8th European Olympic Youth Festival 2005

EYOF 2005
Lignano, Italien

Yesterday were opened the '8th European Youth Olympic Festival 2005' in the Italian Adriatic city Lignano, which will held from July 3 to 8.
All together 2,500 young athletes from 40 countries arrived and will participate in 11 different disciplines, among of them women's artistic gymnastics only.
At the artistics competition take part about 100 young girls at the age of 14 - 15 years from 35 different nations (28 complete teams).
On Monday will held the podium training and the competitions will follow from Tuesday to Friday this week....

'8th European Youth Olympic Festival 2005, EYOF
Lignano, Italy; Juli 03 - 08

About 2.500 athletes aged 14 to 18 from 48 countries take part in 11 sports disciplines (football, basketball, handball, volleyball, judo, athletics, table tennis, tennis, swimming, canoe & kayak and women's artistic gymnastics).

HISTORY:
The idea of organising a multidisciplinary sports event for young European athletes was born in the late 1980s.
So the first event took place in 1991 in Belgium (Brussels); further events were held in Netherlands (Valkenswaerd) in 1993; in Great Britain (Bath) in Portugal 1995 (Lisbon) in 1997.

Olga Roshupkina (UKR), 1999

Remembering...:
GYMmedia reported from the 5th Festival on, 1999 Eisbjerg (DEN),
- followed by the 6th Fesitival Murcia (ESP) in 2001 and by
- the 7th Fesival two years ago in Paris 2003.

This year's edition numberv 8will be held in Lignano, Italy
from July 3 to 8.

... rings in the logo, but only women's artistic gymnastics is included in the EYOF program. An extension to male disciplines is planned for 2009.

'8th European Youth Olympic Festival 2005'

>> Participating gymnasts 2005 have to be born in 1990/1991.
A team includes a maximum of three gymnasts, the two best scores counting for the team result. Each team (2 or 3 gymnasts) must include a judge (FIG brevet).
35 NOCs have registered a full team (28 NOCs) or an individual gymnast.

SCHEDULE, Artistic Gymnastic
> Monday, 4-July: - Podium training
> Tuesday, 5-July: - Teams & qualification (Comp. I)
> Thursday, 7-July: - All-around decision (Comp. II)
> Friday, 8-July: - App. Finals (Comp. III).