United States at the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics

United States at the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics
Flag of the United States
IOC code	USA
NOC	United States Olympic Committee
Website	www.teamusa.org
in Innsbruck
Competitors	57 [1] in 15 sports
Flag bearer	Jake Peterson [2]
Medals Ranked 10th	Gold 2 Silver 3 Bronze 3 Total 8
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The United States competed at the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Gold	Ben Ferguson	Snowboarding	Boys' halfpipe	January 15
Gold	Summer Britcher Tucker West Ty Andersen Pat Edmunds	Luge	Mixed team relay	January 17
Gold	Shoma Uno  (JPN)   Jordan Bauth  (USA)   Eugenia Tkachenka / Yuri Hulitski  (BLR)	Figure skating	Mixed NOC team	January 21
Silver	Arielle Gold	Snowboarding	Girls' halfpipe	January 15
Silver	Ben Ferguson	Snowboarding	Boys' slopestyle	January 19
Silver	Arielle Gold	Snowboarding	Girls' slopestyle	January 19
Bronze	Aaron Blunck	Freestyle skiing	Boys' halfpipe	January 15
Bronze	Ty Andersen Pat Edmunds	Luge	Boys' doubles	January 16
Bronze	Anna Kubek Heather Mooney Sean Doherty Patrick Caldwell	Cross-country skiing Biathlon	Cross-country Biathlon mixed relay	January 21
Bronze	Korey Dropkin  (USA)   Marina Verenich  (RUS)	Curling	Mixed doubles	January 22

Alpine skiing

Main article: Alpine skiing at the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics

The United States sent a maximum of two athletes to compete in the alpine skiing event, one male and one female athlete. ^{[1] [3] [4]}

Athlete	Event	Run 1	Run 2	Total	Rank
Alex Leever	Boys' super-G	1:06.33		1:06.33	16
	Boys' combined	1:05.98	37.36	1:43.34	10
	Boys' giant slalom	59.89	56.09	1:55.98	11
	Boys' slalom	40.44	DNF	–	–
Julia Mueller-Ristine	Girls' super-G			DNF
	Girls' combined	1:07.93	40.17	1:48.10	17
	Girls' giant slalom	1:01.86	1:01.31	2:03.17	24
	Girls' slalom	46.48	41.31	1:27.79	12

Biathlon

Main article: Biathlon at the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics

The United States qualified two male and two female biathletes. ^{[1] [5]}

Individual

Athlete	Event	Time	Penalties	Rank
Sean Doherty	Boys' sprint	20:47.5	3	12
	Boys' pursuit	31:44.3	8	14
Nick Proell	Boys' sprint	22:21.8	2	32
	Boys' pursuit	36:03.6	8	40
Anna Kubek	Girls' sprint	18:56.7	1	13
	Girls' pursuit	30:28.5	3	10
Aleksandra Zakrzewska	Girls' sprint	21:21.8	4	39
	Girls' pursuit	37:18.6	10	41

Mixed

Athletes	Event	Time	Penalties	Rank
Anna Kubek Aleksandra Zakrzewska Nick Proell Sean Doherty	Mixed relay	1:20:03.4	20	14
Anna Kubek Heather Mooney Sean Doherty Patrick Caldwell	Cross-country Biathlon mixed relay	1:05:23.0	5

Bobsleigh

Main article: Bobsleigh at the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics

The United States sent a pair of athletes to compete in the two-man bobsled event. ^[1]

Athlete	Event	Run 1	Run 2	Total	Rank
Cody Bascue Jake Peterson	Two-boys	54.98	54.67	1:49.65	7

Cross country skiing

Main article: Cross country skiing at the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics

The United States qualified one male and one female cross-country skier. ^{[1] [3] [4] [6]}

Individual

Athlete	Event	Quarterfinals		Semifinals		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Patrick Caldwell	Boys' 10 km classical					31:30.1	16
	Boys' sprint	1:46.5	4 Q (LL)	1:47.3	3 Q (LL)	1:47.0	5
Heather Mooney	Girls' 5 km classical					16:18.8	13
	Girls' sprint	2:09.6	5	did not advance

Notes

• LL – Lucky loser; lucky losers in the cross country skiing sprint competitions qualified for the next round by posting the best heat times among the third and fourth placed competitors in that round.

