Cross-country skiing at the Winter World University Games

Cross-country skiing at the Winter World University Games
Cross-country skiing at the Winter World University Games
Events	10 (men: 5; women: 5)
Games
	1959; 1960; 1961; 1962; 1963; 1964; 1965; 1966; 1967; 1968; 1970; 1970; 1973; 1972; 1975; 1975; 1977; 1978; 1979; 1981; 1983; 1985; 1987; 1989; 1991; 1993; 1995; 1997; 1999; 2001; 2003; 2005; 2007; 2009; 2011; 2013; 2015; 2017; 2019; 2021; 2025;

Cross-country events have been contested at the Universiade since 1960.

Events

Event	60	62	64	66	68	70	72	75	78	81	83	85	87	89	91	93	95	97	99	01	03	05	07	09	11	13	15	17	19	Years
Men's sprint																					•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	9
Men's 10 km classical																			•	•	•				•		•	•	•	7
Men's 10 km freestyle																				•		•	•	•		•				5
Men's 10 km pursuit																												•	•	2
Men's 12 km classical		•		•																										2
Men's 15 km classical			•		•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•												15
Men's 15 km combined							•									•														2
Men's 15 km pursuit																			•				•	•	•					4
Men's 15 km skiathlon																										•				1
Men's 30 km classical							•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•							•		•		•		•		13
Men's 30 km freestyle															•	•	•	•	•		•		•		•		•		•	10
Men's relay	•		•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	28
Women's sprint																					•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	9
Women's 5 km classical			•				•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•				•	•	•				•		•	•	•	17
Women's 5 km freestyle																				•		•	•	•		•				5
Women's 5 km pursuit																												•	•	2
Women's 8 km classical				•																										1
Women's 10 km classical					•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•												14
Women's 10 km combined															•	•														2
Women's 10 km pursuit																			•				•	•	•				•	5
Women's 10 km skiathlon																										•				1
Women's 15 km classical																						•		•		•		•		4
Women's 15 km freestyle															•	•	•	•	•		•		•		•		•		•	10
Women's relay	•		•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	28
Mixed team																									•	•	•	•	•	5

Medalists

Men

Individual sprint

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1960-2001	not included in the program
Freestyle
2003	Nikolay Chebotko	Loris Frasneli	Yuichi Onda
2005	Yevgeniy Koshevoy	Nejc Brodar	Fulvio Scola
2007	Nikolay Chebotko	Ales Razym	Fulvio Scola
2009	Egor Sorin	Nobuhito Kashiwabara	Konstantin Glavatskikh
2011	Radik Gaziev	Baptiste Gros	Denis Volotka
Classical
2013	Maxim Kovalev	Pavel Siulatov	Heikki Sakari Korpela
Freestyle
2015	Andrey Larkov	Anton Gafarov	Raul Shakirzianov
Classical
2017	Ivan Lyuft	Vladimir Frolov	Egor Berezin
Freestyle
2019	Alexander Terentev	Asset Dyussenov	Andrey Sobakarev
Freestyle
2023	Verneri Poikonen	Jaume Pueyo	Tom Mancini
Freestyle
2025	Nolan Gertsch	Valteri Pennannen	Marcus Kasanen

10 km

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1960-1997	not included in the program
Classical
1999	Christoph Sumann	Ivan Batory	Andrei Nutrikhin
2001	Dmitry Osinkin	Nikolai Semeniako	Johannes Eder
Freestyle
2001	Sergei Novikov	Nikolai Semeniako	Christian Schwarz
Classical
2003	Nikolay Pankratov	Andrei Golovko	Pavel Troshkin
Freestyle
2005	Roman Leybyuk	Nikolay Chebotko	Maksim Odnodvortsev
2007	Alexander Lasutkin	Alexander Kuznetsov	Sergey Cherepanov
2009	Aleksey Chernousov	Sergey Turyshev	Konstantin Glavatskikh
Classical
2011	Vladislav Skobelev	Akira Samuel Lenting	Gennady Matviyenko
Freestyle
2013	Milanko Petrović	Michail Semenov	Raul Shakirzianov
Classical
2015	Andrey Feller	Artyom Nikolaev	Valery Gontar
2017	Valery Gontar	Dmitry Rostovtsev	Alexandre Pouye
2019	Ivan Yakimushkin	Anton Timashov	Ivan Kirillov
2023	Ryo Hirose	Magnus Bøe	Andreas Kirkeng
Freestyle
2025	Olaf Talmo	Nico Bennert	Mario Matikanov

