III Winter Military World Games

Host city	Sochi, Russia
Nations	25
Events	44 in 7 sports
Opening	23 February 2017 (2017-02-23)
Closing	27 February 2017 (2017-02-27)
Opened by	Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev
Athlete's Oath	Natalya Korostelyova (sportsmen) Mikhail Kazadoy (coaches)
Judge's Oath	Alexander Tomashchuk
Torch lighter	Svetlana Ishmuratova Anatoly Alyabyev
Main venue	see below
Winter
←  Annecy 2013 Berchtesgaden 2022 (cancelled) →
Summer
←  Mungyeong 2015 Wuhan 2019 →

The 3rd CISM World Winter Games ( Russian: Зимние Всемирные военные игры 2017) were held in Sochi, Russia from 23 to 27 February 2017.

Host selection and venues

Sochi was chosen as the host city for the 3rd Winter Military Games at the 70th general assembly of the International Military Sports Council in Kuwait City, Kuwait in 2015. The Games were held in sports venues built for the 2014 Winter Olympic Games. ^[1]

The sports complex is composed of two clusters: the Coastal Cluster, i.e. the Olympic Park, and the Mountain Cluster, i.e. the Krasnaya Polyana.

The following venues built for the Olympic Games were used for the Military Games: ^[2]

Venue	Area	Sports	Capacity
Ice Cube Curling Center	Olympic Park	Opening and closing ceremony	3000
Bolshoy Ice Dome	Olympic Park	Sport climbing	12000
Iceberg Skating Palace	Olympic Park	Short track	12000
Laura Biathlon & Ski Complex	Krasnaya Polyana	Biathlon Cross-country skiing Ski orienteering	7500
Rosa Khutor Alpine Resort	Krasnaya Polyana	Alpine skiing Ski mountaineering	7500

Mascots and brand style

The official mascot for the 3rd Winter Games was the Leopard. According to the official website of the Games, it was chosen "due to the fact that the endurance of this animal and his fighting spirit characterize the spirit of war games. The leopard symbolizes the swiftness of the attack and the speed of decision-making, as well as power and strength [...] In the heraldic traditions, a leopard is a symbol of bravery and courage – the qualities traditionally characterizing soldiers." Other mascots include the Hare and the Little Fox. ^[3]

The brand style for the Games is a blue-red star with a head of a leopard on it. The colour red symbolizes "sport passion and will to win" and blue "infinite opportunities and devotion to reach the goal". The colours of the star and the leopard forms the Russian flag. Also, ice patterns and mountains occur on the brand. ^[3]

Schedule

OC

Opening ceremony

1

Event finals

CC

Closing ceremony

●

Event competitions

EG

Exhibition gala

February		24 Fri	25 Sat	26 Sun	27 Mon	Medals
Ceremonies		OC			CC
Biathlon		4	1		2	7
Alpine skiing			2	2		4
Cross-country skiing		4		2		6
Short track		2	2	1		5
Sport climbing		●	4	2	2	8
Ski orienteering			2	2	4	8
Ski mountaineering		2			4	6
Medals		12	11	9	12	44
February		24 Fri	25 Sat	26 Sun	27 Mon	Medals

Participating nations

Overall, athletes from 25 countries participated.

Medal winners

Alpine skiing

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Slalom	Stefano Gross   Italy	1:30.82	Manfred Moelgg   Italy	1:31.01	Cristian Deville   Italy	1:31.42
Team slalom	Italy Manfred Moelgg Stefano Gross Cristian Deville	4:33.25	Germany Hansi Schwaiger Fabian Gratz Carlo Dorn	4:47.50	Iran Nima Baha Behnam Kiashemshaki Pouria Saveh-Shemshaki	5:03.93

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Slalom	Irene Curtoni   Italy	1:38.51	Maria Shkanova   Belarus	1:38.93	Laurie Mougel   France	1:38.97
Team slalom	Italy		Russia		China

Biathlon

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
10 km sprint	Maxim Tsvetkov   Russia	27:01.3 (0+1)	Vladimir Iliev   Bulgaria	27:15.2 (0+3)	Krasimir Anev   Bulgaria	27:16.2 (0+1)
10 km team sprint	Russia Maxim Tsvetkov Matvey Eliseev Sergey Klyachin	1:24:10.2	Austria David Komatz Peter Brunner Kevin Plessniter	1:24:55.4	Italy Thierry Chenal Riccardo Romani Maikol Demetz	1:27:30.4
20 km patrol race	Russia Alexey Kornev Matvey Eliseev Sergey Klyachin Eduard Latypov	52:13.1 (0+0+0)	France Clement Arnaud Baptiste Jouty Antonin Guigonnat Damien Tarantola	52:34.4 (1+1+1)	Austria Klaus Leitinger David Komatz Peter Brunner Kevin Plessniter	52:39.8 (1+1+0)

