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

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

1991

1993

1995

1997

1999

2001

2003

2005, 2027

2007

2009

2011

2013

2015

2017

2019

2022

2023

2025

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

1993

1995

1997

1999

2001, 2022

2003

2005

2007

2009

2011

2013, 2027

2015

2015

2017

2019

2023

2025

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

Summer Games

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

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

Summer Games Summer editions, from 1991 to 2023 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival. European Youth Olympic Festival medal table Rank NOC Gold Silver Bronze Total 1  Russia (RUS) 272 175 149 596 2  Great Britain (GBR) 161 131 128 420 3  Italy (ITA) 149 127 153 429 4  France (FRA) 102 102 121 325 5  Germany (GER) 90 119 126 335 6  Hungary (HUN) 89 84 114 287 7  Spain (ESP) 75 77 86 238 8  Ukraine (UKR) 74 81 84 239 9  Romania (ROU) 67 93 75 235 10  Netherlands (NED) 55 55 85 195 11  Poland (POL) 50 56 81 187 12  Belgium (BEL) 44 48 64 156 13  Turkey (TUR) 44 39 52 135 14  Sweden (SWE) 32 36 36 104 15  Azerbaijan (AZE) 32 26 55 113 16  Georgia (GEO) 30 25 49 104 17  Belarus (BLR) 29 27 50 106 18  Croatia (CRO) 28 28 26 82 19  Czech Republic (CZE) 27 35 50 112 20  Slovenia (SLO) 25 35 45 105 21  Denmark (DEN) 23 18 30 71 22  Finland (FIN) 21 29 30 80 23  Israel (ISR) 21 19 20 60 24  Switzerland (SUI) 20 29 32 81 25  Lithuania (LTU) 17 18 23 58 26  Slovakia (SVK) 17 15 31 63 27  Ireland (IRL) 14 29 29 72 28  Austria (AUT) 14 21 34 69 29  Estonia (EST) 14 15 13 42 30  Portugal (POR) 14 14 23 51 31  Serbia (SRB) 13 23 19 55 32  Soviet Union (URS) 12 5 7 24 33  Norway (NOR) 11 22 19 52 34  Greece (GRE) 10 22 30 62 35  Latvia (LAT) 10 18 16 44 36  Bulgaria (BUL) 9 18 18 45 37  Moldova (MDA) 8 8 15 31 38  Cyprus (CYP) 5 6 7 18 39  Yugoslavia (YUG) 4 3 6 13 40  Armenia (ARM) 3 2 10 15 41  Luxembourg (LUX) 3 1 1 5 42  Czechoslovakia (TCH) 2 2 0 4 43  Iceland (ISL) 2 1 2 5 44  Serbia and Montenegro (SCG) 1 6 2 9 45  Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIH) 1 2 4 7 46  Montenegro (MNE) 1 2 2 5 47  Kosovo (KOS) 1 0 0 1 48  Albania (ALB) 0 0 1 1  Andorra (AND) 0 0 1 1  Malta (MLT) 0 0 1 1 Totals (50 entries) 1,746 1,747 2,055 5,548

