< h2>KAZAKHSTAN'S TEAM TO PARTICIPATE IN THE 2025 WINTER UNIVERSE HAS BEEN DETERMINED

The names of Kazakhstani students who will represent the country at the XXXII World Winter Universiade have been announced. The competition will be held in Turin, Italy, from January 13 to 23.

The team will compete in 10 sports, including biathlon, short track, cross-country skiing, figure skating, orienteering, freestyle, alpine skiing, men's and women's There are 103 athletes representing our country in women's hockey and para-skiing, which was included in the competition program for the first time.

National team of Kazakhstan: participants of the Universiade:

Biathlon

• Men: Vadim Kurales, Vladislav Kireev, Kirill Bauer, Yerzhanat Kuandyk, Nikita Akimov.
• Women: Arina Kryukova, Aisha Rakisheva, Milana Geneva, Polina Egorova, Alina Skripkina.

Short Track

• Men: Sanzhar Zhanisov, Alisher Abulkatimov, Damir Kurmanov, Aibek Temirkhan, Dinmukhamedaldiyar Tazhibai, Valery Klimenko.
• Women: Alina Azhgalieva, Yana Khan, Zeynep Kumarkhan, Polina Omelchuk, Anastasia Galechina, Malika Ermek.

Ski race

• Men: Svyatoslav Matasov, Ernur Beksultan, Amirgali Muratbekov, Ilyas Isabek, Nartai Turlybekuly, Sultan Bazarbekov.
• Women: Anastasia Rotova, Laura Kinybayeva, Maria Gerashchenko, Elizaveta Tolmacheva, Asem Zhumagazieva, Alesya Bochkareva.

Figure skating

• Mikhail Shaidorov, Dias Zhirenbaev, Nikita Krivosheev, Sofya Samodelkina.

Sporty orientation

• Men: David Sivolapov, Ivan Bitkin, Alexander Firsov, Nikita Iost, Ilya Taganashkin.
• Women: Angelina Kuzmina, Evgenia Zavyalova, Karina Boranbayeva, Anzhelika Garifova, Valeria Chupina.

Freestyle

• Anastasia Gorodko, Ayaulym Amrenova, Anton Bondarev, Fedor Bugakov, Maxim Emelyanov, Semen Rusakov.

Mountain skiing

• Aleksandra Skorokhodova, Ksenia Berezhnaya.

Hockey

• Men's team: 24 athletes, including Ivan Gavrilenko, Jelal-Ad-Dina Amirbekov, Abylaikhan Suleimenov.
• Women's team: 22 athletes, including Almira Ibragimova, Karina Amirova, Regina Saltysova.

Para-skiing

• Denis Zinov, Roman Kurbanov.

Let us recall that approximately 2,000 student-athletes from 57 countries will participate in the 2025 Winter Universiade. The competition program will feature 96 medal events in 11 sports. According to FISU regulations, Participants must be between 17 and 25 years old, citizens of the country where they are competing, and must be studying at a higher education institution or have graduated no earlier than one year before the start of the Universiade.

Source : https://www.gov.kz/memleket/entities/sci/press/news/details/914494