2011 Winter Universiade

Venues

;Snow disciplines:

The Konaklı Ski Resort, devoted to alpine skiing competitions, is located 17 km from the city center, stretching over a terrain of 460 ha. Four ski lifts serve six race courses for slalom, giant slalom and Super Giant slalom events.

The Kandilli Ski Resort, located 36 km from the city center at an altitude of 1713 - and stretching over 160 ha land, is the venue for biathlon and Nordic combined competitions.

The Palandöken Ski Resort is located 4 km at an altitude of 3271 m. 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 (K125) and normal hill (K95) competitions, as well as three more ramps (K65, K40 and K20) for training.

;Ice disciplines: The Erzurum Ice Skating Arena, opened in March 2009, is a 30 x 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 30 x 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.

• [[File:Alpine skiing pictogram.svg|20px|alt=|link=]] Alpine skiing (8)
• [[File:Biathlon pictogram.svg|20px|alt=|link=]] Biathlon (9)
• [[File:Cross country skiing pictogram.svg|20px|alt=|link=]] Cross-country skiing (11)
• [[File:Curling pictogram.svg|20px|alt=|link=]] Curling (2)
• [[File:Figure skating pictogram.svg|20px|alt=|link=]] Figure skating (5)
• [[File:Freestyle skiing pictogram.svg|20px|alt=|link=]] Freestyle skiing (4)
• [[File:Ice hockey pictogram.svg|20px|alt=|link=]] Ice hockey (2)
• [[File:Nordic combined pictogram.svg|20px|alt=|link=]] Nordic combined (3)
• [[File:Short track speed skating pictogram.svg|20px|alt=|link=]] Short track speed skating (8)
• [[File:Ski jumping pictogram.svg|20px|alt=|link=]] Ski jumping (4)
• [[File:Snowboarding pictogram.svg|20px|alt=|link=]] Snowboarding (6)

Participants

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 number 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.

• AUS
• AUT
• AZE
• BLR
• BEL
• BIH
• BRA
• BUL
• CAN
• CHN
• TPE
• COL
• CRO
• CZE
• DEN
• EST
• FIN
• FRA
• GER
• GBR
• GRE
• HUN
• IRI
• IRL
• ITA
• JPN
• KAZ
• KOR
• KGZ
• LAT
• LIB
• LTU
• MKD
• MAS
• MEX
• MDA
• MON
• MGL
• MNE
• NEP
• NED
• NZL
• NOR
• POL
• RUS
• SMR
• SRB
• SVK
• SLO
• RSA
• ESP
• SWE
• SUI
• THA
• TUR
• UKR
• USA
• VEN

Medal table

The host nation, Turkey, is highlighted in lavender blue.

Schedule

References

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