Ice hockey at the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics

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]

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

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan	1	0	0	1
	Romania	1	0	0	1
	Sweden	1	0	0	1
	United States	1	0	0	1
5	Canada	0	1	0	1
	Czech Republic	0	1	0	1
	Italy	0	1	0	1
	Slovakia	0	1	0	1
9	Austria	0	0	1	1
	Finland	0	0	1	1
	Germany	0	0	1	1
	Russia	0	0	1	1
	Switzerland	0	0	1	1
Totals (13 entries)		4	4	5	13

Events

Girls' individual skills challenge medalists

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Boys' tournament[2] details	United States (USA) Jack DeBoer Drew DeRidder Ty Emberson Jonathan Gruden Christian Krygier Will MacKinnon Erik Middendorf Jacob Pivonka Adam Samuelsson Mattias Samuelsson Ryan Savage Todd Scott Jacob Semik Oliver Wahlstrom T. J. Walsh Tyler Weiss Jake Wise		Canada (CAN) Luka Burzan Dennis Busby Declan Chisholm Aidan Dudas Alexis Gravel Benoit-Olivier Groulx Carson Focht Gabriel Fortier Anderson MacDonald Jared McIsaac Allan McShane Ryan Merkley Tristen Nielsen Connor Roberts Olivier Rodrigue Ty Smith Jett Woo		Russia (RUS) Gleb Babintsev Maxim Denezhkin Grigori Denisenko Georgi Dubrovski Alexander Khovanov Vladislav Kotkov Pavel Kupchikhin Anton Malyshev Amir Miftakhov Kirill Nizhnikov Pavel Rotenberg Ilyas Sitdikov Yegor Sokolov Andrei Svechnikov Alexander Zhabreyev Bogdan Zhilyakov Danil Zhuravlyov
Boys' individual skills challenge details	Eduard Cășăneanu  Romania	14	Sebastián Čederle  Slovakia	12	Erik Betzold  Germany	11
					Aleks Haatanen  Finland	12[3]
Girls' tournament details	Sweden (SWE) Anna Amholt Josefin Bouveng Fanny Brolin Jennifer Carlsson Wilma Carlsson Julia Gustafsson Therese Järnkrok Lina Ljungblom Sofie Lundin Ronja Mogren Maja Nylén Persson Linnéa Sjölund Madelene Strömgren Mina Waxin Madelen Westerlund Agnes Wilhelmsson Ethel Wilhelmsson		Czech Republic (CZE) Kristýna Bláhová Nikola Dýcková Magdalena Erbenová Martina Exnerová Alexandra Halounová Sandra Halounová Karolína Hornická Karolína Hrdinová Klára Jandušíková Karolína Juřicová Anna Kotounová Šárka Krejníková Laura Lerchová Veronika Lorencová Barbora Machalová Natálie Mlýnková Adéla Škrdlová		Switzerland (SUI) Sina Bachmann Sydney Berta Tina Brand Yaël Brich Oona Emmenegger Rahel Enzler Ramona Forrer Justine Forster Janine Hauser Saskia Maurer Lisa Rüedi Noemi Ryhner Jessica Schlegel Gionina Spiess Nicole Vallario Stefanie Wetli Lara Zimmermann
Girls' individual skills challenge details	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.^[4]

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.^[5]

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:^[6][7]

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