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European Youth Olympic Festival

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 38 45 9 February 16 February 901   Italy
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 2025 European Youth Olympic Winter Festival.

European Youth Olympic Festival medal table
RankNOCGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  Russia (RUS)369241199809
2  Italy (ITA)197184194575
3  Great Britain (GBR)165132130427
4  France (FRA)151154176481
5  Germany (GER)131163167461
6  Hungary (HUN)10794124325
7  Ukraine (UKR)8493103280
8  Spain (ESP)827888248
9  Romania (ROU)689579242
10  Netherlands (NED)666497227
11  Poland (POL)6276102240
12  Sweden (SWE)596557181
13  Slovenia (SLO)535666175
14  Austria (AUT)526074186
15  Finland (FIN)516064175
16  Norway (NOR)506260172
17  Switzerland (SUI)455973177
18  Belgium (BEL)455167163
19  Czech Republic (CZE)445472170
20  Turkey (TUR)444256142
21  Azerbaijan (AZE)322655113
22  Belarus (BLR)313156118
23  Croatia (CRO)31292888
24  Georgia (GEO)312750108
25  Denmark (DEN)23203174
26  Slovakia (SVK)22204082
27  Israel (ISR)22192263
28  Lithuania (LTU)18212362
29  Estonia (EST)17241758
30  Ireland (IRL)14292972
31  Portugal (POR)14142351
32  Serbia (SRB)13251957
33  Latvia (LAT)12211851
34  Soviet Union (URS)125724
35  Bulgaria (BUL)10242054
36  Greece (GRE)10223062
37  Moldova (MDA)881531
38  Cyprus (CYP)56718
39  Yugoslavia (YUG)43613
40  Luxembourg (LUX)4217
41  Armenia (ARM)321015
42  Czechoslovakia (TCH)2204
43  Iceland (ISL)2125
44  Serbia and Montenegro (SCG)1629
45  Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIH)1247
46  Montenegro (MNE)1225
47  Kosovo (KOS)1001
48  Albania (ALB)0011
  Andorra (AND)0011
  Malta (MLT)0011
Totals (50 entries)2,2692,2742,5687,111

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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