Figure skating at the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics

Figure Skating at the II Winter Youth Olympic Games

Venue	Hamar Olympic Amphitheatre
Dates	February 12–21, 2016
Competitors	76

Figure skating at the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics will take place at the Hamar Olympic Amphitheatre in Hamar, Norway. The event will be held from 12–21 February 2016.^[1]

Unique to the Youth Olympic Games is a mixed NOC team trophy competition.

Medal summary

Events

Discipline	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men	Sota Yamamoto	Deniss Vasiļjevs	Dmitri Aliev
Ladies
Pairs	Ekaterina Borisova / Dmitry Sopot	Anna Dušková / Martin Bidař	Alina Ustimkina / Nikita Volodin
Ice dancing
Mixed NOC team

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia	1	0	2	3
2	Japan	1	0	0	1
3	Latvia	0	1	0	1
3	Czech Republic	0	1	0	1
Total		2	2	2	6

Eligibility

Skaters are eligible to participate in the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics if they were born between 1 January 1999 and 31 December 2001, except males in pairs and ice dance, who may be born between 1 January 1997 and 31 December 2000.^[2]

Qualification system

The overall quota for the figure skating competition is 76 total skaters, consisting of 38 men and 38 ladies. There will be 16 skaters in each of the single skating disciplines (men's and ladies'), 10 pair skating teams, and 12 ice dancing team. The maximum number of entries that can be qualified by a National Olympic Committee is 2 per event, making 12 (6 men, 6 ladies) the maximum number of entries that a country can qualify.^[2]

If a country places a skater in the first, second or third position in a 2015 World Junior Figure Skating Championships discipline they qualify for two spots in that discipline at the Youth Olympics. All other nations may enter one athlete until a quota spot of twelve for each singles event, seven for pairs and nine for ice dancing is reached. There are a further four spots for each single event and three spots for pairs/ice dancing at the 2015–16 ISU Junior Grand Prix.^[2]

Number of entries per discipline

Based on the results of the 2015 World Junior Championships and the 2015–16 ISU Junior Grand Prix series, the following countries have earned YOG quota places.^[3]

Spots	Men	Ladies	Pairs	Dance
2	Japan China	Russia Japan	China Canada Note 1 Russia	Russia United States Note 2 Ukraine
1	United States Russia Latvia Israel South Korea Argentina Canada Ukraine Italy Malaysia France Finland	Kazakhstan United States South Korea Latvia Slovakia Armenia Finland Germany China Hungary Italy Norway Note 3	United States Ukraine Czech Republic South Korea ~~Great Britain~~ Note 4 Italy (added)	Canada ~~Poland~~ Note 4 France ~~South Korea~~ Note 4 Italy ~~Czech Republic~~ Note 4 Germany Lithuania (added) Belarus (added) Estonia (added)

Notes ^[3]

1. Canada will send only one pair.
2. USA will send only one ice dance couple.
3. As the host, Norway has the right to one entry per discipline and has decided to enter one lady.
4. Did not used their YOG quota place.

Summary

Nations	Boys' singles	Girls' singles	Pair skating	Ice dancing	Athlete(s)
Argentina	1	0	0	0	1
Armenia	0	1	0	0	1
Canada	1	0	1	1	5
China	2	1	2	0	7
Czech Republic	0	0	1	1	4
Finland	1	1	0	0	2
France	1	0	0	1	3
Germany	0	1	0	1	3
Great Britain	0	0	1	0	2
Hungary	0	1	0	0	1
Japan	2	2	0	0	4
Israel	1	0	0	0	1
Italy	1	1	0	1	4
Kazakhstan	0	1	0	0	1
Latvia	1	1	0	0	2
Lithuania	0	0	0	1	2
Malaysia	1	0	0	0	1
Norway	0	1	0	0	1
Poland	0	0	0	1	2
Russia	1	2	2	2	11
Slovakia	0	1	0	0	1
South Korea	1	1	1	1	6
Ukraine	1	0	1	2	7
United States	1	1	1	1	6
Total: 23 NOCs	16	16	10	12	76

