United States at the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics

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 (overview)
	2012; 2016; 2020;

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		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 Mattias Samuelsson Oliver Wahlstrom	Ice hockey	Boys' tournament	21 February
Silver		Snowboarding	Boys' halfpipe	14 February
Silver		Freestyle skiing	Girls' halfpipe	14 February
Silver	Ben Loomis	Nordic combined	Normal hill/5 km	16 February
Silver	Chloe Lewis Logan Bye	Figure skating		16 February
Silver	Luc Violette Cora Farrell	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		Figure skating		20 February
Silver		Speed skating		17 February

Alpine Skiing[]

Boys

Athlete	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Total
Athlete	Event	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

Athlete	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Total
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
	Slalom	57.10	11	53.58	15	1:50.68	13
	Giant slalom	1:22.21	15	1:18.50	14	2:40.71	14
	Super-G	N/A				1:14.52	10
	Combined	1:15.75	11	Did not finish

Parallel mixed team

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

Biathlon[]

Boys

Athlete	Event	Time	Misses	Rank
	Sprint	21:52.2	4	36
	Pursuit	32:04.9	1	20
Eli Nielsen	Sprint	22:59.6	6	46
Eli Nielsen	Pursuit	36:24.1	6	45

Girls

Event	Time	Misses	Rank
Sprint	19:22.4	2	10
Pursuit	29:17.1	8	27
Sprint	19:56.6	2	22
Pursuit	25:47.6	0	4

Mixed

Athletes	Event	Time	Misses	Rank
	Single mixed relay	42:29.2	1+8	6
Eli Nielsen	Mixed relay	1:24:56.2	3+12	7

Bobsleigh[]

Athlete	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Total
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
	Boys'	59.02	14	59.32	15	1:58.34	14

Cross-country skiing[]

Boys

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
	10 km freestyle	N/A						24:48.5	8
	Classical sprint	3:13.15	29 Q	3:04.65	3	Did not advance
	Cross-country cross	3:19.42	30 Q	N/A		3:12.18	9	Did not advance

Girls

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
	5 km freestyle	N/A						14:13.8	17
	Classical sprint	3:38.73	13 Q	3:28.40	1 Q	3:28.77	3 q	3:33.20	6
	Cross-country cross	3:44.04	10 Q	N/A		3:39.91	5	Did not advance

Curling[]

Mixed team[]

Team

Skip: Luc Violette
Third: Cora Farrell
Second:
Lead:

Round Robin

Group A	Skip	W	L
United States	Luc Violette	6	1
Switzerland		6	1
Russia		6	1
Turkey		3	4
Italy		3	4
China		2	5
New Zealand		1	6
Japan		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
Athletes	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
(BRA) (USA)	Mixed doubles	(SWE) (CHN) W 8–4	(NOR) (KOR) L 7–9	Did not advance
(EST) Luc Violette (USA)		(SWE) (ITA) W 7–4	(JPN) (SUI) L 5–10	Did not advance
(USA) (JPN)		(CZE) (SWE) L 7–8	Did not advance
Cora Farrell (USA) (NZL)		(KOR) (SWE) L 1–8	Did not advance

Round of 32[]

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
(SWE) (CHN)	0	0	0	3	0	0	1	X	4
(BRA) (USA)	2	1	1	0	2	2	0	X	8

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
(CZE) (SWE)	2	1	1	0	1	1	0	2	8
(USA) (JPN)	0	0	0	4	0	0	3	0	7

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
(KOR) (SWE)	2	1	1	1	3	0	X	X	8
Cora Farrell (USA) (NZL)	0	0	0	0	0	1	X	X	1

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
(SWE) (ITA)	1	0	2	1	0	0	0	X	4
(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
(NOR) (KOR)	0	0	4	1	0	2	2	X	9
(BRA) (USA)	1	2	0	0	4	0	0	X	7

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
(JPN) (SUI)	0	1	0	0	4	0	5	X	10
(EST) Luc Violette (USA)	1	0	0	1	0	3	0	X	5

Figure skating[]

Singles

Athlete	Event	SP		FS		Total
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Camden Pulkinen		57.91	7	108.68	8	166.59	7
		48.14	10	87.51	7	135.65	8

Couples

Athletes	Event	SP/SD		FS/FD		Total
Athletes	Event	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
		46.47	5	80.06	6	126.53	6
Chloe Lewis Logan Bye		55.07	3	81.30	2	136.37

Mixed NOC team trophy

Athletes	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) / (USA) Li Xiangning (CHN) Dmitri Aliev (RUS)	80.28 7	82.47 4	88.73 5	141.06 7	23

Freestyle skiing[]

Halfpipe

Athlete	Event	Final
Athlete	Event	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
	Girls' halfpipe	72.60	79.00	34.40	79.00
	Girls' halfpipe	68.40	70.20	58.80	70.20	4

Ski cross

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Group heats		Semifinal	Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Points	Rank	Position	Position
	Boys' ski cross	44.62	9 Q	7	14	Did not advance
	Girls' ski cross	47.85	11	12	9	Did not advance

