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Largest Number of Volunteers

2001/09/01

The largest number ever of volunteers-around 30,000-worked at the sports venues, meetings, giving guidance and information to athletes, introducing the venues, organizing and stewarding spectators and cheer squads, maintaining order and seeing to any other related work.

  The number of members of participating delegations in the 21st Universiade reached 7,012 one day after the opening, according to the Accrediation Center of the Unviersiad Organizing Committee. The figure include 4,708 athletes from 143 countries and regions and 2,304 officials from 155 countries and regions.

  Delegations with more than 100 members were: China (390), Japan (314), Russia (285), the United States (266), Ukraine (213), France (212), Canada (206), South Africa (195), the Republic of Korea (190), Italy (190), Germany (153), Britain (151), Spain (142), the Netherlands (137), Australia (136), Poland (126), Hungary (110), and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (100).

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