12 km/15 km classical

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1960	not included in the program
12 km
1962	Igor Voronchikhin	German Karpov	Ivar Kondrachev
15 km
1964	Igor Voronchikhin	Valery Tarakanov	Nikolay Arzilov
12 km
1966	Igor Voronchikhin	Dmitry Yarlykov	Vladimir Pustogachev
15 km
1968	Jon Høiås	Evgeny Platunov	Anatoly Zakharov
1970	Fyodor Simashev	Vladimir Dolganov	Gert-Dietmar Klause
1972	Fyodor Simashev	Ivan Pronin	Sergey Savelyev
1975	Yury Vakhrushev	Valery Isaev	Yevgeny Belyayev
1978	Ivan Lebanov	Khristo Barzanov	Jiří Beran
1981	Alexander Kozel	Yuriy Burlakov	Mikhail Devyatyarov
1983	Mikhail Devyatyarov	Ivan Lebanov	Todd Boonstra
1985	Vladimir Nikitin	Silvano Barco	Aleksey Prokurorov
1987	Vladimir Nikitin	Nikolai Gerasimov	Dmitry Solovyov
1989	Martin Jandushek	Peter Lisichan	Taufik Hamitov
1991	Hirofumi Watanabe	Igor Obuhov	Taufik Hamitov
1993	Alexandr Zaikov	Jiro Oshima	Pekka Tadani Launonen
1995	Alexei Tregoubov	Francesco Semenzato	Daichi Azegami
1997	Ivan Batory	Sergei Dolidovich	Alexander Kravchenko
1999-2025	not included in the program

20km Mass Start

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1960-2023	not included in the program
2025	Markus Kasanen	Daito Yamazaki	Nico Bennert

Mass start 30 km

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1960-1970	not included in the program
Classical
1972	Fyodor Simachov	Alexander Yemelin	Ulrich Wenger
1975	Valery Isaev	Yury Vakhrushev	Nikolai Gorshkov
1978	Alexander Zavyalov	A. Sokolov	A. Chourikov
1981	Ivan Lebanov	Alexander Kozel	Alexander Kutukin
1983	Mikhail Devyatyarov	Vladimir Mazalov	Ivan Lebanov
1985	Vladimir Nikitin	Aleksey Prokurorov	Silvano Barco
1987	Vladimir Nikitin	Dmitry Solovyov	Nikolai Gerasimov
1989	Peter Lisichan	Martin Jandushek	Alesh Vanek
1991	Kazutoshi Nagahama	Hirofumi Watanabe	Igor Obuhov
Freestyle
1991	Viktor Kamotsky	Hiroyuki Imai	Sergey Bikov
1993	Kazutoshi Nagahama	Francesco Semenzato	Andrzej Piotrowski
1995	Masaaki Kozu	Krzysztof Wańczyk	Mykola Popovych
1997	Ivan Batory	Qu Donghai	Mykola Popovych
1999	Sergei Dolidovich	Vitaly Raznitsin	Michal Jurco
Freestyle
2001	Sergei Novikov	Olli Ohtonen	Dmitry Osinkin
2003	Ivan Alypov	Takeshi Mizobuchi	Loris Frasnelli
Classical
2005	Luca Orlandi	Vladimir Tokarev	Andrea Florinett
Freestyle
2007	Maxim Vylegzhanin	Alexander Lasutkin	Nikolay Khokhryakov
Classical
2009	Artem Zhmurko	Peter Novak	Ilya Mashkov
Freestyle
2011	Vladislav Skobelev	Ilshat Nigmatullin	Andrey Kalsin
Classical
2013	Vladislav Skobelev	Ermil Vokuev	Andrey Feller
Freestyle
2015	Andrey Larkov	Raul Shakirzianov	Artem Nikolaev
Classical
2017	Dmitry Rostovtsev	Valery Gontar	Sergey Malyshev
Freestyle
2023	John Hagenbuch	Magnus Bøe	Luca Compagnoni

Combined/double pursuit/skiathlon

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1960-1970	not included in the program
15 km combined
1972	T. Bachman	Vladimir Rusinov	Ladislav Rygl
1975-1991	not included in the program
1993	Francesco Semenzato	Alexandr Zaikov	Jiro Oshima
1995-1997	not included in the program
15 km pursuit
1999	Christoph Sumann	Ivan Batory	Sergei Dolidovich
2001-2005	not included in the program
2007	Alexander Lasutkin	Alexander Kuznetsov	Maxim Vylegzhanin
2009	Sergey Turyshev	Egor Sorin	Ilya Mashkov
2011	Vladislav Skobelev	Ilshat Nigmatullin	Aleksandr Osipov
15 km skiathlon
2013	Raul Shakirzianov	Mark Starostin	Pavel Siulatov
2015	not included in the program
10 km pursuit
2017	Dmitry Rostovtsev	Valery Gontar	Sergey Mikayelyan
2019	Ivan Yakimushkin	Anton Timashov	Ivan Kirillov
2023	Ryo Hirose	Andreas Kirkeng	John Hagenbuch

