European Youth Olympic Festival

The European Youth Olympic Festival (EYOF) is a biennial multi-sport event for youth 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.[1]

History

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

Summer

Host cities of the European Summer Youth Olympic Festival
Year Edition Host City Host Nation Sports Events Nations Start Date End Date Competitors Top Nation
European Summer Youth Olympic Festival
1991 1 Brussels Belgium 97033 12 July 21 July2084  France
1993 2 Valkenswaard Netherlands 108643 3 July 9 July1874  Russia
1995 3 Bath Great Britain 108647 9 July 14 July1709  Great Britain
1997 4 Lisbon Portugal 108647 18 July 24 July2500  Russia
1999 5 Esbjerg Denmark 118448 10 July 16 July2324  Russia
2001 6 Murcia Spain 109048 3 July 9 July2500  Russia
2003 7 Paris France 109548 28 July 2 August2500  Russia
2005 8 Lignano Sabbiadoro Italy 1110948 3 July 8 July3965  Russia
2007 9 Belgrade Serbia 1110049 22 July 27 July3000  Russia
2009 10 Tampere Finland 910949 19 July 26 July3302  Russia
2011 11 Trabzon Turkey 910949 24 July 29 July3138  Russia
2013 12 Utrecht Netherlands 911149 14 July 19 July3143  Russia
2015 13 Tbilisi Georgia 911250 26 July 1 August3304  Russia
2017 14 Győr Hungary 1013050 22 July 30 July3675  Russia
2019 15 Baku Azerbaijan 1013550 20 July 28 July3902  Russia
2022 16 Banská Bystrica Slovakia 1150 24 July 30 July
2023 17 Maribor Slovenia 12 23 July 29 July
2025 18 Brno Czech Republic

Winter

Host cities of the European Winter Youth Olympic Festival
Year Edition Host City Host Nation Sports Events Nations Start Date End Date Competitors Top Nation
European Winter Youth Olympic Festival
1993 1 Aosta Italy 51733 7 February 10 February708  Russia
1995 2 Andorra la Vella Andorra 41740 4 February 10 February740  Italy
1997 3 Sundsvall Sweden 62741 7 February 13 February991  Russia
1999 4 Poprad-Tatry Slovakia 72740 6 March 12 March819  Russia
2001 5 Vuokatti Finland 72840 11 March 15 March1111  Russia
2003 6 Bled Slovenia 72841 25 January 31 January1242  Russia
2005 7 Monthey Switzerland 83541 23 January 28 January1184  Russia
2007 8 Jaca Spain 62043 18 February 23 February1284  Russia
2009 9 Silesia Poland 93147 15 February 20 February1615  Russia
2011 10 Liberec Czech Republic 82844 13 February 18 February1492  Germany
2013 11 Braşov Romania 83645 17 February 22 February1465  Russia
2015 12 Vorarlberg
Vaduz
Austria
Liechtenstein
83045 25 January 30 January1509  Russia
2017 13 Erzurum Turkey 93834 12 February 17 February1241  Russia
2019 14 Sarajevo-East Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina 83246 10 February 15 February1537  Norway
2022 15 Vuokatti Finland 93946 20 March 25 March  Finland
2023 16 Friuli-Venezia Giulia Italy 13 21 January 28 January
2025 17 Borjomi-Bakuriani Georgia 13

Sports

Summer Games

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

Winter Games

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

All-time medal table

Combined medal table

From 1991 to 2022 European Youth Olympic Winter Festival.

European Youth Olympic Festival medal table
RankNOCGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Russia (RUS)369241199809
2 Italy (ITA)147140158445
3 Great Britain (GBR)147116115378
4 France (FRA)124126154404
5 Germany (GER)107138143388
6 Hungary (HUN)8678102266
7 Ukraine (UKR)738287242
8 Spain (ESP)656476205
9 Netherlands (NED)606187208
10 Romania (ROU)548168203
11 Sweden (SWE)495247148
12 Poland (POL)485980187
13 Norway (NOR)455254151
14 Slovenia (SLO)454960154
15 Finland (FIN)444955148
16 Austria (AUT)435458155
17 Belgium (BEL)425065157
18 Turkey (TUR)332851112
19 Belarus (BLR)313156118
20 Switzerland (SUI)305459143
21 Czech Republic (CZE)274250119
22 Azerbaijan (AZE)27195096
23 Georgia (GEO)26244191
24 Croatia (CRO)23232773
25 Denmark (DEN)20162662
26 Israel (ISR)17131949
27 Slovakia (SVK)16163264
28 Estonia (EST)15121138
29 Ireland (IRL)14282769
30 Lithuania (LTU)14151948
31 Portugal (POR)13131541
32 Soviet Union (URS)125724
33 Latvia (LAT)11181544
34 Serbia (SRB)9201342
35 Bulgaria (BUL)9181542
36 Moldova (MDA)881228
37 Greece (GRE)6152445
38 Cyprus (CYP)55717
39 Yugoslavia (YUG)43613
40 Luxembourg (LUX)4217
41 Czechoslovakia (TCH)2204
42 Iceland (ISL)2114
43 Serbia and Montenegro (SCG)1629
44 Armenia (ARM)1258
45 Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIH)1236
46 Montenegro (MNE)1214
47 Kosovo (KOS)1001
48 Albania (ALB)0011
 Andorra (AND)0011
Totals (49 NOCs)1931193522056071

See also

References

  1. Bell, Daniel (2003). Encyclopedia of International Games. McFarland and Company, Inc. Publishers, Jefferson, North Carolina. ISBN 0-7864-1026-4.
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