Ice hockey at the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics

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

Ice hockey at the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics will be 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 is the addition of a skill challenge for each gender.^[1]

Events

Qualification system

There will be ten teams in total (five per gender), with 17 players on each team. The host nation is allowed to participate with one team of each gender. The remaining eight teams will be selected based on their joint under-18 world ranking established after the Men's and Women's U18 World Championships in 2015.

For the skills challenge, the host nation is 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)  Denmark (DEN)  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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