2011 Winter Universiade - Participating Nations

Participating Nations

Following is a list of nations that were sent invitations to attended 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 amount 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 sent no athletes to the games.

  • Australia (11)
  • Austria (26)
  • Azerbaijan (1)
  • Belarus (57)
  • Belgium (6)
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina (1)
  • Brazil (4)
  • Bulgaria (7)
  • Canada (102)
  • China (76)
  • Chinese Taipei (1)
  • Colombia (1)
  • Croatia (4)
  • Czech Republic (81)
  • Denmark (1)
  • Estonia (16)
  • Finland (88)
  • France (58)
  • Germany (30)
  • Great Britain (49)
  • Greece (7)
  • Hungary (26)
  • Iran (13)
  • Ireland (7)
  • Italy (49)
  • Japan (97)
  • Kazakhstan (39)
  • South Korea (91)
  • Kyrgyzstan (2)
  • Latvia (4)
  • Lebanon (6)
  • Lithuania (8)
  • Macedonia (2)
  • Malaysia (1)
  • Mexico (1)
  • Moldova
  • Monaco (1)
  • Mongolia (15)
  • Montenegro (1)
  • Nepal
  • Netherlands (14)
  • New Zealand (18)
  • Norway (8)
  • Poland (75)
  • Russia (176)
  • San Marino
  • Serbia (15)
  • Slovakia (61)
  • Slovenia (56)
  • South Africa (2)
  • Spain (40)
  • Sweden (59)
  • Switzerland (48)
  • Thailand
  • Turkey (158)
  • Ukraine (78)
  • United States (81)
  • Venezuela (1)

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