Short track speed skating at the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics

Short track speed skating
at the I Winter Youth Olympic Games
Venue
Innsbruck
DatesJanuary 20 – 22
Competitors32

Short track speed skating at the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics was held at the Tyrolean Ice Arena in Innsbruck, Austria from 20 January 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.

Medal summary

Medal table

 Rank  Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1  South Korea (KOR) 4 2 0 6
2  China (CHN) 0 2 2 4
3  Japan (JPN) 0 0 1 1
3  Italy (ITA) 0 0 1 1
Total 4 4 4 12

Boys' events

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
 Yoon Su-min
South Korea (KOR)
42.417  Lim Hyo-jun
South Korea (KOR)
42.482  Xu Hongzhi
China (CHN)
42.637
1000 metres
 Lim Hyo-jun
South Korea (KOR)
1:29.284  Yoon Su-min
South Korea (KOR)
1:29.428  Xu Hongzhi
China (CHN)
1:29.576

Girls' events

Event Gold Silver Bronze
500 metres
 Shim Suk-hee
South Korea (KOR)
44.122  Xu Aili
China (CHN)
44.593  Nicole Martinelli
Italy (ITA)
46.390
1000 metres
 Shim Suk-hee
South Korea (KOR)
1:31.661  Xu Aili
China (CHN)
1:33.351  Sumire Kikuchi
Japan (JPN)
1:34.254

Mixed

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Mixed team relay
 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

Each nation can send a maximum of 4 athletes (2 boys and 2 girls). The top three athletes in the overall standings for both genders (3 different NOC's) at the 2011 World Junior Short Track Speed Skating Championships are permitted to send 2 athletes per gender. The host nation is guarnteed 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.[2]

Qualification summary

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 15 14 17

References

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