Cross-country events have been contested at the Universiade since 1960.
Events Event 60 62 64 66 68 70 72 75 78 81 83 85 87 89 91 93 95 97 99 01 03 05 07 09 11 13 15 17 19 Years Men's sprint • • • • • • • • • 9 Men's 10 km classical • • • • • • • 7 Men's 10 km freestyle • • • • • 5 Men's 10 km pursuit • •2 Men's 12 km classical • • 2 Men's 15 km classical • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 15 Men's 15 km combined • • 2 Men's 15 km pursuit • • • • 4 Men's 15 km skiathlon • 1 Men's 30 km classical • • • • • • • • • • • • • 13 Men's 30 km freestyle • • • • • • • • • • 10 Men's relay• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 28 Women's sprint • • • • • • • • • 9 Women's 5 km classical • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 17 Women's 5 km freestyle • • • • • 5 Women's 5 km pursuit • • 2 Women's 8 km classical • 1 Women's 10 km classical • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 14 Women's 10 km combined • • 2 Women's 10 km pursuit • • • • • 5 Women's 10 km skiathlon • 1 Women's 15 km classical • • • • 4 Women's 15 km freestyle • • • • • • • • • • 10 Women's relay• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 28 Mixed team • • • • • 5
Medalists Men Individual sprint Year Gold Silver Bronze1960-2001 not included in the program Freestyle 2003 Nikolay Chebotko Loris Frasnelli Yuichi Onda 2005 Yevgeniy Koshevoy Nejc Brodar Fulvio Scola 2007 Nikolay Chebotko Ales Razym Fulvio Scola 2009 Egor Sorin Nobuhito Kashiwabara Konstantin Glavatskikh 2011 Radik Gaziev Baptiste Gros Denis Volotka Classical 2013 Maxim Kovalev Pavel Siulatov Heikki Sakari Korpela Freestyle 2015 Andrey Larkov Anton Gafarov Raul Shakirzianov Classical 2017 Ivan Lyuft Vladimir Frolov Egor Berezin Freestyle 2019 Alexander Terentev Asset Dyussenov Andrey Sobakarev Freestyle 2023 Verneri Poikonen Jaume Pueyo Tom Mancini Freestyle 2025 Nolan Gertsch Valteri Pennannen Marcus Kasanen
10 km Year Gold Silver Bronze1960-1997 not included in the program Classical 1999 Christoph Sumann Ivan Batory Andrei Nutrikhin 2001 Dmitry Osinkin Nikolai Semeniako Johannes EderFreestyle 2001 Sergei Novikov Nikolai Semeniako Christian Schwarz Classical 2003 Nikolay Pankratov Andrei Golovko Pavel TroshkinFreestyle 2005 Roman Leybyuk Nikolay Chebotko Maksim Odnodvortsev 2007 Alexander Lasutkin Alexander Kuznetsov Sergey Cherepanov 2009 Aleksey Chernousov Sergey Turyshev Konstantin Glavatskikh Classical 2011 Vladislav Skobelev Akira Samuel Lenting Gennady Matviyenko Freestyle 2013 Milanko Petrović Michail Semenov Raul Shakirzianov Classical 2015 Andrey Feller Artyom Nikolaev Valery Gontar 2017 Valery Gontar Dmitry Rostovtsev Alexandre Pouye 2019 Ivan Yakimushkin Anton Timashov Ivan Kirillov 2023 Ryo Hirose Magnus Bøe Andreas KirkengFreestyle 2025 Olaf Talmo Nico Bennert Mario Matikanov
12 km/15 km classical Year Gold Silver Bronze1960 not included in the program 12 km 1962 Igor Voronchikhin German Karpov Ivar Kondrachev 15 km 1964 Igor Voronchikhin Valery Tarakanov Nikolay Arzilov 12 km 1966 Igor Voronchikhin Dmitry Yarlykov Vladimir Pustogachev 15 km 1968 Jon Høiås Evgeny Platunov Anatoly Zakharov 1970 Fyodor Simashev Vladimir Dolganov Gert-Dietmar Klause 1972 Fyodor Simashev Ivan Pronin Sergey Savelyev 1975 Yury Vakhrushev Valery Isaev Yevgeny Belyayev 1978 Ivan Lebanov Khristo Barzanov Jiří Beran 1981 Alexander Kozel Yuriy Burlakov Mikhail Devyatyarov 1983 Mikhail Devyatyarov Ivan Lebanov Todd Boonstra 1985 Vladimir Nikitin Silvano Barco Aleksey Prokurorov 1987 Vladimir Nikitin Nikolai Gerasimov Dmitry Solovyov 1989 Martin Jandushek Peter Lisichan Taufik Hamitov 1991 Hirofumi Watanabe Igor Obuhov Taufik Hamitov 1993 Alexandr Zaikov Jiro Oshima Pekka Tadani Launonen 1995 Alexei Tregoubov Francesco Semenzato Daichi Azegami 1997 Ivan Batory Sergei Dolidovich Alexander Kravchenko1999-2025 not included in the program
