By winning the German university championships in 2016, the handball team from Uni DUE qualified for the European student championship in Antequra, Spain (Málaga). On Sunday July 2nd, the team headed by coach Daniel Haase started their journey to the Iberian Peninsula. When they arrived in Spain, the team initially followed the group draw. The game was played in four groups, each consisting of three teams. Here the first two teams should qualify for the quarter-finals.

First place went to the fencing team: Bettina Fichtel, Lynn Sophie Wenke and Annika Graf.

Four students from the University of Duisburg-Essen also took part in this year's German university championships in amateur boxing, which were held in Rostock from June 2nd to 4th. As part of a perfectly organized and executed event, around 110 athletes of different performance and weight classes met each other. The quarter-finals and semi-finals took place in three events on Saturday in an atmosphere characterized by excitement and sporting ambition. The final fights were held in a successful event on Sunday. The start for the University of Duisburg-Essen was made in the light heavyweight division Tyree Nwokorie. He won the fight in the quarterfinals clearly on points and was also able to play the semi-final fight in the evening event by K.O. decide for yourself in the first round. Unfortunately, Hadi Nasef (also light heavyweight) lost to his opponent in the quarterfinals and was eliminated from the tournament. Eike Breit showed an eventful fight in the heavyweight semi-finals, but could not win it and thus took third place in the tournament. Corinna Glunz won the semi-finals in the middleweight division over the winner of the previous year by technical knockout. in the first round.

In the final on Sunday Tyree faced a strong opponent from Munich; However, he was able to win this fight based on his experience and secured the title of "German University Master". Corinna also won the final fight against an experienced student from Aschaffenburg and can therefore call herself “German university champion”.

Laura Nürnberger was able to compete with strong competition in her second 400m hurdles race this season at the German University Championships in Kassel.

The race did not go ideally because the wind was quite strong and she could not run her rhythm as she wanted.

Laura finished second with 58.56 seconds and was only 9 hundredths above her personal best - almost half a second above the U23 European Championship norm - her big goal this season!

On May 19th-21th, 2017, the German University Swimming Championships took place in Darmstadt. Jacqueline Rausch, Lisa Ortberg, Nina Steiger, Jonas Bovensmann, Christoph Prill, Nicolas Kraft, Stefan Wittenbrink and Nils Zimmermann represented the University of Duisburg-Essen. All participants were able to show very good performances.

Nicolas Kraft swam personal best in the 50 meters freestyle. Stefan Wittenbrink managed to jump into the top 10 in the 200m freestyle. Lisa Ortberg deserves special mention: she reached numerous finals (100m butterfly, 50m butterfly, 200m back, 100m back and 50m back), with second place jumping over 50m butterfly & 100m Back and third place over 100m butterfly & 200m back out. Nina Steiger was also doing very well, she was third in the 200m butterfly final and missed the podium in just over 400m freestyle and took fourth place. She also took part in the finals in the 100m butterfly. Christoph Prill also scraped just under 0.03 seconds over 50m chest past the podium. Good relay placements rounded off the consistently good team performance. All relays (4x100m freestyle, 4x100m medley and 6x50m freestyle) ended up in the TOP10 of German universities. With 5th place, the 6x50m freestyle mixed relay, made up of Nina Steiger, Lisa Ortberg, Jacqueline Rausch, Nils Zimmermann, Jonas Bovensmann and Christoph Prill, ensured the best relay placement.

With two great performances over the 60 and 200 meter distance, Katrin Schöne from the University of Duisburg-Essen achieved a double victory on the occasion of the German University Championships in Frankfurt.

After she first won the 60 meters with a personal best of 7.60 seconds, a short time later she secured victory over 200 meters in another personal indoor best time of 24.32 seconds.