HOME

TheInfoList



OR:

The European Youth Olympic Festival (EYOF) is a biennial
multi-sport event A multi-sport event is an organized sporting event, often held over multiple days, featuring competition in many different sports among organized teams of athletes from (mostly) nation-states. The first major, modern, multi-sport event of interna ...
for youth (14 to 18 years old) athletes from the 50 member countries of the association of
European Olympic Committees The European Olympic Committees is an organisation based in Rome, Italy, consisting of 50 National Olympic Committees from the continent of Europe.EOC members include transcontinental countries Turkey and the Russian Federation, as well as Israel, ...
. 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.Bell, Daniel (2003). ''Encyclopedia of International Games''. McFarland and Company, Inc. Publishers, Jefferson, North Carolina. .


History

The event is run by the
European Olympic Committees The European Olympic Committees is an organisation based in Rome, Italy, consisting of 50 National Olympic Committees from the continent of Europe.EOC members include transcontinental countries Turkey and the Russian Federation, as well as Israel, ...
, 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 The European Games is a continental multi-sport event in the Olympic tradition contested by athletes from European nations and several transcontinental countries. The Games were envisioned and are governed by the European Olympic Committees ...
by some 24 years, and the
Youth Olympic Games The Youth Olympic Games (YOG) is an international multi-sport event for athletes between 15 and 18 years old, organized by the International Olympic Committee. The games are held every four years in staggered summer and winter events consiste ...
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 The European Athletics U20 Championships (formerly named the European Athletics Junior Championships up to 2015) are the European championships for athletes who are under-20 athletes, which is the age range recognised by World Athletics as ju ...
which are organised by sporting federations.


Editions


Summer


Winter


Sports


Summer Games


Winter Games


All-time medal table


Summer Games

Summer editions, from
1991 File:1991 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Boris Yeltsin, elected as Russia's first president, waves the new flag of Russia after the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, orchestrated by Soviet hardliners; Mount Pinatubo erupts in the Phi ...
to
2022 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival The 2022 European Youth Olympic Festival, European Youth Summer Olympic Festival was held in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia, between 24 and 30 July 2022. Host selection Košice was originally to be host city but withdrew from the hosting in April 20 ...
.


Winter Games

Winter editions, from 1993 to
2022 European Youth Olympic Winter Festival The 2022 European Youth Olympic Festival, European Youth Olympic Winter Festival was held in Vuokatti, Finland, between 20 and 25 March 2022. The festival was postponed from original dates in February to December 2021. Later it was announced tha ...
.


Combined medal table

From 1991 to
2022 European Youth Olympic Winter Festival The 2022 European Youth Olympic Festival, European Youth Olympic Winter Festival was held in Vuokatti, Finland, between 20 and 25 March 2022. The festival was postponed from original dates in February to December 2021. Later it was announced tha ...
.


See also

* European Para Youth Games (EPYG) *
European Games The European Games is a continental multi-sport event in the Olympic tradition contested by athletes from European nations and several transcontinental countries. The Games were envisioned and are governed by the European Olympic Committees ...
*
Youth Olympic Games The Youth Olympic Games (YOG) is an international multi-sport event for athletes between 15 and 18 years old, organized by the International Olympic Committee. The games are held every four years in staggered summer and winter events consiste ...
* Australian Youth Olympic Festival (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 ...


References


External links


Official website
{{Multi-sport events Recurring sporting events established in 1991 European youth sports competitions Youth multi-sport events Multi-sport events in Europe Sports festivals in Europe