2011 Winter Universiade


The XXV Winter Universiade, took place in Erzurum, Turkey between 27 January to 6 February. Erzurum is the city at the highest altitude in Turkey, at, and has over 320 cultural landmarks. Located in Eastern Anatolia Region, it is a city on the traditional silk road and has been governed by many cultures over the centuries. The Erzurum Ice Hockey Arena, located on the Cemal Gürsel Sports Campus, was newly built with an ice rink of 60m x 30m and 3,000 seats for spectators.

Venues

;Snow disciplines:
The Konaklı Ski Resort, devoted to alpine skiing competitions, is located from the city center, stretching over a terrain of. Four ski lifts serve six race courses for slalom, giant slalom and Super Giant slalom events.
The Kandilli Ski Resort, located from the city center at an altitude of and stretching over land, is the venue for biathlon and Nordic combined competitions.
The Palandöken Ski Resort is located at an altitude of. It hosts snowboarding and freestyle skiing competitions.
The Kiremitlik Hill Ski Jumping Facility is situated north of Palandöken Ski Resort and south of the athletes' village. It consists of two jumping towers and two take-off ramps for large hill and normal hill competitions, as well as three more ramps for training.
;Ice disciplines:
The Erzurum Ice Skating Arena, opened in March 2009, is a indoor ice rink situated in Palandöken neighborhood of Erzurum. The arena, having a seating capacity of 2000, hosts short-track speed skating and figure skating events.
The newly built Erzurum Universiade Ice Arena consists of two ice rinks of different in audience capacity. The men's ice hockey matches are played in the 3000 ice rink and the women's matches in the 500 ice rink.
The Milli Piyango Curling Arena is an indoor ice rink consisting of five curling sheets. Opened in September 2010, it has a seating capacity of 1,000 people.

Sports

Freestyling Skiing, Nordic Combined and Ski Jumping are the optional sports.
Numbers in parentheses indicate the number of medal events contested in each sport.
Following is a list of nations that were sent invitations to attend the Universiade: Malaysia and Venezuela made their debuts. Syria was on the entry list but later withdrew; this would have marked Syria's debut. With 58 nations competing, it represented the largest amount of nations ever to compete, and increase of 8 from the previous high at the 2005 games in Innsbruck. A total of 1880 athletes and 849 officials participated in the Universiade. Moldova, Thailand, and San Marino who were present at the 2009 Winter Universiade in Harbin did not send athletes to the games.
The host nation, Turkey, is highlighted in lavender blue.

Schedule

January/February27th
Thu		28th
Fri		29th
Sat		30th
Sun		31st
Mon		1st
Tue		2nd
Wed		3rd
Thu		4th
Fri		5th
Sat		6th
Sun		T
CeremoniesOCCC
Alpine skiing11●211118
Biathlon222129
Cross-country skiing22221211
Curling●●●●●●●22
Figure Skating●212EG5
Freestyle skiing2●24
Ice hockey●●●●●●●●●112
Nordic combined1113
Short track speed skating2248
Ski jumping11114
Snowboarding●22●228
Total Events8884664610464
January/February27th
Thu		28th
Fri		29th
Sat		30th
Sun		31st
Mon		1st
Tue		2nd
Wed		3rd
Thu		4th
Fri		5th
Sat		6th
Sun		T