Winter Games

The Winter Universiade headed back to the hallowed mountain village of Tarvisio in the Italian Alps for the event’s 21st edition   Ideal snow conditions, world-class venues and enthusiastic local supporters provided the perfect platform on which 1,266 athletes from 41 countries performed at the Tarvisio 2003 Winter Universiade in Italy.   The only notable […]

Japan’s Mai Mihara was a popular gold medal winner in the women’s figure skating at the Krasnoyarsk 2019 Winter Universiade.  The 19-year-old had gone into the free skating final at the Platinum Arena with a five point lead, after having won the short programme the day before with a score of 75.92.   Today, the […]

FISU is ready to brighten up Mondays with the #MascotMondays tournament! Get ready to meet mascots from previous winter and summer editions of the FISU World University Games, and then vote for your favourites.   Every Monday, we will present a match-up between two FISU WUG mascots on our social media channels. FISU audiences will […]

The Winter Universiade once again headed to the High Tatras, this time back to the mountain resort town of Zakopane, Poland’s winter capital for the event’s 20th edition   Zakopane, Poland hosted the Winter Universiade in 2001 just eight years after hosting the 1993 edition.   The community in the heart of the Tatra Mountains […]

The event design concept of the Krasnoyarsk 2019 Winter Universiade has been shortlisted for the prestigious Red Dot Design Awards.  The event design for the games of the 29th Winter Universiade 2019 in Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation, combined the principle of harsh Siberian nature with that of the “warmth of human hearts”.   The graphics symbolised […]

The Executive Committee of the International University Sports Federation (FISU) met virtually today and approved the proposal to hold the next winter edition of the FISU World University Games in December 2021. LAUSANNE, Switzerland – FISU President Oleg Matytsin opened the virtual meeting of the Executive Committee, by thanking the FISU Family for continuing to […]

When Swiss Alpine skier Lukas Zippert was about to start the Super G race at the Krasnoyarsk 2019 Winter Universiade, he discovered a problem with his binding.   “Right before the start I had an issue with my binding and I got really freaked out,” he tells FISU. “We eventually managed to fix it in […]