International University Sport Federation (FISU) published the FISU World University Games 1959-2019 Statistics. The publication encompasses 60 years - 30 editions of the summer editions of the largest university sport event in the world.

The book offers an overview of the thirty summer editions of the FISU World University Games – records, results, participation figures and key information.

"I am proud that we can now share with you a statistical record of participation in FISU’s competitions that spans 60 historic years," writes FISU President Oleg Matytsin in the book’s foreword. "It shows our development, to the point where we have become a truly global organisation whose reach also extends across an impressively wide range of sports."



The statistics book includes medal tallies of all editions and highlights the growth in participation from 43 countries in Turin, Italy, in 1959 to 109 countries in Naples, Italy, in 2019.

Italy organised five editions of the FISU Summer Games, including the first and fittingly, the thirtieth as well. The record-setting edition was Daegu 2003 in Korea, when 173 countries participated. The number of sports and disciplines contested in the Games has also gone up, from just seven in 1959, to 27 in Kazan, Russia, in 2013.



The statistics indicate that European countries constitute the majority of participants (27% considering the number of countries, and 48% considering the number of athletes), and have also organised more than half of the summer editions of the event.

The FISU Summer Games statistics book can be downloaded from their website.