European Youth Olympic Festival

The European Youth Olympic Festival (EYOF) is a biennial multi-sport event for youth (14 to 18 years old) 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.

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

2007

2009

2011

2013

2015

2017

2019

2022

2023

2025

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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	9	70	33	12 July	21 July	2084	France
1993	2	Valkenswaard	Netherlands	10	86	43	3 July	9 July	1874	Russia
1995	3	Bath	Great Britain	10	86	47	9 July	14 July	1709	Great Britain
1997	4	Lisbon	Portugal	10	86	47	18 July	24 July	2500	Russia
1999	5	Esbjerg	Denmark	11	84	48	10 July	16 July	2324	Russia
2001	6	Murcia	Spain	10	90	48	3 July	9 July	2500	Russia
2003	7	Paris	France	10	95	48	28 July	2 August	2500	Russia
2005	8	Lignano Sabbiadoro	Italy	11	109	48	3 July	8 July	3965	Russia
2007	9	Belgrade	Serbia	11	100	49	22 July	27 July	3000	Russia
2009	10	Tampere	Finland	9	109	49	19 July	26 July	3302	Russia
2011	11	Trabzon	Turkey	9	109	49	24 July	29 July	3138	Russia
2013	12	Utrecht	Netherlands	9	111	49	14 July	19 July	3143	Russia
2015	13	Tbilisi	Georgia	9	112	50	26 July	1 August	3304	Russia
2017	14	Győr	Hungary	10	130	50	22 July	30 July	3675	Russia
2019	15	Baku	Azerbaijan	10	135	50	20 July	28 July	3902	Russia
2022	16	Banská Bystrica	Slovakia	10	120	48	24 July	30 July	2253	Italy
2023	17	Maribor	Slovenia	12			23 July	29 July
2025	18	Brno	Czech Republic

Winter

1993

1995

1997

1999

2001, 2022

2003

2005

2007

2009

2011

2013

2015

2015

2017

2019

2023

2025

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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	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	1111	Russia
2003	6	Bled	Slovenia	7	28	41	25 January	31 January	1242	Russia
2005	7	Monthey	Switzerland	8	35	41	23 January	28 January	1184	Russia
2007	8	Jaca	Spain	6	20	43	18 February	23 February	1284	Russia
2009	9	Silesia	Poland	9	31	47	15 February	20 February	1615	Russia
2011	10	Liberec	Czech Republic	8	28	44	13 February	18 February	1492	Germany
2013	11	Braşov	Romania	8	36	45	17 February	22 February	1465	Russia
2015	12	Vorarlberg Vaduz	Austria Liechtenstein	8	30	45	25 January	30 January	1509	Russia
2017	13	Erzurum	Turkey	9	38	34	12 February	17 February	1241	Russia
2019	14	Sarajevo-East Sarajevo	Bosnia and Herzegovina	8	32	46	10 February	15 February	1537	Norway
2022	15	Vuokatti	Finland	9	39	46	20 March	25 March	932	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		•	•				•		•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•
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 2022 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)	154	121	121	396
3	Italy (ITA)	133	109	141	383
4	France (FRA)	93	96	112	301
5	Hungary (HUN)	81	79	104	264
6	Germany (GER)	79	108	117	304
7	Ukraine (UKR)	73	76	78	227
8	Spain (ESP)	71	71	79	221
9	Romania (ROU)	58	87	70	215
10	Netherlands (NED)	53	55	79	187
11	Poland (POL)	44	53	75	172
12	Belgium (BEL)	43	47	62	152
13	Turkey (TUR)	38	33	50	121
14	Sweden (SWE)	31	34	34	99
15	Belarus (BLR)	29	27	50	106
16	Azerbaijan (AZE)	29	23	51	103
17	Georgia (GEO)	27	23	46	96
18	Croatia (CRO)	25	26	26	77
19	Slovenia (SLO)	23	33	40	96
20	Denmark (DEN)	22	18	30	70
21	Israel (ISR)	21	14	20	55
22	Finland (FIN)	20	26	26	72
23	Czech Republic (CZE)	18	31	43	92
24	Lithuania (LTU)	17	16	21	54
25	Switzerland (SUI)	16	27	31	74
26	Slovakia (SVK)	15	15	28	58
27	Ireland (IRL)	14	28	28	70
28	Portugal (POR)	13	14	19	46
29	Estonia (EST)	13	11	9	33
30	Austria (AUT)	12	19	31	62
31	Soviet Union (URS)	12	5	7	24
32	Serbia (SRB)	11	22	14	47
33	Latvia (LAT)	10	18	16	44
34	Norway (NOR)	8	18	16	42
35	Bulgaria (BUL)	8	17	17	42
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)	3	1	1	5
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)		1623	1624	1913	5160

