The European Para Youth Games (EPYG) is a biennial multi-sport event for young para-athletes aged between 13 and 23 from the member countries of the European Paralympic Committee (EPC).[1][2][3][4]

Editions

Number Year Host Sports Athletes Countries Champion
1 2011 Czech Republic Brno, Czech Republic 5 260 13  Czech Republic
2 2012 Czech Republic Brno, Czech Republic 11 347 14  Czech Republic
3 2015 Croatia Varaždin, Croatia 4 223 22  Spain[5]
4 2017 Italy Liguria, Italy 8 600 26  Germany[6]
5 2019 Finland Lahti, Finland 8 600+ 27  Italy[7]
6 2022 Finland Lahti, Finland[8] 8 459+ 22  Spain[9]

2019

Italy topped the medal table with 14 gold, 8 silver and 8 bronze medals closely followed by France with 12 and Germany with 11.[10][11][12]

2022

RankNPCGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Germany (GER)19141447
2 Italy (ITA)15151444
3 France (FRA)14121642
4 Finland (FIN)86519
5 Slovakia (SVK)5128
6 Portugal (POR)44210
7 Austria (AUT)4329
8 Belgium (BEL)4228
9 Norway (NOR)3159
10 Croatia (CRO)2529
11 Sweden (SWE)24410
12 Romania (ROU)2103
13 Russia (RUS)1427
14 Turkey (TUR)1315
15 Slovenia (SLO)1214
 Spain (ESP)1214
17 Montenegro (MNE)1001
 Netherlands (NED)1001
 Poland (POL)1001
20 Bulgaria (BUL)0202
21 Czech Republic (CZE)0123
22 Estonia (EST)0112
 Israel (ISR)0112
24 Great Britain (GBR)0011
 Hungary (HUN)0011
 Ireland (IRL)0011
Totals (26 entries)898480253
Source: [13]

See also

References

  1. "European Para Youth Games line-up revealed". Paralympic.org.
  2. "2015 European Para Youth Games in Croatia (EPYG 2015)". Oepc.at. Archived from the original on 2018-11-20.
  3. "Three IBSA sports on 2019 European Youth Games programme - News - IBSA". Ibsasport.org. Archived from the original on 2018-11-20.
  4. "European Para Youth Games - Calendar - IBSA". Ibsasport.org. Archived from the original on 2018-11-19.
  5. "2015 EUROPEAN PARA YOUTH GAMES, VARAŽDIN, 16-19.07.2015, MEDAL RANKING" (PDF). Europaralympic.org. Retrieved 29 July 2022.
  6. "2017 European Para Youth Games Final Report" (PDF). Europaralympic.org. Retrieved 29 July 2022.
  7. "EPYG 2019 DECLARED THE "BEST GAMES EVER" BY EPC PRESIDENT RATKO KOVACIC". Europaralympic.org. Retrieved 29 July 2022.
  8. "News". Epyg2022.fi. Retrieved 2 July 2022.
  9. "Medal Count – European Para Youth Games". Epyg2022.fi. Retrieved 29 July 2022.
  10. https://epyg2022.fi/epyg2019/
  11. https://www.paralympic.org/news/european-para-youth-games-line-revealed
  12. https://www.eusa.eu/european-para-youth-games-continues-to-grow
  13. https://static.wixstatic.com/media/1a81ef_fd4e99e58eff431489244c6ab827b537~mv2.png/v1/fill/w_404,h_472,al_c,q_85,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,enc_auto/1_PNG.png
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