The European Universities Badminton and Bridge Championships 2015 concluded on September 6 with a Closing Ceremony in Warsaw, following the last matches. Over 100 participants representing 15 different universities from 9 countries took part in this year’s edition of the event in badminton and in bridge 12 teams representing universities from 8 countries took part.

In the Badminton Team event the final took place on Sep 3 between Uludag University (Turkey) and University of Bordeaux (France). The final was won by Uludag University by 3 matches to 1, third places went to the Opole University (Poland) and Nizhny Novgorod State University (Russia).



In men’s singles finals, the title of champion/s went to Mateusz Dubrowski (University Opole, POL) who won a thrilling final match against Sinan Zorlu (University Uludag, TUR). In women`s finals, the title of champion/s went to Ozge Bayrak (University Uludag) who won an exciting final match against teammate Neslihan Yigit.



In the women's doubles event, Uludag University duo of Neslihan Yigit and Özge Bayrak were the hot favourites. The young pair won the gold medal by beating Delphine Delrue/Lauranne Rosello of the University of Bordeaux in two straight games. During the whole competition, the Turkish pair did not drop a single game. In the men's doubles event local heroes Pawel Pietryja / Mateusz Dubrowski (University Opole) could beat the young pair from Bordeaux Gregor Dunikowski/Thomas Vallez. Pawel Pietryja and Aneta Wojtkowska (University Opole) beat Thomas Vallez/Delphine Delrue (University Bordeaux) in straight games to take the mixed doubles title at the European Universities Championships.



Medals and awards were presented by Fernando Parente, EUSA EC Member, Isabelle Jobard, Assistant Technical Delegate and Bastian Kruse, Technical Delegate accompanied by Polish officials.



The Fairplay Award was given to The University of Bern. Award was presented by the Refereree of the championships Piotr Agacinski. EUSA flag was passed to the University of Llubljana / Slovenia the organizers of the EUBC 2017 represented by the Slovenian University Sports Association (SUSA) – the President Milan Zvan and General Secretary Zvjezdan Mikic.



The European Universities Bridge Championship took place in Warsaw at the same time and consisted of several competitions in Pairs, Speedball, Teams and Butler. In the Team ranking, the Institute of Chemical Technology, Prague (CZE) won gold, with the University of Warsaw 1 from Poland winning the silver and the Wroclaw University of Technology the bronze.



Medals and awards were presented by EUSA EC Member Fernando Parente, EUSA Technical Delegate Geert Magerman, European Bridge League Representative Harry Van De Peppel, Organising Committee EUC Bridge 2017 representative Rifaat Chabouk and Vice-President of the Polish Bridge Union Rudolf Borusiewicz.



Mr Chabouk took over the EUSA flag at the end of the ceremony, as the next European Universities Bridge Championship will be hosted together with the Chess Championship as mind sports in Fuengirola, Spain in 2017.



The next European Universities Badminton Championship will take place in Ljubljana, Slovenia in 2017 and both badminton and bridge will be one of the sports of the European Universities Games next year in Zagreb and Rijeka.

Both events were organised in cooperation with the respective governing bodies - the European Badminton Union (Badminton Europe) and European Bridge League (EBL), also directly promoting the European Week of Sport. More info and links to pictures can be found at www.eucbadminton2015.eu for badminton and www.eucbridge2015.eu for bridge.