Winter Games

Winter editions, from 1993 to 2022 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	Germany (GER)	37	38	41	116
3	France (FRA)	37	36	45	118
4	Norway (NOR)	37	34	39	110
5	Italy (ITA)	35	43	31	109
6	Austria (AUT)	31	36	30	97
7	Finland (FIN)	27	24	32	83
8	Sweden (SWE)	23	22	13	58
9	Slovenia (SLO)	22	16	20	58
10	Switzerland (SUI)	15	27	31	73
11	Czech Republic (CZE)	12	16	13	41
12	Hungary (HUN)	11	8	7	26
13	Netherlands (NED)	10	7	11	28
14	Poland (POL)	9	11	15	35
15	Great Britain (GBR)	4	2	9	15
16	Slovakia (SVK)	3	2	7	12
17	Croatia (CRO)	3	1	1	5
18	Ukraine (UKR)	2	10	6	18
19	Belarus (BLR)	2	4	6	12
20	Estonia (EST)	2	4	2	8
21	Spain (ESP)	2	0	1	3
22	Bulgaria (BUL)	1	4	1	6
23	Belgium (BEL)	1	3	3	7
24	Lithuania (LTU)	1	3	0	4
25	Romania (ROU)	1	2	4	7
26	Latvia (LAT)	1	1	1	3
27	Luxembourg (LUX)	1	1	0	2
28	Turkey (TUR)	0	3	2	5
29	Denmark (DEN)	0	1	1	2
	Georgia (GEO)	0	1	1	2
31	Serbia (SRB)	0	1	0	1
32	Israel (ISR)	0	0	2	2
Totals (32 entries)		427	427	425	1279

Combined medal table

From 1991 to 2022 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)	168	152	172	492
3	Great Britain (GBR)	154	121	121	396
4	France (FRA)	130	133	158	421
5	Germany (GER)	116	146	147	409
6	Hungary (HUN)	92	87	111	290
7	Ukraine (UKR)	79	88	93	260
8	Spain (ESP)	73	71	80	224
9	Netherlands (NED)	63	62	90	215
10	Romania (ROU)	59	89	74	222
11	Sweden (SWE)	54	56	47	157
12	Poland (POL)	53	64	90	207
13	Finland (FIN)	47	50	58	155
14	Slovenia (SLO)	45	53	61	159
15	Norway (NOR)	45	52	55	152
16	Belgium (BEL)	44	50	65	159
17	Austria (AUT)	43	55	61	159
18	Turkey (TUR)	38	36	52	126
19	Switzerland (SUI)	31	54	62	147
20	Belarus (BLR)	31	31	56	118
21	Czech Republic (CZE)	30	47	56	133
22	Azerbaijan (AZE)	29	23	51	103
23	Croatia (CRO)	28	27	27	82
24	Georgia (GEO)	27	24	47	98
25	Denmark (DEN)	22	19	31	72
26	Israel (ISR)	21	14	22	57
27	Lithuania (LTU)	18	19	21	58
28	Slovakia (SVK)	18	17	35	70
29	Estonia (EST)	15	15	11	41
30	Ireland (IRL)	14	28	28	70
31	Portugal (POR)	13	14	19	46
32	Soviet Union (URS)	12	5	7	24
33	Serbia (SRB)	11	23	14	48
34	Latvia (LAT)	11	19	17	47
35	Bulgaria (BUL)	9	21	18	48
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)		2050	2056	2329	6435

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

External links

• Official website