The 2022

European Youth Summer 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 fir ...

was held in

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, between 24 and 30 July 2022.

Host selection

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was originally to be host city but withdrew from the hosting in April 2019 due to financial concerns.

was chosen as the new host city in May 2019. Originally scheduled to run from 24 July to 1 August 2021, on 7 May 2020 it was announced that the games will be moved to 2022 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Sports

The following competitions took place:

Venues

Schedule

The competition schedule for the 2022 European Youth Olympic Summer Festival was as follows:

Participant nations

A total of 2,252 athletes from 48 NOCs competed at these games. One refugee athlete, originally from Syria, and at that time based in Austria, also competed. As a result of the

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, on 2 March 2022, in accordance with a recommendation by the

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(IOC), EOC suspended the participation of

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and

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from 2022 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival.

Medal table

References

External links

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