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]

2013 European Youth Olympic Festival logo

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 I Brussels Belgium 97033 12 July 21 July2084  France
1993 II Valkenswaard Netherlands 108643 3 July 9 July1874  Russia
1995 III Bath Great Britain 108647 9 July 14 July1709  Great Britain
1997 IV Lisbon Portugal 108647 18 July 24 July2500  Russia
1999 V Esbjerg Denmark 118448 10 July 16 July2324  Russia
2001 VI Murcia Spain 109048 3 July 9 July2500  Russia
2003 VII Paris France 109548 28 July 2 August2500  Russia
2005 VIII Lignano Sabbiadoro Italy 1110948 3 July 8 July3965  Russia
2007 IX Belgrade Serbia 1110049 22 July 27 July3000  Russia
2009 X Tampere Finland 910949 19 July 26 July3302  Russia
2011 XI Trabzon Turkey 910949 24 July 29 July3138  Russia
2013 XII Utrecht Netherlands 911149 14 July 19 July3143  Russia
2015 XIII Tbilisi Georgia 911250 26 July 1 August3304  Russia
2017 XIV Győr Hungary 1013050 22 July 30 July3675  Russia
2019 XV Baku Azerbaijan 1013550 20 July 28 July3902  Russia
2022 XVI Banská Bystrica Slovakia 1150 24 July 30 July
2023 XVII Maribor Slovenia 12 23 July 29 July
2025 XVIII 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 I Aosta Italy 51733 7 February 10 February708  Russia
1995 II Andorra la Vella Andorra 41740 4 February 10 February740  Italy
1997 III Sundsvall Sweden 62741 7 February 13 February991  Russia
1999 IV Poprad-Tatry Slovakia 72740 6 March 12 March819  Russia
2001 V Vuokatti Finland 72840 11 March 15 March1111  Russia
2003 VI Bled Slovenia 72841 25 January 31 January1242  Russia
2005 VII Monthey Switzerland 83541 23 January 28 January1184  Russia
2007 VIII Jaca Spain 62043 18 February 23 February1284  Russia
2009 IX Silesia Poland 93147 15 February 20 February1615  Russia
2011 X Liberec Czech Republic 82844 13 February 18 February1492  Germany
2013 XI Braşov Romania 83645 17 February 22 February1465  Russia
2015 XII Vorarlberg
Vaduz
Austria
Liechtenstein
83045 25 January 30 January1509  Russia
2017 XIII Erzurum Turkey 93834 12 February 17 February1241  Russia
2019 XIV Sarajevo-East Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina 83246 10 February 15 February1537  Norway
2022 XV Vuokatti Finland 942 20 March 25 March
2023 XVI Friuli-Venezia Giulia Italy 13 21 January 28 January
2025 XVII 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

Summer Games

Summer editions, from 1991 to 2019.

European Youth Olympic Festival medal table
RankNOCGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Russia (RUS)272175149596
2 Great Britain (GBR)147116115378
3 Italy (ITA)11297127336
4 France (FRA)8789108284
5 Hungary (HUN)757095240
6 Germany (GER)70100102272
7 Ukraine (UKR)677072209
8 Spain (ESP)636475202
9 Romania (ROU)537964196
10 Netherlands (NED)505476180
11 Belgium (BEL)414762150
12 Poland (POL)394865152
13 Turkey (TUR)332549107
14 Belarus (BLR)292750106
15 Azerbaijan (AZE)27195096
16 Sweden (SWE)26303490
17 Georgia (GEO)26234089
18 Slovenia (SLO)23334096
19 Croatia (CRO)20222668
20 Denmark (DEN)20152560
21 Finland (FIN)17252365
22 Israel (ISR)17131747
23 Switzerland (SUI)15272870
24 Czech Republic (CZE)15263778
25 Ireland (IRL)14282769
26 Slovakia (SVK)13142552
27 Portugal (POR)13131541
28 Lithuania (LTU)13121944
29 Estonia (EST)138930
30 Austria (AUT)12182858
31 Soviet Union (URS)125724
32 Latvia (LAT)10171441
33 Serbia (SRB)9191341
34 Norway (NOR)8181541
35 Bulgaria (BUL)8141436
36 Moldova (MDA)881228
37 Greece (GRE)6152445
38 Cyprus (CYP)55717
39 Yugoslavia (YUG)43613
40 Luxembourg (LUX)3115
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)1504150717794790

Winter Games

Winter editions, from 1993 to 2019.

European Youth Olympic Festival medal table
RankNOCGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Russia (RUS)976649212
2 Germany (GER)373738112
3 Norway (NOR)363239107
4 France (FRA)333640109
5 Italy (ITA)30352489
6 Austria (AUT)26332887
7 Finland (FIN)21202970
8 Sweden (SWE)1917945
9 Slovenia (SLO)19151953
10 Switzerland (SUI)15252666
11 Hungary (HUN)104721
12 Czech Republic (CZE)9121334
13 Poland (POL)981330
14 Netherlands (NED)67922
15 Great Britain (GBR)42915
16 Slovakia (SVK)32510
17 Ukraine (UKR)210618
18 Belarus (BLR)23611
19 Croatia (CRO)2114
20 Spain (ESP)2013
21 Estonia (EST)1427
22 Bulgaria (BUL)1416
23 Belgium (BEL)1337
24 Lithuania (LTU)1304
25 Romania (ROU)1247
26 Luxembourg (LUX)1102
27 Turkey (TUR)0325
28 Denmark (DEN)0112
 Georgia (GEO)0112
 Latvia (LAT)0112
31 Serbia (SRB)0101
32 Israel (ISR)0022
Totals (32 NOCs)3883893881165

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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