United States at the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics

United States at the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics
Flag of the United States
IOC code	USA
NOC	United States Olympic Committee
Website	www.teamusa.org
in Lillehammer
Competitors	62 in 15 sports
Flag bearer	Chloe Kim
Medals Ranked 1st	Gold 10 Silver 6 Bronze 0 Total 16
Winter Youth Olympics appearances
2012 2016

The United States competed at the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway from 12 to 21 February 2016.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Gold	River Radamus	Alpine skiing	Boys' Super-G	13 February
Gold	River Radamus	Alpine Skiing	Boys' combined	14 February
Gold	Birk Irving	Freestyle skiing	Boys' halfpipe	14 February
Gold	Chloe Kim	Snowboarding	Girls' Halfpipe	14 February
Gold	Jake Pates	Snowboarding	Boys' halfpipe	14 February
Gold	Jake Vedder	Snowboarding	Boys' snowboard cross	15 February
Gold	River Radamus	Alpine skiing	Boys' giant slalom	17 February
Gold	Chloe Kim	Snowboarding	Girls' slopestyle	19 February
Gold	Jake Pates	Snowboarding	Boys' slopestyle	19 February
Gold	United States men's national under-16 ice hockey team Jack DeBoer   Erik Middendorf   Jacob Semik Drew DeRidder   Jacob Pivonka   Oliver Wahlstrom Ty Emberson   Adam Samuelsson   T. J. Walsh Jonathan Gruden   Mattias Samuelsson   Tyler Weiss Christian Krygier   Ryan Savage   Jake Wise Will MacKinnon   Todd Scott	Ice hockey	Boys' tournament	21 February
Silver	Nikolas Baden	Snowboarding	Boys' halfpipe	14 February
Silver	Paula Cooper	Freestyle skiing	Girls' halfpipe	14 February
Silver	Ben Loomis	Nordic combined	Normal hill/5 km	16 February
Silver	Chloe Lewis Logan Bye	Figure skating	Ice dancing	16 February
Silver	Luc Violette Cora Farrell Ben Richardson Cait Flannery	Curling	Mixed Team	17 February
Silver	Alexander Hall	Freestyle skiing	Boys' slopestyle	19 February

Medalists in mixed NOCs events

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Gold	Sarah Rose Joseph Goodpaster	Figure skating	Team trophy	20 February
Silver	Austin Kleba	Speed skating	Mixed team sprint	17 February

Alpine Skiing

Boys

Athlete	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Total
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
River Radamus	Slalom	DNF		Did not advance
	Giant slalom	1:17.16	1	1:17.89	3	2:35.05
	Super-G	N/A				1:10.62
	Combined	1:11.15	1	41.72	7	1:52.87

Girls

Parallel mixed team

Athletes	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Keely Cashman River Radamus	Parallel mixed team	Canada (CAN) L 2 - 2+	Did not advance

Biathlon

Boys

Girls

Mixed

Bobsleigh

Cross-country skiing

Boys

Girls

Curling

Mixed team

Main article: Curling at the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics – Mixed team

Team

• Skip: Luc Violette
• Third: Cora Farrell
• Second: Ben Richardson
• Lead: Cait Flannery

Round Robin

Group A	Skip	W	L
United States	Luc Violette	6	1
Switzerland	Selina Witschonke	6	1
Russia	Nadezhda Karelina	6	1
Turkey	Oğuzhan Karakurt	3	4
Italy	Luca Rizzolli	3	4
China	Du Hongrui	2	5
New Zealand	Matthew Neilson	1	6
Japan	Kota Ito	1	6

Draw 1 Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final  Turkey (Karakurt) 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 X 3  United States (Violette) 1 0 1 0 2 3 0 X 7 Draw 2 Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final  United States (Violette) 0 0 2 0 2 0 0 2 6  Switzerland (Witschonke) 0 1 0 1 0 3 0 0 5 Draw 3 Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final  Italy (Rizzolli) 0 0 1 0 2 0 2 0 5  United States (Violette) 2 2 0 1 0 2 0 1 8 Draw 4 Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final  Russia (Karelina) 0 1 3 1 0 3 0 1 9  United States (Violette) 1 0 0 0 2 0 3 0 6

