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(Redirected from 2023 Winter Universiade) Multi-sport event in Lake Placid, New York, US
2023 Winter World University Games
Time to Shine
Host cityLake Placid, New York, United States
Nations46
Athletes1443 (832 men, 611 women).
Events85 in 12 sports
Opening12 January 2023
Closing22 January 2023
Opened byKathy Hochul
Athlete's OathTing Cui
Judge's OathDan Nardiello
Torch lighterJames Miller, Arthur Lussi, and Nina Lussi
Main venueHerb Brooks Arena
Websitelakeplacid2023.com (archived)
Winter
← 2019 Krasnoyarsk
2021 Lucerne2025 Turin →
Summer
← 2019 Naples2021 Chengdu →

The Lake Placid 2023 FISU World University Games, commonly known as Lake Placid 2023, was a collegiate multi-sport winter sports held between January 12 to January 22, 2023 and had Lake Placid, New York, United States, as main host city. Alongside Lake Placid, events were also hosted by neighbouring cities of Wilmington, Saranac Lake, Potsdam and North Creek also located at the New York state. The event is also known as the 31st Winter Universiade as administered by the International University Sports Federation (FISU).

It marked the second edition of the Games, formerly known as the Winter Universiade, to be held in Lake Placid, after the 1972 games. It was the third time that the World University Games were held in the United States after Lake Placid in 1972 and 1993 Summer Universiade in Buffalo, also in the state of New York.

Host selection and preparation

The FISU, led by director Milan Augustin, inspected the Lake Placid area in June 2017, as well as nearby town of Wilmington that was a support city for the activities of the Games. Lake Placid was officially announced as the host city on March 5, 2018; the bid was called one of the strongest in the history of Universiades by FISU officials.

As the 2021 Winter Universiade was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Switzerland, the formal handover to Lake Placid was instead held at a ceremony in Turin in January 2022. A launch event was held at Lake Placid's Mid's Park on January 23, 2022.

The games are expected to cost $83 million.

Sports

The Games featured a record 85 medal events in 12 sports, which is highest number of the events held in a World World University Games edition in history, tying with Almaty 2017 which also had 85 events from 12 sports on its program. This edition had the current nine mandatory sports. Being the first in which freestyle skiing became a mandatory sport. By the current FISU rules, speed skating has a unique status within the FISU program, as it does not count as either a required or optional sport, and when a city adds it as an optional sport it gains the right to add an extra optional sport. In the case of Lake Placid, the choice was for the Nordic combined, as ski jumping was planned as an optional sport. This also the first time in Universiade history that women competed in the Nordic Combined.

Numbers in parentheses indicate the number of medal events contested in each sport.

Venues

Lake Placid

Map of the venues in Lake Placid
Main article: Venues of the 1980 Winter Olympics

Saranac Lake

Potsdam

Canton

North Creek

Medal table

A total of 25 delegations won at least one medal. Thailand was the first ever tropical nation to won medals in a Winter World University Games.

  *   Host nation (United States)

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Japan21171048
2 South Korea128929
3 Canada61613
4 France56718
5 Poland56617
6 Czech Republic51612
7 Finland4127
8 United States*38617
9 Switzerland36211
10 Germany34613
11 Kazakhstan34411
12 Austria3418
13 Italy33410
14 Estonia2204
15 Spain2125
16 Great Britain2013
17 China1214
18 Ukraine1146
19 Sweden1023
20 Norway07310
21 Thailand0112
22 Lithuania0101
 Slovakia0101
24 Netherlands0011
 Slovenia0011
Totals (25 entries)858585255

Schedule

OC Opening ceremony ● Event competitions 1 Event finals CC Closing ceremony
January 11
Wed 		12
Thu 		13
Fri 		14
Sat 		15
Sun 		16
Mon 		17
Tue 		18
Wed 		19
Thu 		20
Fri 		21
Sat 		22
Sun 		Events
Ceremonies OC CC
Alpine skiing 2 ● 2 1 1 1 1 1 9
Biathlon 2 1 2 2 2 9
Cross-country skiing 1 2 2 2 2 2 11
Curling ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● 2 2
Figure skating ● 1 2 3
Freestyle skiing ● 2 ● 2 ● 2 6
Ice hockey ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● 1 1 2
Nordic combined 2 2 1 1 6
Short track speed skating 2 3 4 9
Ski jumping 2 1 2 5
Snowboarding ● 2 ● 2 ● 2 2 2 10
Speed skating 2 2 2 2 3 2 13
Total events 5 5 8 9 6 12 9 14 12 5 85
Cumulative total 5 10 18 27 33 45 54 68 80 85 85
January 11
Wed 		12
Thu 		13
Fri 		14
Sat 		15
Sun 		16
Mon 		17
Tue 		18
Wed 		19
Thu 		20
Fri 		21
Sat 		22
Sun 		Events

Participating nations

46 National University Sports Federations (NUSFs) registered a total of 1,443 athletes to compete in the games. Haiti made its Winter World University Games debut.

Marketing

Mascot

The official mascot of the Games—a moose named Adirondack Mac—was unveiled on November 14, 2021. Designed by Fashion Institute of Technology student Kristina Ingerowski, it was selected following a public vote and submission process, and named after the Adirondack Mountains.

Broadcasting

In August 2022, it was announced that ESPN would hold the U.S. media rights to the Games, with coverage to be carried by ESPN2 and ESPNU. ESPN's partner TSN holds the Canadian media rights via this agreement. FISU.tv is the international broadcaster of the Games, but geo-blocked in the United States and Canada.

References

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External links

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