| Nordic combined at the Winter World University Games | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Events | 7 (men: 4; women: 3) |
| Games | |
The Nordic combined events have been contested at the Universiade since 1960, though were not included in 1975 and 1981. Since Erzurum 2011, the sport has become an optional sport in the Universiade.Starting at the 2023 edition women's and mixed events are also on the program.
| Event | 60 | 62 | 64 | 66 | 68 | 70 | 72 | 78 | 83 | 85 | 87 | 89 | 91 | 93 | 95 | 97 | 99 | 01 | 03 | 05 | 07 | 09 | 11 | 13 | 15 | 17 | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Individual Gundersen | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | 26 |
| Sprint | • | • | • | • | • | 5 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Team | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | 8 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Mass start | • | • | • | • | • | 5 |
| Year | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960-1997 | not included in the program | ||
| 1999 |  Eiji Masaki | Takashi Kitamura |  Martin Novorolnik |
| 2001 | Makoto Masaki |  Grega Verbajs | Jun Sato |
| 2003 | Norihito Kobayashi | Junpei Aoki | Marko Simic |
| 2005 |  Bernhard Gruber |  Sergueï Maslennikov |  Jan Schmid |
| 2007 | Yūsuke Minato |  Jens Kaufmann |  Tomáš Slavík |
| 2009-2023 | not included in the program | ||
| Year | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960-2007 | not included in the program | ||
| 2009 | Koichiro Sato | Takehiro Nagai | Petr Kutal |
| 2011 | Aguri Shimizu |  Tomasz Pochwała | Tommy Schmid |
| 2013 | Aguri Shimizu | Adam Cieślar | Paweł Słowiok |
| 2015 | Adam Cieślar | David Welde | Mateusz Wantulok |
| 2017 | Adam Cieślar | Tobias Simon | Go Sonehara |
| 2019 | not included in the program | ||
| Year | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005–2019 | not included in the program | ||
| 2023 | Haruka Kasai | Yuna Kasai | Ayane Miyazaki |
| Year | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005–2019 | not included in the program | ||
| 2023 | Yuna Kasai | Haruka Kasai | Joanna Kil |
| Year | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005–2019 | not included in the program | ||
| 2023 | Japan I | Poland I |  USA I |
Last updated after the 2023 Winter World University Games
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Japan (JPN) | 21 | 18 | 12 | 51 |
| 2 | Poland (POL) | 6 | 6 | 6 | 18 |
| 3 |  Soviet Union (URS) | 5 | 7 | 4 | 16 |
| 4 | Russia (RUS) | 4 | 2 | 5 | 11 |
| 5 | Czechoslovakia (TCH) | 4 | 1 | 4 | 9 |
| 6 | Germany (GER) | 3 | 7 | 0 | 10 |
| 7 | Slovenia (SLO) | 1 | 4 | 2 | 7 |
| 8 |  United States (USA) | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
| 9 |  Belarus (BLR) | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| 10 | Austria (AUT) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 11 | Czech Republic (CZE) | 1 | 0 | 4 | 5 |
| 12 |  Switzerland (SUI) | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| 13 | West Germany (FRG) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 14 |  Finland (FIN) | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 15 | Slovakia (SVK) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 16 |  Ukraine (UKR) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (16 entries) | 50 | 50 | 51 | 151 | |
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