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

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 Belgium 97033 12 July 21 July2,084  France
1993 2 Valkenswaard Netherlands Netherlands 108643 3 July 9 July1,874  Russia
1995 3 Bath United Kingdom Great Britain 108647 9 July 14 July1,709  Great Britain
1997 4 Lisbon Portugal Portugal 108647 18 July 24 July2,500  Russia
1999 5 Esbjerg Denmark Denmark 118448 10 July 16 July2,324  Russia
2001 6 Murcia Spain Spain 109048 3 July 9 July2,500  Russia
2003 7 Paris France France 109548 28 July 2 August2,500  Russia
2005 8 Lignano Sabbiadoro Italy Italy 1110948 3 July 8 July3,965  Russia
2007 9 Belgrade Serbia Serbia 1110049 22 July 27 July3,000  Russia
2009 10 Tampere Finland Finland 910949 19 July 26 July3,302  Russia
2011 11 Trabzon Turkey Turkey 910949 24 July 29 July3,138  Russia
2013 12 Utrecht Netherlands Netherlands 911149 14 July 19 July3,143  Russia
2015 13 Tbilisi Georgia (country) Georgia 911250 26 July 1 August3,304  Russia
2017 14 Győr Hungary Hungary 1013050 22 July 30 July3,675  Russia
2019 15 Baku Azerbaijan Azerbaijan 1013548 20 July 28 July2,700  Russia
2022 16 Banská Bystrica Slovakia Slovakia 1012048 24 July 30 July2,252  Italy
2023 17 Maribor Slovenia Slovenia 1012248 23 July 29 July2,419  Italy
2025 18 Skopje North Macedonia North Macedonia

Winter

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 Italy 51733 7 February 10 February708  Russia
1995 2 Andorra la Vella Andorra Andorra 41740 4 February 10 February740  Italy
1997 3 Sundsvall Sweden Sweden 62741 7 February 13 February991  Russia
1999 4 Poprad-Tatry Slovakia Slovakia 72740 6 March 12 March819  Russia
2001 5 Vuokatti Finland Finland 72840 11 March 15 March1,111  Russia
2003 6 Bled Slovenia Slovenia 72841 25 January 31 January1,242  Russia
2005 7 Monthey Switzerland Switzerland 83541 23 January 28 January1,184  Russia
2007 8 Jaca Spain Spain 62043 18 February 23 February1,284  Russia
2009 9 Silesia Poland Poland 93147 15 February 20 February1,615  Russia
2011 10 Liberec Czech Republic Czech Republic 82844 13 February 18 February1,492  Germany
2013 11 Braşov Romania Romania 83645 17 February 22 February1,465  Russia
2015 12 Vorarlberg
Vaduz
Austria Austria
Liechtenstein Liechtenstein
83045 25 January 30 January1,509  Russia
2017 13 Erzurum Turkey Turkey 93834 12 February 17 February1,241  Russia
2019 14 Sarajevo-East Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina 83246 10 February 15 February1,537  Norway
2022 15 Vuokatti Finland Finland 93946 20 March 25 March932  Finland
2023 16 Friuli Venezia Giulia Italy Italy 125947 21 January 28 January1,252  France
2025 17 Borjomi-Bakuriani Georgia (country) Georgia

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
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 jumping
Ski mountaineering
Snowboarding
Discontinued winter sports
Speed skating

All-time medal table

Combined medal table

From 1991 to 2023 European Youth Olympic Winter Festival.

European Youth Olympic Festival medal table
RankNOCGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Russia (RUS)369241199809
2 Italy (ITA)174160179513
3 Great Britain (GBR)155122121398
4 France (FRA)137139162438
5 Germany (GER)120151155426
6 Hungary (HUN)9888112298
7 Ukraine (UKR)808895263
8 Spain (ESP)767180227
9 Netherlands (NED)636491218
10 Romania (ROU)598974222
11 Sweden (SWE)576153171
12 Poland (POL)547196221
13 Slovenia (SLO)515361165
14 Finland (FIN)505460164
15 Austria (AUT)495770176
16 Norway (NOR)455756158
17 Belgium (BEL)445065159
18 Turkey (TUR)383652126
19 Switzerland (SUI)375765159
20 Czech Republic (CZE)344862144
21 Belarus (BLR)313156118
22 Azerbaijan (AZE)292351103
23 Croatia (CRO)28272782
24 Georgia (GEO)27254799
25 Denmark (DEN)22193172
26 Israel (ISR)22142258
27 Slovakia (SVK)18193572
28 Lithuania (LTU)18192158
29 Estonia (EST)15171244
30 Ireland (IRL)14282870
31 Portugal (POR)13141946
32 Latvia (LAT)12211851
33 Soviet Union (URS)125724
34 Serbia (SRB)11241449
35 Bulgaria (BUL)9231951
36 Greece (GRE)8162549
37 Moldova (MDA)881430
38 Cyprus (CYP)56718
39 Yugoslavia (YUG)43613
40 Luxembourg (LUX)4217
41 Czechoslovakia (TCH)2204
42 Iceland (ISL)2125
43 Serbia and Montenegro (SCG)1629
44 Armenia (ARM)12811
45 Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIH)1247
46 Montenegro (MNE)1214
47 Kosovo (KOS)1001
48 Albania (ALB)0011
 Andorra (AND)0011
 Malta (MLT)0011
Totals (50 entries)2109211623886613

See also

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.
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