1997 European Youth Olympic Winter Days

1997 European Youth Olympic Winter Days

Host city	Sundsvall
Country	Sweden
Nations	41
Athletes	991
Sport	6
Events	27
Opening	7 February 1997
Closing	13 February 1997
Summer
Winter

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

1997 European Youth Olympic Winter Days Sports Programme
Alpine skiing (6) (details)  Biathlon (3) (details)  Cross-country skiing (5) (details)  Figure skating (3) (details)  Ice hockey (1) (details)  Short track speed skating (5) (details)  Speed skating (4) (details)

Alpine skiing

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Boys giant slalom	Christian Hainz  Italy	Anders Nilsson  Sweden	Daniel Rienda Contreras  Spain
Girls giant slalom	Anja Paerson  Sweden	Katja Wirth  Austria	Sabrina Schernthaner  Austria
Boys slalom	Björn Selander  Sweden	Alexandre Anselment  France	Christoph Alster  Austria
Girls slalom	Sandra Lochmatter  Switzerland	Anja Paerson  Sweden	Sara Fill  Italy
Boys parallel slalom	Manfred Gruber  Austria	Christian Hainz  Italy	Freddy Rech  France
Girls parallel slalom	Denise Karbon  Italy	Ingrid Rumpfhuber  Austria	Dagmara Krzyzynska  Poland

Biathlon

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Boys 7,6 km	Hans Gjedrem  Norway	Jaroslav Vavra  Czech Republic	Timour Nurmiev  Russia
Girls 5,2 km	Irina Fomina  Russia	Nina Wilhelmsson  Sweden	Aleksandra Lanisek  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	Vladimir Tokarev  Russia
Girls 7,5 km classic	Lina Andersson  Sweden	Irina Ivanova  Russia	Marit Bjørgen  Norway
Boys 10 km free	Maxim Odnodvortsev  Russia	Serguei Novikov  Russia	Johan Olsson  Sweden
Girls 7,5 km free	Lina Andersson  Sweden	Jana Svobodova  Czech Republic	Natalia Morilova  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	Julia Soldatova  Russia	Julia Lautowa  Austria	Gwenaëlle Jullien  France
Ice dancing	Federica Faiella Luciano Milo  Italy	Melanie Espejo 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	Simone Rodigari  Italy	Nicola Rodigari  Italy	Marek Hauptmann  Germany
Girls 500 m	Marta Capurso  Italy	Katia Zini  Italy	Joanna Williams  Great Britain
Boys 1000 m	Sebastian Praus  Germany	Marek Hauptmann  Germany	Cees Juffermans  Netherlands
Girls 1000 m	Marta Capurso  Italy	Katia Zini  Italy	Daniëlle Molendÿk  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	Serguei Batiatine  Russia	Marcin Gralla  Poland
Girls 500 m	Wieteke Cramer  Netherlands	Helen van Goozen  Netherlands	Daniela Niederstatter  Italy
Boys 1500 m	Eric Zachrisson  Sweden	Marcin Gralla  Poland	Auke Kranenborg  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 entries)		27	27	27	81

External links

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