The Summer 13th Youth Olympic Festival is over. Tbilisi hosted 2,334 athletes from 50 countries. Volleyball players, handball players, judoka, basketball players, swimmers, tennis players, gymnasts, cyclists and athletes all competed for Olympic medals over 6 days.

At Tbilisi 2015 many talented sportsmen and women excelled themselves; the gymnasts – Giarnni Lorenzo Regini-Moran and Daria Skrypnik, the basketball player - Dzanan Musa, the swimmers – Alexei Sancov and Ajna Evelin Kesely – these athletes have the potential to inscribe their names in the history of sport with gold letters.

As was expected, the Russian delegation earned the most medals (including gold) at Tbilisi 2015; they won 16 gold, 9 silver and 11 bronze medals in total; it is not surprising that the most of these medals for Russia were for the artistic gymnastics with Darya Skrypnik, who gained 4 gold and 1 silver for her country. Gianni Lorenzo Regini-Moran is one more discovery among the gymnasts; 2 of Great Britain’s 4 gold medals of were earned by him.

One of the major discoveries of these Olympic Games were the Hungarian swimmers. The delegation of Hungary won 23 (9–3–11) medals, 16 of which (8–3–5) were earned by swimmers, and the greatest contribution was made by 14-year-old Ajna Evelin Kesely, who was peerless in 4 disciplines and only fell to 2nd place in 100m freestyle. Moldova came 6th in the medal count thanks to Alexei Sancov, who was excellent in 3 disciplines and gained one silver medal as well as his 3 gold.

Georgia came in tenth in the general ranking of medals. Mostly, this is due to judoka. 9 out of the 10 medals were earned by Judoka with one bronze medal earned by Dmitri Govorov in gymnastics.

In EYOF Tbilisi 2015, the Georgian judoka had the best results in the entire judo competition, earning 9 (4-0-4) medals in total.

Italy earned the most medals in judo. Ultimately, Italy with 24 medals was the most successful in terms of medal count after Russia. Carolina Visca of Italy beat the EYOF record in girls’ javelin throw, with a distance of 60.09m and earned the gold medal easily. In athletics, Russia’s Elizaveta Bondarenko broke another EYOF record in the pole vault, clearing a 4.20-meter high barrier.
France did not break any records, but was the most successful in athletics. The young athletes earned 12 (6–3–3) medals in the various disciplines and played the largest role in helping France to come third in the group ranking. In EYOF Tbilisi 2015, France’s boys’ handball team was peerless, and fully deserved the gold medal. While the girls’ finals was one of the festival’s most exciting, with Russia beating Denmark by an extremely close score of 21–20.

In group sport, Poland seemed to have the dominant position in boys’ volleyball team. Throughout the tournament, Poland went ahead without losing a single set leaving no chance of victory to Bulgaria’s boys’ team in the finals. Turkey was the best in girls’ competition defeating Serbia in a very close contest in the finals.

The Czech girls’ basketball team had an excellent showing, beating Belgium in the finals after a successful group qualification and play-off rounds. Spain’s boys’ basketball team was a major favourite in the tournaments and age group, and losing to Bosnia-Herzegovina’s team was an upset in the finals. Dzanan Musa and company defeated Spain by 89:79 and thus deserved the gold. Janan Musa was a clear MVP of the basketball tournament and was the highest scoring player in the finals with 26 points. Giorgi Bitadze of Georgia demonstrated his talent despite Georgia’s overall disappointing performance in basketball. Bitadze, if nurtured properly, will play in the national team in years to come.

Four Georgian tennis players - girls’ and boys’ duo – failed to win medals, though they reached the quarter-finals. Lucie Kankova of the Czech Republic took the gold medal in girls’ singles, while the boys’ singles was won by Adrian Andreev from Bulgaria. The latter made a small sensation in the finals when he defeated the 1st seeded Israeli, Yshai Oliel, in a close match 4:6 6:4 6:1.

Oliel lost onece more finals: the duo of Olieli and Roi Ginat lost to the Italian duo of Gabrielle Bosio and Riccardo Perin. The duo of Slovenian Kaja Juvan and Nika Radisic was the best among girls. Silver went to Romania thanks to Andreea Prisacariu and Selma Stefana Cadar.
After 6 exciting days, the Olympic flame was extinguished so that it might be rekindled in 2017 in the Hungarian city of Gyor, which will be the host of the 14th summer Youth Olympic Festival.