Relay

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1960	Soviet Union	Czechoslovakia	Poland
1962	not included in the program
1964	Soviet Union	Czechoslovakia	Poland
1966	Soviet Union	Japan	Czechoslovakia
1968	Soviet Union	Japan	Finland
1970	Soviet Union	East Germany	Japan
1972	Soviet Union	Japan	United States
1975	Soviet Union	Czechoslovakia	Poland
1978	Soviet Union	Czechoslovakia	Bulgaria
1981	Soviet Union	Japan	Finland
1983	Soviet Union	Bulgaria	Finland
1985	Soviet Union	Italy	Canada
1987	Soviet Union	Czechoslovakia	Yugoslavia
1989	Soviet Union	Czechoslovakia	Austria
1991	Japan	Germany	Switzerland
1993	Russia	Japan	Austria
1995	Russia	Poland	Ukraine
1997	Slovakia	Belarus	Ukraine
1999	Slovakia	Belarus	Russia
2001	Russia	Ukraine	Poland
2003	Russia	Czech Republic	Kazakhstan
2005	Kazakhstan	Russia	Ukraine
2007	Kazakhstan	France	Russia
2009	Russia	Japan	Czech Republic
2011	France	Russia	Kazakhstan
2013	Kazakhstan	Russia	Finland
2015	Russia	Kazakhstan	Czech Republic
2017	Russia	Kazakhstan	Czech Republic
2019	Russia	Kazakhstan	Finland
2023	France	Norway	Japan
2025	Japan	Switzerland	Finland

Para Cross-Country Skiing

Men's 10km

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1960-2023	not included in the program
2025-Standing	Marco Meier	Denis Zinov	Garik Melkonyan
2025-Visually Impared	Inkki Inola	Lennart Volkert	Roman Kurbanov

Men's Individual sprint

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1960-2023	not included in the program
2025-Standing	Marco Meier	Denis Zinov	Charles Lecours
2025-Visually Impared	Inkki Inola	Lennart Volkert	Roman Kurbanov

Women

Individual sprint

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1960-2001	not included in the program
Freestyle
2003	Kirsi Peraelae	Riikka Sarasoja	Christina Kelder
2005	Vesna Fabjan	Marianne Hannonen	Elena Kolomina
2007	Justyna Kowalczyk	Elena Kolomina	Kaili Sirge
2009	Natalya Ilyina	Bettina Gruber	Marina Kmalets
2011	Alena Prochazkova	Eva Nývltová	Alina Kashina
Classical
2013	Oxana Usatova	Olga Tsareva	Olga Repnitsyna
Freestyle
2015	Anastassiya Slonova	Ewelina Marcisz	Svetlana Nikolaeva
Classical
2017	Maria Davydenkova	Lilia Vasileva	Anna Stoyan
Freestyle
2019	Petra Hynčicová	Hristina Matsokina	Polina Nekrasova
2023	Mariel Merlii Pulles	Tiia Olkkonen	Anna-Maria Dietze
2025	Izabela Marcisz	Kaidy Kaasiku	Ani Lindroos

5 km

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1960-1962	not included in the program
Classical
1964	Nina Demina	Krastana Stoeva	Weronika Budna
1966-1970	not included in the program
1972	L. Makhacheva	Olga Rokko	Nina Selunina
1975	Blanka Paulů	Nuranya Latfulina	Lyubov Korobova
1978	Blanka Paulů	Dagmar Paleckova	Z. Shaykhlislamova
1981	Lyubov Zabolotskaya	Květa Jeriová	Blanka Paulů
1983	Lyubov Zabolotskaya	Lilia Vasilchenko	Faina Smirnova
1985	Natalja Furletova	Guidina Dal Sasso	Julia Stepanova
1987	Tamara Tikhonova	Lyubov Egorova	Anna Janouskova
1989	Ina Kuemmel	Elena Kachirskaia	Elena Sedletskaia
1991-1997	not included in the program
1999	Valentina Shevchenko	Jaroslava Bukvajova	Marina Lajskaia
2001	Olga Moskalenko	Mari Rauhala	Cristina Kelder
Freestyle
2001	Olga Moskalenko	Vera Zjatikova	Antonella Confortola
Classical
2003	Svetlana Malahova-Shishkina	Oxana Yatskaya	Riikka Sarasoja
Freestyle
2005	Svetlana Malahova-Shishkina	Justyna Kowalczyk	Anna Slepova
2007	Justyna Kowalczyk	Alena Prochazkova	Irina Nafranovich
2009	Valentina Novikova	Yulia Tchekaleva	Anna Slepova
Classical
2011	Alia Iksanova	Kateryna Grygorenko	Virginia De Martin Topranin
Freestyle
2013	Kateryna Grygorenko Astrid Øyre Slind	N/A	Maryna Antsybor
Classical
2015	Oxana Usatova	Anastassiya Slonova	Lilia Vasilieva
2017	Lilia Vasilieva	Anna Nechaevskaya	Anna Shevchenko
2019	Alisa Zhambalova	Ekaterina Smirnova	Yana Kirpichenko
2023	Hilla Niemelä	Mariel Merlii Pulles	Maria Eugenia Boccardi