Mixed

Athletes	Event	Final
		Time	Rank
Anna Kubek Heather Mooney Sean Doherty Patrick Caldwell	Cross-country Biathlon mixed relay	1:05:23.0

Curling

Main article: Curling at the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics

The United States qualified a mixed team of two junior men and two junior women. The team representing the United States was decided at the Youth Olympic Games playdown in Grafton, North Dakota. ^[7]

Mixed team

Team ^[1]

Skip: Korey Dropkin
Third: Sarah Anderson
Second: Thomas Howell
Lead: Taylor Anderson

Standings

Key
	Teams to Playoffs
	Teams to Tiebreakers

Final Round Robin Standings

Blue Group	Skip	W	L
United States	Korey Dropkin	7	0
Switzerland	Michael Brunner	6	1
Czech Republic	Marek Černovský	4	3
China	Bai Yang	3	4
Norway	Markus Skogvold	3	4
South Korea	Kang Sue-yeon	2	5
New Zealand	Luke Steele	2	5
Estonia	Robert-Kent Päll	1	6

Round-robin results

Draw 1 Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final   Estonia (Päll) 0 0 0 0 1 0 X X 1   United States (Dropkin) 2 2 1 4 0 1 X X 10 Draw 2 Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final   New Zealand (Steele) 0 0 0 1 0 1 X X 2   United States (Dropkin) 2 2 1 0 5 0 X X 10 Draw 3 Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final   United States (Dropkin) 2 0 0 0 1 0 4 X 7   South Korea (Kang) 0 0 2 1 0 1 0 X 4 Draw 4 Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final   United States (Dropkin) 2 0 1 0 0 2 0 1 6   Switzerland (Brunner) 0 2 0 1 0 0 1 0 4

Draw 5 Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final   Czech Republic (Černovský) 0 0 0 0 1 0 X X 1   United States (Dropkin) 2 4 2 2 0 1 X X 11 Draw 6 Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final   Norway (Skogvold) 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 X 3   United States (Dropkin) 0 2 0 2 0 1 1 X 6 Draw 7 Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final   United States (Dropkin) 1 1 4 0 1 1 X X 8   China (Bai) 0 0 0 1 0 0 X X 1

Playoffs

Quarterfinals

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Italy (Mosaner)	0	0	1	4	0	2	0	X	7
United States (Dropkin)	0	0	0	0	2	0	3	X	5

Final place: 5

Mixed doubles

Teams

Second:  Sarah Anderson  (USA) Lead:  Go Ke-on  (KOR)

Second:  Korey Dropkin  (USA) Lead:  Marina Verenich  (RUS)

Second:  Yang Ying  (CHN) Lead:  Thomas Howell  (USA)

Second:  Duncan Menzies  (GBR) Lead:  Taylor Anderson  (USA)

Results

Athletes	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final	Rank
Sarah Anderson  (USA)   Go Ke-on  (KOR)	Brunner  (SUI)   Muskatewitz  (GER) L 6–8	did not advance
Korey Dropkin  (USA)   Marina Verenich  (RUS)	Stern  (SUI)   Rõuk  (EST) W13–3	Steele  (NZL)   Heldin  (SWE) W10–3	Brown  (CAN)   Reichel  (AUT) W9–3	Brunner  (SUI)   Muskatewitz  (GER) L 3–7	Bronze medal final   Yoo  (KOR)   Tamakuma  (JPN) W6–5
Yang Ying  (CHN)   Thomas Howell  (USA)	Genner  (AUT)   Gisler  (SUI) W10–2	Sesaker  (NOR)   Kim  (KOR) L 4–10	did not advance
Duncan Menzies  (GBR)   Taylor Anderson  (USA)	Adviento  (NZL)   Meier  (SUI) W8–7	Wranå  (SWE)   Zirk  (EST) W6–4	Yoo  (KOR)   Tamakuma  (JPN) L 4–7	did not advance

Round of 32

Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final   Michael Brunner  (SUI)   Nicole Muskatewitz  (GER) 0 2 0 2 0 2 1 1 8   Sarah Anderson  (USA)   Go Ke-on  (KOR) 1 0 4 0 1 0 0 0 6 Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final   Elena Stern  (SUI)   Sander Rõuk  (EST) 2 0 0 0 1 0 X X 3   Korey Dropkin  (USA)   Marina Verenich  (RUS) 0 2 1 4 0 6 X X 13

Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final   Mathias Genner  (AUT)   Lisa Gisler  (SUI) 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 X 2   Yang Ying  (CHN)   Thomas Howell  (USA) 3 1 2 0 3 0 1 X 10 Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Final   Eleanor Adviento  (NZL)   Romano Meier  (SUI) 2 0 1 0 1 0 3 0 0 7   Duncan Menzies  (GBR)   Taylor Anderson  (USA) 0 1 0 2 0 2 0 2 1 8

