Two of those selected - Mahela Bandera from Sri Lanka and Antoine Attard from Malta - have been selected to join the FISU Ambassador Programme at a Forum in Krasnoyarsk in August.

Eight others will join FISU staff at the Winter Universiade in the Russian city early next year.

This group includes Canada's Celina Toth, a diver who participated at this year's Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, and Germany's judoka turned triathlete Belmann Moritz.

Sweden's Maja Andersson, Namibia's Abassier Leukers, Great Britain's Adam Pratchett, Australia's Meaghan Kempson, New Zealand's Kristy Havill and Poland's Katarzyna Czalej were the others chosen. 

Argentina's Mariano Orlando and Aldana Mariana Moreano will also work at the University Sports House in Buenos Aires later this year, when the capital city hosts the Summer Youth Olympic Games.

All were awarded points for their contributions during a week of talks and workshops.

They were congratulated in a ceremony by Vladimir Leonov, the Minister of Youth and Sport of Tatarstan and former director general  of the 2013 Summer Universiade in the city, during a visit to the City Hall.