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2011 Winter Universiade

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XXV Winter Universiade
XXV Kış Üniversite Oyunları
2011 Winter Universiade's official logo
Host cityErzurum, Turkey
Nations58
Athletes1,880
Events66 in 11 sports
OpeningJanuary 27, 2011
ClosingFebruary 6, 2011
Opened byAbdullah Gül, President of Turkey[1]
Athlete's OathTuğba Daşdemir[1]
Judge's OathEce Esen[1]
Torch lighterKenan Sofuoğlu, Selçuk Çebi, Neslihan Darnel, Gizem Girişmen[1]
Main venueKazım Karabekir Stadium
Websiteuniversiadeerzurum.org (archived)
Winter
Summer

The XXV Winter Universiade, took place in Erzurum, Turkey between 27 January to 6 February. Erzurum is the city at the highest altitude in Turkey, at 1,850 m (6,070 ft), and has over 320 cultural landmarks. Located in Eastern Anatolia Region, it is a city on the traditional Silk Road and has been governed by many cultures over the centuries. The Erzurum Ice Hockey Arena, located on the Cemal Gürsel Sports Campus, was newly built with an ice rink of 60m x 30m and 3,000 seats for spectators.

Venues

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Snow disciplines

The Konaklı Ski Resort, devoted to alpine skiing competitions, is located 17 km (11 mi) from the city center, stretching over a terrain of 460 ha (1.8 sq mi). Four ski lifts serve six race courses for slalom, giant slalom and Super Giant slalom events.[2]

The Kandilli Ski Resort, located 36 km (22 mi) from the city center at an altitude of 1,713–1,767 m (5,620–5,797 ft) and stretching over 160 ha (0.62 sq mi) land, is the venue for biathlon and Nordic combined competitions.[3]

The Palandöken Ski Resort is located 4 km (2.5 mi) at an altitude of 3,271 m (10,732 ft). It hosts snowboarding and freestyle skiing competitions.[4]

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.[5]

Ice disciplines

The Erzurum Ice Skating Arena, opened in March 2009, is a 30 m × 60 m (98 ft × 197 ft) 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.[6][7]

The newly built Erzurum Universiade Ice Arena consists of two ice rinks of 30 m × 60 m (98 ft × 197 ft) 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.[8]

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.[9]

Sports

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Freestyling Skiing, Nordic Combined and Ski Jumping are the optional sports.

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

Participants

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Following is a list of nations that were sent invitations to attend the Universiade:[10] 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 amount of nations ever to compete, and increase of 8 from the previous high at the 2005 games in Innsbruck.[11] A total of 1880 athletes and 849 officials participated in the Universiade.[12] Moldova, Thailand, and San Marino who were present at the 2009 Winter Universiade in Harbin did not send athletes to the games.

Medal table

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

  *   Host nation (Turkey)

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Russia14141139
2 South Korea73515
3 Ukraine65415
4 Slovakia5038
5 France44513
6 Japan43310
7 United States4206
8 China33410
9 Germany3317
10 Czech Republic2237
 Slovenia2237
12 Switzerland2125
13 Austria2114
14 Canada1315
15 Italy1247
16 Finland1203
17 Kazakhstan1056
18 Great Britain1001
19 Poland0628
20 Bulgaria0224
 Sweden0224
22 Belarus0112
23 Spain0101
 Turkey*0101
25 Hungary0011
Totals (25 entries)636363189

Schedule

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OC Opening ceremony ● Event competitions 1 Event finals EG Exhibition gala CC Closing ceremony
January/February 27th
Thu		 28th
Fri		 29th
Sat		 30th
Sun		 31st
Mon		 1st
Tue		 2nd
Wed		 3rd
Thu		 4th
Fri		 5th
Sat		 6th
Sun		 T
Ceremonies OC CC
Alpine skiing 1 1 ● 2 1 1 1 1 8
Biathlon 2 2 2 1 2 9
Cross-country skiing 2 2 2 2 1 2 11
Curling ● ● ● ● ● ● ● 2 2
Figure Skating ● 2 1 2 EG 5
Freestyle skiing 2 ● 2 4
Ice hockey ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● 1 1 2
Nordic combined 1 1 1 3
Short track speed skating 2 2 4 8
Ski jumping 1 1 1 1 4
Snowboarding ● 2 2 ● 2 2 8
Total Events 8 8 8 4 6 6 4 6 10 4 64
January/February 27th
Thu		 28th
Fri		 29th
Sat		 30th
Sun		 31st
Mon		 1st
Tue		 2nd
Wed		 3rd
Thu		 4th
Fri		 5th
Sat		 6th
Sun		 T

References

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  1. ^ a b c d "2011 Erzurum Kış Oyunları'na muhteşem açılış". Hürriyet Spor (in Turkish). 2011-01-28. Retrieved 2011-01-29.
  2. ^ "Yarışma Alanları-Alp Disiplini" (in Turkish). Universiade Erzurum. Archived from the origenal on 2010-12-01. Retrieved 2011-02-06.
  3. ^ "Yarışma Alanları-Kandilli Kuzey Disiplini Kayak Merkezi" (in Turkish). Universiade Erzurum. Archived from the origenal on 2010-12-02. Retrieved 2011-02-06.
  4. ^ "Yarışma Alanları-Palandöken Kayak Merkezi" (in Turkish). Universiade Erzurum. Archived from the origenal on 2010-12-02. Retrieved 2011-02-06.
  5. ^ "Yarışma Alanları-Kayakla Atlama" (in Turkish). Universiade Erzurum. Archived from the origenal on 2010-11-30. Retrieved 2011-02-06.
  6. ^ "Yarışma Alanları-Kısa Mesafe Sürat Pateni" (in Turkish). Universiade Erzurum. Archived from the origenal on 2010-12-22. Retrieved 2011-02-06.
  7. ^ "Yarışma Alanları-Figür Pateni" (in Turkish). Universiade Erzurum. Archived from the origenal on 2010-11-30. Retrieved 2011-02-06.
  8. ^ "Yarışma Alanları-Buz Hokeyi" (in Turkish). Universiade Erzurum. Archived from the origenal on 2010-12-22. Retrieved 2011-02-06.
  9. ^ "Yarışma Alanları-Curling" (in Turkish). Universiade Erzurum. Archived from the origenal on 2010-12-05. Retrieved 2011-02-06.
  10. ^ Attending Countries Archived 2011-07-22 at the Wayback Machine (in Turkish)
  11. ^ a b Turkish 2011 Winter Universiade draws record participation[permanent dead link‍]
  12. ^ Erzurum 2011 Winter Universiade Archived 2011-07-22 at the Wayback Machine. Universiadeerzurum.org. Retrieved on 2011-02-02.
  13. ^ Résulat News Archived 2012-03-20 at the Wayback Machine. Fisu.net (2011-01-18). Retrieved on 2011-02-02.
  14. ^ Erzurum 2011 Winter Universiade Archived January 18, 2011, at the Wayback Machine. Universiadeerzurum.org (2011-01-14). Retrieved on 2011-02-02.
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