Entries

Some countries announced their selections in 2015, as early as October.^[4] The International Skating Union published a complete list of entries on 4 February 2016.^[5]

Country	Men^[5]	Ladies^[6]	Pairs^[7]	Ice dancing^[8]
Argentina	Mauro Calcagno
Armenia		Anastasia Galustyan
Belarus				Emilia Kalehanava / Uladzislau Palkhouski
Canada^[9]	Roman Sadovsky		Justine Brasseur / Mathieu Ostiguy	Marjorie Lajoie / Zachary Lagha
China	Li Tangxu Lu Yunda	Li Xiangning	Zhao Ying / Xie Zhong Gao Yumeng / Li Bowen
Czech Republic			Anna Dušková / Martin Bidař
Estonia				Viktoria Semenjuk / Artur Gruzdev
Finland^[10]	Lauri Lankila	Anni Järvenpää
France	Adam Siao Him Fa			Julia Wagret / Mathieu Couyras
Germany^[11]		Annika Hocke		Charise Matthaei / Maximilian Pfisterer
Hungary		Fruzsina Medgyesi
Israel	Mark Gorodnitsky
Italy^[12]	Adrien Bannister	Lucrezia Gennaro	Irma Caldara / Edoardo Caputo	Francesca Righi / Pietro Papetti
Japan	Sota Yamamoto Koshiro Shimada	Yuna Shiraiwa Kaori Sakamoto
Kazakhstan		Elizabet Tursynbayeva
Latvia	Deniss Vasiļjevs	Diāna Ņikitina
Lithuania				Guostė Damulevičiūtė / Deividas Kizala
Malaysia	Kai Xiang Chew
Norway^[13]		Juni Marie Benjaminsen
Russia ^[14]	Dmitri Aliev	Maria Sotskova Polina Tsurskaya	Ekaterina Borisova / Dmitry Sopot Alina Ustimkina / Nikita Volodin	Anastasia Shpilevaya / Grigory Smirnov Anastasia Skoptsova / Kirill Aleshin
Slovakia		Alexandra Hagarová
South Korea	Cha Jun-hwan	Byun Ji-hyun	Kim Su-yeon / Kim Hyung-tae
Ukraine	Ivan Shmuratko		Anastasia Pobizhenko / Dmytro Sharpar	Maria Holubtsova / Kyrylo Byelobrov Anzhelika Yurchenko / Volodymyr Byelikov
United States^[4]	Camden Pulkinen	Vanna Giang	Sarah Rose / Joseph Goodpaster	Chloe Lewis / Logan Bye

Time schedule

Figure skating events will take place 13–16 February 2016.^[15]

Results

Men

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points	SP		FS
1	Sōta Yamamoto	Japan	215.52	1	73.07	3	142.45
2	Deniss Vasiļjevs	Latvia	214.43	3	70.16	1	144.27
3	Dmitri Aliev	Russia	209.77	5	67.24	2	142.53
4	Roman Sadovsky	Canada	205.69	2	72.61	4	133.08
5	Cha Jun-hwan	South Korea	198.90	4	68.76	5	130.14
6	Koshiro Shimada	Japan	182.52	6	63.18	6	119.34
7	Camden Pulkinen	United States	166.59	7	57.91	8	108.68
8	Li Tangxu	China	165.70	9	49.19	7	116.51
9	Adrien Bannister	Italy	153.39	10	46.68	9	106.71
10	Adam Siao Him Fa	France	150.65	8	49.19	10	101.46
11	Kai Xiang Chew	Malaysia	137.47	11	46.53	13	90.94
12	Lu Yunda	China	137.26	13	44.20	11	93.06
13	Mark Gorodnitsky	Israel	135.78	12	44.48	12	91.30
14	Ivan Shmuratko	Ukraine	125.78	14	42.39	14	83.39
15	Lauri Lankila	Finland	92.08	15	30.65	15	61.43
16	Mauro Calcagno	Argentina	79.50	16	23.92	16	55.58