Round of 16

Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final   Korey Dropkin  (USA)   Marina Verenich  (RUS) 1 0 5 0 1 2 1 X 10   Luke Steele  (NZL)   Johanna Heldin  (SWE) 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 X 3 Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final   Duncan Menzies  (GBR)   Taylor Anderson  (USA) 1 0 0 2 1 0 0 2 6   Rasmus Wranå  (SWE)   Kerli Zirk  (EST) 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 4

Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final   Yang Ying  (CHN)   Thomas Howell  (USA) 0 3 0 0 0 1 0 X 4   Martin Sesaker  (NOR)   Kim Eun-bi  (KOR) 2 0 2 1 2 0 3 X 10

Quarterfinals

Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final   Duncan Menzies  (GBR)   Taylor Anderson  (USA) 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 4   Yoo Min-hyeon  (KOR)   Mako Tamakuma  (JPN) 0 2 1 0 3 0 0 1 7

Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final   Korey Dropkin  (USA)   Marina Verenich  (RUS) 1 2 2 0 4 0 0 X 9   Corryn Brown  (CAN)   Martin Reichel  (AUT) 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 X 3

Semifinals

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Michael Brunner  (SUI)   Nicole Muskatewitz  (GER)	1	1	0	2	0	3	0	X	7
Korey Dropkin  (USA)   Marina Verenich  (RUS)	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	X	3

Bronze Medal Game

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Final
Korey Dropkin  (USA)   Marina Verenich  (RUS)	1	0	1	0	2	0	1	0	1	6
Yoo Min-hyeon  (KOR)   Mako Tamakuma  (JPN)	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	2	0	5

Figure skating

Main article: Figure skating at the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics

The United States qualified a total of three singles skaters and three skating pairs. However, there were only one athlete in girls' singles, one pair team in pair skating, and two pairs teams in ice dancing. Originally, the United States had received a quota spot in the boys' singles competition and an additional quota spot in the girls' singles competition, but U.S. Figure Skating announced that those spots will not be filled. ^{[1] [8]}

Individual/Pairs

Athlete	Event	SP/OD		FS/FD		Total	Rank
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Jordan Bauth	Girls' singles	42.33	7	81.06	7	123.39	7
Caitlin Belt Michael Johnson	Pair skating	38.65	4	70.96	4	109.61	4
Rachel Parsons Michael Parsons	Ice dancing	44.69	4	69.53	4	114.22	4

Mixed NOC

Athlete	Event	Men (M)		Women (W)		Ice dance (ID)		Total Points	Final Rank
		Score	Points	Score	Points	Score	Points
M:   Shoma Uno  (JPN) W:   Jordan Bauth  (USA) ID:   Eugenia Tkachenka / Yuri Hulitski  (BLR)	Mixed NOC team	112.72	7	77.84	7	44.36	2	16

Freestyle skiing

Main article: Freestyle skiing at the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics

The United States has qualified two male and two female skiers, one each in the half-pipe and ski cross categories for each gender. ^{[1] [3] [4] [9]}

Half-pipe

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Aaron Blunck	Boys' halfpipe	75.75	3 Q	87.50
Jeanne Crane-Mauzy	Girls' halfpipe	DNS	–	did not advance

Ski cross

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Quarterfinals		Semifinals		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Lesley Wilson	Girls' ski cross	1:02.64	10	Cancelled					10

Ice hockey

Main article: Ice hockey at the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics

The United States sent one boys' ice hockey team consisting of 17 athletes.

