The Coordination Institute for Sport Science of UD has joined the European Platform for Sport Innovation (EPSI). The Institute will cooperate with other institutes and businesses in product and methodology development projects.
Complying with the pandemic-related rules, and with the number of visitors optimised, the fitness centre of UD awaits students who need to attend PE classes and those who just want to do some physical exercise. A simple negative air pressure system has also been installed in the facility.
Andreas Zagkiis, general secretary of the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) has visited the University of Debrecen. He came to see the 3x3 basketball Youth Festival and the World Tour in Debrecen. Mr. Zagkiis was welcomed by rector Zoltán Szilvássy and chancellor Zoltán Bács.
Before the appearance of the corona virus the only exercise that the majority of office workers got was getting to work and back home. Many of those who work from home now get even less exercise. It is mainly these people that the Sports Medicine Clinic of the UD is trying to help.
An excellent player of the women’s handball team of DVSC, Ms. Petra Tóvizi, will be participating in the qualification rounds of the Olympic games as a student. At the same time, László Balogh, sport scientist at the UD, will be taking care of the mental preparation of the women’s handball team.
The experts of the University of Debrecen (UD) dealing with sports sciences will await visitors with the assessment of their locomotor systems, presentations on exercise physiology, and preventive kinematic sessions at the next FőnixFitt.
Dóra Bodonyi, student of the UD, became a world champion in two events in the olympic qualifying phase of the world championship in kayaking and canoeing. Kinga Bágyi, dean of the Faculty of Dentistry, came out best at the 49th world championship of The World Medical Tennis Society.
The 11th Campus Sports festival has come to an end. Close to a thousand students from four countries competed in the events. The Debrecen students won gold medals in futsal, men’s basketball, and women’s badminton.
The Balásházy János Teacher-training Secondary School of the University of Debrecen may be the basis institution of the FC Redbull Salzburg academy football team. This was one of the points of agenda of an agreement between in a meeting organised on Tuesday by UD Sports Science Coordination Centre.
The thousand-year-old form of movement, which the university’s students could try on Tuesday, can gain a role even in stress research conducted at the University of Debrecen. The free of charge class organized in the framework of the international yoga day DESOK was filled to capacity.
According to plans, the new university tennis centre, which is under construction at the Böszörményi Street campus, will be available to students from September. During her visit in Debrecen, Tímea Babos, the first Hungarian tennis player to hold the world champion title, also visited the facility.
On May 1, DEAC [Athletic Club of the University of Debrecen] is going to host a family event in the Sports Center of the University, offering sports competitions and free health screening possibilities. The main feature of the event is going to be the charity running contest.