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.

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

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
• 2017 – Sarajevo,
• 2019 – Erzurum, Turkey

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

External links

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