Draw 5 Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final  New Zealand (Neilson) 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 X 3  United States (Violette) 0 2 1 3 0 2 2 X 10 Draw 6 Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final  United States (Violette) 2 1 1 0 0 1 0 X 5  China (Du) 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 X 2 Draw 7 Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final  United States (Violette) 2 0 0 1 0 5 1 X 9  Japan (Ito) 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 X 3

Quarterfinals

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Final
United States (Violette)	0	0	0	1	1	0	2	0	1	5
Norway (Ramsfjell)	0	0	2	0	0	1	0	1	0	4

Semifinals

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
United States (Violette)	0	2	3	0	0	2	1	0	8
Russia (Karelina)	2	0	0	3	0	0	0	1	6

Gold Medal Game

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Canada (Fay)	5	0	2	0	2	0	1	X	10
United States (Violette)	0	2	0	1	0	1	0	X	4

Final Rank:

Mixed doubles

Athletes	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Giovanna Barros (BRA)  Ben Richardson (USA)	Mixed doubles	Jonasson (SWE)  Du (CHN) W 8–4	Ramsfjell (NOR)  Kim (KOR) L 7–9	Did not advance
Britta Sillaots (EST)  Luc Violette (USA)		Petterson (SWE)  Zisa (ITA) W 7–4	Matsuzawa (JPN)  Hösli (SUI) L 5–10	Did not advance
Cait Flannery (USA)  Kota Ito (JPN)		Podrábská (CZE)  Degerfeldt (SWE) L 7–8	Did not advance
Cora Farrell (USA)  Ben Smith (NZL)		Lee (KOR)  Nygren (SWE) L 1–8	Did not advance

Round of 32

Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final  Jenny Jonasson (SWE)  Du Hongrui (CHN) 0 0 0 3 0 0 1 X 4  Giovanna Barros (BRA)  Ben Richardson (USA) 2 1 1 0 2 2 0 X 8 Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final  Kristina Podrábská (CZE)  Anton Degerfeldt (SWE) 2 1 1 0 1 1 0 2 8  Cait Flannery (USA)  Kota Ito (JPN) 0 0 0 4 0 0 3 0 7

Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final  Lee (KOR)  Johan Nygren (SWE) 2 1 1 1 3 0 X X 8  Cora Farrell (USA)  Ben Smith (NZL) 0 0 0 0 0 1 X X 1 Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final  Tova Pettersson (SWE)  Alberto Zisa (ITA) 1 0 2 1 0 0 0 X 4  Britta Sillaots (EST)  Luc Violette (USA) 0 3 0 0 1 1 2 X 7

Round of 16

Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final  Maia Ramsfjell (NOR)  Kim Ho-geon (KOR) 0 0 4 1 0 2 2 X 9  Giovanna Barros (BRA)  Ben Richardson (USA) 1 2 0 0 4 0 0 X 7

Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final  Yako Matsuzawa (JPN)  Philipp Hösli (SUI) 0 1 0 0 4 0 5 X 10  Britta Sillaots (EST)  Luc Violette (USA) 1 0 0 1 0 3 0 X 5

Figure skating

Singles

Couples

Athletes	Event	SP/SD		FS/FD		Total
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Sarah Rose Joseph Goodpaster	Pairs	46.47	5	80.06	6	126.53	6
Chloe Lewis Logan Bye	Ice dancing	55.07	3	81.30	2	136.37

Mixed NOC team trophy

Athletes	Event	Free skate/Free dance
		Ice dance	Pairs	Girls	Boys	Total
		Points Team points	Points Team points	Points Team points	Points Team points	Points	Rank
Team Desire  Anastasia Skoptsova / Kirill Aleshin (RUS)  Sarah Rose / Joseph Goodpaster (USA)  Li Xiangning (CHN)  Dmitri Aliev (RUS)	Team trophy	80.28 7	82.47 4	88.73 5	141.06 7	23