20km Mass Start Year Gold Silver Bronze1960-2023 not included in the program 2025 Markus Kasanen Daito Yamazaki Nico Bennert
Mass start 30 km Year Gold Silver Bronze1960-1970 not included in the program Classical 1972 Fyodor Simachov Alexander Yemelin Ulrich Wenger 1975 Valery Isaev Yury Vakhrushev Nikolai Gorshkov 1978 Alexander Zavyalov A. Sokolov A. Chourikov 1981 Ivan Lebanov Alexander Kozel Alexander Kutukin 1983 Mikhail Devyatyarov Vladimir Mazalov Ivan Lebanov 1985 Vladimir Nikitin Aleksey Prokurorov Silvano Barco 1987 Vladimir Nikitin Dmitry Solovyov Nikolai Gerasimov 1989 Peter Lisichan Martin Jandushek Alesh Vanek 1991 Kazutoshi Nagahama Hirofumi Watanabe Igor Obuhov Freestyle 1991 Viktor Kamotsky Hiroyuki Imai Sergey Bikov 1993 Kazutoshi Nagahama Francesco Semenzato Andrzej Piotrowski 1995 Masaaki Kozu Krzysztof Wańczyk Mykola Popovych 1997 Ivan Batory Qu Donghai Mykola Popovych 1999 Sergei Dolidovich Vitaly Raznitsin Michal Jurco Freestyle 2001 Sergei Novikov Olli Ohtonen Dmitry Osinkin 2003 Ivan Alypov Takeshi Mizobuchi Loris Frasnelli Classical 2005 Luca Orlandi Vladimir Tokarev Andrea Florinett Freestyle 2007 Maxim Vylegzhanin Alexander Lasutkin Nikolay Khokhryakov Classical 2009 Artem Zhmurko Peter Novak Ilya Mashkov Freestyle 2011 Vladislav Skobelev Ilshat Nigmatullin Andrey Kalsin Classical 2013 Vladislav Skobelev Ermil Vokuev Andrey Feller Freestyle 2015 Andrey Larkov Raul Shakirzianov Artem Nikolaev Classical 2017 Dmitry Rostovtsev Valery Gontar Sergey Malyshev Freestyle 2023 John Hagenbuch Magnus Bøe Luca Compagnoni
Combined/double pursuit/skiathlon Year Gold Silver Bronze1960-1970 not included in the program 15 km combined 1972 T. Bachman Vladimir Rusinov Ladislav Rygl1975-1991 not included in the program 1993 Francesco Semenzato Alexandr Zaikov Jiro Oshima1995-1997 not included in the program 15 km pursuit 1999 Christoph Sumann Ivan Batory Sergei Dolidovich2001-2005 not included in the program 2007 Alexander Lasutkin Alexander Kuznetsov Maxim Vylegzhanin 2009 Sergey Turyshev Egor Sorin Ilya Mashkov 2011 Vladislav Skobelev Ilshat Nigmatullin Aleksandr Osipov 15 km skiathlon 2013 Raul Shakirzianov Mark Starostin Pavel Siulatov2015 not included in the program 10 km pursuit 2017 Dmitry Rostovtsev Valery Gontar Sergey Mikayelyan 2019 Ivan Yakimushkin Anton Timashov Ivan Kirillov 2023 Ryo Hirose Andreas Kirkeng John Hagenbuch
Relay Year Gold Silver Bronze 1960 Soviet Union Czechoslovakia Poland1962 not included in the program 1964 Soviet Union Czechoslovakia Poland 1966 Soviet Union Japan Czechoslovakia 1968 Soviet Union Japan Finland 1970 Soviet Union East Germany Japan 1972 Soviet Union Japan United States 1975 Soviet Union Czechoslovakia Poland 1978 Soviet Union Czechoslovakia Bulgaria 1981 Soviet Union Japan Finland 1983 Soviet Union Bulgaria Finland 1985 Soviet Union Italy Canada 1987 Soviet Union Czechoslovakia Yugoslavia 1989 Soviet Union Czechoslovakia Austria 1991 Japan Germany Switzerland 1993 Russia Japan Austria 1995 Russia Poland Ukraine 1997 Slovakia Belarus Ukraine 1999 Slovakia Belarus Russia 2001 Russia Ukraine Poland 2003 Russia Czech Republic Kazakhstan 2005 Kazakhstan Russia Ukraine 2007 Kazakhstan France Russia 2009 Russia Japan Czech Republic 2011 France Russia Kazakhstan 2013 Kazakhstan Russia Finland 2015 Russia Kazakhstan Czech Republic 2017 Russia Kazakhstan Czech Republic 2019 Russia Kazakhstan Finland 2023 France Norway Japan 2025 Japan Switzerland Finland
