European Youth Olympic Festival

European Youth Olympic Festival
Official logo of the Games
Editions of EYOF
Summer 1991 1993 1995 1997 1999 2001 2003 2005 2007 2009 2011 2013 2015 2017 Winter 1993 1995 1997 1999 2001 2003 2005 2007 2009 2011 2013 2015 2017
EYOF Sports (details)
Summer Athletics Basketball Cycling Field hockey Gymnastics Football Handball Judo Swimming Table tennis Tennis Volleyball Winter Alpine skiing Biathlon Cross-country skiing Figure skating Ice hockey Nordic combined Short track speed skating Ski jumping Snowboarding

The European Youth Olympic Festival (EYOF) is a biennial multi-sport event for youth athletes from the 48 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 at the European Youth Olympic Days from 1991 to 1999.^[1]

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 editions : 1991 – Brussels, Belgium 1993 – Valkenswaard, Netherlands 1995 – Bath, United Kingdom 1997 – Lisbon, Portugal 1999 – Esbjerg, Denmark 2001 – Murcia, Spain 2003 – Paris, France 2005 – Lignano Sabbiadoro, Italy 2007 – Belgrade, Serbia 2009 – Tampere, Finland 2011 – Trabzon, Turkey 2013 – Utrecht, Netherlands 2015 – Tbilisi, Georgia 2017 – Győr, Hungary 2019 – Minsk, Belarus[2]

Winter editions : 1993 – Aosta, Italy 1995 – Andorra la Vella, Andorra 1997 – Sundsvall, Sweden 1999 – Poprad-Tatry, Slovakia 2001 – Vuokatti, Finland 2003 – Bled, Slovenia 2005 – Monthey, Switzerland 2007 – Jaca, Spain 2009 – Upper Silesia, Poland 2011 – Liberec, Czech Republic 2013 – Brașov, Romania 2015 – Vorarlberg, Austria and Vaduz, Liechtenstein[3] 2017 – Erzurum, Turkey[2] 2019 – Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina[4]

Participating nations

• Belgium at the European Youth Olympic Festivals

See also

• Athletics at the European Youth Olympic Festival
• Figure skating at the European Youth Olympic Festival
• Serbia at the European Youth Olympic Festival
• Turkey at the European Youth Olympic Festival
• Australian Youth Olympic Festival (AYOF)
• Asian Youth Games (AYG)
• European Games

References

1. Bell, Daniel (2003). Encyclopedia of International Games. McFarland and Company, Inc. Publishers, Jefferson, North Carolina. ISBN 0-7864-1026-4.
2. "EYOF 2019 in Türkei und Weißrussland". Der Deutsche Olympische Sportbund. Retrieved 26 November 2014.
3. "European Committees Close Belgrade Meeting". Around the Rings. 27 November 2010.
4. "Olimpijske igre se vraćaju kući". Al Jazeera Balkans. 8 December 2012.

External links

• The European Youth Olympic Festival at the European Olympic Committees website