Freestyle skiing

Halfpipe

Athlete	Event	Final
		Run 1	Run 2	Run 3	Best	Rank
Alexander Hall	Boys' halfpipe	75.80	12.20	78.00	78.00	4
Birk Irving	Boys' halfpipe	84.80	93.00	DNS	93.00
Paula Cooper	Girls' halfpipe	72.60	79.00	34.40	79.00
Nikita Rubocki	Girls' halfpipe	68.40	70.20	58.80	70.20	4

Ski cross

Slopestyle

Athlete	Event	Final
		Run 1	Run 2	Best	Rank
Alexander Hall	Boys' slopestyle	83.40	87.40	87.40
Birk Irving	Boys' slopestyle	Did not start
Nikita Rubocki	Girls' slopestyle	50.60	41.40	50.60	8

Ice hockey

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

Boys' tournament

The team roster is listed as follows:^[1][2]

No.	Pos.	2016 Winter Youth Olympics United States U-16 boys' ice hockey team roster	Height	Weight	Birthdate	Hometown	Current Team
1	G	Drew DeRidder	178 cm (5 ft 10 in)	7001660000000000000♠66 kg (146 lb)	1 May 2000	Fenton, Michigan	Oakland Jr. Grizzlies (T1EHL)
30	G	Todd Scott	180 cm (5 ft 11 in)	7001860000000000000♠86 kg (190 lb)	23 May 2000	Albertville, Minnesota	Omaha AAA Hockey Club (NAPHL)
7	D	Ty Emberson – A	185 cm (6 ft 1 in)	7001860000000000000♠86 kg (190 lb)	23 May 2000	Eau Claire, Wisconsin	Memorial High School (WIAA)
2	D	Christian Krygier	183 cm (6 ft 0 in)	7001740000000000000♠74 kg (163 lb)	5 May 2000	Novi, Michigan	Little Caesars Hockey Club (HPHL)
3	D	Will MacKinnon	180 cm (5 ft 11 in)	7001860000000000000♠86 kg (190 lb)	13 April 2000	Plymouth, Michigan	HoneyBaked Hockey Club (HPHL)
5	D	Adam Samuelsson	193 cm (6 ft 4 in)	7001950000000000000♠95 kg (209 lb)	21 June 2000	Rye, New York	Connecticut Jr. Rangers (USPHL)
6	D	Mattias Samuelsson – C	191 cm (6 ft 3 in)	7001910000000000000♠91 kg (201 lb)	14 March 2000	Voorhees, New Jersey	Northwood School
4	D	Jacob Semik	183 cm (6 ft 0 in)	7001700000000000000♠70 kg (150 lb)	10 March 2000	Canton, Michigan	HoneyBaked Hockey Club (HPHL)
17	F	Jack DeBoer	188 cm (6 ft 2 in)	7001880000000000000♠88 kg (194 lb)	17 August 2000	Madison, New Jersey	Salisbury School (NEPSAC)
10	F	Jonathan Gruden	178 cm (5 ft 10 in)	7001660000000000000♠66 kg (146 lb)	4 May 2000	Rochester, Michigan	HoneyBaked Hockey Club (HPHL)
16	F	Erik Middendorf	183 cm (6 ft 0 in)	7001750000000000000♠75 kg (165 lb)	11 July 2000	Scottsdale, Arizona	Jr. Coyotes (T1EHL)
15	F	Jacob Pivonka – A	180 cm (5 ft 11 in)	7001810000000000000♠81 kg (179 lb)	28 February 2000	Woodridge, Illinois	Chicago Mission (HPHL)
11	F	Ryan Savage	178 cm (5 ft 10 in)	7001750000000000000♠75 kg (165 lb)	31 March 2000	Scottsdale, Arizona	EC Red Bull Salzburg
14	F	Oliver Wahlstrom	185 cm (6 ft 1 in)	7001860000000000000♠86 kg (190 lb)	13 June 2000	Quincy, Massachusetts	Shattuck-Saint Mary's
8	F	T. J. Walsh	175 cm (5 ft 9 in)	7001730000000000000♠73 kg (161 lb)	29 April 2000	Shrewsbury, Massachusetts	Cushing Academy (NEPSAC)
9	F	Tyler Weiss	178 cm (5 ft 10 in)	7001680000000000000♠68 kg (150 lb)	3 January 2000	Raleigh, North Carolina	Don Mills Flyers (GTHL)
12	F	Jake Wise	180 cm (5 ft 11 in)	7001810000000000000♠81 kg (179 lb)	28 February 2000	North Andover, Massachusetts	Central Catholic High School (MIAA)