Team

The team roster is listed as follows: ^{[1] [10] [11]}

No.	Pos.	2012 Winter Youth Olympics United States U-16 boys' ice hockey team roster	Height	Weight	Birthdate	Hometown	Current Team
30	G	Logan Halladay	185 cm (6 ft 1 in)	79 kg (174 lb)	17 August 1996	Cary, North Carolina	Carolina Jr. Hurricanes (NAPAL)
1	G	Edwin Minney	193 cm (6 ft 4 in)	88 kg (194 lb)	29 March 1996	Wind Gap, Pennsylvania	DC Capitals (TIER-1 ELITE)
3	D	Adam Baughman	188 cm (6 ft 2 in)	79 kg (174 lb)	3 January 1996	Chicago, Illinois	Chicago Mission (HPHL)
2	D	Nathan Billitier	180 cm (5 ft 11 in)	82 kg (181 lb)	20 March 1996	Spencerport, New York	Rochester Stars (EJHL)
4	D	Ryan Bliss – A	185 cm (6 ft 1 in)	84 kg (185 lb)	22 June 1996	Bedford, New Hampshire	St. Paul's School
5	D	Jack Glover	188 cm (6 ft 2 in)	77 kg (170 lb)	17 May 1996	Golden Valley, Minnesota	Benilde-St. Margaret's School
6	D	Joshua Jacobs – A	185 cm (6 ft 1 in)	78 kg (172 lb)	15 February 1996	Shelby Township, Michigan	Detroit Honeybaked (HPHL)
8	D	Kevin Kerr	180 cm (5 ft 11 in)	70 kg (150 lb)	9 February 1996	Bensalem, Pennsylvania	Team Comcast (TIER-1 ELITE)
10	F	Blake Clarke	187 cm (6 ft 2 in)	88 kg (194 lb)	24 January 1996	Wildwood, Missouri	Fargo Force (USHL)
12	F	Jack Eichel	185 cm (6 ft 1 in)	79 kg (174 lb)	28 October 1996	North Chelmsford, Massachusetts	Boston Jr. Bruins (EJHL)
11	F	Jared Fiegl – C	183 cm (6 ft 0 in)	86 kg (190 lb)	23 January 1996	Parker, Colorado	Colorado Rampage (TIER-1 ELITE)
9	F	Shane Gersich	180 cm (5 ft 11 in)	74 kg (163 lb)	10 July 1996	Chaska, Minnesota	Holy Family Catholic High School
18	F	Marcel Godbout – C	179 cm (5 ft 10 in)	82 kg (181 lb)	4 June 1996	Center Line, Michigan	Shattuck St. Mary's School
15	F	Nicholas Magyar	190 cm (6 ft 3 in)	79 kg (174 lb)	29 May 1996	Mentor, Ohio	Cleveland Jr. Barons
14	F	Ryan MacInnis	191 cm (6 ft 3 in)	77 kg (170 lb)	14 February 1996	St. Louis, Missouri	St. Louis Amateur Blues (TIER-1 ELITE)
16	F	Nick Schmaltz	180 cm (5 ft 11 in)	75 kg (165 lb)	23 February 1996	Verona, Wisconsin	Chicago Mission (HPHL)
17	F	Joe Wegwerth	188 cm (6 ft 2 in)	86 kg (190 lb)	16 June 1996	Brewster, New York	Brewster Bulldogs (EJHL)

Coaching staff

Head Coach: Ben Smith ^[12]
Athletic Trainer: Stan Wong

Results

Preliminary round

Legend
	Teams to Playoffs

Team	GP	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	Diff	PTS
Russia	4	3	0	0	1	25	9	+16	9
Canada	4	2	1	0	1	20	7	+13	8
Finland	4	2	0	1	1	13	11	+2	7
United States	4	2	0	0	2	14	18	–4	6
Austria	4	0	0	0	4	3	30	–27	0

14 January 12:30

United States

7 – 2 (4–0, 1–1, 2–1)

Austria

Tyrolean Ice Arena Attendance: 1,180

Game reference
	Edwin Minney	Goalies	Stefan Müller	Referee: Andris Ansons Linesmen: Tilen Pahor Daniel Persson
	Gersich (Godbout, NSchmaltz) – 0:47 1–0 Wegwerth (Eichel, Clarke) – 1:13 2–0 MacInnis (Magyar, Baughman) (PP) – 9:02 3–0 Gersich (Eichel) (PP) – 12:03 4–0 4–1 20:40 – Huber Gersich (Billitier) – 23:37 5–1 5–2 30:44 – Gaffal (Kraus, Huber) MacInnis (Godbout, Jacobs) (SH) – 41:06 6–2 Godbout (Schmaltz) (SH) – 41:24 7–2
	14 min	Penalties	10 min
	42	Shots	16

15 January 18:00

Canada

5 – 1 (1–0, 2–1, 2–0)

United States

Tyrolean Ice Arena Attendance: 2,575

Game reference
	Kevin Bouchard	Goalies	Logan Halladay	Referee: Simon Aicher Linesmen: Andrei Haurylenka Tilen Pahor
	Cornel – 3:58 1–0 Gropp (Cornel) – 16:30 2–0 2–1 17:39 – Clarke (Jacobs) Duke (Brooks, Pilon) – 28:54 3–1 Brooks (Martin, Gardiner) (PP) – 43:21 4–1 Gropp (Cornel, Gardiner) (PP) – 44:06 5–1
	2 min	Penalties	10 min
	27	Shots	16

