Eligibility

Participants

All athletes must satisfy the following conditions: 

a) Be a national of the country they represent.

b) Be at least 18 and no older than 25 years of age on the 31 December of the year of the event, for 2024, athletes must be born between the 01/01/1999 and the 31/12/2006.

c) Athletes participating in FISU sport events must represent the same country as in their respective International Federations events. Changes of sport nationality must follow respective IF rules.

Only the following may participate as athletes in a FISU World University Championship :

a) Students who are currently officially registered as proceeding towards a degree or diploma at a university or similar institute whose status is recognised by the appropriate national academic aut- hority of their country.

b) Former students of the institutions mentioned in

c) who have obtained their academic degree or diploma in the calendar year preceding the event.