Coaching staff

Head Coach: Scott Paluch
Assistant Coach: J. D. Forrest

Group Stage

Pos	Team	Pld	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Canada	4	3	0	0	1	18	7	+11	9	Advance to semifinals
2	United States	4	3	0	0	1	18	7	+11	9
3	Russia	4	2	1	0	1	21	9	+12	8
4	Finland	4	1	0	1	2	14	11	+3	4
5	Norway	4	0	0	0	4	1	38	−37	0

Updated to match(es) played on 19 February 2016. Source: IIHF.com

13 February 2016 20:00

United States

4–1 (2–1, 1–0, 1–0)

Finland

Kristins Hall Attendance: 890

Game reference
	Todd Scott	Goalies	Jimi Uusitalo	Referee: Alex DiPietro Linesmen: Clement Goncalves Tobias Nordlander
	0–1 02:36 – Salonen (Maki) Wise (DeBoer, Krygier) – 08:39 1–1 Walsh (Emberson) – 13:10 2–1 Krygier (MacKinnon) – 20:25 3–1 Weiss (PS) – 42:12 4–1
	4.5 min	Penalties	7.5 min
	24	Shots	22

14 February 2016 20:00

Norway

0–8 (0–3, 0–4, 0–1)

United States

Kristins Hall Attendance: 2,094

Game reference
	Theo Rooseboom de Vries	Goalies	Drew DeRidder	Referee: Marc Iwert Linesmen: Aleh Kliashcheunikau Niclas Lundsgaard
	0–1 06:48 – Wahlstrom (Weiss, DeBoer) (PP) 0–2 11:09 – Wahlstrom (Weiss, Wise) 0–3 11:49 – (Pivonka, Middendorf, Emberson) 0–4 17:09 – Pivonka (Walsh, M. Samuelsson) (PP) 0–5 21:35 – Middendorf (Krygier, Pivonka) (SH) 0–6 23:04 – Pivonka (Middendorf, Semik) 0–7 24:48 – DeBoer (Wise, Weiss) 0–8 30:31 – Wahlstrom (Wise, Weiss)
	7.5 min	Penalties	6 min
	11	Shots	35

16 February 2016 14:00

United States

2–4 (2–1, 0–2, 0–1)

Canada

Kristins Hall Attendance: 1,745

Game reference
	Todd Scott	Goalies	Alexis Gravel	Referee: Lars Johan Gossas Linesmen: Aleh Kliashcheunikau Tobias Nordlander
	0–1 02:45 – McShane (McIsaac) Weiss (Semik, Wise) (PP) – 09:40 1–1 Wise (T. J. Walsh, DeBoer) – 14:36 2–1 2–2 21:52 – Fortier (Roberts, McShane) 2–3 26:42 – Roberts (Focht, MacDonald) 2–4 38:09 – Burzan (Dudas)
	6 min	Penalties	6 min
	23	Shots	20

18 February 2016 17:00

Russia

2–4 (0–2, 1–0, 1–2)

United States

Youth Hall Attendance: 564

Game reference
	Amir Miftakhov	Goalies	Drew DeRidder	Referee: Alex DiPietro Linesmen: Niclas Lundgaard Tobias Nordlander
	0–1 04:16 – Weiss (Wahlstrom) 0–2 12:25 – DeBoer (Wise, Walsh) Zhabreyev (Babintsev, Denisenko) – 22:38 1–2 1–3 31:25 – Pivonka (Weiss) 1–4 39:06 – Gruden (MacKinnon, Middendorf) Nizhnikov (Denezhkin) – 42:46 2–4
	26.5 min	Penalties	10.5 min
	24	Shots	20

Semifinals

19 February 2016 20:00

United States

3–0 (0–0, 1–0, 2–0)

