| Girls' monobob at the II Winter Youth Olympic Games | |||||||||||||
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| Venue | Lillehammer Olympic Bobsleigh and Luge Track | ||||||||||||
| Date | 20 February | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 15 from 9 nations | ||||||||||||
| Winning time | 1:57.41 | ||||||||||||
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The girls' monobob competition of the bobsleigh events at the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics was held at the Lillehammer Olympic Bobsleigh and Luge Track, on 20 February. 15 athletes from 9 different countries took part in this event. [1]
The race was started at 10:00. [2]
| Rank | Start No. | Athlete | Country | Run 1 | Rank 1 | Run 2 | Rank 2 | Total | Behind |
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 | 14 | Laura Nolte |  Germany | 58.68 | 2 | 58.73 | 1 | 1:57.41 | |
 | 9 | Mercedes Schulte |  Austria | 58.66 | 1 | 58.99 | 4 | 1:57.65 | +0.24 |
 | 8 | Kelsea Purchall |  Great Britain | 58.70 | 4 | 58.97 | 3 | 1:57.67 | +0.26 |
| 4 | 12 | Annabel Chaffey | Great Britain | 58.68 | 2 | 59.14 | 5 | 1:57.82 | +0.41 |
| 5 | 2 | Aimee Davey | Great Britain | 58.94 | 5 | 58.94 | 2 | 1:57.88 | +0.47 |
| 6 | 4 | Vivian Bierbaum | Germany | 59.07 | 6 | 59.47 | 9 | 1:58.54 | +1.13 |
| 7 | 15 | Valentina Bologova |  Russia | 59.25 | 7 | 59.43 | 7 | 1:58.68 | +1.27 |
| 8 | 1 | Paulina Götschi |  Switzerland | 59.32 | 8 | 59.61 | 11 | 1:58.93 | +1.52 |
| 9 | 6 | Jessica Victoria |  Brazil | 59.89 | 12 | 59.17 | 6 | 1:59.06 | +1.65 |
| 9 | 7 | Martha Niziolek |  Canada | 59.60 | 10 | 59.46 | 8 | 1:59.06 | +1.65 |
| 11 | 10 | Daniela Gheauș |  Romania | 59.55 | 9 | 59.65 | 12 | 1:59.20 | +1.79 |
| 12 | 11 | Anastasia Dudkina | Russia | 59.87 | 11 | 59.55 | 10 | 1:59.42 | +2.01 |
| 13 | 13 | Katherine Hogan | Canada | 1:00.12 | 13 | 59.88 | 13 | 2:00.00 | +2.59 |
| 14 | 5 | Taylor Rooke | Canada | 1:00.56 | 14 | 1:00.22 | 14 | 2:00.78 | +3.37 |
| 15 | 3 | Karla Šola |  Croatia | 1:00.87 | 15 | 1:00.28 | 15 | 2:01.15 | +3.74 |
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