Winter Games

The Lucerne 2021 Winter Universiade making its grand unveiling to the student-athlete competitors during the closing ceremonies of the Krasnoyarsk 2019 Winter Universiade, the event edition’s predecessor   What a time for major international multi-sports events in Switzerland. Since Villars held the Winter Universiade 1962 and St. Moritz hosted the 1928 and 1948 Olympic Winter […]

Winter Universiade 2021 organisers seek 3,800 volunteers LUCERNE — Starting today, sports aficionados and aspiring sports management professionals can register on the Swiss Volunteers platform to volunteer at the Winter Universiade 2021. The Organising Committee seeks 3,800 volunteers for hosting the 11-day event that takes place with 10 sport disciplines in Central Switzerland and Lenzerheide […]

Take a trip back through 60 years of Universiade history. The 26th stop on FISU’s Universiade history tour takes us to a mountain village in the High Tatras of then-Czechoslovakia.   Czechoslovakia joined Italy as a three-time host of the Winter Universiade when President Gustáv Husák opened the Games on 21 February 1987, in Štrbské […]

Take a trip back through 60 years of Universiade history. The 25th stop on FISU’s Universiade history tour takes us to the Veneto region of northern Italy. The Winter Universiade returned to Italy for a third time in 1985, when the Games were held in Belluno, 10 years after Livigno and 19 years after Sestriere. […]

Take a trip back through 60 years of Universiade history. The 22nd stop on the FISU history tour takes us back to the Bulgarian capital for the Sofia 1983 Winter Universiade   After twice hosting the Summer Universiade in 1961 and 1977, Sofia decided to take a crack at the winter version in 1983 – […]

LAKE PLACID, USA — With current COVID-19 social distancing and travel restrictions in place, the FISU Winter Games department and the Lake Placid 2023 organising committee held their first International Technical Committee meeting virtually late last month. Playing the leading role in the meeting were the FISU Technical Committee Chairs responsible for each sport included […]

Take a trip back through 60 years of Universiade history. The 20th stop on the FISU history tour takes us to the Pyrenees mountains of northeastern Spain for the 1981 Winter Universiade The Winter Universiade in Jaca struck a celebratory tone straight from the start of the event, as captured here during the opening ceremonies […]