on 6-17 February, 2016 it took place the VI Winter Universiade of Kazakhstan universities in Almaty.
The program of the universiade includes 10 sports types: cross country skiing, biathlon, presidental combined events, winter orientiring, alpine skiing, snowboard, skating, short track, ski jumping and ice hockey.
According to the results of games the 1st place in the overall medal standings was won by the team of the Kazakh Academy of Sports and Tourism, 2nd place - by the team of Pavlodar State Pedagogical Institute, and the third place was shared by teams of Kazakh National Agrarian University and M. Kozybaev North Kazakhstan State University.