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 is set to have Bakuriani, Georgia, as main host city. The event is held between 9 and 16 February 2025. In addition to Bakurani, events will take place in Batumi and Tbilisi. This would be 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.

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

The following competitions will take place:^[2]

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

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

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]

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

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

  *   Host nation (Georgia)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	France	3	3	3	9
2	Italy	2	2	1	5
3	Switzerland	2	0	3	5
4	Poland	1	2	0	3
5	Czech Republic	1	1	0	2
	Estonia	1	1	0	2
7	Ukraine	1	0	2	3
8	Great Britain	1	0	1	2
	Slovakia	1	0	1	2
	Sweden	1	0	1	2
11	Netherlands	1	0	0	1
	Spain	1	0	0	1
13	Finland	0	2	0	2
14	Germany	0	1	1	2
	Hungary	0	1	1	2
	Norway	0	1	1	2
17	Austria	0	1	0	1
	Denmark	0	1	0	1
19	Croatia	0	0	1	1
Totals (19 entries)		16	16	16	48

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

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