Ice hockey at the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics

Ice hockey at the I Winter Youth Olympic Games
Venue	Tyrolean Ice Arena Innsbruck
Dates	13–22 January
Competitors	200 from 26 nations
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Ice hockey at the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics was held at the Tyrolean Ice Arena in Innsbruck, Austria from 13 to 22 January. 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

  *   Host nation (Austria)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Finland  (FIN)	1	0	0	1
	Latvia  (LAT)	1	0	0	1
	Netherlands  (NED)	1	0	0	1
	Sweden  (SWE)	1	0	0	1
5	Hungary  (HUN)	0	2	0	2
6	Austria  (AUT)*	0	1	0	1
	Russia  (RUS)	0	1	0	1
8	Australia  (AUS)	0	0	1	1
	Canada  (CAN)	0	0	1	1
	Germany  (GER)	0	0	1	1
	Japan  (JPN)	0	0	1	1
Totals (11 entries)		4	4	4	12

Events

Boys' semifinal game Canada vs. Finland

Girls' playoff game Germany vs. Kazakhstan

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Boys' details	Finland		Russia		Canada
Boys' individual skills challenge [2] details	Augusts Valdis Vasiļonoks   Latvia	22 points	Attila Kovács   Hungary	21 points	Seiya Furukawa   Japan	19 points
Girls' details	Sweden		Austria		Germany
Girls' individual skills challenge details	Julie Zwarthoed   Netherlands	22 points	Fanni Gasparics   Hungary	19 points	Sharnita Crompton   Australia	17 points

Qualification system

There were ten teams total (five per gender), with 17 players on each team. The host nation was allowed one team of each gender. The remaining eight teams were selected based on their joint Men’s and Women’s 2011 IIHF World Ranking. ^{[3] [4]}

For the skills challenge, the host nation was allowed one competitor of each sex. For the remaining competitors, national competitions were held, and the qualifiers attended a Global Skills Challenge at the 2011 Hockey Development Camp in Vierumäki, Finland. ^[5]

For the boys tournament, athletes born in 1996 are permitted to compete, for the girls its 1994. ^[5]

The IIHF announced the teams on September 23. ^[5]

Boys

•   Austria  (AUT)
•   Canada  (CAN)
•   Finland  (FIN)
•   Russia  (RUS)
•   United States

Girls

•   Austria  (AUT)
•   Germany  (GER)
•   Kazakhstan  (KAZ)
•   Slovakia  (SVK)
•   Sweden  (SWE)

Skills challenge

The following athletes have qualified: ^[6] Originally 16 athletes from each gender were to compete, but the girls' competition will have only 15 while the boys' competition will have 16.

Event	Boys'	Girls'
Host nation	Stephan Gaffal  (AUT)	Victoria Hummel  (AUT)
Skills challenge qualifier	Lewis Hook  (GBR)   Attila Kovács  (HUN)   Callum Burns  (NZL)   Seiya Furukawa  (JPN)   Sam Hodic  (AUS)   Guus Simons  (NED)   Liu Qing  (CHN)   Thibaut Colombin  (FRA)   Cho Ji-hyun  (KOR)   Paul Cerda  (ESP)   Mihai Sotir  (ROU)   Primož Čuvan  (SLO)   Augusts Vasiļonoks  (LAT)   Alexei Dashkevich  (BLR)   Matija Miličić  (CRO)	Kathrine Gale  (GBR)   Agnese Tartaglione  (ITA)   Fanni Gasparics  (HUN)   Libby-Jean Hay  (NZL)   Akane Deguchi  (JPN)   Sharnita Crompton  (AUS)   Julie Zwarthoed  (NED)   Sun Jiayue  (CHN)   Morgane Rihet  (FRA)   Lee Yeon-jeong  (KOR)   Irene Senac  (ESP)   Noemi Ballo  (ROU)   Renee De Wolf  (BEL)   Urša Pazlar  (SLO)
Total	16	15

References

1. Ice hockey
2. Olympic Winter Games Innsbruck 2012
3. "2011 IIHF Men's World Ranking". IIHF . Retrieved 27 December 2018.
4. "2011 IIHF Women's World Ranking". IIHF . Retrieved 27 December 2018.
5. "Qualification system" (PDF). Retrieved 25 March 2023.
6. "Skills tests". IIHF . Retrieved 27 December 2018.