The past Winter Universiade, held in Granada, Spain, and Strbske Pleso and Osrblie, Slovakia, brought together 2,440 athletes from 42 countries. Russia’s team came top in total medal count with 56 medals, including 20 gold, 18 silver and 18 bronze. After the triumphal winning, The Russian President Mr Vladimir Putin met with Russian athletes, winners of the 27th World Winter Universiade, on February 17, 2015.

During the meeting Vladimir Putin congratulated Russian student team with the most successful performance. “You exceeded all our previous achievements in overall medal count. Previously our best results were in Harbin, when we won the same number of medals as our Chinese hosts, but this was the best performance by our team in the history of Universiades.”- The President said. He also pointed out that they have managed to reassert their standard of excellence in traditional sports: ski racing, biathlon and ski jumping.



Special words were addressed to the head of the Russian team-2015, President of RSSU and Mr Oleg Matytsin. “The leadership of student sports also deserve recognition and praise; here I am referring to the President [of the Russian Student Sports Union] who is very active both here in this country and in international sports. My special thanks to you.”

At the end of the meeting Mr Putin thanked all athletes for their outstanding results and wished them further success and new victories.