN) for men and 1. YU Jingwei (CHN) 2. BOLLMEIER Nadine (GER) 3. JIAO Yongli (CHN) ITO Midori (JPN) for women. See results for details. Thank you to all participants for coming, to all the volunteers for their help, and to the Organising Committee for the wonderful organisation!

July 8, 2006
Doubles Winners
Today, one day before the singles' finals, we have the winners in men's and women's doubles. This time, Chinese Taipei (WU Chih-Chi - CHANG Yen-Shu) won the gold in men's doubles, China (HOU Yingchao - WANG Zhen) winning silver, and Korea both bronze medals (KIM - LEE Jung Chun and YANG Dae Keun - LEE Soon U). In women's doubles, China (YU Jingwei - DAI Ningyang) won the gold, silver (LU Ying - JIAO Yongli), and Russia (TIKHOMIROVA - PROKHOROVA) and Chinese Taipei (LEE I-Chen - HUANG Yi-Hua) bronze.

July 7, 2006
Mixed Doubles Winners
Friday was marked by the finals in mixed doubles China was victorious once again, as they received gold (ZHAI Yiming - DAI Ningyang) and both bronze medals (HOU Yingchao - JIAO Yongli and GAO Xin - YU Jingwei), while silver went to Japan (ONO - ABE).

July 6, 2006
Team Finals
Today, the Team Finals have been completed. The absolute winners in team matches is China - they won the gold medal in both men and women team matches. Silver in men's team went to Chinese Taipei, and Thailand and China won the bronze. In women's team matches Russia got the silver medals (after a long and interesting matches), and Chinese Taipei and Korea bronze. See results for details.

July 5, 2006
Media Coverage
The World University Table Tennis Championship is in full swing. The event is covered by the local media: newspapers, radio, and television. You can also read about the championship at the FISU and the ITTF website. For updated results and impressions please see the results and the daily bulletin.

July 4, 2006
First matches completed
Today, the first matches were completed; men's and women's team matches - qualifications. You can find the results online.

July 3, 2006
Teams Arrivals
Almost all the teams have arrived to Maribor already, and they are looking forward to tomorrow's matches and the opening ceremony. You can get the daily updates in our Daily Bulletin which is being published during the championship. You can also browse and download the bulletin online.

June 2, 2006
Certificate of Academic Eligibility
We remind all competitors that they have to present the Certificate of Academic Eligibility formular at the championship to prove their student status. The certificate can also be downloaded at the Entries section.
All participants are also asked to send the rest of the forms (I and N series), or submit them online via http://event.feratel.at/fisu/. Please enter "FI06TABL" as the code, and use your username and password as provided by FISU. In case you send the forms via fax, we kindly ask you to send us the scan of the pictures via email.

May 29, 2006
ITTF Points at the WUTTC
The players participating at the 16th World University Table Tennis Championship will be given the chance to gain points for the ITTF Ranking List. In order to qualify, the participating associations have to register their players through their national table tennis associations with the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF).
All participating countries will be notified about this opportunity and the requirements via email.

May 8, 2006
Joola - Equipment provider
We can now confirm our official equipment provider: JOOLA. Joola is one of the world's top table-tennis equipment provider, and has proved successful at the previous World University Table Tennis Championship in Gyor, Hungary, in 2004. Further details about specification will be sent in an emailing to all participants and will be published at the website soon.

May 5, 2006
Pre-Payment and Entry procedure
All registered Participants are kindly asked to follow the terms and regulations, and proceed with the 25% of pre-payment which guarantees your participation. Instructions along with calculations based on anticipated number of participants have already been sent. You can also get the bank and account details under Organisation.
By the end of May, the countries participating should complete their entry procedure by filling out all the entry forms. This especially applies to those countries requiring visa to enter Slovenia. Details about that have also been sent, but please contact us if you have any questions regarding the procedures.
There has also been one small change in Team competition format: from three (3) players the limit has been raised up to five (5) players. The change was done in accordance to the changes in rules, and was suggested by FISU technical delegate.
The deadline for submitting all data is June 4, 2006 so please observe this date and take it into account so we can take care of all preparations and details in time and to ensure things will run smoothly at your arrival (and prior to it).

April 7, 2006
Record participation expected
Until the present day we have received entries from 31 countries world-wide. For a detailed list see Participants. We are still expecting a final response from some countries, and if you haven't applied yet we might just be able to squeeze you in. If you are interested, please contact us as soon as possible, as we will be soon completely closing registration.
We are already looking forward to hosting international athletes here in Maribor at the championship which will be special for several reasons:
- This will be the first world university championship in Slovenia. It is definitely not the last one, however; we are also organising the World University Futsal Championship in Koper in 2008.
- This will be the last World University Table Tennis Championship - from Summer Universiade Bangkok 2007 onwards, table tennis will be a universiade sport
- Record participation is expected. The 2004 championship which took place in Györ, Hungary, had 132 athletes participating from 25 countries. Charleroi, Belarus holds the WUTTC participation records: at the 1994 championship 140 athletes from 25 countries participated. We
- At the time of the championship the Lent cultural festival which is famous in Europe as well as overseas takes place in Maribor. We will make sure participants will be able to explore the festival's charms and features.

