Ukraine National Olympic Committee announces the team for XII European Youth Olympic Festival (EYOF) which kicks off on January 25th, 2015, in Vorarlberg, Austria and Vaduz, Lichtenstein.
Young athletes from Ukraine will compete in 7 sports including alpine skiing, biathlon, cross country skiing, Nordic combined, ski jumping, snowboarding, and figure skating.
TEAM UKRAINE FOR EYOF:
Alpine Skiing
Mykhailo KARPUSHYN
Iryna MOSORUK
Biathlon
Roman BRYHADYR
Valeriya DMYTRENKO
Vladyslav KOSHOVETS
Anna KRYVONOS
Oksana SIHETI
Hanna SYTNYK
Serhiy TELEN
Bogdan TSYMBAL
Cross Country Skiing
Olena ZUBOK
Yevhenii HOLOVAN
Andrii ORLYK
Olha STEFANYSHYN
Figure Skating
Dariya GOZHVA
Ivan PAVLOV
Nordic Combined
Dmytro MAZURCHUK
Ski Jumping
Khrystyna DRONIAK
Stepan PASICHNYK
Snowboard
Artem KASHPUR
Daryna KYRYCHENKO
European Youth Olympic Festivals arose in 1990 as an initiative of future IOC President Jacques Rogge who has presided the European Olympic Committees at that time. The first biennial European youth competitions were named as European Youth Olympic Days. Either Summer and Winter EYOFs are considered as top European multisport biennial event for the youth in the Olympic sport.
EYOFs are known as great career start for the future Olympic stars like swimmer Pieter van den Hoogenband (The Netherlands), cross country skier Kristina Smigun (Estonia), middle distance runner Gabriela Szabo (Romania), heptathlete Carolina Kluft (Sweden), tennis player Justine Henin, as well as Ukraine's stars biathlete Olena Pidhrushna, swimmer Yana Klochkova, judoka Georhy Zanrataya and others
In January 25-30, 2015, more than 900 young athletes aged between 14 and 18 will compete in Austria and Lichtenstein in 8 sports.
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