17 January 15:45

Finland

4 – 5 (1–0, 2–3, 1–2)

United States

Tyrolean Ice Arena Attendance: 1,824

Game reference
	Jusso Kannel	Goalies	Edwin Minney	Referees: Andris Ansons Linesmen: Tilen Pahor Martin Smeibidlo
	Kiviranta (Hopponen, Tuulola) – 12:16 1–0 1–1 16:31 – Baughman (Schmaltz) Tuulola (Kiviranta, Pitkanen) – 19:45 2–1 2–2 23:10 – Glover (Bliss) (PP) Kauppinen (Hopponen, Levanen) – 24:36 3–2 3–3 27:47 – Clarke (Kerr) 3–4 31:01 – Schmaltz (Bliss, Fiegl) 3–5 32:15 – MacInnis (Gersich, Magyar) Kapanen (Haapanen) – 41:45 4–5
	10 min	Penalties	26 min
	29	Shots	32

18 January 16:15

United States

1 – 7 (0–2, 0–3, 1–2)

Russia

Tyrolean Ice Arena Attendance: 2,124

Game reference
	Edwin Minney	Goalies	Sergey Korobov	Referee: Simon Aicher Linesmen: Benjamin Hoppe Daniel Persson
	0–1 1:43 – E. Orlov (E. Svechnikov, A. Protapovich (PP) 0–2 6:47 – A. Mikulovich (I. Nikolishin, D. Sergeev) (PP) 0–3 16:24 – S. Kondratyev (A. Svetlakov) 0–4 19:32 – E. Svechnikov (M. Lazarev, A. Protapovich) (PP) 0–5 21:58 – M. Lazarev (E. Svechnikov) J. Fiegl (R. MacInnis, J. Wegwerth) – 38:17 1–5 1–6 40:30 – M. Lazarev (E. Svechnikov) 1–7 43:32 – E. Nasybullin (E. Orlov, A. Protapovich) (PP)
	16 min	Penalties	4 min
	15	Shots	30

Playoffs

Semifinals

20 January 14:15

Russia

5 – 2 (1–0, 1–0, 3–2)

United States

Tyrolean Ice Arena Attendance: 1,632

Game reference
	Sergey Korobov	Goalies	Logan Halladay	Referee: Andreas Harnebring Linesmen: Andrei Haurylenka Daniel Persson
	Orlov (Nasybullin, Protapovich) (PP) – 2:06 1–0 Nikolishin (Nekolenko) – 28:01 2–0 Zinovev (Mikulovich, Nikolishin) – 31:03 3–0 Nekolenko (Nikolishin, Sergeev) – 32:49 4–0 4–1 40:06 – Wegwerth (Eichel) 4–2 41:22 – Eichel (Glover) (PP) Svechnikov – 44:37 5–2
	14 min	Penalties	8 min
	16	Shots	32

Bronze medal game

January 21, 2012 14:45

Canada

7 – 5 (3–1, 4–1, 0–3)

United States

Tyrolean Ice Arena Attendance: 1,592

	Keven Bouchard	Goalies	Logan Halladay	Referee: Stian Halm Linesmen: Benjamin Hoppe Martin Smeibidlo
	E. Cornel (R. Gardiner, J. Hicketts) (PP) – 4:19 1–0 R. Pilon (R. Gardiner, E. Cornel) – 6:58 2–0 R. Gropp (R. Gardiner, R. Pilon) (PP) – 13:22 3–0 3–1 14:53 – N. Billitier (A. Baughman) 3–2 19:40 – R. MacInnis (J. Eichel) A. Brooks (R. Duke, B. Martin) – 21:27 4–2 R. Gardiner (J. Hicketts) – 22:35 5–2 R. Gropp – 23:10 6–2 R. Gropp (R. Gardiner) – 25:40 7–2 7–3 31:44 – J. Eichel (N. Schmaltz) 7–4 38:54 – N. Magyar (J. Jacobs, J. Wegwerth) 7–5 40:10 – N. Schmaltz (R. MacInnis, M. Godbout) (PP)
	8 min	Penalties	12 min
	19	Shots	40

Final rank: 4

Luge

Main article: Luge at the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics

