Winter Games

The Lucerne 2021 Winter Universiade will not take place as planned from January 21 to 31, 2021. Due to the global COVID-19 pandemic, the International University Sports Federation (FISU), together with the Organising Committee and Swiss University Sports, has decided to evaluate the possibility of postponement of the event. A potential later date will be […]

Our stroll down the Universiade memory lane takes us this week to the base of the Tatras Mountains in southern Poland for the Zakopane 1993 Winter Universiade   Look mom, no helmet! An Austrian alpiner attacks the Men’s Super-G competition with aplomb during the Zakopane 1993 Winter Universiade. The organisers of the Zakopane 1993 Winter […]

Take a trip down memory lane as the mountainous northern Japanese island famous for its beer and champagne powder skiing is back in the international sports limelight as Sapporo hosts the XV Winter Universiade     These days, major winter multisport events taking place in Asia have become almost commonplace. But back in 1991, Japan […]

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 – […]