2013 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival

EYOF Utrecht in 2013, the European Youth Olympic Festival ( European Youth Olympic Festival), took place from 14 to 19 July 2013, Utrecht ( Netherlands). It was the 12th edition of the EYOF Youth Games, a biennial multi-sport event held for young athletes from Europe. 2300 athletes from 49 countries participated.

The festival was on Sunday, 14 July opened with a ceremony in the stadium Galgenwaard by King Willem- Alexander in the presence of IOC President Jacques Rogge, EOC President Patrick Hickey Joseph and Rinda the best as representative of the city and chair of this year's EYOF. The Olympic flame was ignited by Max Geesink, grandson of the Dutch Judo legend Anton Geesink. The last games and the final event took place on Friday, July 19th, instead. The Olympic flag was handed over to the Mayor of Tbilisi, where the next edition of the event will take place in 2015.

On 16 July, the British Abbie Wood scored in the 400 -meter swim the 1,000 th gold medal in the history of EYOF.

Participants Nations

Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bosnia - Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Denmark, Germany, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Great Britain, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Croatia, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Austria, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, San Marino, Sweden, Switzerland, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Czech Republic, Turkey, Ukraine, Hungary, Belarus, Cyprus.

From Germany took 98 athletes participate, the biggest German team to a EYOF. They appeared in eight sports; the athletes were missing the first time since the German Athletics Federation and the German Olympic Sports Confederation were of the view that the EOC this year decreased age class was too low, the physical development of young athletes not appropriate.

From Austria ÖOC sent 55 participants who competed in seven sports. The Switzerland sent 41, Luxembourg 17 athletes.

Sports

The following sports were part of the Games: