2025 European Youth Olympic Winter Festival

2025 European Youth Winter Olympic Festival

Host city	Bakuriani,Georgia
Country	Georgia
Motto	Ready To Shine
Nations	45
Athletes	901
Sport	8
Events	38
Opening	9 February 2025
Closing	16 February 2025
Opened by	Mikheil Kavelashvili
Torch lighter	Koba Tsakadze Anastasia Mirianashvili
Website	www.eyof2025.ge
Summer
←  Maribor 2023 Skopje 2025  →
Winter
←  Friuli-Venezia Giulia 2023 Brașov 2027  →

The 2025 European Youth Olympic Winter Festival was the 17th edition of the European Youth Winter Olympic Festival, held from 9 to 16 February 2025 in Bakuriani, Georgia, as main host city. In addition to Bakurani, events taken place in Batumi and Tbilisi. This was Georgia's first time as host of the winter festival, and the second time hosting the festival after the summer edition in 2015 in Tbilisi.

Bidding process

On 26 October 2019 it was announced that the festival would be hosted by Bakuriani. ^[1]

Sports

The following competitions will take place: ^[2]

2025 European Youth Olympic Winter Festival Sports Programme
Alpine skiing (5) ( details )   Biathlon (6) ( details )   Cross-country skiing (7) ( details )   Figure skating (2) ( details )   Freestyle skiing (4) ( details )   Ice hockey (2) ( details )   Short-track speed skating (7) ( details )   Snowboarding (4) ( details )

For infrastructure reasons, this edition will only have mandatory sports in its program

Venues

Venue	Location	Sports
Bakuriani Biathlon-Cross Country Stadium	Bakuriani	Opening ceremony
		Closing ceremony
		Cross-country skiing
Didveli		Freestyle skiing
		Alpine skiing
		Snowboarding
Batumi Ice Arena	Batumi	Figure skating
		Short-track speed skating
Tbilisi Ice Arena	Tbilisi	Ice hockey

Marketing

Logo

The logo is depicting a fusion of the old Asomtavruli alphabet and traditional Georgian ornaments.

Mascot

The official mascot, a Caucasian lynx named Gunda, was unveiled on 28 February 2024. The name is based on the Georgian word for Snowball. ^[3]

Schedule

The competition schedule for the 2025 European Youth Olympic Winter Festival is as follows:

OC

Opening ceremony

1

Event finals

CC

Closing ceremony

●

Event competitions

February	6 Thu	7 Fri	8 Sat	9 Sun	10 Mon	11 Tue	12 Wed	13 Thu	14 Fri	15 Sat	16 Sun	Events
Ceremonies				OC							CC
Alpine skiing					1	1		1	1		1	5
Biathlon					2		1		2		1	6
Cross-country skiing						2		2		2	1	7
Figure skating							●	1	1			2
Freestyle skiing					●		2		●	2		4
Ice hockey	●	●	●	●	1		●	●	●	●	1	2
Short-track speed skating					2	2				3		7
Snowboarding						●	2		●	2		4
Total events					6	5	5	4	4	9	4	37
Cumulative total					6	11	16	20	24	33	37
February	6 Thu	7 Fri	8 Sat	9 Sun	10 Mon	11 Tue	12 Wed	13 Thu	14 Fri	15 Sat	16 Sun	Events

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Georgia)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Italy	7	6	3	16
2	France	5	9	5	19
3	Switzerland	4	0	7	11
4	Great Britain	3	0	2	5
	Ukraine	3	0	2	5
6	Poland	2	2	0	4
7	Norway	2	1	1	4
	Slovakia	2	1	1	4
9	Spain	2	1	0	3
10	Estonia	1	4	1	6
11	Czech Republic	1	3	3	7
12	Sweden	1	2	2	5
13	Hungary	1	1	2	4
14	Austria	1	1	1	3
15	Georgia*	1	0	0	1
	Netherlands	1	0	0	1
17	Finland	0	3	1	4
18	Germany	0	1	3	4
19	Denmark	0	1	0	1
	Slovenia	0	1	0	1
21	Turkey	0	0	2	2
22	Croatia	0	0	1	1
Totals (22 entries)		37	37	37	111

Source:

Participant nations

901 athletes from 45 nations are expected to participate: [4]

Participating National Olympic Committees (45)

Albania (1)   Armenia (6)   Austria (53)   Azerbaijan (1)   Belgium (8)   Bosnia and Herzegovina (2)   Bulgaria (16)   Croatia (14)   Cyprus (2)   Czech Republic (79)   Denmark (11)   Estonia (23)   Finland (53)   France (37)   Georgia (11)   Germany (6) Great Britain (20)   Greece (12)   Hungary (21)   Iceland (16)   Ireland (4)   Israel (3)   Italy (57)   Kosovo (2)   Latvia (42)   Liechtenstein (4)   Lithuania (16)   Moldova (3)   Monaco (1)   Montenegro (1)   Netherlands (11)   North Macedonia (4)   Norway (17)   Poland (32)   Portugal (2)   Romania (20)   San Marino (3)   Serbia (4)   Slovakia (62)   Slovenia (32)   Spain (13)   Sweden (33)   Switzerland (75)   Turkey (18)   Ukraine (50)

References

1. "Georgia and Czech Republic to host 2025 European Youth Olympic Festivals". 26 October 2019. Archived from the original on 19 December 2024. Retrieved 25 December 2024.
2. "Sports Bakuriani – Bakuriani 2025 – Sport Europe" . Retrieved 25 December 2024.
3. "Excitement builds as Bakuriani 2025 official mascot and anthem revealed in Georgia". The European Olympic Committees. 28 February 2024. Retrieved 25 December 2024.
4. "Athletes". EYOF 2025 Bakuriani. Retrieved 10 February 2025.

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