April 4, 2006
Volonteers
University Sports Association of Maribor started recruiting additional volunteers for the organisation of the event with emphasis on social and team-oriented functions. For details about volunteer programme please send email to info@zdravazabava.com. For all other info, please see contact details listed under Organisation.

February 6, 2006
So far, over 20 countries to participate
We have received General Entry Forms from 21 countries up to now (see list of participating countries), and we still expect to receive more countries to register. We kindly ask you to hurry up and send in the general entry forms as soon as possible, although the deadline is now passed.
If you haven't yet received or downloaded our brochure in PDF format, you are invited to do so - see Entries for details.
Within two weeks, more information will be available about the official supplier of the equipment (tables, balls, and other necessities), along with other information so stay tuned!

January 18, 2006
Event promotion
The promotion of the 16th World University Table Tennis Championship is in full swing. We are also present at the 2006 Liebherr Slovenian Open ITTF Protour which is taking place in Velenje, Slovenia from January 18 to 22, 2006. The direct contacts and distributing the brochures supplements the promotion done so far.
If you are interested in participating at our event, please contact us or your national university sports association and register soon - the extended deadline for General entry form is February 4!

January 13, 2006
VISA information and deadline extension
We extended the deadline for submitting General entry forms to February 4, 2006 (from January 4, 2006), so there is still chance to register. We have also put up an extensive list of countries not requiring VISA; all others should contact us in due time to arrange everything required to obtain VISA.

January 9, 2006
FISU Technical Delegate inspection visit
Mr. Henrik Rud Pedersen, FISU Technical Delegate, made an inspection visit to Maribor, the host city of the 16th World University Table Tennis Championship, from January 6 to 8, 2006.
Mr. Pedersen was welcomed by Mr. Ivan Rozman, the Rector of the University of Maribor and the President of the Honorary Board; Mr. Matjaz Pecovnik and Mr. Bozidar Pucnik, the Representatives of the Slovenian University Sports Association, Mr. Marjan Pucnik from the Maribor University Sports Association, Mr. Drago Zura, the Director of the Student Organisation of the University of Maribor and Mrs. Polona Cehovin – Susin, the Secretary General of the Table Tennis Association of Slovenia.
During the inspection visit, the representatives of the Organising Committee presented Mr. Pedersen the progress report and showed the accommodation, sports and catering facilities. The Technical Delegate met also with Mr. Matija Krnc, the Competition Manager and Mr. Gaj Vidmar, the Referee.
At the end of the meeting, the provisional competition programme and the activity plan were done. The FISU delegate expressed his satisfaction with the work done by the organisers so far and is looking forward to the championship.

January 3, 2006
Entry forms
All entry forms have been uploaded to the Entries section, and are being sent out to national university sports federations world-wide. You can either download the whole package as a ZIP file, or download each file separately, as preferred. All forms are in the PDF format (Adobe Acrobat Reader needed to open the files).

December 20, 2005
Accreditation system
All FISU members received the notification of the new online accreditation system being implemented for ALL World University Championships in 2006. Please note, however, that General and Quantitative entry forms still need to be sent in the usual way (fax or post) to the Organising committee and to the FISU office.
We applaud the new system and we hope it will improve and ease the application procedure for all parties involved.

November 17, 2005
Contact details
Organising Committee has its headquarters in Maribor, the venue city, but the main contact remains that of the Slovenian University Sports Association (SUSA):
WUTTC 2006 OC
SUSA - Slovenian University Sports Association
Dunajska cesta 104
SI-1000 Ljubljana
SLOVENIA
   Tel: +386 1 565 4136
   Fax: +386 1 565 4137
   GSM: +386 40 750 057
   Email: info@susa.org

March 21, 2005
Table Tennis to become compulsory sport at summer universiades
We are happy to inform you that the FISU Executive Committee decided to add Table Tennis to the compulsary sports programme of the Summer Universiades, starting with Bangkok 2007.

September 10, 2004
Championship logo prepared
Slovenian University Sport Association (SUSA), which is the official organiser of the event, prepared a logo draft of the 2006 Table Tennis Championship which is yet to be confirmed by the FISU executive board members.

September 7, 2004
WUTTC 2006 Organisational Board representatives in Gyor
Members of the Organisational Board visited the XV World University Table Tennis Championship in Gyor, Hungary. Slovenian delegation, with Matjaž Pečovnik, Božidar Pučnik, and Marjan Pučnik onboard, met Jozsef Kuti, the Chairman of the Organisational board, Henrik Rud Pedersen, head of technical matters, and Rudolf Sporrer, representative of the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF), and presented the project of the 2006 championship in Maribor. Slovenian delegation gained some valuable knowledge and experience regarding the organisation of such an event.
After the talks, the representatives took a look at the sport grounds and distributed the promotional WUTTC 2006 fliers and Maribor guidebooks.
The visit was concluded by a formal luncheon at the rector of Szechenyi Istvan University in Gyoru, dr. Imre Czinege.

August 22, 2003
Maribor chosen as venue town for the 2006 World University Table Tennis Championship
We have some truly excellent news - the newly-elected FISU Executive committee chose Maribor as the venue town for the 16th World University Tennis Table Championship. The decision was made today in Daegu (Korea) at the Executive Committee meeting, where all WUCs for 2006 were chosen. You can read the details at the official FISU webpage (or click HERE).

August 8, 2003
WUTTC 2006 Organisational Board representatives in Gyor
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