Winter World University Games

Known as Winter Universiade up to 2020.

The 2021 edition originally scheduled to be held in Luzern (SUI) from 21 to 31 January 2021 was first postponed to 6 to 21 December 2021 and later cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Editions

Edition	Host City	Country	Held	Events	Competitors	Countries
1960 Winter Universiade	Chamonix	FRA	28 February – 6 March 1960	16	76	12
1962 Winter Universiade	Villars	SUI	6 – 12 March 1962	16	131	15
1964 Winter Universiade	Špindlerův Mlýn	TCH	11 – 17 February 1964	17	102	16
1966 Winter Universiade	Sestriere	ITA	5 – 13 February 1966	19	170	18
1968 Winter Universiade	Innsbruck	AUT	21 – 28 January 1968	23	175	18
1970 Winter Universiade	Rovaniemi	FIN	3 – 9 April 1970	25	145	15
1972 Winter Universiade	Lake Placid, New York	USA	26 February – 5 March 1972	29	152	15
1975 Winter Universiade	Livigno	ITA	6 – 13 April 1975	14	35	8
1978 Winter Universiade	Špindlerův Mlýn	TCH	5 – 12 February 1978	16	47	9
1981 Winter Universiade	Jaca	ESP	25 February – 4 March 1981	19	108	10
1983 Winter Universiade	Sofia	BUL	17 – 27 February 1983	24	130	14
1985 Winter Universiade	Belluno	ITA	16 – 24 February 1985	31	159	17
1987 Winter Universiade	Štrbské Pleso	TCH	21 – 28 February 1987	23	131	12
1989 Winter Universiade	Sofia	BUL	2 – 12 March 1989	40	191	18
1991 Winter Universiade	Sapporo	JPN	2 – 10 March 1991	45	260	22
1993 Winter Universiade	Zakopane	POL	6 – 14 February 1993	41	185	19
1995 Winter Universiade	Jaca	ESP	18 – 28 February 1995	38	176	19
1997 Winter Universiade	Muju-Jeonju	KOR	24 January – 2 February 1997	53	281	24
1999 Winter Universiade	Poprad-Vysoké Tatry	SVK	22 – 30 January 1999	52	217	20
2001 Winter Universiade	Zakopane	POL	7 – 17 February 2001	52	216	23
2003 Winter Universiade	Tarvisio	ITA	16 – 26 January 2003	57	257	23
2005 Winter Universiade	Innsbruck	AUT	13 – 17 January 2005	69	365	26
2007 Winter Universiade	Torino	ITA	17 – 27 January 2007	71	286	24
2009 Winter Universiade	Harbin	CHN	18 – 28 February 2009	81	421	20
2011 Winter Universiade	Erzurum	TUR	27 January – 6 February 2011	64	388	25
2013 Winter Universiade	Trentino	ITA	11 – 21 December 2013	78	463	33
2015 Winter Universiade	Štrbské Pleso–Osrblie (SVK)/Granada (ESP)	MIX	24 January – 14 February 2015	68	353	24
2017 Winter Universiade	Almaty	KAZ	29 January – 8 February 2017	86	509	30
2019 Winter Universiade	Krasnoyarsk	RUS	2 – 12 March 2019	76	500	20
2023 Winter World University Games	Lake Placid	USA	12 – 22 January 2023	85	458	26

Medal table

Pos	Country		🥇 Gold	🥈 Silver	🥉 Bronze	Total
1	Russia	RUS	209	192	178	579
2	South Korea	KOR	120	85	78	283
3	Japan	JPN	116	122	111	349
4	Soviet Union	URS	116	98	72	286
5	China	CHN	77	67	79	223
6	Poland	POL	58	65	67	190
7	France	FRA	58	60	57	175
8	Italy	ITA	55	63	68	186
9	Austria	AUT	53	56	58	167
10	Czechoslovakia	TCH	53	49	25	127
11	Switzerland	SUI	43	41	44	128
12	United States	USA	39	60	65	164
13	Ukraine	UKR	34	41	43	118
14	Germany	GER	33	28	35	96
15	Kazakhstan	KAZ	32	29	36	97
16	Czech Republic	CZE	31	28	46	105
17	Canada	CAN	29	30	36	95
18	Slovenia	SLO	23	28	28	79
19	Belarus	BLR	22	26	19	67
20	Netherlands	NED	20	16	15	51
21	Slovakia	SVK	19	21	25	65
22	Bulgaria	BUL	14	18	10	42
23	Sweden	SWE	14	12	21	47
24	Finland	FIN	13	25	38	76
25	Norway	NOR	12	13	11	36
26	Spain	ESP	7	6	5	18
27	Yugoslavia	YUG	4	8	9	21
28	North Korea	PRK	4	8	8	20
29	Great Britain	GBR	4	5	6	15
30	East Germany	GDR	4	2	5	11
31	Hungary	HUN	4	2	4	10
32	Serbia	SRB	3	0	1	4
33	Estonia	EST	2	2	1	5
34	Australia	AUS	1	3	1	5
35	Serbia and Montenegro	SCG	1	2	1	4
36	Israel	ISR	1	0	0	1
=	Latvia	LAT	1	0	0	1
=	Monaco	MON	1	0	0	1
=	New Zealand	NZL	1	0	0	1
40	Romania	ROU	0	4	3	7
41	Lithuania	LTU	0	2	2	4
42	Andorra	AND	0	2	1	3
43	Thailand	THA	0	1	1	2
44	Azerbaijan	AZE	0	1	0	1
=	Belgium	BEL	0	1	0	1
=	Turkey	TUR	0	1	0	1
47	Liechtenstein	LIE	0	0	2	2
48	Armenia	ARM	0	0	1	1
=	Chinese Taipei	TPE	0	0	1	1
=	Georgia	GEO	0	0	1	1