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The summer sports festival is back in 2025! On Thursday, July 3, 2025, the campus sports highlight will take place on the outdoor sports facilities of the Institute of Sport and Sports Science (IfSS). There will be a lot on offer again, so be at the start and secure your ticket! Pre-sale dates will be announced at the beginning of June 2025. Stay tuned! We look forward to seeing you there!

Save the date! The Drumbo Cup will take place again on 31.05.2025! The Drumbo Cup is an annual volleyball mixed tournament, organized by the volleyball department of the university sports department at KIT. Registration starts on Monday, 05.05. (places are limited!). All information on the event page of the Drumbo Cup 2025.

On Tuesday, 15.04.2025, KIT University Sports officially kicked off the summer semester with the HSP Summer Kickoff 2025 at Sparda-Sportpark. The departments defied the changeable weather and showed the diversity of the HSP sports program with creative hands-on activities, sporting demonstrations and informative stands. We look forward to more joint sporting highlights in the summer!

On the first weekend in April, the DHM in orienteering took place in Clausthal-Zellerfeld (Harz) and the KIT also sent a delegation of four. It consisted of 2 experienced "orienteers" and 2 beginners who found their way to the sport this semester through university sports and were now taking part in their first competitions.

As part of the "Hiking for international students" course, three guided hiking tours took place in the beautiful Black Forest in the winter semester 2024/25. Despite the sometimes adverse weather conditions, each hike provided unique nature experiences, exciting discoveries and plenty of good humor.

The HSP courses for the summer semester 2025 are available online! The booking of the courses will be activated staggered from Monday, 14.04.2025! Check the respective courses for the exact registration start date. Registration for the semester base fee opens on 09.04.2025, from 10.00 am. Before booking an HSP course, the basic fee must be booked, otherwise no further booking is possible!

On Saturday, 26.04.2025, there will be another walk-in Easter special in Hall 2! Free of charge for all walk-in members, basic and special ticket holders! Please register online for the Easter special here. We look forward to seeing you!

Due to an internal event, there will be the following closing times for public swimming:

There will be no public swimming on 11.04.2025 from 12:00 to 14:00 . We ask for your understanding.

The summer edition of the kickoff will take place on Tuesday, 15.04.2025, from 15.00 to 17.30, in the Sparda Sportpark, on the outdoor facilities of the IfSS. All interested and sports-enthusiastic students and employees of KIT and the cooperating institutions are cordially invited to attend. The university sports team and its instructors look forward to seeing you!

As part of the Fitness Check project, there is now a second wave of measurements, in which the free measurement and analysis of body composition (BIA) is now available again for all students at KIT. Simply register for a time slot via the link!

On February 8, 2025, the university sports diving group (TSG), in cooperation with the diving club Koralle (TCK) from Muggensturm, enabled some students to dive into a new world - for the first time also for students with disabilities. We are pleased that the event was very well received by the participants and we wish them good air at all times for their possible further diving career!

On February 8, 2025, the German University Athletics Championships took place in the Glaspalast Sindelfingen. As in previous years, KIT was represented by a large delegation and was once again able to underline its class in German university sport with numerous best performances, medals and strong placings.

We asked students with disabilities about their sports experiences at KIT University Sports. Our first testimonial is from Pascal, who has already taken part in the windsurfing course and actively trains in the walk-in. You can find the entire interview on our website.

Is your head spinning from all that studying? Then check out the HSP's vacation courses! The courses run during the lecture-free period from 17.02.2025 to 11.04.2025. The booking start for the vacation courses is Tuesday, 11.02.2025, from 10.00 a.m. Join in and make your lecture period active and sporty!

On Thursday, 06.02.2025, the water supply will be turned off in building 40.40 from 07:00 - 12:00. The showers and toilets will be closed. Please use the sanitary facilities in the adjacent building 40.44. Thank you for your understanding.

The rescheduled DHM for 2024 took place in Biedenkopf from 24 to 26 January 2025 - a weekend full of top sporting performances, a rousing atmosphere and a sea of yellow T-shirts. The Karlsruhe kings, the largest delegation on site with 66 people out of around 600 athletes, lived up to their name and left a lasting impression - both on and off the competition field.

The Sportmix tournament organized by the Erasmus Students Network (ESN) Karlsruhe was a complete success! The participants were enthusiastic and expressed their desire for similar events in the future. The participation of our guests from ESN Strasbourg, who also enjoyed the tournament, was particularly pleasing.

On Friday, 13.12.2024, the fencing department of KIT University Sports organized an internal tournament. The event was held in the so-called relay mode - an exciting format in which one epee and one foil fencer form a team of two.

