Snowboarding at the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics

Snowboarding at the II Winter Youth Olympic Games
Venue	Kanthaugen Freestyle Arena and Hafjell
Dates	February 14 – 19
Competitors	79 from 32 nations

Snowboarding at the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics was held at the Kanthaugen Freestyle Arena, Lillehammer and Hafjell in Øyer, Norway from 14 January to 19 February. The snowboard cross was added for each gender.^[1]

Medal summary

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	5	1	0	6
2	Germany (GER)	1	0	1	2
3	France (FRA)	1	0	0	1
4	Australia (AUS)	0	2	0	2
4	Switzerland (SUI)	0	2	0	2
6	Finland (FIN)	0	1	2	3
7	Russia (RUS)	0	1	0	1
8	Italy (ITA)	0	0	1	1
8	Slovenia (SLO)	0	0	1	1
8	South Korea (KOR)	0	0	1	1
8	Mixed-NOCs	0	0	1	1
Total		7	7	7	21

Boys' Events

Snowboard cross final

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Boys' halfpipe	Jake Pates  United States	93.00	Nikolas Baden  United States	85.25	Tit Štante  Slovenia	80.25
Boys' slopestyle	Jake Pates  United States	94.75	Vlad Khadarin  Russia	90.25	Rene Rinnekangas  Finland	87.75
Boys' snowboard cross	Jake Vedder  United States		Alex Dickson  Australia		Sebastian Pietrzykowski  Germany

Girls' Events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Girls' halfpipe	Chloe Kim  United States	96.50	Emily Arthur  Australia	90.00	Jeong Yu-rim  South Korea	84.50
Girls' slopestyle	Chloe Kim  United States	88.25	Elli Pikkujamsa  Finland	82.25	Henna Ikola  Finland	79.25
Girls' snowboard cross	Manon Petit  France		Sophie Hediger  Switzerland		Caterina Carpano  Italy

Mixed event

• Will include athletes from freestyle skiing

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Team snowboard ski cross	Germany (GER) Jana Fischer Celia Funkler Sebastian Pietrzykowski Cornel Renn	Switzerland (SUI) Sophie Hediger Talina Gantenbein Pascal Bitschnau Sascha Rueedi	Team 4  Mixed-NOCs Daryna Kyrychenko  Ukraine Veronica Edebo  Sweden Valentin Miladinov  Bulgaria David Mobaerg  Sweden

Qualification system

All quotas were distributed using the results of the 2015 World Junior Championships. Each nation was allowed to enter one athlete per event. The total quota was 80 athletes (32 in snowboard cross, 24 in slopestyle and 24 in halfpipe).^[2]

Halfpipe

Event	Total	Qualified Boys'	Qualified Girls'
Host nation	1	Norway	Norway
Rankings	11	Austria  Belgium  China  Czech Republic  Finland  Germany  New Zealand  Slovenia  South Korea  Switzerland  United States	Australia  Canada  China  Finland  France  Japan  Slovenia  South Korea  Switzerland  United States TBD
Total		12	12

Slopestyle

Event	Total	Qualified Boys'	Qualified Girls'
Host nation	1	Norway	Norway
Rankings	11	Austria  Croatia  Finland  France  Japan  Netherlands  New Zealand  Russia  South Korea  Switzerland  United States	Belarus  Belgium  Canada  Chile  Finland  France  Japan  Slovenia  Spain  Switzerland  United States
Total		12	12

Snowboard cross

Event	Total	Qualified Boys'	Qualified Girls'
Host nation	1/0	Norway	Norway
Rankings	15/16	Argentina  Australia  Austria  Bulgaria  Canada  Czech Republic  France  Germany  Hungary  Japan  Kazakhstan  Lithuania  Russia  Switzerland  Turkey  United States	Argentina  Australia  Austria  Canada  Chile  Czech Republic  France  Germany  Hungary  Italy  Poland  Russia  Spain  Switzerland  Turkey  Ukraine  United States
Total		16	16

Summary

NOC	Boys'			Girls'			Total
	Half-pipe	Slopestyle	Snowboard cross	Half-pipe	Slopestyle	Snowboard cross
Argentina			1			1	2
Australia			1			1	2
Austria	1	1	1			1	4
Belarus					1		1
Belgium	1				1		1
Bulgaria			1				1
Canada			1	1	1	1	4
Chile					1	1	2
China	1			1			2
Croatia		1					1
Czech Republic	1		1			1	3
Finland	1	1		1	1		4
France		1	1	1	1	1	5
Germany	1		1			1	3
Hungary			1			1	2
Italy						1	1
Japan		1	1	1	1		4
Kazakhstan			1				1
Lithuania			1				1
New Zealand	1	1					2
Netherlands		1					1
Norway	1	1	1	1	1		5
Poland						1	1
Russia		1	1			1	3
Slovenia	1			1	1		3
South Korea	1	1		1			3
Spain					1	1	2
Switzerland	1	1	1	1	1	1	6
Turkey			1			1	2
Ukraine						1	1
United States	1	1		1	1	1	5
Total: 32 NOCs	12	12	16	11	12	16	80

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