Friuli-Venezia Giulia is one of the 20 regions of Italy and one of five autonomous regions with special statute. The regional capital is Trieste on the Gulf of Trieste, a bay of the Adriatic Sea.
The European Youth Olympic Festival (EYOF) is a biennial multi-sport event for youth athletes from the 50 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 as the European Youth Olympic Days from 1991 to 1999.
European Youth Olympic Festival is a multi-sport event held in both summer and winter disciplines every second year. Figure skating is one of the sports in its winter edition. The competition is held in junior category.
The 2013 European Youth Olympic Winter Festival was an international multi-sport event held between 17 and 22 February 2013, in Braşov, Romania, with some of the events also held in Râșnov, Predeal and Fundata. It was the 11th edition of the European Youth Olympic Winter Festival.
The 2019 European Youth Olympic Winter Festival was held in Sarajevo & Istočno Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina from 10 to 15 February 2019.
Germany competed at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, from 9 to 25 February 2018, with 153 competitors in 14 sports. They won 31 medals in total, 14 gold, 10 silver and 7 bronze, ranking second in the medal table after Norway at the 2018 Winter Olympics. Germany excelled in ice track events, biathlon, Nordic combined and Ski jumping. The men's ice hockey team took a silver medal, having lost a closely contested final to Olympic Athletes from Russia.
FVG Project was a centre-right political party active in Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy.
The 2023 European Youth Olympic Winter Festival was held in Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy, between 21 and 28 January 2023. This was Italy's second time as host of the winter festival after Aosta 1993. As the 2003 Winter Universiade, in addition of Italy, several events were held in Austria and Slovenia.
The 2023 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival or simply EYOF 2023, also known as Maribor 2023, was the 17th edition of the European Youth Summer Olympic Festival, held from 23 to 29 July 2023 in Maribor, Slovenia. The festival was originally supposed to take place in Koper, Slovenia. In June 2021, Maribor was announced as the new host city after Koper withdrew its candidacy.
The 2022 Russian Figure Skating Championships were held from 21 to 26 December 2021 in Saint Petersburg. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, women's singles, pairs, and ice dance. The results were among the criteria used to select Russia's teams to the 2022 European Championships and 2022 Winter Olympics.
Figure skating at the 2022 European Youth Olympic Winter Festival was held from 20 to 25 March 2022 at the Vuokatti Arena in Vuokatti, Finland. Medals were awarded in boys' and girls' singles. To be eligible, skaters must have been born between 1 July 2004 and 30 June 2006.
Athletics at the 2022 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival was held at the SNP Stadium in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia, from 25 to 30 July 2022.
The EOC Refugee Team has participated at the European Youth Olympic Festival summer editions in 2019, 2022 and 2023. The team competes under the flag of the European Olympic Committees and uses the code “ERT”.
The 2023 Russian Figure Skating Championships were held from 20 to 25 December 2022 in Krasnoyarsk. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, women's singles, pairs, and ice dance.
The 2023 German Figure Skating Championships were held on January 5–7, 2023 at the Eissportzentrum Oberstdorf in Oberstdorf. Skaters competed in the disciplines of men's singles and ladies' singles on the senior level and pair skating and ice dance on the senior, junior, and novice levels. Single skating competitions on the junior and novice levels were held on December 16-18, 2022 at the Eissportzentrum Oberstdorf in Oberstdorf.
Nela Lopušanová is a Slovak ice hockey player, a winger, currently playing in the Slovak premier under-16 league, the Liga starších žiakov AA, with the U16 team of VLCI Žilina and in the Slovak Women's Extraliga with MsHKM Žilina ženy. She gained the attention of the international ice hockey community at age fourteen with her remarkable performance at the 2023 IIHF Ice Hockey U18 Women's World Championship, which included scoring the first Michigan goal at an IIHF women's event.
Freestyle skiing at the 2023 European Youth Olympic Winter Festival was held from 22 to 27 January at Ski Area Ravascletto Zoncolan in Ravascletto, Italy. This was the first time freestyle skiing has been included in the EYOF programme.
Ice hockey at the 2023 European Youth Olympic Winter Festival comprised two ice hockey tournaments – a boys' under-17 tournament and a girls' under-16 tournament – during the Friuli-Venezia Giulia 2023 edition of the European Youth Olympic Festival (EYOF). Both tournaments were held during 22 to 27 January 2023. The boys' tournament was played in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region of Italy at the Fiera di Udine in Udine and the girls' tournament was played at the Eissportarena in Spittal an der Drau, Austria, the only event of the festival to be held in Austria.
The 2022 German Figure Skating Championships were held on December 9–11, 2021 at the Eissporthalle Neuss in Neuss. Skaters competed in the disciplines of men's singles and ladies' singles on the senior level and pair skating and ice dance on the senior, junior, and novice levels. Single skating competitions on the junior and novice levels were held on December 17–19, 2021 at the Eissportzentrum Westfalen in Dortmund. The results of the national championships were among the criteria used to choose the German teams for the 2022 European Championships, 2022 Winter Olympics, 2022 European Youth Olympic Winter Festival, 2022 World Championships and 2022 Junior World Championships.
The Judo event at the 2023 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival was held at the Lukna Hall arena in Maribor, Slovenia, from 25 to 29 July 2023. An NOC could have been represented by up to 12 athletes, given that no more than 1 of them participates in any weight class. The final day of competition featured a mixed team event, won by team Turkey.
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