2022 European Youth Olympic Winter Festival

The 2022 European Youth Olympic Winter Festival will be held in Vuokatti, Finland,[1] between 20 and 25 March 2022.[2] The festival was postponed from original dates to December 2021 [3] Later it was announced that the games will be moved to 2022 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.[4] Vuokatti previously hosted 2001 European Youth Olympic Winter Festival.

2022 European Youth Winter Olympic Festival
Host cityVuokatti, Finland
Country Finland
Sport(s)9
Events42
Opening ceremonyMarch 20, 2022 (2022-03-20)
Closing ceremonyMarch 25, 2022 (2022-03-25)
Websiteeyof2022.fi
Summer
Winter

Sports

The following competitions will take place[5]

2022 European Youth Olympic Winter Festival Sports Programme

Venues
Venue Location Sports
Vuokatti slopes Vuokatti Alpine skiing, Snowboarding
Vuokatti Sport Biathlon Stadium Vuokatti Biathlon, Cross country skiing
Vuokatti Arena Vuokatti Figure skating, Short track speed skating
Kajaanin jäähalli Kajaani Ice hockey
Lahti Sports Center Lahti Nordic combined, Ski jumping

Schedule

The competition schedule for the 2022 European Youth Olympic Winter Festival is as follows:

OCOpening ceremony 1Event finals CCClosing ceremony ●Event competitions
March 20
Sun		 21
Mon		 22
Tue		 23
Wed		 24
Thu		 25
Fri		 Events
CeremoniesOCCC
Alpine skiing 1 1 ● 1 2 5
Biathlon 2 2 1 5
Cross country skiing 2 2 2 1 7
Figure skating ● 2 2
Ice hockey ● ● ● ● 1 2[I]
Nordic combined 2 2 2 6
Short track speed skating 2 2 3 7
Ski jumping 1 2 1 4
Snowboarding ● 2 ● 2 4
Total events 3 7 9 9 13 42
Cumulative total 3 10 19 28 41
March 20
Sun		 21
Mon		 22
Tue		 23
Wed		 24
Thu		 25
Fri		 Events

Note ^ Boys tournament of Ice hockey would be played from 12 to 17 December 2021.

Participant nations
Participating National Olympic Committees

References
  1. "Finland and Slovakia awarded 2021 European Youth Olympic Festivals". Duncan Mackay. 21 October 2016. Retrieved 21 February 2019.
  2. "Official Eoyf page". 21 June 2021. Retrieved 21 June 2021.
  3. "Vuokatti European Youth Olympic Festival postponed to December 2021". EYOF 2021. 23 September 2020. Retrieved 6 November 2020.
  4. "Winter European Youth Olympic Festival pushed back to March 2022". Liam Morgan. 21 April 2021. Retrieved 21 April 2021.
  5. Official website


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