uOttawa at the 2025 FISU World University Summer Games

The University of Ottawa had four athletes competing at the 2025 FISU World University Summer Games, taking place in the Rhine-Ruhr region of Germany from July 16-27. Taekwondo athlete and Faculty of Health Sciences student Leonarda Andric won a bronze medal for Canada, one of 11 total medals achieved by the Canadian team of 125 athletes across nine sports.

For uOttawa, it was Taekwondo and Athletics, as Gee-Gees Jessica Gyamfi, David Moulongou, and Doyin Ogunremi competed on the track while Andric was one of three medallists for Canada in Taekwondo.

Andric, the 2024 and 2025 Senior National Champion beat Giulia Maggiore of Italy 2-0 in the round of 16, and Nuray Khussainova of Kazakhstan by the same score to reach the medal round. She was defeated 2-0 by the eventual gold medallist, Jiana Xing of China in the semi-finals, resulting in the bronze medal.

"I've never been to a world event, so just being able to perform and match up with the high level and calibre of athletes, I'm very grateful for that," said Andric in an interview with U SPORTS. "I think it really comes down to mental work. If you can be strong mentally, and have that confidence that you can also match up physically, I think that's the most important part."

Andric, a Health Sciences student from Ottawa, narrowly missed out on a place on Canada's Olympic team in 2024, and will continue to compete for a place on the 2028 Olympic team.

On the first day of athletics competition, Jessica Gyamfi competed in the shot put and scored a throw of 12.50 in the qualification round, finishing in 28th place. It was Gyamfi's first throw which counted, as the 2025 U SPORTS bronze medallist followed up with attempts landing at 12.38 and 11.65 metres. Swedish Olympian Axelina Johansson took the gold medal with a score of 18.45 metres, while Olympians from South Africa and China placed fourth and fifth, respectively. Gyamfi's Canadian teammate Liv Sands, a student-athlete at Western, placed eighth.

Two days later Gyamfi, who was named uOttawa's Athlete of the Year for Garnet level teams, was back in the circle for discus. The 2024 Ontario discus champion and nursing student unfortunately did not record a successful throw, ending as one of three competitors with three faults. 

David Moulongou established a new personal best in the 400 metre hurdles, finishing fifth in his heat with a time of 52.24. The fourth-year Biomedical Science student then raced the 4x400 metre relay, advancing to the final as Canada earned a comfortable third place finish in Heat 2 with a time of 3:08.10. Moulongou ran the third leg in the heat and moved up to the second leg in the final where Canada finished sixth, running in lane 8.  

Doyin Ogunremi opened her competition schedule in the 200 metres, crossing the line in 25.14 in her heat and did not advance to the semifinal. Ogunremi, who graduated with a Bachelor's in Health Sciences in June, was also selected as a team member for both the 4x100m relay and the 4x400 metre relay, but did not compete. Canada won bronze in the women's 4x400 metre relay; it was the final medal of the Games for Canada and the second in athletics.