22 Torino 2025 FISU World University Games para student-athletes will compete at Paralympics

10 women and 12 men from 10 countries, who already skied on the Italian snow as student-athletes in Torino will participate to the Milano Cortina Paralympics from 6-15 March.

Let’s look back to a little more than a year ago. For the very first time in FISU World University Games’ history, para student-athletes competed alongside their teammates on the same days and on the same slopes and runs as their teammates in alpine skiing and cross-country skiing. This was a memory that both experienced athletes like French Paralympic medallist Arthur Bauchet or Italy’s Martina Vozza and first-times like Canadian para cross-country skier Charles Lacours will cherish for even.

Meet the 22 competitors

From tomorrow, 22 of those student-athletes, who participated to writing history at the Torino 2025 FISU World University Games, will compete for Paralympic fame in Milano Cortina. They come from Armenia, Chile, Croatia, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Slovenia and Spain.

Three different para sports

They will of course compete in para alpine skiing on the slopes of the Tofane Alpine Skiing Centre in Cortina d’Ampezzo and in para cross-country skiing on the courses of Tesero Cross-Country Skiing Stadium in Val di Fiemme. Four of them, all from Germany – Marco Maier (GER), Johanna Recktenwald (GER), Mattis Lennart Volkert and Leonie Maria Walter – will also chase para biathlon medals, a discipline that wasn’t offered in Torino.

Good luck to all of them and we hope to see them again at a FISU event, probably the Changchun 2027 Winter Universiade in China!