| Alpine skiing at the Winter World University Games | |
|---|---|
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| Events | 10 (men: 5; women: 5) |
| Games | |
Alpine skiing is one of the 9 compulsory sports of the Winter Universiade, in addition to cross-country skiing. Skiing was present in all editions of the event beginning in 1960 Winter Universiade.
| Event | 60 | 62 | 64 | 66 | 68 | 70 | 72 | 75 | 78 | 83 | 85 | 87 | 89 | 91 | 93 | 95 | 97 | 99 | 01 | 03 | 05 | 07 | 09 | 11 | 13 | 15 | 17 | Years |
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| Men's Downhill | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | 19 | ||||||||
| Men's Super-G | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | 13 | ||||||||||||||
| Men's giant slalom | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | 26 | |
| Men's slalom | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | 27 |
| Men's Combined | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | 24 | |||
| Men's Combined classification | • | • | • | • | 4 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Men's Super Combined | • | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Women's Downhill | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | 19 | ||||||||
| Women's Super-G | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | 13 | ||||||||||||||
| Women's giant slalom | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | 26 | |
| Women's slalom | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | 27 |
| Women's Combined | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | 24 | |||
| Women's Combined classification | • | • | • | • | 4 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Women's Super Combined | • | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Mixed Team | • | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Year | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960–1987 | not included in the program | ||
| 1989 |  Stephane Mougin |  Hans Peter Grill |  Jens Dinser |
| 1991 | not included in the program | ||
| 1993 |  Didier Plaschy |  Martin Kreil | Eric Wolf |
| 1995 | not included in the program | ||
| 1997 |  Miran Rauter | Luca Vidi |  Roman Valyaev |
| 1999 | Pavel Chestakov |  Lars Lewen | Jernej Rebersak |
| 2001 | Bernard Vajdic | Ozbi Oslak | Pavel Chestakov |
| 2003 | Sergei Komarov | Ozbi Oslak |  Ivan Heimschild |
| 2005 | Francesco Ghedina | Dominik Schweiger | Anton Konovalov |
| 2007 |  Petr Záhrobský | Filip Trejbal |  Adam Cole |
| 2009 | Sandro Boner | Jaroslav Babusiak | Christoph Boner |
| 2011 | Adam Zika | Carl Lind | Bernhard Graf |
| 2013 | Blaise Giezendanner | Nicolas Raffort | Guglielmo Bosca |
| 2015 | Michelangelo Tentori |  Marc Oliveras | Sandro Boner |
| 2017 | Michelangelo Tentori | Evgeny Pyasik | Semyon Efimov |
| 2019 | Lukas Zippert | Tomas Klinsky | Yannick Chabloz |
| 2023 | Jan Zabystřan | Luca Taranzano | Eric Wyler |
| Year | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990–2009 | not included in the program | ||
| 2011 | Adam Zika | Seppi Stiegler | Filip Mlinsek |
| 2013 |  Olivier Jenot | Blaise Giezendanner | Ondrej Berndt |
| 2015 | Sandro Boner | Adam Zika | Michelangelo Tentori |
| 2017–2023 | not included in the program | ||
| Year | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960–2009 | not included in the program | ||
| 2011 | Bernhard Graf | Calle Lindh | Adam Zika |
| 2013–2023 | not included in the program | ||
| Year | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | Enrico Barotti | Matej Crismanicich | Francesco Borseti |
| Year | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990–2009 | not included in the program | ||
| 2011 | Erika Ghent | Chiara Carratu |  Aleksandra Kluś |
| 2013 | Jana Gantnerová | Barbara Kantorova |  Maria Shkanova |
| 2015 |  Maren Nessen Byrkjeland | Carmina Pallas | Jana Gantnerová |
| 2017–2019 | not included in the program | ||
| Year | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960–2009 | not included in the program | ||
| 2011 | Aude Aguilaniu | Erika Ghent | Charline Vion |
| 2013–2019 | not included in the program | ||
| Year | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | Alessandra Merlin | Consuelo Pazutto | Giorgia Rizzo |
| Year | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960–2015 | not included in the program | ||
| 2017 | Czech Republic | Austria | Russia |
| 2019 | Austria | Russia | Sweden |
| 2023 | Sweden |  Switzerland | Germany |
Last updated after the 2023 Winter Universiade
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italy (ITA) | 32 | 32 | 28 | 92 |
| 2 | France (FRA) | 28 | 30 | 27 | 85 |
| 3 | Switzerland (SUI) | 28 | 21 | 14 | 63 |
| 4 | Czechoslovakia (TCH) | 21 | 16 | 5 | 42 |
| 5 |  United States (USA) | 18 | 21 | 19 | 58 |
| 6 | Russia (RUS) | 14 | 8 | 14 | 36 |
| 7 | Austria (AUT) | 13 | 24 | 26 | 63 |
| 8 | Slovenia (SLO) | 13 | 14 | 14 | 41 |
| 9 | Czech Republic (CZE) | 13 | 10 | 11 | 34 |
| 10 | Germany (GER) | 13 | 9 | 13 | 35 |
| 11 | Poland (POL) | 11 | 14 | 14 | 39 |
| 12 | Sweden (SWE) | 8 | 8 | 16 | 32 |
| 13 |  Soviet Union (URS) | 8 | 3 | 5 | 16 |
| 14 |  Spain (ESP) | 7 | 1 | 4 | 12 |
| 15 |  Japan (JPN) | 6 | 10 | 13 | 29 |
| 16 | Norway (NOR) | 5 | 3 | 1 | 9 |
| 17 |  Yugoslavia (YUG) | 4 | 7 | 7 | 18 |
| 18 |  Bulgaria (BUL) | 3 | 5 | 2 | 10 |
| 19 | Slovakia (SVK) | 1 | 7 | 9 | 17 |
| 20 |  Finland (FIN) | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 |
| 21 |  Serbia and Montenegro (SCG) | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| 22 | Belarus (BLR) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 23 |  Canada (CAN) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 24 |  Latvia (LAT) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Monaco (MON) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
 Serbia (SRB) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 27 | Andorra (AND) | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 28 |  Great Britain (GBR) | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 29 |  Lithuania (LTU) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
 Netherlands (NED) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 31 |  Liechtenstein (LIE) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 32 |  Romania (ROM) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (32 entries) | 253 | 254 | 254 | 761 | |
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