Youth Olympic Winter Games 2020
Venue: | Lausanne , Switzerland |
Stadion: | Vaudoise aréna |
Opening ceremony: | January 9, 2020 |
Closing ceremony: | January 22, 2020 |
Opened by: | Simonetta Sommaruga |
Olympic oath : | Noah Bodenstein (athlete), Eric Catanio (referee), Stefan Meienberg (trainer) |
Competitions: | 81 in 16 sports |
Countries: | 79 |
Athletes: | 1788 (913 , 875 ) |
← Lillehammer 2016 | |
Gangwon 2024 → |
Medal table | |||||
space | country | gold | silver | bronze | total |
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1 | Russia | 10 | 11 | 8th | 29 |
2 | Switzerland | 10 | 6th | 8th | 24 |
3 | Japan | 9 | 7th | 1 | 17th |
- | Mixed team | 6th | 6th | 6th | 18th |
4th | Sweden | 6th | 4th | 7th | 17th |
5 | Austria | 6th | 2 | 5 | 13 |
6th | Germany | 5 | 7th | 6th | 18th |
7th | South Korea | 5 | 3 | - | 8th |
8th | Norway | 4th | 2 | 3 | 9 |
9 | China | 3 | 3 | 4th | 10 |
Complete medal table |
The III. The Winter Youth Olympic Games were held in Lausanne , Switzerland , from January 9-22, 2020 . The capital of the canton of Vaud and the second largest city in French-speaking Switzerland was awarded the contract on July 31, 2015, beating its competitor Brașov ( Romania ).
canditature
Pierre de Coubertin , the founder of the modern Olympic Games , moved the headquarters of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to Lausanne in 1915 . Over the years, more than 40 sports federations have set up in the city, and since 1994 Lausanne has officially held the title “Capital of the Olympic Movement”. This status is underlined by other organizations such as the International Sports Court , the Olympic Museum and Sportaccord . Despite the outstanding position in sport politics, the Olympic Games have never been held in Lausanne . The city applied unsuccessfully to host the 1936, 1944, 1948, 1952 and 1960 summer games. A candidacy for the 1994 winter games was also planned. After the clear approval of the Conseil communal ( local parliament ), a committee collected over 17,000 in just three weeks Signatures and thus forced a referendum . In the local referendum on June 26, 1988, the candidacy project was clearly rejected with 62% of the votes.
The application phase for the 2020 Winter Youth Olympic Games began on June 6, 2013 when the IOC invited interested National Olympic Committees . They had until the end of November 2013 to name a city as a candidate. By mid-June 2014, all necessary documents for the candidacy had to be submitted to the IOC. Lake Placid ( USA ) and Sofia ( Bulgaria ) showed interest in running, but ultimately decided against it. In addition to Lausanne, only the Romanian city of Brașov remained, where the European Youth Olympic Winter Festival took place in 2013 .
In June 2014 Patrick Baumann , the general secretary of the basketball world association FIBA , was appointed president of the candidacy committee. Baumann died in October 2018 at the Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires, followed by former freestyle skier Virginie Faivre as President of the OC in January 2019 .
The Lausanne candidacy, supported by Swiss Olympic , had various prominent advocates, including Virginie Faivre, the figure skater Stéphane Lambiel and the tennis player Roger Federer . On the occasion of the 128th IOC session in Kuala Lumpur , at which Federal Councilor Ueli Maurer was also present, Lausanne was awarded the contract on July 31, 2015 with 71 to 10 votes.
