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European Youth Olympic Festival

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The European Youth Olympic Festival (EYOF) is a biennial multi-sport event for youth (14 to 18 years old[1]) athletes from the 50 member countries of the association of European Olympic Committees. The festival has a summer edition, held for the first time in Brussels in 1991, and a winter edition, which began two years later in Aosta. It was known as the European Youth Olympic Days from 1991 to 1999.[2]

History

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The event is run by the European Olympic Committees, under the patronage of the International Olympic Committee, and was the first multi-sport event in the Olympic tradition specifically for European athletes; it predates its senior equivalent, the European Games by some 24 years, and the Youth Olympic Games by 19 years.

The event should not be confused with the various European junior and youth championships in individual sports, such as the European Junior Athletics Championships which are organised by sporting federations.

Editions

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Summer

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Host cities of the European Summer Youth Olympic Festival
European Summer Youth Olympic Festival
Year Edition Host city Host nation Sports Events Nations Start date End date Competitors Top nation
1991 1 Brussels   Belgium 9 70 33 12 July 21 July 2,084   France
1993 2 Valkenswaard   Netherlands 10 86 43 3 July 9 July 1,874   Russia
1995 3 Bath   Great Britain 10 86 47 9 July 14 July 1,709   Great Britain
1997 4 Lisbon   Portugal 10 86 47 18 July 24 July 2,500   Russia
1999 5 Esbjerg   Denmark 11 84 48 10 July 16 July 2,324   Russia
2001 6 Murcia   Spain 10 90 48 3 July 9 July 2,500   Russia
2003 7 Paris   France 10 95 48 28 July 2 August 2,500   Russia
2005 8 Lignano Sabbiadoro   Italy 11 109 48 3 July 8 July 3,965   Russia
2007 9 Belgrade   Serbia 11 100 49 22 July 27 July 3,000   Russia
2009 10 Tampere   Finland 9 109 49 19 July 26 July 3,302   Russia
2011 11 Trabzon   Turkey 9 109 49 24 July 29 July 3,138   Russia
2013 12 Utrecht   Netherlands 9 111 49 14 July 19 July 3,143   Russia
2015 13 Tbilisi   Georgia 9 112 50 26 July 1 August 3,304   Russia
2017 14 Győr   Hungary 10 130 50 22 July 30 July 3,675   Russia
2019 15 Baku   Azerbaijan 10 135 48 20 July 28 July 2,700   Russia
2022 16 Banská Bystrica   Slovakia 10 120 48 24 July 30 July 2,252   Italy
2023 17 Maribor   Slovenia 10 122 48 23 July 29 July 2,419   Italy
2025 18 Skopje   North Macedonia 13 20 July 26 July
2027 19 Lignano Sabbiadoro   Italy

Winter

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Host cities of the European Winter Youth Olympic Festival
European Winter Youth Olympic Festival
Year Edition Host city Host nation Sports Events Nations Start date End date Competitors Top nation
1993 1 Aosta   Italy 5 17 33 7 February 10 February 708   Russia
1995 2 Andorra la Vella   Andorra 4 17 40 4 February 10 February 740   Italy
1997 3 Sundsvall   Sweden 6 27 41 7 February 13 February 991   Russia
1999 4 Poprad-Tatry   Slovakia 7 27 40 6 March 12 March 819   Russia
2001 5 Vuokatti   Finland 7 28 40 11 March 15 March 1,111   Russia
2003 6 Bled   Slovenia 7 28 41 25 January 31 January 1,242   Russia
2005 7 Monthey   Switzerland 8 35 41 23 January 28 January 1,184   Russia
2007 8 Jaca   Spain 6 20 43 18 February 23 February 1,284   Russia
2009 9 Silesia   Poland 9 31 47 15 February 20 February 1,615   Russia
2011 10 Liberec   Czech Republic 8 28 44 13 February 18 February 1,492   Germany
2013 11 Braşov   Romania 8 36 45 17 February 22 February 1,465   Russia
2015 12 Vorarlberg
Vaduz 		  Austria
  Liechtenstein 		8 30 45 25 January 30 January 1,509   Russia
2017 13 Erzurum   Turkey 9 38 34 12 February 17 February 1,241   Russia
2019 14 Sarajevo-East Sarajevo   Bosnia and Herzegovina 8 32 46 10 February 15 February 1,537   Norway
2022 15 Vuokatti   Finland 9 39 46 20 March 25 March 932   Finland
2023 16 Friuli-Venezia Giulia   Italy 12 59 47 21 January 28 January 1,252   France
2025 17 Bakuriani   Georgia 8 9 February 16 February
2027 18 Braşov   Romania

