- Third Winter Youth Olympic Games (Previous editions: Innsbruck 2012 & Lillehammer 2016)
- 9 to 22 January 2020
- Athletes: 1,872 (±40% more than Lillehammer 2016)
- Age: 15-18 years
- First Gender equal Winter Youth Olympic Games
- Number of NOCs: 79
- 12 NOCs participating for the first time at a Winter Youth Olympic Games (Albania, Azerbaijan, Ecuador, Haiti, Hong Kong (China), Kosovo, Pakistan, Qatar, Singapore, Thailand, Turkmenistan, Trinidad & Tobago)
- The 10 largest delegations;
- Switzerland (112)
- Russian Federation (107)
- United States of America (96)
- Germany (96)
- Canada (81)
- Czech Republic (77)
- Japan (74)
- Italy (69)
- Austria (64)
- France (61).
- 8 Sports, 16 disciplines, 81 events
- 5 new events
- Women’s Nordic Combined (Individual Normal Hill/4km)
- Women’s Doubles Luge
- Ice Hockey Mixed NOC 3×3 Tournament
- Freeski Big Air
- Snowboard Big Air.
- 1 new sport
- Ski Mountaineering
- 10 Competition sites
- Mascot: Yodli
- Volunteers: More than 3000
Lausanne facts and figures
- Situated on the shores of Lake Geneva in the French-speaking part of Switzerland
- Capital of the Canton of Vaud
- Population: 140.000 (fourth largest city in Switzerland)
- Altitude: Between 375 and 900m, city centre: 495m
- Lausanne was founded by the Romans. (a military camp that came to be known as Lousanna)
- Lausanne is a student city with two higly regarded universities; the ‘Université de Lausanne’ and the ‘École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne’
- Home to the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland
- In 1915, Baron Pierre de Coubertin chose Lausanne as the location for the headquarters of the International Olympic Committee. Today, more dan 50 international sports federations and organisations are are based in Lausanne.
Source: Lausanne 2020, the International Olympic Committee, Lausanne Tourisme and Ville de Lausanne.