Russia

Youth Hall Attendance: 1,902

Game reference
	Drew DeRidder	Goalies	Amir Miftakhov	Referee: Lars Johan Gossas Linesmen: Danny Beresford Thomas Nordberg Pettersen
	Pivonka (Middendorf, Savage) – 19:41 1–0 Wise (Gruden) (SH, EN) – 43:18 2–0 Walsh (Wise) – 44:30 3–0
	6 min	Penalties	13 min
	23	Shots	19

Gold medal game

21 February 2016 15:00

Canada

2–5 (0–1, 1–2, 1–2)

United States

Kristins Hall Attendance: 2,428

Game reference
	Alexis Gravel Olivier Rodrigue	Goalies	Drew DeRidder	Referee: Alex DiPietro Linesmen: Niclas Lundgaard Tobias Nordlander
	0–1 08:00 – Walsh (Gruden, DeBoer) 0–2 17:56 – DeBoer (Pivonka, Semik) (PP) Merkley (Focht) (PP) – 24:32 1–2 1–3 26:25 – Krygier (MacKinnon, Gruden) McShane (Busby, Smith) – 41:11 2–3 2–4 44:04 – Tyler Weiss (EN) 2–5 44:41 – Wise (Pivonka) (PP, EN)
	7.5 min	Penalties	4.5 min
	25	Shots	23

Final Rank:

Luge

Individual sleds

Mixed team relay

Nordic combined

Individual

Athlete	Event	Ski jumping				Cross-country
		Distance	Points	Rank	Deficit	Time	Rank
Ben Loomis	Normal hill/5 km	98.5	129.7	2	0:08	13:36.6

Nordic mixed team

Short track speed skating

Boys

Mixed team relay

Athlete	Event	Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Team A  April Shin (USA)  Zang Yize (CHN)  Pavel Sitnikov (RUS)  Andras Sziklasi (HUN)	Mixed team relay	4:18.683	3 FB	4:25.169	6
Team E  Gloria Ioriatti (ITA)  Anna Seidel (GER)  Aaron Heo (USA)  Hong Kyung-hwan (KOR)	Mixed team relay	4:16.056	2 FA	PEN

Qualification Legend: FA=Final A (medal); FB=Final B (non-medal); FC=Final C (non-medal); FD=Final D (non-medal); SA/B=Semifinals A/B; SC/D=Semifinals C/D; ADV=Advanced to Next Round; PEN=Penalized

Skeleton

Ski jumping

Individual

Team

Snowboarding

Halfpipe

Athlete	Event	Final
		Run 1	Run 2	Run 3	Best	Rank
Nikolas Baden	Boys' halfpipe	83.25	50.50	85.25	85.25
Jake Pates	Boys' halfpipe	46.50	92.00	93.00	93.00
Chloe Kim	Girls' halfpipe	94.25	96.50	96.25	96.50
Hailey Langland	Girls' halfpipe	39.75	52.50	56.00	56.00	9

Snowboard cross

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Group heats		Semifinal	Final
		Time	Rank	Points	Rank	Position	Position
Jake Vedder	Boys' snowboard cross	47.91	2 Q	20	1 Q	1 FA
Shannon Maguire	Girls' snowboard cross	52.04	5 Q	13	9	Did not advance

Slopestyle

Athlete	Event	Final
		Run 1	Run 2	Best	Rank
Nikolas Baden	Boys' slopestyle	64.50	52.00	64.50	11
Jake Pates	Boys' slopestyle	93.00	94.75	94.75
Chloe Kim	Girls' slopestyle	87.50	88.25	88.25
Hailey Langland	Girls' slopestyle	64.25	55.75	64.25	8

Snowboard and ski cross relay

Qualification legend: FA – Qualify to medal round; FB – Qualify to consolation round

Speed skating

Boys

Mixed team sprint

Athletes	Event	Final
		Time	Rank
Team 9  Elisa Dul (NED)  Karolina Gasecka (POL)  Austin Kleba (USA)  Anvar Mukhamadeyev (KAZ)	Mixed team sprint	1:58.80

See also

• United States at the 2016 Summer Olympics

References