The British Olympic Association (BOA) has today announced the 15 athletes selected to represent Team GB at the Dakar 2026 Youth Olympic Games (YOG) Taking place in Senegal from 31 October to 13 November 2026, Dakar 2026 will be the first Olympic sporting event to be held on African soil, bringing together around 2,700 young
The pools have been confirmed for the men’s and women’s rugby sevens competitions at the Dakar 2026 Youth Olympic Games, with 16 teams set to compete for medals in Senegal. Rugby sevens will return to the Youth Olympic Games for the third time when some of the world’s most promising young players take to the
The British Olympic Association (BOA) has today announced Olympic champion Eve Muirhead as Team GB’s Chef de Mission for the Gangwon 2024 Winter Youth Olympic Games. The four-time Olympian, who led the women’s curling rink to gold as skip at Beijing 2022, will head up a British delegation for the first time after announcing her
The British Olympic Association has selected 18 athletes to represent Team GB at the Friuli Venezia Giulia 2023 Winter European Youth Olympic Festival (EYOF) running between 21-28 January 2023. Team GB’s athletes, all aged between 15 and 17, will compete in nine of the 14 sports on the programme: alpine skiing, biathlon, figure skating, freestyle
Team GB will take a squad of 40 young athletes to compete at the Summer European Youth Olympic Festival (EYOF) taking place in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia from 24 to 30 July 2022. Banská Bystrica 2022 will see around 3,500 athletes and officials represent 48 European nations across 10 Olympic sports. Team GB’s athletes, who will
Two-time Olympian, Lizzie Simmonds, has been named as Chef de Mission for Team GB for the 2022 Banská Bystrica European Youth Olympic Festival. Simmonds, aged 31, will lead a team of aspiring Olympians into competition in the Slovakian city from 24-30 July 2022. The appointment sees Simmonds complete her own EYOF journey having previously competed
Team GB clinched two medals on the final day of competition at the Lausanne 2020 Youth Olympic Games. Kirsty Muir secured Team GB’s only individual medal of the Games, winning silver in the freestyle skiing big air competition at the Leysin Park and Pipe Centre. The Scot, who qualified for the final in third place,
Following silver medal success in the women’s big air competition this afternoon, it was double delight for Kirsty Muir as she was announced as Team GB’s Closing Ceremony flagbearer. The Aberdeen based athlete has enjoyed an excellent week, securing a fourth place in slopestyle before finishing second today (170.00), just 1.25 points off gold medal
Freestyle skier Kirsty Muir qualified in third place in the big air competition on day 12 of the Lausanne 2020 Youth Olympic Games. The Aberdeen athlete qualified comfortably with a score of 81.33 behind two adversaries from the slopestyle event in the shape of Swedish skier Jennie-Lee Burmansson (second with 85.66) and Ailing Eileen Gu
Team Bath athletes Charlotte Longden and Will Scammell both finished a fine 12th overall when they represented Team GB in bobsleigh at the Lausanne 2020 Youth Olympic Games. Longden went first in the women’s monobob competition on Sunday and got progressively quicker over her two runs, reaching speeds of 125.4km/h to finish on a combined
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