Short track speed skating at the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics

Short track speed skating at the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics was held at the Tyrolean Ice Arena in Innsbruck, Austria from 20 to 22 January.[1] The difference in the Youth Olympic program for short track speed skating compared to the Winter Olympics, was that there was no 1500 metre event and no relay for each gender, instead a mixed NOC relay took place.

Short track speed skating
at the I Winter Youth Olympic Games
VenueEisschnelllaufbahn Innsbruck
Innsbruck
Dates20–22 January
Competitors32 from 16 nations
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Medal summary

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Medal table

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RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  South Korea (KOR)4206
  Mixed-NOCs (MIX)1113
2  China (CHN)0224
3  Italy (ITA)0011
  Japan (JPN)0011
Totals (4 entries)55515

Boys' events

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Xu Aili and Shim Suk-hee from left to right
 
Sarah Warren, Anna Gamorina and Sumire Kikuchi from left to right
 
Shim Suk-hee and Xu Aili
Event Gold Silver Bronze
500 metres[2]
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Yoon Su-min
  South Korea
42.417 Lim Hyo-jun
  South Korea
42.482 Xu Hongzhi
  China
42.637
1000 metres[3]
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Lim Hyo-jun
  South Korea
1:29.284 Yoon Su-min
  South Korea
1:29.428 Xu Hongzhi
  China
1:29.576

Girls' events

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
500 metres[4]
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Shim Suk-hee
  South Korea
44.122 Xu Aili
  China
44.593 Nicole Martinelli
  Italy
46.390
1000 metres[5]
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Shim Suk-hee
  South Korea
1:31.661 Xu Aili
  China
1:33.351 Sumire Kikuchi
  Japan
1:34.254

Mixed

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
Mixed team relay
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  Park Jung-hyun (KOR)
  Lu Xiucheng (CHN)
  Xu Aili (CHN)
  Jack Burrows (GBR)
4:21.713   Qu Chunyu (CHN)
  Xu Hongzhi (CHN)
  Mariya Dolgopolova (UKR)
  Aydin Djemal (GBR)
4:24.665   Shim Suk-hee (KOR)
  Yoann Martinez (FRA)
  Melanie Brantner (AUT)
  Denis Ayrapetyan (RUS)
4:26.352

Qualification system

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Each nation can send a maximum of four athletes (two boys and two girls). The top three athletes in the overall standings for both genders (three different NOCs) at the 2011 World Junior Short Track Speed Skating Championships are permitted to send two athletes per gender. The host nation is guaranteed one spot in each event. Finally the remaining spots will be distributed in the order of finish at the World Junior Short Track Speed Skating Championships up until the maximum quota is reached, with a limit of one athlete per NOC.[6]

Qualification summary

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NOC Boys Girls Total
  Australia 1 1
  Austria 1 1 2
  China 2 2 4
  Czech Republic 1 1
  France 1 1
  Great Britain 2 2
  Hungary 1 1 2
  Italy 1 2 3
  Japan 1 1 2
  Kazakhstan 1 1
  South Korea 2 2 4
  Netherlands 1 1 2
  Russia 1 1 2
  Chinese Taipei 1 1 2
  Ukraine 1 1
  United States 1 1 2
Total athletes 16 16 32
Total NOCs 13 13 16

References

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