page_title: 2012 Winter Youth Olympics
section_title: Torch relay
hierarchical_section_title: 2012 Winter Youth Olympics / Organization / Torch relay
caption_attribution_description: English: Route of the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics [1]
context_page_description: The 2012 Winter Youth Olympic Games, officially known as the I Winter Youth Olympic Games, were an international multi-sport event for youths that took place in Innsbruck, on 13–22 January 2012. They were the inaugural Winter Youth Olympics, a major sports and cultural festival celebrated in the tradition of the Olympic Games. Approximately 1100 athletes from 70 countries competed. The decision for Innsbruck to host the Games was announced on 12 December 2008 after mail voting by 105 International Olympic Committee members. Innsbruck is the first city to host three winter Olympic events, having previously hosted the 1964 Winter Olympics and the 1976 Winter Olympics.
context_section_description: The torch relay of the Games was announced on 9 October 2011, involving 65 sites over 18 days with some 2,012 torchbearers carrying the flame. The torch was lit on 17 December 2011 in Athens, Greece by the first torchbearer Carlos Pecharromán from Spain and the relay began in Innsbruck on 27 December 2011 and ended with the opening ceremony in Bergiselschanze on 13 January 2012. It is the first time the Olympic flame had gone to the same city three times as Innsbruck was also the host of the Winter Olympic Games in 1964 and 1976.
  Below is the list of route locations:
  27 December: Innsbruck, Neustift im Stubaital, Sölden, Ischgl
  28 December: Jerzens, Bregenz, Lustenau, Klaus, Bludenz
  29 December: Sankt Anton am Arlberg, Matrei, Lienz, Dellach
  30 December: Millstatt, Klagenfurt, Wolfsberg, Murau
  31 December: Kapfenberg, Semmering, Wiener Neudorf
  1 January: Vienna, Mönichkirchen
  2 January: Bad Waltersdorf, Fürstenfeld
  3 January: Graz, Gleisdorf, Oberpullendorf
  4 January: Eisenstadt, Schwechat, Vösendorf, Sankt Pölten
  5 January: Waidhofen an der Ybbs, Purgstall, Linz, Wels
  6 January: Hinterstoder, Gmunden, Mondsee, Neumarkt am Wallersee, Salzburg, Hallein
  7 January: Wals, Strobl, Gosau, Filzmoos
  8 January: Ramsau, Niederoblarn, Haus
  9 January: Schladming, Sankt Johann im Pongau, Maria Alm
  10 January: Kirchberg, Bad Gastein, Zell am See
  11 January: Seefeld, Kühtai, Fugen
  12 January: Sankt Ulrich am Pillersee, Ehrwald, Telfs, Zirl
  13 January: Kufstein, Axams, Mutters, Fulpmes, Lans
caption: Route of 2012 Winter Youth Olympics torch relay
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