London Youth Games

Every year, over 20,000 young people from every London borough compete in over 30 different sports at the London Youth Games. The results from all the different sports competitions are added together and the winning borough wins the Jubilee Trophy.

The main games are made up of over 30 sports and the competition is open to those aged between 11 and 18.

London Youth Games 2025

The London Youth Games is the largest yearly sporting event in Europe. All 33 London boroughs take part.

Over 700 young people trained to be picked to represent the London Borough of Hackney. 543 participants went on to compete for the borough in this year’s London Youth Games.

Hackney was represented by 32 teams across 21 sports, with our best scores in Table Tennis at The Hockey and Tennis Centre on the Olympic Park.

Hackney has regained the consistency of the pre-COVID years by:

• finishing in the top 5 in London in the overall Jubilee points for the second time in 3 years
• winning the Inner London Trophy for the third time. 

Hackney also finished top 2 in the para trophy competition again this year.

Hackney earned 9 team medals and 52 individual event medallists across 6 sports.

This years’ games saw Hackney perform well in BMX, athletics, cycling, boccia, kayak sprint and indoor rowing – which Hackney has won 6 years in a row.

Team medals:

• gold in boccia
• gold in indoor rowing
• gold in road cycling
• silver in ParaGames athletics male
• silver in BMX
• bronze in athletics male
• bronze in ParaGames athletics female
• bronze in kayak sprint

Standout achievements

• Aneirin Lessard getting a medal in the highly competitive year 10 boys aquathlon for the fourth year in a row
• Stormont House School boccia team winning the title for the fourth time
• the indoor rowing team winning the competition for the sixth year in a row
• boys and girls basketball teams making the quarter finals
• road cycling finished first for the first time since 2019
• winning the Inner London Trophy for the third time in the 45 year history
• coming second in the ParaGames trophy competition
• 27 individual medallists from indoor rowing, the team was made up of students from Stormont House School, Mossbourne Academy and Lea Rowing Club.

A huge well done to all who participated and helped with this year’s effort and for helping to maintain the London Borough of Hackney as one of London’s elite sporting boroughs.

Results

See results and medallists (google sheets)

Get involved with the 2026 London Youth Games

If you live or go to school in Hackney, play your sport to a good standard and want to represent your borough against the best in London, contact us.