With a dazzling show of light, costumes, dances and music and the incredible performances of acrobatic figure skaters the 2009 Winter Universiade came to the end. The FISU flag was given to the next host of the Winter Universiade, Erzurum, Turkey, which will host the games in 2011. The hosts of 25th Winter Universiade also presented a performance by the Dance Group of the Atatürk University of Erzurum.

‘The quality of the organisation and the operation of the venues encouraged the participation of world top ranked athletes and helped to increase the performance of our athletes reinforcing the establishment of the Universiade as a key sporting event in the international sports calendar. The importance taken by this event had amongst other things generated the highest live TV coverage ever for a Winter Universiade' said the FISU President Killian in his closing speech. ‘I would also like to underline that the organizers put in place an amazing and very successful cultural program throughout the entire period of the event. The combination of the sport and cultural program during this 24th Universiade contributed to conveying in the best possible way FISU's aims and goals', Mr. Killian continued.
Many of the EUSA member Federations were present in China. The most successful  among them was Russia with 18gold, 14silver and 19bronze medals, followed by Switzerland (7gold, 3silver and 4bronze) and Austria (4gold, 3silver and 2bronze medals).

At the 24th Winter Universiade, 9 Universiade Speed Skating Records were broken whereas 2,366 participants from 44 countries took part in the games.