Sports

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Summer Games

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Sport (discipline) 91 93 95 97 99 01 03 05 07 09 11 13 15 17 19 22 23 25
Current summer sports
 
Athletics   • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Badminton   • • •
Basketball   • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Canoeing   • • • •
Cycling   • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Gymnastics   • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Handball   • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Judo   • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Shooting   •
Swimming   • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Table tennis   • • • •
Taekwondo   •
Volleyball   • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Discontinued summer sports
Field hockey   • • •
Football   • • • • • • • •
Sailing   • •
Skateboarding   •
Tennis   • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Water polo   •
Wrestling   •

Winter Games

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Sport (discipline) 93 95 97 99 01 03 05 07 09 11 13 15 17 19 22 23 25
Current winter sports
 
Alpine skiing   • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Biathlon   • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Cross-country skiing   • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Figure skating   • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Freestyle skiing   • •
Ice hockey   • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Short track speed skating   • • • • • • • • • • •
Snowboarding   • • • • • • • • • • • •
Discontinued winter sports
Curling   • • • • •
Ski jumping   • • • • • • • • • •
Nordic combined   • • • • • •
Ski mountaineering   •
Speed skating   • •

All-time medal table

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Combined medal table

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From 1991 to 2023 European Youth Olympic Winter Festival.

European Youth Olympic Festival medal table
RankNOCGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  Russia (RUS)369241199809
2  Italy (ITA)174160179513
3  Great Britain (GBR)155122121398
4  France (FRA)137139162438
5  Germany (GER)120151155426
6  Hungary (HUN)9888112298
7  Ukraine (UKR)808895263
8  Spain (ESP)767180227
9  Netherlands (NED)636491218
10  Romania (ROU)598974222
11  Sweden (SWE)576153171
12  Poland (POL)547196221
13  Slovenia (SLO)515361165
14  Finland (FIN)505460164
15  Austria (AUT)495770176
16  Norway (NOR)455756158
17  Belgium (BEL)445065159
18  Turkey (TUR)383652126
19  Switzerland (SUI)375765159
20  Czech Republic (CZE)344862144
21  Belarus (BLR)313156118
22  Azerbaijan (AZE)292351103
23  Croatia (CRO)28272782
24  Georgia (GEO)27254799
25  Denmark (DEN)22193172
26  Israel (ISR)22142258
27  Slovakia (SVK)18193572
28  Lithuania (LTU)18192158
29  Estonia (EST)15171244
30  Ireland (IRL)14282870
31  Portugal (POR)13141946
32  Latvia (LAT)12211851
33  Soviet Union (URS)125724
34  Serbia (SRB)11241449
35  Bulgaria (BUL)9231951
36  Greece (GRE)8162549
37  Moldova (MDA)881430
38  Cyprus (CYP)56718
39  Yugoslavia (YUG)43613
40  Luxembourg (LUX)4217
41  Czechoslovakia (TCH)2204
42  Iceland (ISL)2125
43  Serbia and Montenegro (SCG)1629
44  Armenia (ARM)12811
45  Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIH)1247
46  Montenegro (MNE)1214
47  Kosovo (KOS)1001
48  Albania (ALB)0011
  Andorra (AND)0011
  Malta (MLT)0011
Totals (50 entries)2,1092,1162,3886,613

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Sports Events". European Olympic Committees. Archived from the original on 11 July 2022. Retrieved 11 July 2022.
  2. ^ Bell, Daniel (2003). Encyclopedia of International Games. McFarland and Company, Inc. Publishers, Jefferson, North Carolina. ISBN 0-7864-1026-4.
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