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
7,5 km sprint	Teja Gregorin   Slovenia	22:19.5 (0+0)	Tatiana Akimova   Russia	23:03.3 (0+0)	Uliana Kaisheva   Russia	23:34.8 (1+0)
7,5 km team sprint	Russia Tatiana Akimova Uliana Kaisheva Galina Nechkasova	1:10:38.2	France Enora Latuilliere Coline Varcin Estelle Mougel	1:14:25.1	China Chu Yuanmeng Zhaohan Zhang Xuelan Wang	1:18:49.3
15 km patrol race	France Coline Varcin Estelle Mougel Enora Latuilliere Coraline Thomas Hugue	45:23.0 (0+0+0)	Russia Galina Nechkasova Anastasia Zagoruiko Uliana Kaisheva Lidia Durkina	47:14.3 (2+1+0)	China Xue Lan Wang Chu Yuanmeng Zhao Han Zhang Shuang Chen	51:51.5 (1+2+3)

Mixed

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Mixed relay	Austria Dunja Zdouc Katharina Innerhofer Peter Brunner David Komatz	1:19:51.7 (0+0) (0+1) (0+1) (0+1) (0+0) (2+3) (0+0) (0+2)	France Coline Varcin Enora Latuilliere Baptiste Jouty Antonin Guigonnat	1:19:54.9 (0+0) (0+0) (0+0) (0+1) (1+3) (0+3) (0+1) (0+3)	Russia Uliana Kaisheva Galina Nechkasova Matvey Eliseev Maxim Tsvetkov	1:22:51.1 (0+1) (0+1) (1+3) (2+3) (0+2) (0+1) (0+0) (2+3)

Cross-country skiing

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
15 km free style	Aleksey Chervotkin   Russia	34:41.2	Damien Tarantola   France	34:52.2	Paul Goalabre   France	35:08.5
15 km free style team	France Damien Tarantola Paul Goalabre Clement Arnault	1:45:39.1	Russia Aleksey Chervotkin Denis Spitsov Artem Maltsev	1:45:40.8	Finland Kusti Kittilae Juho Mikkonen Teemu Harkonen	1:48:12.5
Team sprint	Russia Artem Maltsev Nikolay Morilov	20:36:70	France Clement Arnault Paul Goalabre	20:36:80	Finland Kusti Kittilae Juho Mikkonen	20:37:02

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
10 km free style	Theresa Eichhorn   Germany	27:28.8	Coraline Hugue   France	27:43.9	Francesca Baudin   Italy	27:46.0
10 km free style team	Russia Natalia Korosteleva Lidia Durkina Natalja Iljina	1:25:21.5	—
Team sprint	Russia Natalja Iljina Natalia Korosteleva	22:11:36	Switzerland Alina Meier Fabiana Wieser	22:23:98	Italy Chiara De Zolt Ponte Francesca Baudin	22:33:41

Short track

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
500 m	Xu Hongzhi   China	42.065	Yang Shuai   China	42.075	Denis Ayrapetyan   Russia	42.368
1000 m	Jin Kim Sun   South Korea	1:25.574	Yuri Confortola   Italy	1:26.861	Xu Hongzhi   China	1:29.004

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
500 m	Arianna Fontana   Italy	43.989	Yang Yang   China	44.061	Eugenia Zakharova   Russia	44.139
1000 m	Arianna Fontana   Italy	1:31.884	Yang Yang   China	1:31.943	Wang Runyuan   China	1:32.234

Mixed

The teams in the mixed event were made up of sportsmen representing different countries, in accordance to the International Skating Union rules.

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
3000 m	Arianna Fontana Elena Viviani Jae Min Hwang Daniil Eybog	4:05,281	Eugenia Zakharova Ekaterina Konstantinova Yuri Confortola Nicola Rodigari	4:05,913	Wang Runyuan Wu Yi Yang Shuai Ning Qipeng	4:06,570

Ski mountaineering

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Individual	Alexis Sevennec   France	0:53.38	Manfred Reichegger   Italy	0:55.23	Miguel Caballero Ortega   Spain	0:56.06
Team	Italy Manfred Reichegger Daniel Antonioli Richard Tiraboschi	2:51:25	France Alexis Sevennec Bastien Fleury Franck Asserquft	2:53:26	Spain Miguel Caballero Ortega Luis Alberto Hernando Alzaga Francisco Javier Navarro Jimenez	2:57:23
Team race	Spain Miguel Caballero Ortega Luis Alberto Hernando Alzaga	1:56:09	France Bastien Fleury Alexis Sevennec	1:56:17	Italy Manfred Reichegger Daniel Antonioli	1:57:24

