Short track speed skating at the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics

Short track speed skating at the II Winter Youth Olympic Games
Venue	Gjøvik Olympic Cavern Hall, Gjøvik, Norway
Dates	February 14 – 20
Competitors	32 Quota limit

Short track speed skating at the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics was held at the Gjøvik Olympic Cavern Hall in Gjøvik, Norway from 13 to 18 February.^[1]

Medal summary

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	South Korea (KOR)	3	1	0	4
2	China (CHN)	1	1	1	3
3	Hungary (HUN)	0	1	1	2
4	Japan (JPN)	0	1	0	1
5	Bulgaria (BUL)	0	0	1	1
	Germany (GER)	0	0	1	1
Totals (6 nations)		4	4	4	12

Events

Boys' events

Short Track Speed Skating: Men's 1000m Quarterfinal 1

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Boys' 500 metres	Hong Kyung-hwan  South Korea	41.885	Kazuki Yoshinaga  Japan	41.969	Wei Ma  China	42.129
Boys' 1000 metres	Hwang Dae-heon  South Korea	1:28.022	Wei Ma  China	1:28.082	Shaoang Liu  Hungary	1:28.187

Girls' events

Short Track Speed Skating: Ladies' 1000m Quarterfinal 2

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Girls' 500 metres	Yize Zang  China	46.648	Petra Jaszapati  Hungary	No Time	Katrin Manoilova  Bulgaria	46.337
Girls' 1000 metres	Kim Ji-yoo  South Korea	1:34.041	Lee Su-youn  South Korea	1:34.118	Anna Seidel  Germany	1:34.323

Mixed events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Mixed NOC Team Relay	Team B  Mixed-NOCs  Ane Farstad (NOR)  Kim Ji-yoo (KOR)  Stijn Desmet (BEL)  Quentin Fercoq (FRA)	4:14.413	Team C  Mixed-NOCs  Petra Jaszapati (HUN)  Julia Moore (AUS)  Tjerk De Boer (NED)  Kiichi Shigehiro (JPN)	4:14.495	Team F  Mixed-NOCs  Katrin Manoilova (BUL)  Anita Nagay (KAZ)  Karlis Kruzbergs (LAT)  Kazuki Yoshinaga (JPN)	4:17.181

Qualification system

Each nation could send a maximum of 4 athletes (2 boys and 2 girls). The top 3 nations in the overall classification of the 2015 World Junior Short Track Speed Skating Championships could send 2 athletes per gender, the next best nations could send 1 athlete per gender until the quota was filled. The quota limit was 32.^[2] The current allocation of quotas is listed below.

Qualification summary

NOC	Boys	Girls	Total
Australia	0	1	1
Belgium	1	0	1
Bulgaria	0	1	1
Canada	1	1	2
China	1	2	3
France	1	0	1
Germany	1	1	2
Hungary	2	1	3
Italy	0	1	1
Japan	2	1	3
Kazakhstan	1	1	2
Latvia	1	0	1
Netherlands	1	1	2
Russia	1	2	3
South Korea	2	2	4
United States	1	1	2
Total athletes	16	16	32
Total NOCs	13	13	16

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