Alpine skiing at the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics

Alpine Skiing at the II Winter Youth Olympic Games
Venue	Hafjell, Norway
Dates	January 14 – 20
Competitors	115 Quota limit

Alpine skiing at the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics
Combined		boys'		girls'
Giant slalom		boys'		girls'
Slalom		boys'		girls'
Super-G		boys'		girls'
Parallel mixed team			mixed

Alpine Skiing at the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics was held at Hafjell in Øyer, Oppland, Norway from 14 January to 20 January. The difference in the Youth Olympic program for alpine skiing compared to the Winter Olympics is that there was no downhill event for both genders, and an inclusion of a team event.^[1]

Medal summary

Medal table

  Host nation

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Switzerland (SUI)	3	1	2	6
2	United States (USA)	3	0	0	3
3	Austria (AUT)	2	2	1	5
4	Germany (GER)	1	1	2	4
5	Italy (ITA)	0	1	1	2
6	Canada (CAN)	0	1	0	1
6	Japan (JPN)	0	1	0	1
6	Russia (RUS)	0	1	0	1
6	Sweden (SWE)	0	1	0	1
10	Finland (FIN)	0	0	1	1
10	Norway (NOR)	0	0	1	1
10	Slovenia (SLO)	0	0	1	1
Total		9	9	9	27

Events

Boys' events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Boys' Super-G	River Radamus  United States	1:10.62	Pietro Canzio  Italy	1:10.65	Manuel Traninger  Austria	1:11.03
Boys' giant slalom	River Radamus  United States	2:35.05	Yohei Koyama  Japan	2:36.12	Anton Grammel  Germany	2:36.54
Boys' slalom	Manuel Traninger  Austria	1:38.74	Filip Vennerstroem  Sweden	1:38.77	Odin Vassbotn Breivik  Norway	1:40.07
Boys' combined	River Radamus  United States	1:52.87	Manuel Traninger  Austria	1:52.94	Pietro Canzio  Italy	1:53.65

Girls' events

Girls slalom medalists

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Girls' Super-G	Nadine Fest  Austria	1:11.93	Julia Scheib  Austria	1:12.56	Aline Danioth  Switzerland	1:12.69
Girls' giant slalom	Mélanie Meillard  Switzerland	2:33.28	Katrin Hirtl-Stanggassinger  Germany	2:33.34	Aline Danioth  Switzerland	2:33.95
Girls' slalom	Aline Danioth  Switzerland	1:43.21	Ali Nullmeyer  Canada	1:44.80	Meta Hrovat  Slovenia	1:45.86
Girls' combined	Aline Danioth  Switzerland	1:55.74	Mélanie Meillard  Switzerland	1:56.12	Katrin Hirtl-Stanggassinger  Germany	1:57.25

Mixed events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Parallel mixed team	Germany	Russia	Finland

Qualification system

Each nation could send a maximum of 4 athletes (2 boys and 2 girls). A total of 115 athletes (60 boys and 55 girls) could compete, plus any reallocated spots from other disciplines under the FIS. The top 7 teams at the 2015 Junior Alpine World Ski Championships plus the hosts Norway were allowed to send the maximum of 4 athletes. Any remaining quota spots were distributed to nations not already qualified, with a maximum of one boy or girl from one nation. The quota limit was 115.^[2] The current allocation of quotas is listed below.^[3]

Qualification summary

NOC	Boys	Girls	Total
Andorra	1	1	2
Argentina	1	1	2
Australia	1	1	2
Austria	2	2	4
Belarus	1		1
Belgium	1	1	2
Bosnia and Herzegovina		1	1
Brazil	1		1
Bulgaria	1	1	2
Canada	2	2	4
Chile	1	1	2
Colombia	1		1
Croatia	1	1	2
Cyprus		1	1
Czech Republic	1	1	2
Denmark	1	1	2
Estonia		1	1
Finland	1	1	2
France	2	2	4
Georgia	1		1
Germany	2	2	4
Great Britain	1	1	2
Greece		1	1
Hungary	1	1	2
Iceland	1	1	2
India	1		1
Iran	1	1	2
Ireland	1		1
Israel	1		1
Italy	2	2	4
Japan	1	1	2
Kazakhstan		1	1
Kenya		1	1
Latvia	1	1	2
Lebanon	1	1	2
Liechtenstein	1		1
Lithuania	1	1	2
Luxembourg	1		1
Macedonia	1		1
Mexico		1	1
Monaco	1		1
Montenegro	1	1	2
Nepal	1		1
Netherlands	1	1	2
Norway	2	2	4
New Zealand	1	1	2
Poland	1	1	2
Portugal	1		1
Romania	1	1	2
Russia	1	1	2
San Marino	1		1
Serbia	1	1	2
Slovakia	1	1	2
Slovenia	2	2	4
South Africa		1	1
South Korea	1	1	2
Spain	1	1	2
Sweden	1	1	2
Switzerland	2	2	4
Chinese Taipei		1	1
Timor-Leste	1		1
Turkey	1	1	2
Ukraine	1	1	2
United States	1	1	2
Total athletes	63	57	120
Total NOCs	55	49	64

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