The United States qualified three male and two female lugers. ^{[1] [13]}

Athlete	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Total	Rank
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Ty Andersen	Boys' singles	40.374	17	40.210	13			1:20.584	15
Tucker West	Boys' singles	40.218	12	40.117	10			1:20.335	12
Ty Andersen Pat Edmunds	Doubles	42.817	3	42.949	4			1:25.766
Summer Britcher	Girls' singles	40.321	5	40.309	3			1:20.630	5
Raychel Germaine	Girls' singles	40.856	12	41.324	18			1:22.180	14
Summer Britcher Tucker West Ty Andersen Pat Edmunds	Mixed Team Relay	44.658	1	46.686	1	46.966	1	2:18.310

Nordic combined

Main article: Nordic combined at the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics

The United States qualified one athlete in Nordic combined. ^[1]

Athlete	Event	Ski jump			Cross-country		Final
		Distance	Score	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Colton Kissell	Individual	67.5m	105.3	13	29:11.6	15	32:00.6	13

Short track speed skating

Main article: Short track speed skating at the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics

The United States qualified one male and one female short track speed skater. ^[1]

Individual

Athlete	Event	Quarterfinals		Semifinals		Finals
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Thomas Hong	Boys' 500 metres	44.485	1 Q	43.187	2 Q	42.782	4
	Boys' 1000 metres	1:30.615	2 Q	DNF	–	did not advance
Sarah Warren	Girls' 500 metres	48.241	1 Q	47.033	4 qB	48.273	4
	Girls' 1000 metres	1:40.397	4	1:45.006	2 QC	1:50.026	11

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Semifinals		Finals
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Team D   Elisabeth Witt  (GER)   Thomas Insuk Hong  (USA)   Sumire Kikuchi  (JPN)   Yin-Cheng Chang  (TPE)	Mixed team relay	4:23.141	4 qB	4:24.360	4
Team E   Sarah Warren  (USA)   Kei Saito  (JPN)   Lin Yu-Tzu  (TPE)   Josse Antonissen  (NED)	Mixed team relay	4:36.208	4 qB	4:30.383	6

Notes

^¹ Warren was relegated to the B final after the semifinal, and placed first in the B final. She finished fourth overall. ^[14]
^² Warren qualified for the C final after the semifinal, and placed fourth in the C final. She finished eleventh overall. ^[15]

Skeleton

Main article: Skeleton at the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics

The United States qualified one male and two female athletes in the skeleton event. ^[1]

Athlete	Event	Run 1	Run 2	Total	Rank
Anthony Herringshaw	Boys'	59.00	59.16	1:58.16	7
Timi Earl	Girls'		1:01.04	1:01.04	9
Lizzy Maxwell	Girls'		59.50	59.50	7

Ski jumping

Main article: Ski jumping at the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics

The United States qualified one male and one female athlete in the ski jumping event. ^{[1] [3] [4]}

Individual

Athlete	Event	1st Jump		2nd Jump		Overall
		Distance	Points	Distance	Points	Points	Rank
William Rhoads	Boys' individual	59.0m	86.4	63.0m	95.0	181.4	19
Emilee Anderson	Girls' individual	59.5m	85.1	65.5m	101.0	186.1	9

Ski Jumping/Nordic combined Mixed team

Athlete	Event	1st Round	2nd Round	Total	Rank
Emilee Anderson Colton Kissel William Rhoads	Mixed team	205.7	230.5	436.2	11

Snowboarding

Main article: Snowboarding at the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics

The United States qualified one male and one female snowboarder each in the men's and women's half-pipe and slopestyle competitions. ^{[1] [3] [4]}

Athlete	Event	Qualification			Semifinals			Finals
		Run 1	Run 2	Rank	Run 1	Run 2	Rank	Run 1	Run 2	Rank
Ben Ferguson	Boys' halfpipe	88.00	33.75	3 Q				90.25	93.25
	Boys' slopestyle	80.50	90.25	1 Q				90.25	87.50
Max Raymer	Boys' halfpipe	47.00	48.50	10	did not advance
	Boys' slopestyle	74.25	80.75	2 Q				39.25	85.00	5
Arielle Gold	Girls' halfpipe	88.50	27.00	1 Q				90.00	86.50
	Girls' slopestyle	77.50	72.50	4 Q				71.75	69.00
Indigo Monk	Girls' halfpipe	45.00	46.75	8 q	59.25	54.50	5	did not advance
	Girls' slopestyle	65.75	77.25	5				55.00	50.00	5

Speed skating

Main article: Speed skating at the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics

The United States qualified one female speed skater. ^[1]

Athlete	Event	Heats		Finals
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Clare Jeong	Girls' 3000 metres			4:54.04	8
	Girls' mass start			6:11.73	13

See also

• United States at the 2012 Summer Olympics

References

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