The Winter Universiade is an international comprehensive sports event for university athletes, organized by the International Federation of University Sports, held every two years.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 30th Winter Universiade, originally scheduled for January 21-31, 2021, has been postponed. ^[1]

The 2021 Lucerne Winter Universiade has been moved to December 2021. ^[2]

Chinese name: World University Winter Games
Foreign name: Winter Universiade
class: Winter sports events

Start time: In May 1923
Starting place: Paris
Be attached to: World University Games

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In the early 2020s, the then International University Organization began planning the World University Games. The World University Sports Congress was held in Paris, and it was decided that the first International University Games would be held the following year. In 1924, the first International Universities' Games were held in Warsaw, with three events: athletics, swimming and fencing. Since then, the games have been held on an irregular basis, and a total of eight sessions have been held until 1939. The games were interrupted by World War II. After the restoration of peace, the games resumed in 1947, and the International University Games were re-organized by France. However, since 1951, due to changes in the international situation, it has been divided into two games, the West is called "International Student Sports Games", and the East is called "Youth Student Games" or "Youth Friendship Games". Both camps organize and hold their own university games.

In 1957, in order to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the founding of the French National Federation of Students, the international University Games and international cultural Festival were held in Paris. By the unanimous agreement of the representatives of the 30 countries participating in the meeting, it was decided that the world University sports competition will be held regularly in the future, named "World University Games", in principle, every two years.

In 1959, the first Universiade was held in Turin, Italy, with 985 athletes from 45 countries participating. By 1999, the World University Games had been held for 20 times.

The Universiade officially has nine events, including track and field, swimming, diving, water polo, gymnastics, fencing, tennis, basketball and volleyball, but the host country has the right to add one more event. For example, Bulgaria, the host country in 1977, added wrestling, Mexico added football in 1979, and Japan added judo in 1985.

In 1960, the World University Winter Games were held in Chamonix, France, in imitation of the Olympic Games. Initially, the Summer Games and the Winter Games were held in odd and even years, respectively, but since 1981 they have been held in the same year. By 1999, the World University Winter Games had been held 19 times, the competition events include speed skating, short track speed skating, figure skating, alpine skiing, cross-country skiing, ski jumping, biathlon, ice hockey, Nordic biathlon, snowboarding.

On November 15, 2023, the International University Sports Federation announced that the 2025 Winter Universiade in Turin will feature athletes with disabilities for the first time. ^[8]

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session	A given year	Host country	Host city
The first session	February 28 - March 6, 1960	France	Chamonix
The second term	March 6-12, 1962	Switzerland	Weierlesi
The third session	February 11-17, 1964	Czechoslovakia	Spindleruv Mlyn
The fourth session	February 5-13, 1966	Italy	Saisiteli
The fifth session	January 21-28, 1968	Austria	Innsbruck (Innsbruck)
The sixth	April 3-9, 1970	Finland	Rovaniemi
The seventh session	February 26 - March 5, 1972	America	Lake Placid
The eighth	April 6-13, 1975	Italy	Livigno
ninth	February 5-12, 1978	Czechoslovakia	Spindleruv Mlyn
The tenth	February 24 - March 4, 1981	Spain	Harcar
The eleventh	February 17-27, 1983	Bulgaria	Sofia
The twelfth session	February 16-24, 1985	Italy	Benetton
The thirteenth	February 21-28, 1987	Czechoslovakia	Ketterbus-kepleso (Spindleruv Mlyn)
fourteenth	March 2-12, 1989	Bulgaria	Sofia
The fifteenth	2-10 March 1991	Japan	Sapporo
sixteenth	6-14 February 1993	Poland	Zakpan
17th session	18-25 February 1995	Spain	Harcar
The eighteenth	January 24 - February 2, 1997	Korea	Chonju (Chonju)
The nineteenth	23-30 January 1999	Slovenia	Bled
Twentieth session	7-17 February 2001	Poland	Zakpan
twenty-first	January 16-26, 2003	Italy	Tarvisio
Twenty-second session	12-22 January 2005	Austria	Innsbruck (Innsbruck)
twenty-third	January 17-27, 2007	Italy	Turin (Turin)
twenty-fourth	February 18-28, 2009	China	Harbin (Harbin)
Twenty-fifth session	January 27 - February 8, 2011	Türkiye	Erzurum
Twenty-sixth session	December 11-21, 2013	Italy	Trentino ^[3]
twenty-seventh	January 24 - February 5, 2015	Slovakia	Strbske Pleso ^[4]
twenty-seventh	February 5 - February 14, 2015	Spain	Granada ^[5]
twenty-eighth	The year 2017	Kazakhstan	Almaty (Alamutu)
twenty-ninth	2019	Russia	Krasnoyarsk (Krasnoyarsk)
The 30th	21-31 January 2021 (originally planned)	Switzerland	-
thirty-first	January 13-22, 2023 (local time)	America	Lake Placid
Thirty-second session	January 13-23, 2025	Italy	Turin

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