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.
Sports The following competitions will take place: 2025 European Youth Olympic Winter Festival Sports Programme For infrastructure reasons, this edition will only have mandatory sports in its program
Venues VenueLocationSportsBakuriani Biathlon-Cross Country StadiumBakurianiOpening ceremonyClosing ceremonyCross-country skiingDidveliFreestyle skiingAlpine skiingSnowboardingBatumi Ice ArenaBatumiFigure skatingShort-track speed skatingTbilisi Ice ArenaTbilisiIce 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.
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 February6Thu7Fri8Sat9Sun10Mon11Tue12Wed13Thu14Fri15Sat16SunEventsCeremonies OC CC Alpine skiing111115 Biathlon21216 Cross-country skiing22217 Figure skating●112 Freestyle skiing●2●24 Ice hockey●●●●1●●●●12 Short-track speed skating2237 Snowboarding●2●24Total events655449437Cumulative total6111620243337February6Thu7Fri8Sat9Sun10Mon11Tue12Wed13Thu14Fri15Sat16SunEvents
Medal table
Participant nations 901 athletes from 45 nations are expected to participate: Participating National Olympic Committees (45) (1) (6) (53) (1) (8) (2) (16) (14) (2) (79) (11) (23) (53) (37) (11) (6) Great Britain (20) (12) (21) (16) (4) (3) (57) (2) (42) (4) (16) (3) (1) (1) (11) (4) (17) (32) (2) (20) (3) (4) (62) (32) (13) (33) (75) (18) (50)
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