2025 Winter World University Games
The 2025 FISU Winter World University Games, also known as the XXXII Winter World University Games, or the 32nd Winter Universiade, and commonly known as Turin 2025 or Torino 2025, is a multi-sport event scheduled from January 13–23, 2025, in Turin, Italy. The Piedmontese capital was confirmed as the host city for the games on 15 May, 2021. This will be the 7th time in the history that the event will be held in Italy and 2nd time in the city,as the 2007 Winter Universiade was also held there.The city is considered the birthplace of the event, as in 1959 Summer Universiade, its first summer and winter edition was also held there.Torino also hosted the 1970 Summer Universiade and is the second dual World University Games host city,as Sofia in Bulgaria is the first. If you count the summer editions, this is the 12th time that the World University Games have been held on Italian soil,as the most recent 2019 Summer Universiade held in Naples. The 2025 FISU Winter World University Games will be the first World University Games event to feature para-athletes competing in para-sport events, alongside the existing able-bodied events as part of FISU’s long-term strategy of inclusiveness and social sustainability. On July 6, 2020, representatives from the Metropolitan City of Turin, Piedmont Region, University of Turin, Polytechnic of Turin, CUSI Turin, EDISU and University of Eastern Piedmont formally announced their candidature to host the 2025 games. The bid, known as "Torino 2025," included intentions to host para-sports events, in tandem with the 2025 World Winter Special Olympics. The Italian government's Minister of Sport, Vincenzo Spadafora, confirmed his strong support for the candidature on July 7, 2020. The city has hosted the 1959 and 1970 Summer Universiades, the 2007 Winter Universiade, the 2006 Winter Olympics and Paralympics and has a tradition of hosting international sporting events. Rome hosted the Games in 1975, while Sicily hosted it in 1997 and Naples in 2019, who replaced Brasilia as host city. The neighboring Sestriere hosted the 1966 games with Turin serving as the host city for the ice events.And just like in 2007, it will be the sub-venue for snow events.Livigno in Sondrio Province, the 1975 Winter Games. In 1985, it was the turn of the resort of Belluno in Veneto. Another resort, Tarvisio in the most northeastern part of the country with neighboring cities Austria and Slovenia, co-hosted the 2003 winter event. In 2007, it was the city's first turn to host the Winter Games. And in 2013, the province of Trentino hosted the event during the bid process to the 2026 Winter Olympics with some venues who were part of the project. The other three countries that announced their intentions to host the event were Lucerne, Switzerland, after the 2021 Winter Universiade to be held in said city was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and a joint bid from Finland and Sweden, led by Stockholm as main host. The sports program at the 2025 FISU Winter Games features 9 compulsory sports and 2 optional sports. Among several options and studies, the Organizing Committee chose only 2 optional sports in this edition; ski mountaineering, which will debut at the Games, and ski orienteering, which will return for the first time since 2019. These two sports were not on the original list presented to FISU during the bidding period, but given the demands of the institution itself and the host region, FISU accepted the proposal during the 2021 Summer World University Games, held in Chengdu, China. ski orienteering and ski mountaineering will be the two optional sports and also the last one will be the optional sport for the 2026 Winter Olympics, which will also be held in Italy, and ski orienteering will turn a compulsory sport starting in 2027.For the first time in its history,the university student para-athletes will be able to compete in a FISU with events for visual impairments, sitting and standing categories in alpine and cross-country skiing.This will also be the first time in history that a mixed doubles curling event will be part of the sporting program. The 11 sports of the Torino 2025 Games will be held in two clusters of venues, shared by the Metropolitan City of Turin and Piedmont region. Official website