Ladies

Rank	Name	Nation	SP
1	Yuna Shiraiwa	Japan	1	60.87
2	Elizabet Tursynbayeva	Kazakhstan	2	59.11
3	Diāna Ņikitina	Latvia	3	58.81
4	Polina Tsurskaya	Russia	4	58.65
5	Byun Ji-hyun	South Korea	5	56.25
5	Kaori Sakamoto	Japan	5	56.25
7	Anastasia Galustyan	Armenia	7	55.89
8	Maria Sotskova	Russia	8	53.40
9	Anni Järvenpää	Finland	9	48.27
10	Vanna Giang	United States	10	48.14
11	Lucrezia Gennaro	Italy	11	47.45
12	Juni Marie Benjaminsen	Norway	12	47.18
13	Li Xiangning	China	13	46.97
14	Fruzsina Medgyesi	Hungary	14	43.45
15	Annika Hocke	Germany	15	41.52
16	Alexandra Hagarová	Slovakia	16	38.75

Pairs

Rank	Name	Nation	Total points	SP		FS
1	Ekaterina Borisova / Dmitry Sopot	Russia	168.66	2	60.80	1	107.86
2	Anna Dušková / Martin Bidař	Czech Republic	166.13	1	61.82	2	104.31
3	Alina Ustimkina / Nikita Volodin	Russia	152.77	3	56.38	3	96.39
4	Justine Brasseur / Mathieu Ostiguy	Canada	140.59	4	48.51	5	92.08
5	Zhao Ying / Xie Zhong	China	139.06	6	45.84	4	93.22
6	Sarah Rose / Joseph Goodpaster	United States	126.53	5	46.47	6	80.06
7	Gao Yumeng / Li Bowen	China	119.78	7	43.96	7	75.82
8	Kim Su-yeon / Kim Hyung-tae	South Korea	108.53	8	35.86	8	72.67
9	Irma Caldara / Edoardo Caputo	Italy	100.15	9	35.49	9	64.66
10	Anastasia Pobizhenko / Dmytro Sharpar	Ukraine	74.30	10	28.16	10	46.14

Ice dancing

Rank	Name	Nation	SD
1	Anastasia Shpilevaya / Grigory Smirnov	Russia	1	57.93
2	Anastasia Skoptcova / Kirill Aleshin	Russia	2	57.75
3	Chloe Lewis / Logan Bye	United States	3	55.07
4	Marjorie Lajoie / Zachary Lagha	Canada	4	51.06
5	Anzhelika Yurchenko / Volodymyr Byelikov	Ukraine	5	48.00
6	Emilia Kalehanava / Uladzislau Palkhouski	Belarus	6	47.88
7	Guostė Damulevičiūtė / Deividas Kizala	Lithuania	7	44.58
8	Julia Wagret / Mathieu Couyras	France	8	44.50
9	Maria Golubtsova / Kirill Belobrov	Ukraine	9	41.37
10	Viktoria Semenjuk / Artur Gruzdev	Estonia	10	40.06
11	Charise Matthaei / Maximilian Pfisterer	Germany	11	39.29
12	Francesca Righi / Pietro Papetti	Italy	12	38.22

References

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↑ "Entries: Pairs". ISU. Archived from the original on 4 February 2016.
↑ "Entries: Ice Dance". ISU. Archived from the original on 4 February 2016.
↑ "International Assignments 2015-2016". Skate Canada. Archived from the original on 28 January 2016. Retrieved 28 January 2016.
↑ "Suomen joukkue" [Finnish team] (in Finnish). sport.fi. 19 January 2016. Archived from the original on 4 February 2016.
↑ "Winter Youth Olympic Games 2016 in Lillehammer" (in German). Deutsche Eislauf-Union. 19 January 2016.
↑ "The Italian team has been selected, 37 athletes will be in Lillehammer. Luger Felix Schwarz will be the flagbearer". Italian National Olympic Committee. 26 January 2016. Archived from the original on 4 February 2016.
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External links

2016 Winter Olympics at the International Skating Union
Figure skating at lillehammer2016.com

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