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

Year	Host City	Country	Held	Events	Competitors	Countries
1960	Chamonix	FRA	28 February – 6 March 1960	14	41	8
1962	Villars	SUI	6 – 12 March 1962	14	35	10
1964	Špindlerův Mlýn	TCH	11 – 17 February 1964	14	40	10
1966	Sestriere	ITA	5 – 13 February 1966	14	34	11
1968	Innsbruck	AUT	21 – 28 January 1968	18	70	15
1970	Rovaniemi	FIN	3 – 9 April 1970	20	69	13
1972	Lake Placid, New York	USA	26 February – 5 March 1972	24	80	15
1975	Livigno	ITA	6 – 13 April 1975	14	29	8
1978	Špindlerův Mlýn	TCH	5 – 12 February 1978	16	44	9
1981	Jaca	ESP	25 February – 4 March 1981	15	35	8
1983	Sofia	BUL	17 – 27 February 1983	16	40	11
1985	Belluno	ITA	16 – 24 February 1985	16	44	12
1987	Štrbské Pleso	TCH	21 – 28 February 1987	18	53	11
1989	Sofia	BUL	2 – 12 March 1989	19	55	14
1991	Sapporo	JPN	2 – 10 March 1991	30	145	21
1993	Zakopane	POL	6 – 14 February 1993	20	44	12
1995	Jaca	ESP	18 – 28 February 1995	19	55	13
1997	Muju-Jeonju	KOR	24 January – 2 February 1997	32	142	20
1999	Poprad-Vysoké Tatry	SVK	22 – 30 January 1999	23	66	14
2001	Zakopane	POL	7 – 17 February 2001	21	64	17
2003	Tarvisio	ITA	16 – 26 January 2003	24	74	17
2005	Innsbruck	AUT	13 – 17 January 2005	35	199	23
2007	Torino	ITA	17 – 27 January 2007	25	73	18
2009	Harbin	CHN	18 – 28 February 2009	27	72	13
2011	Erzurum	TUR	27 January – 6 February 2011	28	72	14
2013	Trentino	ITA	11 – 21 December 2013	29	85	19
2015	Štrbské Pleso–Osrblie (SVK)/Granada (ESP)	MIX	24 January – 14 February 2015	27	78	16
2017	Almaty	KAZ	29 January – 8 February 2017	28	86	18
2019	Krasnoyarsk	RUS	2 – 12 March 2019	20	55	10
2023	Lake Placid	USA	12 – 22 January 2023	31	85	17

Medal table

Pos	Country		🥇 Gold	🥈 Silver	🥉 Bronze	Total
1	Russia	RUS	95	70	78	243
2	Soviet Union	URS	87	66	58	211
3	Japan	JPN	69	74	63	206
4	Czechoslovakia	TCH	41	36	18	95
5	Italy	ITA	38	42	45	125
6	France	FRA	33	37	33	103
7	Poland	POL	32	39	45	116
8	Switzerland	SUI	31	23	24	78
9	Austria	AUT	30	41	45	116
10	Germany	GER	22	18	17	57
11	United States	USA	21	26	29	76
12	Slovenia	SLO	21	23	23	67
13	Czech Republic	CZE	15	18	21	54
14	Kazakhstan	KAZ	15	13	16	44
15	Netherlands	NED	13	12	7	32
16	Slovakia	SVK	12	11	13	36
17	Belarus	BLR	8	13	7	28
18	Bulgaria	BUL	8	11	4	23
19	Sweden	SWE	8	10	17	35
20	Norway	NOR	8	9	5	22
21	Ukraine	UKR	8	6	14	28
22	Finland	FIN	7	13	22	42
23	South Korea	KOR	7	10	7	24
24	Spain	ESP	6	2	4	12
25	Yugoslavia	YUG	4	8	9	21
26	East Germany	GDR	4	2	5	11
27	China	CHN	3	5	7	15
28	Estonia	EST	2	2	1	5
29	Canada	CAN	2	0	2	4
30	Serbia	SRB	2	0	0	2
31	Serbia and Montenegro	SCG	1	2	1	4
32	North Korea	PRK	1	1	2	4
33	Latvia	LAT	1	0	0	1
=	Monaco	MON	1	0	0	1
35	Andorra	AND	0	2	1	3
36	Great Britain	GBR	0	1	3	4
37	Romania	ROU	0	1	2	3
38	Lithuania	LTU	0	1	0	1
39	Liechtenstein	LIE	0	0	2	2
40	Armenia	ARM	0	0	1	1