Current season, competition or edition: 2024 World University Squash Championship | |
Sport | Squash |
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Founded | 1996 |
Director | FISU WSF |
President | Zena Wooldridge |
Continent | International |
Most recent champion(s) | Baptiste Bouin (2024) Marta Domínguez (2024) France (2024) |
Squash |
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The World University Squash Championship is the official international college competition in the game of squash conducted by the World Squash Federation (WSF), which was first held in 1996 in Maastricht in Netherlands.
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | Great Britain | 10 | 6 | 10 | 26 |
2 | Egypt | 10 | 6 | 4 | 20 |
3 | France | 7 | 5 | 2 | 14 |
4 | Malaysia | 3 | 2 | 7 | 12 |
5 | Hong Kong | 2 | 8 | 7 | 17 |
6 | Canada | 1 | 3 | 4 | 8 |
7 | Belgium | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
8 | Spain | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
9 | Brazil | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
10 | Germany | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
11 | South Africa | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
12 | Czech Republic | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
13 | Hungary | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
14 | Switzerland | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
15 | India | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
United States | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
17 | Japan | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Totals (17 entries) | 36 | 36 | 48 | 120 |
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