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XXXII Winter Universiade
XXXII Universiade invernale
Host city	Turin, Italy
Motto	Piemonte land of sport, Piemonte terra di sport
Edition	32nd
Events	96 in 11 sports
Opening	13 January 2025
Closing	23 January 2025
Opened by	President Sergio Mattarella (expected)
Main venue	Inalpi Arena (opening) / Piazza Castello(closing)
Website	wugtorino2025.com
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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 13–23 January 2025, in Turin, Italy. The Piedmontese capital was confirmed as the host city for the games on 15 May 2021.^[1] 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 one counts 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.

Bidding process

On 6 July 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 Winter games.^[2] The joint bid, known as "Torino 2025," included for the second time intentions to host parasports events, in tandem with the 2025 World Winter Special Olympics in Piedmont Region. The Italian government's Minister of Sport, Vincenzo Spadafora, confirmed his strong support for the candidature on 7 July 2020.^[3] Considered the birthplace of the event, the city has hosted the 1959 and 1970 Summer Universiades, the 2006 Winter Olympics and Paralympics and the 2007 Winter Universiade and has a tradition of hosting international sporting and entreteniment events and also hosted the Eurovision Song Contest in 2022. Italy's relationship with university sports also stands out, as Rome hosted the Summer Games in 1975, while Sicily in also hosted the same event 1997 and Naples in more recently in 2019, replacing Brasília as host city. Sestriere was the first Winter Games edition in the same event in 1966 games with Turin serving as the host city for ice hockey. And just as 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 in Austria and Slovenia, co-hosted the 2003 winter event. And in 2013 when the province of Trentino replaced Maribor in Slovenia and hosted the event during the bid process to the 2026 Winter Olympics with some venues who were also part of the project.

Despite having begun, negotiations for this edition to be held in Lucerne, Switzerland due to the cancellation of the 2021 Winter Universiade due to the COVID-19 pandemic were not useful and in addition there was a joint proposal made by Sweden and Finland led by Stockholm as main host.^[4]

Venues

Alongside Turin, six municipalities in the Piedmont region will host 11 sports:^[5]

Venue	City	Sport	Capacity
Inalpi Arena	Turin	Opening Ceremony	14,350
Piazza Castello	Turin	Closing Ceremony	-
Palavela	Turin	Figure skating and short track speed skating	8,285
Palasport Tazzoli	Turin	Ice hockey (finals) and curling	2,290
Pinerolo Palaghiaccio	Pinerolo	Ice hockey	2,000
Palaghiaccio Olimpico	Torre Pellice	Ice hockey	2,370
Pragelato Plan	Pragelato	Biathlon, cross-country skiing and ski orienteering
Melezet	Bardonecchia	Alpine skiing and snowboarding
Snowpark Melezet Sellette & Campo Smith 1	Bardonecchia	Freestyle skiing
Sestriere Colle	Sestriere	Ski mountaineering

Opening Ceremonies

The Opening ceremonies are scheduled for the evening of Monday, 13 January, at the Inalpi Arena.

Closing Ceremonies

The Closing ceremonies are scheduled for the evening of Thursday, 23 January, at the Piazza Castello.

The Games

96 finals in 11 sports are scheduled to be held during the Games, with the nine compulsory sports along two optional sports: ski mountaineering—which will make its World Winter University Games debut, and ski orienteering—which will return for the first time since 2019, and is also scheduled to debut at the 2026 Winter Olympics.As already happens in other sporting events, Turin proposed holding parasports events in some sports as part of the Games for the first time.FISU confirmed in november 2023 that this proposol was accepted.It is also noteworthy that this will be the first time in history that the mixed doubles curling event will be part of the program. ^[6]^[7]

Numbers in parentheses indicate the number of medal events contested in each sport. This number also consider the parasport events:

Schedule

This is the final schedule announced in October 2024.^[8]

OC	Opening ceremony	●	Event competitions	1	Event finals	CC	Closing ceremony

January	11 Sat	12 Sun	13 Mon	14 Tue	15 Wed	16 Thu	17 Fri	18 Sat	19 Sun	20 Mon	21 Tue	22 Wed	23 Thu	Events
Ceremonies			OC										CC
Alpine skiing				2	1	1		1	1	1	1	1		9
Para alpine skiing						6		6						12
Biathlon				2		1		2		2		2		9
Cross-country skiing					2		2		1		2		2	11
Para Cross-country skiing					6		6							12
Curling	●	●	●	1	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	2	3
Figure skating						●	1	2						3
Freestyle skiing	●	●	●	2	●	●	2	●	2	●	2	2		10
Ski Mountaineering						2	1		2					5
Ice hockey	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	1	●	●	1	2
Short track speed skating											2	4	3	9
Ski-orienteering									2		1			3
Snowboarding	●	●	●	2	●	●	2	●	2	●	2	2		10
Total events				9	11	10	14	11	8	6	8	11	8	96
Cumulative total				9	20	30	44	55	63	69	77	88	96	96
January	11 Sat	12 Sun	13 Mon	14 Tue	15 Wed	16 Thu	17 Fri	18 Sat	19 Sun	20 Mon	21 Tue	22 Wed	23 Thu	Events