Ice hockey at the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics

Ice hockey at the II Winter Youth Olympic Games
Venue	Kristins Hall, Lillehammer
Dates	February 12 – 21

Ice hockey at the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics
Tournament
boys'  girls'
Skills challenge
boys'  girls'
Rosters
boys'  girls'

Ice hockey at the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics was held at Kristins Hall in Lillehammer, Norway from 12 to 21 February. The difference between the Youth Olympic program for ice hockey and the Winter Olympics was the addition of a skill challenge for each gender.^[1]

Medal summary

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan (JPN)	1	0	0	1
1	Romania (ROU)	1	0	0	1
1	Sweden (SWE)	1	0	0	1
1	United States (USA)	1	0	0	1
5	Canada (CAN)	0	1	0	1
5	Czech Republic (CZE)	0	1	0	1
5	Italy (ITA)	0	1	0	1
5	Slovakia (SVK)	0	1	0	1
9	Austria (AUT)	0	0	1	1
9	Germany (GER)	0	0	1	1
9	Russia (RUS)	0	0	1	1
9	Switzerland (SUI)	0	0	1	1
Total		4	4	4	12

Events

Girls' individual skills challenge medalists

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Boys' tournament	United States		Canada		Russia
Boys' individual skills challenge	Eduard Casaneanu  Romania	14	Sebastian Cederle  Slovakia	12	Erik Betzold  Germany Aleks Haatanen  Finland[2]	11
Girls' tournament	Sweden		Czech Republic		Switzerland
Girls' individual skills challenge	Sena Takenaka  Japan	16	Anita Muraro  Italy	14	Theresa Schafzahl  Austria	13

Qualification system

There were ten teams in total (five per gender), with 17 players on each team. Participating nations were able to select whether they wished to participate in either the men's or women's ice hockey tournament according to the running order based on a joint under-18 world ranking established after the Men's and Women's U18 World Championships in 2015. Norway, as the host nation, was allowed to participate with one team of each gender.

For the skills challenge, the host nation was allowed to send one competitor of each gender. For the remaining competitors, national competitions were held, and the qualifiers attended a Global Skills Challenge at the 2015 Hockey Development Camp in Vierumäki, Finland.^[1]

Boys

•  United States (USA)
•  Canada (CAN)
•  Russia (RUS)
•  Finland (FIN)
•  Norway (NOR) (hosts)

Girls

•  Czech Republic (CZE)
•  Sweden (SWE)
•  Switzerland (SUI)
•  Slovakia (SVK)
•  Norway (NOR) (hosts)

Skills challenge

The following athletes have qualified:^[1]

Event	Boys'	Girls'
Host nation	Norway (NOR)	Norway (NOR)
Skills challenge qualifier	Germany (GER)  Slovakia (SVK)  Austria (AUT)  France (FRA)  Finland (FIN)  Hungary (HUN)  Canada (CAN)  Belarus (BLR)  Australia (AUS)  Lithuania (LTU)  Netherlands (NED)  Chinese Taipei (TPE)  Japan (JPN)  Romania (ROU)  New Zealand (NZL)	Japan (JPN)  Australia (AUS)  Argentina (ARG)  Germany (GER)  Italy (ITA)  Austria (AUT)  South Korea (KOR)  Finland (FIN)  Belgium (BEL)  Slovakia (SVK)  Netherlands (NED)  Belarus (BLR)  Great Britain (GBR)  Poland (POL)  Romania (ROU)
Total	16	16

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