Soviet Union at the Universiade

Soviet Union at the Universiade
IOC code	URS

The Soviet Union participated in 14 games of the Universiade, from the 1959 Summer Universiade to the 1991 Summer Universiade, the last edition before the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. ^[1]

Medal count

Summer Universiade

Soviet Union won 988 medals at the Summer Universiade and are at the 3rd rank in the all-time Summer Universiade medal table.

  Host nation

Edition
Turin 1959	11	8	5	24
Sofia 1961	21	23	7	51
Porto Alegre 1963 [2]	18	12	3	32
Budapest 1965	14	26	15	55
Tokyo 1967	did not participate
Turin 1970	26	17	15	58
Moscow 1973	69	35	31	135
Rome 1975	7	5	11	23
Sofia 1977	26	31	25	82
Mexico City 1979	33	29	14	76
Bucharest 1981	38	38	36	112
Edmonton 1983	57	30	25	112
Kobe 1985	41	22	17	80
Zagreb 1987	23	34	19	76
Duisburg 1989	9	11	8	28
Sheffield 1991	16	14	19	49
Total	409	335	250	993

See also

• Soviet Union at the Olympics
• Soviet Union at the Paralympics

References

1. "History of the Universiade". fisu.net. Retrieved 21 December 2012.
2. FISU (2024). "FISU World University Games Summer 1959–2023 Statistics" (PDF). FISU. Retrieved 2025-08-06.

External links

• FISU History at the FISU