1997 European Youth Olympic Winter Days

1997 European Youth Olympic Winter Days

Host city	Sundsvall
Country	Sweden
Nations participating	41
Athletes participating	991
Sport(s)	6
Events	27
Opening ceremony	7 February 1997
Closing ceremony	13 February 1997
Summer
← Bath 1995 Lisbon 1997 →
Winter
← Andorra la Vella 1995 Poprad-Tatry 1999 →

The 1997 Winter European Youth Olympic Winter Days was an international multi-sport event held between 7 and 13 February 1997, in Sundsvall, Sweden.

Sports[]

Alpine skiing[]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Boys Giant slalom	Italy	Sweden	Spain
Girls Giant slalom	Anja Paerson  Sweden	Austria	Austria
Boys Slalom	Sweden	France	Austria
Girls Slalom	Switzerland	Anja Paerson  Sweden	Italy
Boys Parallel slalom	Austria	Italy	France
Girls Parallel slalom	Denise Karbon  Italy	Austria	Dagmara Krzyzynska  Poland

Biathlon[]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Boys 7,6 km	Norway	Czech Republic	Russia
Girls 5,2 km	Russia	Sweden	Slovenia
Mixed relay 5,2 km	Team Russia  Russia	Team Italy  Italy	Team Slovakia  Slovakia

Cross-country skiing[]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Boys 10 km classic	Serguei Novikov  Russia	Reijo Nykänen  Finland	Russia
Girls 7,5 km classic	Lina Andersson  Sweden	Irina Ivanova  Russia	Norway
Boys 10 km free	Maxim Odnodvortsev  Russia	Serguei Novikov  Russia	Johan Olsson  Sweden
Girls 7,5 km free	Lina Andersson  Sweden	Czech Republic	Russia
Mixed relay 4x5 km free	Team Sweden  Sweden	Team Russia  Russia	Team Czech Republic  Czech Republic

Figure skating[]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Boys	Evgeni Plushenko  Russia	Vakhtang Murvanidze  Georgia	Alexander Smokvin  Ukraine
Girls	Russia	Julia Lautowa  Austria	Gwenaëlle Jullien  France
Ice dancing	Federica Faiella Luciano Milo  Italy	Michael Zenezini  France	Eliane Hugentobler Daniel Hugentobler  Switzerland

Ice hockey[]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Boys	Team Russia  Russia	Team Sweden  Sweden	Team Finland  Finland

Short track speed skating[]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Boys 500 m	Italy	Nicola Rodigari  Italy	Germany
Girls 500 m	Marta Capurso  Italy	Katia Zini  Italy	Joanna Williams  Great Britain
Boys 1000 m	Sebastian Praus  Germany	Germany	Cees Juffermans  Netherlands
Girls 1000 m	Marta Capurso  Italy	Katia Zini  Italy	Netherlands
Mixed relay 3000 m	Team France  France	Team Russia  Russia	Team Ukraine  Ukraine

Speed skating[]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Boys 500 m	Eric Zachrisson  Sweden	Russia	Poland
Girls 500 m	Wieteke Cramer  Netherlands	Helen van Goozen  Netherlands	Italy
Boys 1500 m	Eric Zachrisson  Sweden	Poland	Netherlands
Girls 1500 m	Helen van Goozen  Netherlands	Wieteke Cramer  Netherlands	Andrea Jakab  Romania

Medal table[]

  *   Host nation (Sweden)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia (RUS)	7	5	3	15
2	Sweden (SWE)*	7	4	1	12
3	Italy (ITA)	6	5	2	13
4	Netherlands (NED)	2	2	3	7
5	Austria (AUT)	1	3	2	6
6	France (FRA)	1	2	2	5
7	Germany (GER)	1	1	1	3
8	Norway (NOR)	1	0	1	2
	Switzerland (SUI)	1	0	1	2
10	Czech Republic (CZE)	0	2	1	3
11	Poland (POL)	0	1	2	3
12	Finland (FIN)	0	1	1	2
13	Georgia (GEO)	0	1	0	1
14	Ukraine (UKR)	0	0	2	2
15	Great Britain (GBR)	0	0	1	1
	Romania (ROM)	0	0	1	1
	Slovakia (SVK)	0	0	1	1
	Slovenia (SLO)	0	0	1	1
	Spain (SPA)	0	0	1	1
Totals (19 nations)		27	27	27	81

External links[]

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