Speed skating at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics

Speed skating at the III Winter Youth Olympic Games
Venue	Lake St. Moritz
Dates	12–16 January
Competitors	64 from 22 nations
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Speed skating at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics took place at Lake St. Moritz in St. Moritz, Switzerland from 12 to 16 January 2020. ^{[1] [2]}

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

Medal summary

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan	3	1	1	5
2	Netherlands	2	0	0	2
3	China	1	1	2	4
–	Mixed-NOCs	1	1	1	3
4	Russia	0	1	1	2
5	Colombia	0	1	0	1
	Czech Republic	0	1	0	1
	Spain	0	1	0	1
8	Italy	0	0	1	1
	United States	0	0	1	1
Totals (9 entries)		7	7	7	21

Boys' events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
500 metres details	Yudai Yamamoto   Japan	36.42	Nil Llop   Spain	36.60	Xue Zhiwen   China	36.67
1500 metres details	Motonaga Arito   Japan	1:52.24	Pavel Taran   Russia	1:53.74	Jonathan Tobon   United States	1:55.67
Mass start details	Motonaga Arito   Japan	30 pts	Diego Amaya   Colombia	20 pts	Pavel Taran   Russia	10 pts

Girls' events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
500 metres details	Isabel Grevelt   Netherlands	40.57	Wang Jingyi   China	41.07	Yukino Yoshida   Japan	41.16
1500 metres details	Myrthe de Boer   Netherlands	2:10.44	Yuka Takahashi   Japan	2:10.58	Yang Binyu   China	2:10.93
Mass start details	Yang Binyu   China	30 pts	Zuzana Kuršová   Czech Republic	25 pts	Katia Filippi   Italy	10 pts

Mixed event

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Team sprint details	Team 3 (MIX)   Sini Siro  (FIN)   Yukino Yoshida  (JPN)   Ignaz Gschwentner  (AUT)   Alexander Sergeev  (RUS)	2:04.10	Team 16 (MIX)   Laura Kivioja  (FIN)   Daria Kopacz  (POL)   Theo Collins  (GBR)   Motonaga Arito  (JPN)	2:05.92	Team 14 (MIX)   Ramona Ionel  (ROU)   Valeriia Sorokoletova  (RUS)   Tuukka Suomalainen  (FIN)   Jonathan Tobon  (USA)	2:05.96

Qualification system

The overall quota for the Speed skating competition is 64 total skaters, consisting of 32 men and 32 ladies. Each National Olympic Committee (NOC) could send a maximum of six athletes (three per gender) to the Winter Youth Olympic Games but the maximum number of entries per event is two. Skaters are eligible to participate at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics if they were born between 1 January 2002 and 31 December 2004. ^[3]

The top six athletes, per gender, based on the results of the 2019 World Junior Speed Skating Championships in the 500 and 1500 meters entitled to one quota. Each NOC can receive up to two quotas based on the 2019 World Junior Championships. The remaining quota will be allocated based on the ISU Junior World Cup Speed Skating ranking. The allocation of quotas will be carried out under four restrictions: ^[3]

1. the allocation will be disregarded the highest ranked NOC skaters in equal number to the quota the NOCs have already received.
2. only the highest distance rank of each skater will be considered.
3. NOC that did not qualify or qualified one quota will get priority before allocation of a third quota to other NOC.
4. The host nation has the right to enter one athlete in each event if not qualified.

Qualification summary

NOC	Boys'	Girls'	Total
Austria	1		1
Belgium		1	1
Belarus	2	2	4
China	2	2	4
Colombia	1		1
Czech Republic	2	2	4
Finland	2	2	4
Germany	2	2	4
Great Britain	1		1
Hungary		1	1
Italy	1	2	3
Japan	2	2	4
Kazakhstan	2	2	4
Netherlands	2	2	4
Norway	2	2	4
Poland	2	2	4
Romania		2	2
Russia	2	2	4
South Korea	2	2	4
Spain	1	2	3
Switzerland	1		1
United States	2		2
Total: 22 NOCs	32	32	64

Quota allocation

Based on the results of the 2019 World Junior Speed Skating Championships the following countries have earned YOG quota places. ^[4] The final allocation of quotas was announced by the ISU on November 29, 2019. ^[5]

Event	Athletes per NOC	Boys'	Girls'
Host nation	1	Switzerland	Switzerland
2019 World Junior Championships	2	Japan   Russia   South Korea	Netherlands   Japan
	1	Austria   China   Germany   Italy   Netherlands	South Korea   Norway   Poland   Russia
ISU Junior World Cup Speed Skating ranking	2	Belarus   Kazakhstan   Norway   Poland   United States	Belarus   China   Czech Republic   Germany   Italy   Kazakhstan   Spain
	1	Austria   Belgium   China   Colombia   Czech Republic   Finland   Germany   Great Britain   Netherlands   Spain	Austria   Canada   Finland   Ireland   Norway   Poland   Romania   Russia   South Korea
Reallocation	1	Czech Republic   Finland	Hungary   Romania   Finland   Belgium
Total		32	32

References

1. "2020 Winter Youth Olympic Games, Lausanne, Switzerland". Olympic.org - Official website of the Olympic Movement.
2. "Speed Skating – Competition Schedule" (PDF). www.lausanne2020.sport. 11 January 2020. Retrieved 20 January 2020.
3. "The Qualification Systems for the 3rd Winter Youth Olympic Games - Speed Skating". International Skating Union. 6 August 2018. Retrieved 1 October 2019.
4. "ISU Communication 2235 - Provisional Quota places Figure Skating & Speed Skating / Final Quota places Short Track Speed Skating". International Skating Union. 3 April 2019. Retrieved 30 September 2019.
5. "ISU Communication 2295 - Entries/Participation Speed Skating". International Skating Union. 29 November 2019. Retrieved 29 November 2019.

External links

• Results Book – Speed Skating