Press Release: FISU signs wide-ranging deal with Taishan Sports Industry Group

LAUSANNE - On 6 November, FISU signed a substantial 3-year partnership deal with the Chinese Taishan Sports Industry Group. Taishan Sports Industry Group agrees on a global partnership to develop joint-projects from January 2016 to December 2018 in the following domains: 

• Sports & Innovation (Idong);
• Sports Equipment & Brand Promotion (FISU Events);
• Sports & Knowledge (Taishan R&D Centre).

More concrete, the deal involves sponsoring for a number of sports on the programme of the 2016 and 2018 World University Championships, the 2017 Summer Universiade in Taipei City and several testing platforms for the physical education department of Universities. 
The new partnership was inked one day prior to the 34th General Assembly of FISU, which will take place in Lausanne 7 and 8 November.
 
Eric Saintrond, FISU Secretary-General/CEO: “The partnership with Taishan is an important one for FISU. Taishan groups around ten of the biggest Chinese sport related companies, with some of them pioneers in developing high technology sports equipment for research centres. It is interesting for FISU to have partners in the field of sports equipment but also in research and development and products linked with new high-level technology. The agreement is threefold. Sports equipment for some of our sporting events, research and development for the universities and access to the development of new technology which will serve as a bridge towards university sports centres and student-athletes to collaborate with Taishan R&D in a win-win situation. In other words the partnership will surely benefit the student-athletes and the Local Organising Committees, but also the universities.”
 
Bian Zhiliang, President of Taishan Sports Industry Group: “After working and researching in the past forty years, Taishan Sports Industry Group established its green and healthy concept of exercise and fitness based on scientific and technological innovation. Nowadays, Taishan is the largest equipment supplier in the history of the Olympic Games, and now will also will cooperate with FISU to support the international university sports for the global development of health and sports.”
 
 About FISU
 Founded in 1949, FISU (International University Sports Federation) is an organisation dedicated to university sport and the promotion of excellence in mind and body. Balancing elite sport competition and academic studies, the student-athletes participating in FISU events are today's stars and tomorrow's leaders. FISU has three core sport properties: the Summer and Winter Universiade and the World University Championships. The Summer and Winter Universiade are international multi-sporting and cultural festivals held every two years, gathering student-athletes aged 17-28 from over 170 countries. FISU's other major sporting events are the World University Championships (WUC), single-sporting events which are held in the years between the Universiades. In 2016 there will be a total of 34 Championships in 25 countries. In addition to our existing broadcast agreements, FISU's long-term multimedia partnership with Eurosport will bring live HD broadcast for each Summer Universiade and Winter Universiade across Europe and Asia-Pacific and greater exposure for all FISU properties through the monthly TV magazine CAMPUS. FISU's partnerships with Eurosport covers all events through 2017. The 2017 editions of the Universiade are in Almaty, KAZ (winter) and Taipei City, TPE (summer) and 2019 in Krasnoyarsk, RUS (winter).
 
 About Taishan Sports Industry Group
 Founded in June 1978, Taishan Sports Industry Group has developed into a comprehensive and specialised sports industry group which integrates R&D, production and sales and service together. It has more than a dozen of subsidiaries, such as Taishan Sports Equipment Co., Ltd., Taishan Artificial Turf Industry Co., Ltd. and Taishan Sports Engineering Co. to name a few. It is solely recognized by a number of international certifications in China and the largest equipment supplier for Beijing Olympic Games, the 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games, the 11th National Games, the 26th Summer Universiade in Shenzhen, the 7th National Intercity Games. It is the sole sports engineering builder in China that first passed the FIFA certification, the highest special certification of International Hockey Federation and possessed national-level professional qualification in sports engineering.

(FISU Media)