Sports facilities
The following sports facilities were used at the Youth Olympic Winter Games in Lausanne:
local community | Place / facility | Sport / event |
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Lausanne | Le Flon | Award ceremonies |
Le Chenit | La Thomassette (Le Brassus) | Cross-country skiing |
Leysin | Park & Pipe (Tour d'Aï) | Freestyle skiing, snowboarding |
Champéry | Palladium de Champéry | Curling |
Ollon | Villars-sur-Ollon | Ski mountaineering, ski cross, snowboard cross |
Ormont-Dessus | Les Diablerets | Alpine skiing |
Prémanon | Les Tuffes | Biathlon, Nordic combined, ski jumping |
Prilly / Renens | Vaudoise aréna | Opening and closing ceremonies, ice hockey |
Patinoire de Malley 2.0 | Figure skating, short track | |
St. Moritz | Olympia Bobrun St. Moritz – Celerina | Bobsleigh, sledding, skeleton |
St. Moritzersee (open-air lift) | Speed skating |
Almost all of the venues were in the canton of Vaud and were spread across the Lausanne agglomeration, the Vaud Alps and the Vallée de Joux . In accordance with the IOC's “Agenda 2020”, existing sports facilities were used wherever possible. The exception was the Patinoire de Malley used for ice hockey tournaments , which was demolished and replaced by the Vaudoise aréna with 10,000 seats (the project was not primarily related to the Winter Youth Olympic Games, however). Work started in October 2016 and was completed in September 2019. For the first time ever in the history of the Olympic Games, there was cross-border cooperation: the ski jumping and biathlon competitions were held in Prémanon in the French Jura department , right on the Swiss border. In addition, the bobsleigh run , which had already proven itself at many sporting events (for example the Olympic Winter Games in 1928 and 1948 ) was used in St. Moritz .
Olympic Village
The Olympic village for most of the participants in the 2020 Winter Youth Games was in the Lausanne suburb of Chavannes-près-Renens . A new student dormitory called Vortex was built right next to the campus of the University of Lausanne and the Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne . The eight-story building with a height of 27 meters and a diameter of 137 meters comprises 1182 residential units. It is built up in a spiral; A 2.8 km long ramp leads from the ground floor over all floors to the roof. Construction began in May 2017 and was completed in November 2019. The cost was 156 million francs. In the St. Moritz branch, the youth hostel served as accommodation for 350 athletes.
Attendees
Participants of the III. Youth Olympic Winter Games | ||
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Europe (1,242 athletes from 48 nations) | ||
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America (222 athletes from 10 nations) | ||
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Asia (242 athletes from 19 nations) | ||
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Africa (2 athletes from 1 nation) | ||
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Oceania (52 athletes from 2 nations) | ||
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(Number of athletes)
* first participation in youth winter games
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Sports and schedule
On July 9, 2017, the Executive Council of the IOC definitely determined the competitions to be held. Here was ski mountaineering for Olympic sport explained; Individual, sprint and relay competitions are planned. The IOC also strives for the greatest possible gender equality in terms of the number of participants. For this purpose, competitions in two-seater tobogganing and Nordic combined are also held for the girls. An ice hockey tournament with mixed teams and three players each is planned.