Winter Games Winter editions, from 1993 to 2023 European Youth Olympic Winter Festival. European Youth Olympic Festival medal table Rank NOC Gold Silver Bronze Total 1  Russia (RUS) 97 66 50 213 2  France (FRA) 44 42 49 135 3  Italy (ITA) 41 51 38 130 4  Germany (GER) 41 43 49 133 5  Norway (NOR) 37 39 40 116 6  Austria (AUT) 37 38 39 114 7  Finland (FIN) 30 28 34 92 8  Slovenia (SLO) 28 16 20 64 9  Sweden (SWE) 26 27 19 72 10  Switzerland (SUI) 21 30 34 85 11  Hungary (HUN) 17 9 8 34 12  Czech Republic (CZE) 16 17 19 52 13  Poland (POL) 10 18 21 49 14  Netherlands (NED) 10 9 12 31 15  Great Britain (GBR) 5 3 9 17 16  Spain (ESP) 5 0 1 6 17  Ukraine (UKR) 3 10 8 21 18  Slovakia (SVK) 3 4 7 14 19  Croatia (CRO) 3 1 1 5 20  Estonia (EST) 2 5 3 10 21  Belarus (BLR) 2 4 6 12 22  Latvia (LAT) 2 3 2 7 23  Bulgaria (BUL) 1 6 2 9 24  Belgium (BEL) 1 3 3 7 25  Lithuania (LTU) 1 3 0 4 26  Romania (ROU) 1 2 4 7 27  Luxembourg (LUX) 1 1 0 2 28  Israel (ISR) 1 0 2 3 29  Turkey (TUR) 0 3 2 5 30  Georgia (GEO) 0 2 1 3 31  Serbia (SRB) 0 2 0 2 32  Denmark (DEN) 0 1 1 2 Totals (32 entries) 486 486 484 1,456

Combined medal table

From 1991 to 2023 European Youth Olympic Winter Festival.

European Youth Olympic Festival medal table

Rank	NOC	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia (RUS)	369	241	199	809
2	Italy (ITA)	174	160	179	513
3	Great Britain (GBR)	155	122	121	398
4	France (FRA)	137	139	162	438
5	Germany (GER)	120	151	155	426
6	Hungary (HUN)	98	88	112	298
7	Ukraine (UKR)	80	88	95	263
8	Spain (ESP)	76	71	80	227
9	Netherlands (NED)	63	64	91	218
10	Romania (ROU)	59	89	74	222
11	Sweden (SWE)	57	61	53	171
12	Poland (POL)	54	71	96	221
13	Slovenia (SLO)	51	53	61	165
14	Finland (FIN)	50	54	60	164
15	Austria (AUT)	49	57	70	176
16	Norway (NOR)	45	57	56	158
17	Belgium (BEL)	44	50	65	159
18	Turkey (TUR)	38	36	52	126
19	Switzerland (SUI)	37	57	65	159
20	Czech Republic (CZE)	34	48	62	144
21	Belarus (BLR)	31	31	56	118
22	Azerbaijan (AZE)	29	23	51	103
23	Croatia (CRO)	28	27	27	82
24	Georgia (GEO)	27	25	47	99
25	Denmark (DEN)	22	19	31	72
26	Israel (ISR)	22	14	22	58
27	Slovakia (SVK)	18	19	35	72
28	Lithuania (LTU)	18	19	21	58
29	Estonia (EST)	15	17	12	44
30	Ireland (IRL)	14	28	28	70
31	Portugal (POR)	13	14	19	46
32	Latvia (LAT)	12	21	18	51
33	Soviet Union (URS)	12	5	7	24
34	Serbia (SRB)	11	24	14	49
35	Bulgaria (BUL)	9	23	19	51
36	Greece (GRE)	8	16	25	49
37	Moldova (MDA)	8	8	14	30
38	Cyprus (CYP)	5	6	7	18
39	Yugoslavia (YUG)	4	3	6	13
40	Luxembourg (LUX)	4	2	1	7
41	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	2	2	0	4
42	Iceland (ISL)	2	1	2	5
43	Serbia and Montenegro (SCG)	1	6	2	9
44	Armenia (ARM)	1	2	8	11
45	Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIH)	1	2	4	7
46	Montenegro (MNE)	1	2	1	4
47	Kosovo (KOS)	1	0	0	1
48	Albania (ALB)	0	0	1	1
	Andorra (AND)	0	0	1	1
	Malta (MLT)	0	0	1	1
Totals (50 entries)		2,109	2,116	2,388	6,613

See also

• European Para Youth Games (EPYG)
• European Games
• Youth Olympic Games
• Australian Youth Olympic Festival (AYOF)
• Asian Youth Games (AYG)
• South American Youth Games
• Pan American Youth Games

References

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.

External links

• Official website