8 km/10 km classical

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1960-1964	not included in the program
8 km
1966	Krastana Stoeva	Weronika Budna	Alimova
10 km
1968	Yanna Yelistratova	Lyubov Menchikova	Lidiya Doronina
1970	Yanna Yelistratova	Alevtina Oljunina	Karin Scheidel
1972	L. Makhacheva	Nina Selyunina	Zofia Majerczyk
1975	Blanka Paulů	Natalya Kruglikova	Nuranya Latfulina
1978	Z. Shaykhlislamova	M. Arziaeva	Z. Janovska
1981	Květa Jeriová	Blanka Paulů	Lyubov Zabolotskaya
1983	Lyubov Zabolotskaya	Lilia Vasilchenko	Faina Smirnova
1985	Natalja Furletova	Guidina Dal Sasso	Julia Stepanova
1987	Alzbeta Havrancikova	Anna Janouskova	Lyubov Egorova
1989	Elena Sedletskaia	Natalia Chernyh	Svetlana Kamotskaia
1991	Miwa Oto	Elena Kashirskaja	Vera Federova
1993	Lubomira Balazova	Sumiko Yokoyama	Evgenia Kiseleva
1995	Olga Kosnatcheva	Tatiana Podmazo	Anna Slipenko
1997	Tomomi Otaka	Natalia Massalkina	Ioulia Lementchouk
1999-2025	not included in the program

10 km Freestyle

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1960-2023	not included in the program
2025	Isabela Marcisz	Maria Eugenia Boccardi	Carla Nina Wohler

Mass start 15 km

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1960-1989	not included in the program
Freestyle
1991	Miwa Oto	Vera Federova	Irina Taranenko
1993	Naomi Hoshikawa	Maria Elisabet Theurl	Evgenia Kiseleva
1995	Olga Kosnatcheva	Ioulia Lementchouk	Natalia Sokolova
1997	Ioulia Lementchouk	Natalia Massalkina	Olga Kosnatcheva
1999	Valentina Shevchenko	Elena Bouruchina	Marina Lajskaia
2001	not included in the program
2003	Valentina Shevchenko	Veronika Timofeeva	Evgenia Starovoyitova
Classical
2005	Justyna Kowalczyk	Anna Slepova	Honqxue Li
Freestyle
2007	Olga Mikhailova	Vita Jakimchuk	Olga Vasiljonok
Classical
2009	Marina Chernousova	Yulia Ivanova	Yulia Tchekaleva
Freestyle
2011	Alena Prochazkova	Alia Iksanova	Kateryna Grygorenko
Classical
2013	Oxana Usatova	Marte Monrad-Hansen	Astrid Øyre Slind
Freestyle
2015	Anastassiya Slonova	Svetlana Nikolaeva	Ewelina Marcisz
Classical
2017	Lilla Vasileva	Anna Nechaevskaya	Anna Shevchenko
Freestyle
2019	Alisa Zhambalova	Ekaterina Smirnova	Yana Kirpichenko
2023	Mariel Merlii Pulles	Kendall Kramer	Xeniya Shalygina

20km Mass Start

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1960-2023	not included in the program
2025	Keidy Kaasiku	Kaidy Kaasiku	Izabela Marcisz