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Individual	Adèle Milloz   France	1:09.01	Gloriana Pellissier   Italy	1:12.18	Nathalie Mieuzet   France	1:14.48
Team	Russia Ekaterina Mitiaeva Svetlana Berezan Ekaterina Burlakova	4:11:44	—
Team race	France Letizia Roux Adèle Milloz	2:28:09	Russia Ekaterina Mitiaeva Svetlana Berezan	2:53:29	—

Ski orienteering

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Middle	Eduard Khrennikov   Russia	00:39.22	Stanimir Belomazhev   Bulgaria	00:42.20	Stepan Malinovskii   Russia	00:43.03
Sprint	Eduard Khrennikov   Russia	00:17.15	Stanimir Belomazhev   Bulgaria	00:17.57	Vladimir Ignatov   Russia	00:19.29
Relay	Russia Stepan Malinovskii Andrei Lamov Eduard Khrennikov	1:05:52	France Rudy Gouy Yann Debayle Baptiste Fuchs	1:12:30	Switzerland Sven Stefan Aschwanden Tobias Michael Lutz Andring Kappenberger	1:14:27
Team sprint (middle+sprint)	Russia Eduard Khrennikov Stepan Malinovskii Eduard Khrennikov Vladimir Ignatov	1:59:09	Finland Eevert Toivonen Sampo Hyppoelae Eevert Toivonen Sampo Hyppoelae	2:14:06	France Yann Debayle Baptiste Fuchs Rudy Gouy Baptiste Fuchs	2:20:38

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Middle	Maria Kechkina   Russia	00:35.33	Tatiana Oborina   Russia	00:38.44	Antoniya Grigorova   Bulgaria	00:39.28
Sprint	Tatiana Oborina   Russia	00:17.54	Maria Kechkina   Russia	00:18.11	Anastasia Kravchenko   Russia	00:18.55
Relay	Russia Tatiana Oborina Anastasia Kravchenko Maria Kechkina	56:55	France Lou Denaix Gaelle Barlet Elodie Bourgeois-Pin	1:09:51	Kazakhstan Asem Nazyrova Elmira Moldasheva Olga Novikova	1:11:35
Team sprint (middle+sprint)	Russia Maria Kechkina Tatiana Oborina Tatiana Oborina Maria Kechkina	1:50:22	Kazakhstan Olga Novikova Asem Nazyrova Olga Novikova Asem Nazyrova	2:08:15	France Elodie Bourgeois-Pin Gaelle Barlet Gaelle Barlet Lou Denaix	2:25:00

Sport climbing

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Lead	Jakob Schubert   Austria	TOP 1:09	Domen Škofic   Slovenia	TOP 1:21	Marcello Bombardi   Italy	TOP 1:13
Bouldering	Vadim Timonov   Russia		Manuel Cornu   France		Domen Škofic   Slovenia
Speed classic	Sergei Luzhetskii   Russia	0:31.22 (F)	Jakob Schubert   Austria	0:39.28 (F)	Vadim Timonov   Russia	0:38.27 (F)
Speed record	Sergei Luzhetskii   Russia	0:06.36 (F)	Leonardo Gontero   Italy	0:06.37 (F)	Vadim Timonov   Russia	0:06.53 (F)

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Lead	Jessica Pilz   Austria	TOP 1:41	Katharina Posch   Austria	TOP 1:44	Mina Markovič   Slovenia	TOP 2:22
Bouldering	Jessica Pilz   Austria		Olga Yakovleva   Russia		Mina Markovič   Slovenia
Speed classic	Anna Tsyganova   Russia	0:49.36 (F)	Jessica Pilz   Austria	0:52.35 (F)	Evgeniya Lapshina   Russia	0:53.49 (F)
Speed record	Anna Tsyganova   Russia	0:08.21 (F)	Aurélia Sarisson   France	0:12.16 (F)	Daria Kan   Russia	0:08.51 (F)

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia*	22	9	11	42
2	Italy	8	6	6	20
3	France	6	12	5	23
4	Austria	4	4	1	9
5	South Korea	2	0	0	2
6	China	1	3	6	10
7	Slovenia	1	1	3	5
8	Germany	1	1	0	2
9	Spain	1	0	2	3
10	Bulgaria	0	3	2	5
11	Finland	0	1	2	3
12	Kazakhstan	0	1	1	2
	Switzerland	0	1	1	2
14	Belarus	0	1	0	1
15	Iran	0	0	1	1
Totals (15 entries)		46	43	41	130

References

External links

• (in Russian) Official website