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2017 European Youth Olympic Winter Festival

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Host city
  
Athletes participating
  
646

Opening ceremony
  
12 February

Nations participating
  
34

Events
  
38

Closing ceremony
  
17 February

The 2017 European Youth Olympic Winter Festival will be held in Erzurum, Turkey from 12 to 17 February 2017.

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The event had initially been planned for Sarajevo and East Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, whereas the 2019 EYOF had been planned for Erzurum. In November 2015, the two cities agreed to swap their events, since Sarajevo could not be ready in time, while Erzurum already had facilities in place from the 2011 Winter Universiade.

Schedule

The competition schedule for the 2017 European Youth Olympic Winter Festival is as follows:

Participating nations

34 national federations sent a total of 646 athletes. The numbers in parenthesis represent the number of participants.

Mascot

The mascot of 2017 European Youth Olympic Winter Festival is a snowman named Karbeyaz. The name Karbeyaz, which is combined from the Turkish words Kar (snow) and Beyaz (white), won the public vote against the other 3 proposed names.

References

2017 European Youth Olympic Winter Festival Wikipedia


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