Combining a sustainable lifestyle and sporting activity with environmental protection? This is precisely the aim of our GreenSTEPS project. The idea behind it is simple: to combine study, sport, nutrition and leisure in an environmentally friendly overall package that is fun and at the same time raises awareness of a greener lifestyle.

Have you always wanted to glide weightlessly through the water like a fish? On February 8, 2025, the Karlsruhe diving group is offering a trial dive for students with disabilities at KIT! You can find more information on registration in the announcement at https://tsg-kit.de/?p=168

The walk-in will also be open for you on Sundays from 2025. From January 12, 2025, you can always train at the walk-in on Sundays between 12.00 and 16.00. With this happy news, we wish you all a sporty and fit new year!

The university sports team wishes you all a happy and relaxing Christmas season, wonderful holidays and a lively start to 2025! A big thank you to our dedicated department and exercise instructors and to all participants who make university sports at IfSS so lively and special. Thank you for your enthusiasm and commitment in 2024!

This year's individual university championships took place in Göttingen on November 16 and 17, 2024. In the epee, sabre and foil disciplines, the team was able to present itself with good individual placings, a podium finish and the highest number of participants of all universities.

On January 18, 2025, the walk-in will host its annual winter special in Hall 2, which is free of charge for all HSP-eligible students! Please register online here! In addition, the university sports project GreenSTEPS will provide the right setting in the foyer of Hall 2 with a healthy nutrition offer and a sports equipment flea market on a donation basis!

Jannick Schubert

On 06.12.2024, athletes from all over Germany met in Duisburg for the DHM Judo to compete against each other. With 446 entries from 94 universities, the field of participants was impressively large again this year. From Karlsruhe, 32 judoka from KIT and other universities competed - motivated to give their best.

Together with two horses and a motivated team, the riding team traveled to the riding facility in Kreuth. In addition to many great performances, the riders achieved a good 8th place in the team ranking. The season was finally crowned with the DHM title in the combined classification.

You want to get to know the Black Forest, enjoy hiking in a small group, even in winter, and want to get to know other international students at KIT? Then you've come to the right place! This course is aimed at all international students, please read the course description. Click here to go directly to the course.

The DHM Swimming 2024 took place in Munich from 22 to 24 November, in which the WG Karlsruhe swimming team took part with great anticipation and ambition. Impressive individual performances and a 3rd place out of 77 participating teams in the team ranking were achieved.

On 19.11.2024, WG Karlsruhe competed here in Hall 2 at KIT Campus South for a place in the final round of the DHM Badminton. The guests were WG Stuttgart, WG Munich and WG Freiburg. After exciting matches, it was clear that Karlsruhe would be playing in the Final4 of the DHM 2025 again after a year's absence!

University sports and the walk-in will close their properties from 23.12.2024 to 06.01.2025. All sports halls, stadium, indoor swimming pool and walk-in health center, including courses, will remain closed. We look forward to welcoming you back in the new year!

On November 2, 2024, seven athletes competed for the WG Karlsruhe at the DHM 2024 in Hildburghausen. In addition to DHM titles and other podium finishes for the Karlsruhe participants, Jessica Wolf and Kaize Zhou qualified for the EUC Combat Games 2025 with their placings. All information in the report.

From tomorrow, Thursday, 31.10.2024 | 09:00 a.m., bookings for our martial arts courses will be staggered! You can find the exact booking requirements and times for the individual courses on the homepage under Sports offer. The information on the courses can be viewed online from today. Unless otherwise stated, the courses will start next week, 04.11.2024.

In the last week of September, 18 HSP students made their way to the kite camp on the Ijsselmeer in Holland. An unforgettable camp, in which not only the wind and the highly motivated Like2Kite kite school, but also the participants themselves contributed significantly to the success! We are already looking forward to next year.

Consisting of a workshop on the culture of the Black Forest and three hiking dates, the international students once again laced up their hiking boots in the summer semester to explore the areas around the Gertelbach waterfalls, Mummelsee/Hornisgrinde and Sankenbachsteig. With mostly sunshine and blue skies, many beautiful impressions were collected.

On October 15, 2024, KIT University Sports opened its doors for the seventh HSP Kickoff. The event attracted numerous interested people who not only wanted to find out about the wide range of sports options, but also supported a charitable cause by making donations at the sports equipment flea market and waffle stand. The winter semester was ushered in with many interactive hands-on activities and informative stands.

The HSP course program for the winter semester 2024/2025 is now online! The booking of the courses will be activated from Wednesday, 16.10.2024! Check the respective courses for the exact registration start date. In addition, the indoor tennis dates at the MTV start on 21.10.2024. The outdoor tennis facility at the IfSS is closed.