2019 Winter Universiade

XXIX Winter Universiade
XXIX Зимняя Универсиада
Host city	Krasnoyarsk, Russia
Motto	"Real Winter"; "Welcome to Winter"; "100% Winter"
Nations	58
Athletes	3000
Events	76 in 11 sports
Opening	2 March 2019
Closing	12 March 2019
Opened by	President Vladimir Putin
Torch lighter	Svetlana Khorkina and Sergey Lomanov
Main venue	Platinum Arena (Ice Arena)
Website	krsk2019.com
Winter
	← 2017 Almaty 2021 Lucerne; 2023 Lake Placid →
Summer
	← 2017 Taipei 2019 Naples →

The 2019 Winter Universiade (Russian: Зимняя Универсиада 2019), the XXIX Universiade, was a multi-sport event for student and youth athletes which took place from 2 to 12 March 2019 in the Russian city of Krasnoyarsk. The 2019 Winter Universiade was the third Universiade hosted in Russia and second as an independent country. The first Universiade, when Russia was a Soviet Republic, was hosted by Moscow in 1973, whereas Kazan, capital of the Republic of Tatarstan, hosted the 2013 Summer Universiade. It is the first Winter Universiade hosted by Russia, and the second time that the event was held in a former USSR republic (the other being the 2017 Universiade in Almaty).

Krasnoyarsk was unanimously elected as the host city of the 29th Winter Universiade 2019 by an Executive Committee meeting in Brussels on 9 November 2013. At the Opening Ceremony the fire was lit by two of the event's ambassadors, bandy player Sergey Lomanov and former artistic gymnast Svetlana Khorkina.

For the first time in Universiade history, bandy and ski-orienteering were included as optional sports. Bandy had bigger spectator crowds than any other sport.^[2] The budget of the 2019 Universiade in Krasnoyarsk equalled 67.8 billion rubles (1.021 billion US dollars): 43.3 billion rubles from the federal budget, 24.5 billion rubles from the budget of the Krasnoyarsk Krai. Russia won a record of 41 gold and 112 overall medals, while South Korea placed second with 6 and 14, respectively. Japan was third, winning 5 gold and 13 overall medals.

^ "Just one day to the big show – preview to Winter Universiade 2019". International University Sports Federation. 1 March 2019. Retrieved 4 March 2019.
^ Audun Sørensen, Tor (8 March 2019). "Historisk bronse til damene i Vinter Universiaden". Norges Bandyforbund (in Norwegian Bokmål). Archived from the original on 2 February 2021. Retrieved 27 November 2020.

[1] "Just one day to the big show – preview to Winter Universiade 2019". International University Sports Federation. 1 March 2019. Retrieved 4 March 2019.

[2] Audun Sørensen, Tor (8 March 2019). "Historisk bronse til damene i Vinter Universiaden". Norges Bandyforbund (in Norwegian Bokmål). Archived from the original on 2 February 2021. Retrieved 27 November 2020.

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