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
Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Bruss ...
in 1991, and a winter edition, which began two years later in
Aosta
Aosta (, , ; french: Aoste , formerly ; frp, Aoûta , ''Veulla'' or ''Ouhta'' ; lat, Augusta Praetoria Salassorum; wae, Augschtal; pms, Osta) is the principal city of Aosta Valley, a bilingual region in the Italian Alps, north-northwest of ...
. It was known as the ''European Youth Olympic Days'' from 1991 to 1999.
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History
The event is run by the
European Olympic Committees, under the patronage of the
International Olympic Committee
The International Olympic Committee (IOC; french: link=no, Comité international olympique, ''CIO'') is a non-governmental sports organisation based in Lausanne, Switzerland. It is constituted in the form of an association under the Swiss ...
, 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
Winter
Sports
Summer Games
Winter Games
All-time medal table
Summer Games
Summer editions, from
1991
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to
2023 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival
The 2023 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival will be the 17th edition of the European Youth Summer Olympic Festival, and will be held in Maribor, Slovenia, between 23 and 29 July 2023. The festival was originally supposed to take place in Koper ...
.
Winter Games
Winter editions, from 1993 to
2023 European Youth Olympic Winter Festival.
Combined medal table
From 1991 to
2023 European Youth Olympic Winter Festival.
See also
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European Para Youth Games
The European Para Youth Games (EPYG) is a biennial multi-sport event for young parasports, para-athletes aged between 13 and 23 from the member countries of the European Paralympic Committee (EPC).
Editions
2019
Italy topped the medal table wit ...
(EPYG)
*
European Games
*
Youth Olympic Games
*
Australian Youth Olympic Festival
The Australian Youth Olympics Festival (AYOF) is an international multi-sport event organised by the Australian Olympic Committee
Australian(s) may refer to:
Australia
* Australia, a country
* Australians, citizens of the Commonwealth of Aust ...
(AYOF)
*
Asian Youth Games
The Asian Youth Games, also known as AYG, is a multi-sport event held every four years among athletes from all over Asia. The Games have been organized by the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA). The Games are described as the second largest multi-sp ...
(AYG)
*
South American Youth Games The South American Youth Olympic Games (Spanish: ''Juegos Suramericanos de la Juventud''; Portuguese: ''Jogos Sul-Americanos da Juventude'') is a regional multi-sport event organized by the Organización Deportiva Suramericana (ODESUR). The games a ...
*
Pan American Youth Games
References
External links
Official website
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