Para Cross-Country Skiing Men's 10km Year Gold Silver Bronze1960-2023 not included in the program 2025-Standing Marco Meier Denis Zinov Garik Melkonyan 2025-Visually Impared Inkki Inola Lennart Volkert Roman Kurbanov
Men's Individual sprint Year Gold Silver Bronze1960-2023 not included in the program 2025-Standing Marco Meier Denis Zinov Charles Lecours 2025-Visually Impared Inkki Inola Lennart Volkert Roman Kurbanov
Women Individual sprint Year Gold Silver Bronze1960-2001 not included in the program Freestyle 2003 Kirsi Peraelae Riikka Sarasoja Christina Kelder 2005 Vesna Fabjan Marianne Hannonen Elena Kolomina 2007 Justyna Kowalczyk Elena Kolomina Kaili Sirge 2009 Natalya Ilyina Bettina Gruber Marina Kmalets 2011 Alena Prochazkova Eva Nývltová Alina Kashina Classical 2013 Oxana Usatova Olga Tsareva Olga Repnitsyna Freestyle 2015 Anastassiya Slonova Ewelina Marcisz Svetlana Nikolaeva Classical 2017 Maria Davydenkova Lilia Vasileva Anna Stoyan Freestyle 2019 Petra Hynčicová Hristina Matsokina Polina Nekrasova 2023 Mariel Merlii Pulles Tiia Olkkonen Anna-Maria Dietze 2025 Izabela Marcisz Kaidy Kaasiku Ani Lindroos
5 km Year Gold Silver Bronze1960-1962 not included in the program Classical 1964 Nina Demina Krastana Stoeva Weronika Budna1966-1970 not included in the program 1972 L. Makhacheva Olga Rokko Nina Selunina 1975 Blanka Paulů Nuranya Latfulina Lyubov Korobova 1978 Blanka Paulů Dagmar Paleckova Z. Shaykhlislamova 1981 Lyubov Zabolotskaya Květa Jeriová Blanka Paulů 1983 Lyubov Zabolotskaya Lilia Vasilchenko Faina Smirnova 1985 Natalja Furletova Guidina Dal Sasso Julia Stepanova 1987 Tamara Tikhonova Lyubov Egorova Anna Janouskova 1989 Ina Kuemmel Elena Kachirskaia Elena Sedletskaia1991-1997 not included in the program 1999 Valentina Shevchenko Jaroslava Bukvajova Marina Lajskaia 2001 Olga Moskalenko Mari Rauhala Cristina KelderFreestyle 2001 Olga Moskalenko Vera Zjatikova Antonella Confortola Classical 2003 Svetlana Malahova-Shishkina Oxana Yatskaya Riikka SarasojaFreestyle 2005 Svetlana Malahova-Shishkina Justyna Kowalczyk Anna Slepova 2007 Justyna Kowalczyk Alena Prochazkova Irina Nafranovich 2009 Valentina Novikova Yulia Tchekaleva Anna Slepova Classical 2011 Alia Iksanova Kateryna Grygorenko Virginia De Martin Topranin Freestyle 2013 Kateryna Grygorenko Astrid Øyre Slind N/A Maryna Antsybor Classical 2015 Oxana Usatova Anastassiya Slonova Lilia Vasilieva 2017 Lilia Vasilieva Anna Nechaevskaya Anna Shevchenko 2019 Alisa Zhambalova Ekaterina Smirnova Yana Kirpichenko 2023 Hilla Niemelä Mariel Merlii Pulles Maria Eugenia Boccardi
8 km/10 km classical Year Gold Silver Bronze1960-1964 not included in the program 8 km 1966 Krastana Stoeva Weronika Budna Olga Alimova 10 km 1968 Yanna Yelistratova Lyubov Menchikova Lidiya Doronina 1970 Yanna Yelistratova Alevtina Oljunina Karin Scheidel 1972 L. Makhacheva Nina Selyunina Zofia Majerczyk 1975 Blanka Paulů Natalya Kruglikova Nuranya Latfulina 1978 Z. Shaykhlislamova M. Arziaeva Z. Janovska 1981 Květa Jeriová Blanka Paulů Lyubov Zabolotskaya 1983 Lyubov Zabolotskaya Lilia Vasilchenko Faina Smirnova 1985 Natalja Furletova Guidina Dal Sasso Julia Stepanova 1987 Alzbeta Havrancikova Anna Janouskova Lyubov Egorova 1989 Elena Sedletskaia Natalia Chernyh Svetlana Kamotskaia 1991 Miwa Oto Elena Kashirskaja Vera Federova 1993 Lubomira Balazova Sumiko Yokoyama Evgenia Kiseleva 1995 Olga Kosnatcheva Tatiana Podmazo Anna Slipenko 1997 Tomomi Otaka Natalia Massalkina Ioulia Lementchouk1999-2025 not included in the program
10 km Freestyle Year Gold Silver Bronze1960-2023 not included in the program 2025 Isabela Marcisz Maria Eugenia Boccardi Carla Nina Wohler
Mass start 15 km