Sport at HSE University includes:
University teams in 42 sporting disciplines
HSE Sports Contest in 10 sports: volleyball, futsal, table tennis, checkers, Russian bench-press, swimming, chess, athletics, badminton, and basketball
3 leagues, 80 teams, and 3,000 people in the HSE football, volleyball, basketball championship
News
On July 12, 2025, Moscow’s first student raft regatta, RAFTDAY XSPORT, took place on the Skhodnya River. It was organised by XSPORT HSE Active Recreation Club with the support of the Sports Community Development Centre of HSE Corporate Academy, the HSE Department of Physical Education, SUP ACADEMIA store, and the Moscow Rafting Federation. Regatta participants shared their impressions with HSE University Life.
July 30
HSE University has launched its first official men’s and women’s rafting teams, coached by Nikita Zhuravlev—a graduate of the Bachelor’s programme in Media Communications at the Faculty of Creative Industries, President of the Moscow Rafting Federation, and founder of the rowing club Academia. This season, the teams are preparing for six key races as part of the amateur league. In an interview with the HSE News Service, the coach explains how this marks a unique milestone.
June 30
The Green Marathon, organised by Sber, took place in Moscow. Several thousand people ran distances ranging from 4.2 to 21.2 kilometres, including the HSE Running Club team, HSE Rector Nikita Anisimov, and Sber’s CEO German Gref, who took part in the race alongside his son.
June 03
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Contacts
Elena Emelyanova
Tutor, Visiting Scholar, Department of Physical Training
eemelyanova@hse.ru