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	241	22
1983 Winter Universiade	Sofia	BUL	17 – 27 February 1983	24	244	17
1985 Winter Universiade	Belluno	ITA	16 – 24 February 1985	31	191	18
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	175	19
1997 Winter Universiade	Muju-Jeonju	KOR	24 January – 2 February 1997	53	324	29
1999 Winter Universiade	Poprad-Vysoké Tatry	SVK	22 – 30 January 1999	52	265	25
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)	MUL	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	561	21
2023 Winter World University Games	Lake Placid, New York	USA	12 – 22 January 2023	85	458	26
2025 Winter World University Games	Torino	ITA	13 – 23 January 2025	90	387	29

Medal table

Pos	Country		🥇 Gold	🥈 Silver	🥉 Bronze	Total
1	Russia	RUS	209	192	177	578
2	South Korea	KOR	128	91	85	304
3	Japan	JPN	123	130	115	368
4	Soviet Union	URS	116	98	72	286
5	China	CHN	78	70	80	228
6	France	FRA	76	68	71	215
7	Poland	POL	64	68	72	204
8	Italy	ITA	59	68	74	201
9	Austria	AUT	55	58	60	173
10	Czechoslovakia	TCH	53	49	25	127
11	Switzerland	SUI	47	46	49	142
12	United States	USA	39	61	66	166
13	Germany	GER	39	37	42	118
14	Ukraine	UKR	38	45	47	130
15	Kazakhstan	KAZ	35	33	44	112
16	Czech Republic	CZE	32	29	49	110
17	Canada	CAN	30	32	42	104
18	Slovenia	SLO	27	29	29	85
19	Belarus	BLR	22	26	19	67
20	Finland	FIN	21	28	42	91
21	Netherlands	NED	20	17	14	51
22	Slovakia	SVK	19	22	25	66
23	Sweden	SWE	16	19	21	56
24	Bulgaria	BUL	15	18	12	45
25	Norway	NOR	15	14	11	40
26	Spain	ESP	11	13	7	31
27	Great Britain	GBR	5	7	6	18
28	Yugoslavia	YUG	4	8	9	21
29	North Korea	PRK	4	8	8	20
30	East Germany	GDR	4	2	5	11
31	Hungary	HUN	4	2	4	10
32	Estonia	EST	3	5	1	9
33	Serbia	SRB	3	0	1	4
34	Australia	AUS	1	3	1	5
35	Serbia and Montenegro	SCG	1	2	1	4
36	Chile	CHI	1	1	0	2
37	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
41	Romania	ROU	0	4	3	7
42	Lithuania	LTU	0	2	2	4
43	Andorra	AND	0	2	1	3
44	Thailand	THA	0	1	1	2
45	Azerbaijan	AZE	0	1	0	1
=	Belgium	BEL	0	1	0	1
=	Turkey	TUR	0	1	0	1
48	Armenia	ARM	0	0	2	2
=	Liechtenstein	LIE	0	0	2	2
50	Argentina	ARG	0	0	1	1
=	Chinese Taipei	TPE	0	0	1	1
=	Croatia	CRO	0	0	1	1
=	Georgia	GEO	0	0	1	1
=	Greece	GRE	0	0	1	1