EOC Refugee Team at the European Youth Olympic Festival | |
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IOC code | ERT |
NOC | European Olympic Committees |
Medals |
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The EOC Refugee Team has participated at the European Youth Olympic Festival summer editions in 2019, 2022 and 2023. [1] The team competes under the flag of the European Olympic Committees and uses the code “ERT”.
One refugee athlete competed at the 2019 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival in Baku, Azerbaijan. [2] [3] [4]
Athlete | Country of origin | Host NOC | Sport | Event |
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Nazret Kobodom | ![]() | ![]() | Athletics | Girls 3000m |
One refugee athlete competed at the 2022 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia. [5] [6] [7]
Athlete | Country of origin | Host NOC | Sport | Event |
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Molham Hawana [8] | ![]() | ![]() | Athletics | Boys javelin |
Rank | Name | Nationality | Round | Mark | Notes | |||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | |||||
7 | Molham Hawana | ![]() | 56.87 | x | x | 55.02 | 54.18 | 51.76 | 56.87 |
One refugee athlete competed at the 2023 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival in Maribor, Slovenia. [9]
Athlete | Country of origin | Host NOC | Sport | Event |
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S. Baba Swaray [10] | ![]() | Athletics | Boys 800m | |
Games | Athletes | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total | Rank |
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![]() | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - |
![]() | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - |
![]() | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - |
Total | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - |
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