2020 Winter Youth Olympic Games schedule (with number of decisions) |
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EF | Opening ceremony | ● | Qualifying competitions | 1 | Final decisions / number | SV | Show events | SF | Closing ceremony |
January | 9 Thu |
10 Fr |
11 Sat |
12 Sun |
13 Mon |
14 Tues. |
15 Wed |
16 Thu |
17 Fr |
18 Sa |
19 Sun |
20 mo |
21 Tues. |
22 Wed |
total | ||
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Opening ceremony | EF | ||||||||||||||||
biathlon | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6th | ||||||||||||
Bobsleigh | bob | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||||||||||||
skeleton | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||||||
Curling | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | 1 | ● | ● | ● | ● | 1 | 2 | ||||
ice Hockey | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | 2 | ● | ● | ● | ● | 1 | 1 | 4th | ||||
Ice skating | figure skating | ● | ● | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | ||||||||||
Speed skating | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 7th | ||||||||||||
Short track | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | |||||||||||||
Luge | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | |||||||||||||
Ski mountaineering | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | |||||||||||||
Skiing | Freestyle skiing | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 8th | ||||||||||
Alpine skiing | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 9 | ||||||||||
Nordic skiing | Nordic combination | 2 | 1 | 3 | |||||||||||||
Cross-country skiing | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6th | |||||||||||||
Ski jumping | 2 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||||||||
Snowboard | 1 | 4th | 2 | 2 | 9 | ||||||||||||
Closing ceremony | SF | ||||||||||||||||
Daily decisions | 4th | 4th | 6th | 7th | 5 | 6th | 3 | 2 | 10 | 8th | 12 | 6th | 8th | 81 | |||
decisions | 4th | 8th | 14th | 21st | 26th | 32 | 35 | 37 | 47 | 55 | 67 | 73 | 81 | ||||
January | 9 Thu |
10 Fr |
11 Sat |
12 Sun |
13 Mon |
14 Tues. |
15 Wed |
16 Thu |
17 Fr |
18 Sa |
19 Sun |
20 mo |
21 Tues. |
22 Wed |
total |
Last column: total number of decisions in the individual sports
Athlete role models
As in previous Youth Olympic Games, experienced former athletes, mostly participants in the Olympic Games themselves, will be available as symbolic figures and role models for the young participants in 2020. They also take on roles at the awards ceremony.
Web links
- Official website of the 2020 Winter Youth Olympic Games
- Official website of Lausanne 2020 on Swiss Olympic
Individual evidence
- ↑ Youth Games 2020: Lausanne wins the contract. Swiss Radio and Television , July 31, 2015, accessed on July 30, 2017 .
- ↑ International sports associations and sports organizations. City of Lausanne, 2017, accessed July 30, 2017 .
- ^ Olympic Games in Switzerland: A Long History of Failure. Neue Zürcher Zeitung , March 7, 2017, accessed on July 30, 2017 .
- ^ JO d'hiver à Lausanne: un non sans équivoque. (PDF, 54 MB) L'Impartial , June 26, 1988, accessed on July 30, 2017 (French).
- ↑ IOC opens bids for 2022 Olympic Winter Games, YOG 2020. International Olympic Committee , June 6, 2013, accessed on July 30, 2017 .
- ↑ New horizons for Olympic Movement as Brasov and Lausanne bid for 2020 Winter Youth Olympic Games. International Olympic Committee , November 28, 2013, accessed July 30, 2017 .
- ↑ FIBA chief Baumann appointed leader of Lausanne 2020 Winter Youth Olympic Games bid. insidethegames.biz, June 17, 2014, accessed July 30, 2017 (English).
- ↑ Virginie Faivre new President of the Organizing Committee Lausanne 2020. Lausanne 2020, January 3, 2019, accessed on January 7, 2020 .
- ↑ Youth Games 2020: Lausanne wins the contract. Swiss Radio and Television , July 31, 2015, accessed on July 30, 2017 .
- ↑ Competition venues. Lausanne 2020, 2017, accessed July 30, 2017 .
- ↑ Le futur center sportif de Malley. Espace Malley, 2016, accessed July 30, 2017 (French).
- ↑ The Youth Olympic Games will take place in Lausanne in 2020! Swiss Olympic , July 31, 2015, accessed on July 30, 2017 .
- ↑ Vortex. Caisse de pensions de l'état de Vaud, 2019, accessed on 14 May 2019 (French).
- ^ Vortex, Chavannes. Office light, 2017, accessed July 30, 2017 .
- ↑ Visit to the Olympia Village in St. Moritz. Southeastern Switzerland , January 15, 2020, accessed on January 22, 2020 .
- ↑ IOC Executive Board confirms gender equality and more innovation for Winter Youth Olympic Games Lausanne 2020. International Olympic Committee , July 9, 2017, accessed on July 30, 2017 .
- ↑ Athlete Role Models for Lausanne 2020 announced. July 29, 2019, accessed January 15, 2020 (American English).