Combined/double pursuit/skiathlon

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1960-1989	not included in the program
10 km combined
1991	Miwa Oto	Irina Taranenko	Elena Desseri
1993	Lubomira Balazova	Sumiko Yokoyama	Evgenia Kiseleva
1995-1997	not included in the program
10 km pursuit
1999	Valentina Shevchenko	Marina Lajskaia	Jaroslava Bukvajova
2001-2005	not included in the program
2007	Justyna Kowalczyk	Alena Prochazkova	Olga Vasiljonok
2009	Valentina Novikova	Marina Chernousova	Yulia Tchekaleva
2011	Alena Prochazkova	Alia Iksanova	Kateryna Grygorenko
10 km skiathlon
2013	Tatyana Ossipova	Kateryna Grygorenko	Marjaana Pitkänen
2015	not included in the program
5 km pursuit
2017	Anna Nechaevskaya	Lilia Vasilieva	Anna Shevchenko
2019	Alisa Zhambalova	Ekaterina Smirnova	Yana Kirpichinko
2023	Hilla Niemelä	Mariel Merlii Pulles	Maria Eugenia Boccardi

Relay

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1960	Soviet Union	Czechoslovakia	Poland
1962	not included in the program
1964	Soviet Union	Bulgaria	Poland
1966	Bulgaria	Soviet Union	Poland
1968	Soviet Union	Poland	Czechoslovakia
1970	East Germany	Soviet Union	Poland
1972	Soviet Union	Poland	United States
1975	Soviet Union	Czechoslovakia	Poland
1978	Czechoslovakia	Soviet Union	Finland
1981	Czechoslovakia	Soviet Union	Finland
1983	Soviet Union	Czechoslovakia	Finland
1985	Czechoslovakia	Poland	Finland
1987	Czechoslovakia	Soviet Union	Poland
1989	Soviet Union	Poland	Sweden
1991	Soviet Union	Japan	Poland
1993	Ukraine	Japan	Russia
1995	Russia	Japan	Ukraine
1997	Russia	Japan	Germany
1999	Russia	Czech Republic	Ukraine
2001	Russia	Italy	Finland
2003	Italy	Finland	Kazakhstan
2005	Kazakhstan	Russia	China
2007	Belarus	Russia	Poland
2009	Russia	Ukraine	France
2011	Russia	Ukraine	France
2013	Ukraine	Sweden	Kazakhstan
2015	Russia	Kazakhstan	France
2017	Russia	Kazakhstan	France
2019	Russia	Japan	Italy
2023	Finland	Norway	Kazakhstan
2025	Finland	Japan	France

Mixed

Team sprint

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1960-2009	not included in the program
2011	Slovakia	France	Ukraine
2013	Russia	Sweden	Russia
2015	Russia	Russia	Czech Republic
2017	Kazakhstan	Russia	France
2019	Russia	Russia	Finland
2023	Japan	United States	Norway
2025	Germany	France	Poland

Para Cross-country skiing

Women's 10 km Free

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1960-2023	not included in the program
2025-Visually Impaired	Leonie Maria Walter	Johanna Reckentenwald	Aneta Kobrýn

Women's Sprint

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1960-2023	not included in the program
2025-Visually Impaired	Leonie Maria Walter	Johanna Reckentenwald	Aneta Kobrýn

Medal table

Last updated after the 2025 Winter World University Games


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia (RUS)	67	53	48	168
2	Soviet Union (URS)	50	36	33	119
3	Japan (JPN)	14	21	5	40
4	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	14	14	19	47
5	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	11	15	9	35
6	Finland (FIN)	10	8	17	35
7	Slovakia (SVK)	10	5	2	17
8	Ukraine (UKR)	8	6	13	27
9	Poland (POL)	6	9	19	34
10	Belarus (BLR)	5	7	4	16
11	Germany (GER)	5	5	2	12
12	Bulgaria (BUL)	4	5	3	12
13	Italy (ITA)	3	9	13	25
14	Norway (NOR)	3	6	3	12
15	Estonia (EST)	3	4	1	8
16	France (FRA)	2	4	7	13
17	Austria (AUT)	2	1	4	7
18	East Germany (GDR)	2	1	2	5
19	Czech Republic (CZE)	1	5	4	10
20	Switzerland (SUI)	1	2	4	7
20	United States (USA)	1	2	4	7
22	Slovenia (SLO)	1	1	0	2
23	Serbia (SRB)	1	0	0	1
24	Sweden (SWE)	0	2	1	3
25	China (CHN)	0	1	2	3
26	Spain (ESP)	0	1	0	1
27	Armenia (ARM)	0	0	2	2
27	Canada (CAN)	0	0	2	2
29	Yugoslavia (YUG)	0	0	1	1
Totals (29 entries)		224	223	224	671

References

"Universiade". Sports123. Archived from the original on 2009-09-08.