2020 Winter Youth Olympics

The 2020 Winter Youth Olympic Games (; ; ; ), officially known as the III Winter Youth Olympic Games and commonly known as Lausanne 2020 (Italian and Romansh: Losanna 2020), were the third edition of the Winter Youth Olympics; a major international multi-sport event and cultural festival for teenagers that was held in Lausanne, Switzerland, the home of the International Olympic Committee, between 9 and 22 January 2020.

Bidding process

The bidding calendar was announced by the IOC on 6 June 2013, with the application deadline set for 28 November 2013.IOC opens bids for 2022 Olympic Winter Games, YOG 2020 International Olympic Committee - 06/06/2013 Lausanne (Switzerland) and Brașov (Romania) were the only two cities that submitted the bids and were selected as the final candidates.New horizons for Olympic Movement as Brasov and Lausanne bid for 2020 Winter Youth Olympic Games - International Olympic Committee - 27/11/2013

Host city selection

The IOC voted to select the host city of the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics on 31 July 2015 at the 128th IOC Session at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Lausanne was selected by 71 votes to 10, as it got at least 41 votes needed for a majority. – International Olympic Committee

+2020 Winter Youth Olympics bidding results City Nation VotesLausanne71Brașov10

Venues

Lausanne Vaudoise Aréna – Opening and closing ceremonies, Ice hockey finals CIG de Malley – Figure skating, Short Track Lausanne campus – Olympic village Le Flon – Medal ceremonies

Vallée de Joux Prémanon, France – Ski jumping, Biathlon, Nordic Combined Le Brassus – Cross-country Skiing

Alps Leysin – Ski Freestyle (Halfpipe, Slopestyle), Snowboard (Halfpipe, Slopestyle) Les Diablerets – Alpine skiing Villars-sur-Ollon – Ski Cross, Snowboard Cross, Ski Mountaineering Champéry, Valais – Curling St. Moritz, Graubünden – Speed skating, Bobsleigh, Skeleton, Luge, Medal ceremonies

The Games

Sports The Youth Olympic Games featured 8 sports and 16 disciplines. 81 events took place which included 13 mixed team events (NOCs), 34 men's events, and 34 women's events. Ski mountaineering and women's Nordic combined was featured for the first time in an Olympic event. A mixed-NOC 3-on-3 ice hockey tournament and a women's doubles event in luge were also contested for the first time.

Participating National Olympic Committees A total of 1,788 athletes from 79 nations qualified, the most for any edition of a Winter Youth Olympics. 12 NOCs made their Winter Youth Olympics debuts: Albania, Azerbaijan, Ecuador, Haiti, Hong Kong, Kosovo, Pakistan, Qatar, Singapore, Thailand, Trinidad and Tobago, and Turkmenistan. Qatar and Turkmenistan have never competed at the Winter Olympics and Haiti competed at the 2022 Winter Olympics. Participating National Olympic Committees Number of athletes by National Olympic Committee IOC Letter Code Country Athletes SUI 112 RUS 104 USA 96 GER 90 CAN 78 CZE 74 JPN 72 ITA 67 AUT 63 FRA 61 NOR 55 CHN 53 FIN 52 SWE 51 SVK 49 POL 45 KOR 40 SLO 39 UKR 39 ROU 35 AUS 33 LAT 30 GBR 28 DEN 26 KAZ 26 EST 25 ESP 24 HUN 23 NZL 20 BLR 19 BUL 18 ARG 16 LTU 15 NED 15 TPE 14 TUR 14 BRA 12 GRE 12 CRO 10 GEO 10 BEL 9 BIH 9 CHI 8 MEX 7 IRI 6 MGL 6 SRB 6 LIE 5 MDA 5 MKD 5 THA 5 HKG 4 ISL 4 LUX 4 AND 3 ISR 3 LBN 3 SGP 3 MAS 2 COL 2 IRL 2 KOS 2 KGZ 2 MNE 2 PHI 2 POR 2 RSA 2 ALB 1 ARM 1 AZE 1 CYP 1 ECU 1 HAI 1 PAK 1 QAT 1 SMR 1 TTO 1 TKM 1 UZB 1

Calendar All dates are CET (UTC+1) OCOpening ceremony●Event competitions1Event finalsEGExhibition GalaCCClosing ceremony

January9Thu10Fri11Sat12Sun13Mon14Tue15Wed16Thu17Fri18Sat19Sun20Mon21Tue22WedEvents Ceremonies OC CC Alpine skiing | | style="background-color:#ffcc00;" |2 | style="background-color:#ffcc00;" |2 | style="background-color:#ffcc00;" |1 | style="background-color:#ffcc00;" |1 | style="background-color:#ffcc00;" |2 | style="background-color:#ffcc00;" |1

| 9 Biathlon

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| 6 Bobsleigh

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| 2 Cross-country skiing

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| 5 Freestyle skiing

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| 5 Nordic combined

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| style="background-color:#ffcc00;" |1 | 3 Short track speed skating

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| 2 Ski jumping

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| 3 Ski mountaineering | | style="background-color:#ffcc00;" |2

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| 5 Snowboarding

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| 7Total events 4 4 6 7 5 6 3 2 10 8 12 6 8 81Cumulative total 4 8 14 21 26 32 35 37 47 55 67 73 81 January9Thu10Fri11Sat12Sun13Mon14Tue15Wed16Thu17Fri18Sat19Sun20Mon21Tue22WedEvents

Medal table

Athlete Rolemodels

SportsMale RolemodelsFemale Rolemodels Alpine skiing Sandro Viletta () Verena Stuffer () Biathlon Henrik L'Abée-Lund () Marie-Laure Brunet () Bobsleigh – Jamie Greubel Poser () Cross-country skiing Gianluca Cologna () Maria Danou () Curling John Morris () Marlene Albrecht () Figure skating Patrick Chan () Sarah Meier-van Berkel (Nathalie Péchalat ()) Freestyle skiing – Hannah Kearney () Ice hockey Mark Streit () Florence Schelling () Luge Gregory Carigiet () Tatjana Hüfner () Nordic combined – Tara Geraghty-Moats () Short track speed skating Viktor Knoch () – Skeleton Pascal Oswald () – Ski jumping Jernej Damjan () – Ski mountaineering Yannick Ecoeur () Ekaterina Osichkina () Snowboarding Alex Deibold () – Speed skating Livio Wenger () Vanessa Herzog ()

Records

Opening ceremony The opening ceremony of the 2020 Winter Youth Olympic Games took place on the evening of Thursday 9 January 2020 at the Vaudoise Aréna, in Lausanne.

Closing ceremony The closing ceremony of the 2020 Winter Youth Olympic Games took place on the evening of Thursday 22 January 2020 at the Medals Plaza Lausanne. The ceremony featured the flag handover from mayor of Lausanne Grégoire Junod to IOC President Thomas Bach and to the governor of Gangwon Choi Moon-soon as host of the 2024 Winter Youth Olympics and the extinguishing of the Youth Olympic flame.

Marketing

Mascot

Yodli the official mascot was unveiled on 8 January 2019 at CIG de Malley before the match between Lausanne HC and HC Davos. Yodli is inspired by a combination of a cow, a Saint Bernard dog, and a goat, and was created by ERACOM. Blue represents the Swiss lakes.

Colours Magenta, Sky Blue

Tickets It was announced that all events apart from the opening ceremony would be free to watch in January 2020.

Media coverage - Eurosport - Mediacorp (delay) – Plan B - Unifi TV - Olympic Channel - Marca Claro (online), TUDN (Delay) - BBC iPlayer (online)

See also Lausanne bid for the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics

References

External links

Official IOC website Results Book