Slopestyle

Athlete	Event	Final
Athlete	Event	Run 1	Run 2	Best	Rank
Alexander Hall	Boys' slopestyle	83.40	87.40	87.40
Birk Irving	Boys' slopestyle	Did not start
	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		178 cm (5 ft 10 in)	66 kg (146 lb)	1 May 2000	Fenton, Michigan	(T1EHL)
30	G		180 cm (5 ft 11 in)	86 kg (190 lb)	23 May 2000	Albertville, Minnesota	()
7	D	– A	185 cm (6 ft 1 in)	86 kg (190 lb)	23 May 2000	Eau Claire, Wisconsin	Memorial High School (WIAA)
2	D		183 cm (6 ft 0 in)	74 kg (163 lb)	5 May 2000	Novi, Michigan	()
3	D		180 cm (5 ft 11 in)	86 kg (190 lb)	13 April 2000	Plymouth, Michigan	()
5	D		193 cm (6 ft 4 in)	95 kg (209 lb)	21 June 2000	Rye, New York	(USPHL)
6	D	Mattias Samuelsson – C	191 cm (6 ft 3 in)	91 kg (201 lb)	14 March 2000	Voorhees, New Jersey	Northwood School
4	D		183 cm (6 ft 0 in)	70 kg (150 lb)	10 March 2000	Canton, Michigan	()
17	F		188 cm (6 ft 2 in)	88 kg (194 lb)	17 August 2000	Madison, New Jersey	Salisbury School (NEPSAC)
10	F		178 cm (5 ft 10 in)	66 kg (146 lb)	4 May 2000	Rochester, Michigan	()
16	F		183 cm (6 ft 0 in)	75 kg (165 lb)	11 July 2000	Scottsdale, Arizona	(T1EHL)
15	F	– A	180 cm (5 ft 11 in)	81 kg (179 lb)	28 February 2000	Woodridge, Illinois	()
11	F		178 cm (5 ft 10 in)	75 kg (165 lb)	31 March 2000	Scottsdale, Arizona	EC Red Bull Salzburg
14	F	Oliver Wahlstrom	185 cm (6 ft 1 in)	86 kg (190 lb)	13 June 2000	Quincy, Massachusetts	Shattuck-Saint Mary's
8	F		175 cm (5 ft 9 in)	73 kg (161 lb)	29 April 2000	Shrewsbury, Massachusetts	Cushing Academy (NEPSAC)
9	F		178 cm (5 ft 10 in)	68 kg (150 lb)	3 January 2000	Raleigh, North Carolina	(GTHL)
12	F		180 cm (5 ft 11 in)	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

Goalies

Referee:

Alex DiPietro
Linesmen:

Clement Goncalves

Tobias Nordlander

	0–1	02:36 – ()
(, ) – 08:39	1–1
() – 13:10	2–1
Krygier () – 20:25	3–1
(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

Goalies

Referee:

Marc Iwert
Linesmen:

Aleh Kliashcheunikau

Niclas Lundsgaard

	0–1	06:48 – Wahlstrom (, ) (PP)
	0–2	11:09 – Wahlstrom (Weiss, )
	0–3	11:49 – (, , )
	0–4	17:09 – Pivonka (, M. Samuelsson) (PP)
	0–5	21:35 – Middendorf (, Pivonka) (SH)
	0–6	23:04 – Pivonka (Middendorf, )
	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

Goalies

Alexis Gravel

Referee:

Lars Johan Gossas
Linesmen:

Aleh Kliashcheunikau

Tobias Nordlander

	0–1	02:45 – (McIsaac)
(, ) (PP) – 09:40	1–1
Wise (, ) – 14:36	2–1
	2–2	21:52 – Fortier (, McShane)
	2–3	26:42 – Roberts (, )
	2–4	38:09 – ()

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

Referee:

Alex DiPietro
Linesmen:

Niclas Lundgaard

Tobias Nordlander

	0–1	04:16 – (Wahlstrom)
	0–2	12:25 – (, )
(, Denisenko) – 22:38	1–2
	1–3	31:25 – (Weiss)
	1–4	39:06 – (, )
(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

Goalies

Amir Miftakhov

Referee:

Lars Johan Gossas
Linesmen:

Danny Beresford

Thomas Nordberg Pettersen

(, ) – 19:41	1–0
() (SH, EN) – 43:18	2–0
(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

Goalies

Referee:

Alex DiPietro
Linesmen:

Niclas Lundgaard

Tobias Nordlander

	0–1	08:00 – (, )
	0–2	17:56 – DeBoer (, ) (PP)
Merkley () (PP) – 24:32	1–2
	1–3	26:25 – (, Gruden)
(, Smith) – 41:11	2–3
	2–4	44:04 – (EN)
	2–5	44:41 – (Pivonka) (PP, EN)

7.5 min

Penalties

4.5 min

25

Shots

23

Final Rank:

Luge[]

Individual sleds

Athlete	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Total
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
	Boys	48.908	13	49.248	16	1:38.156	15
	Girls	DNF		Did not advance
	Doubles	54.056	8	54.068	10	1:48.124	8

Mixed team relay

Athlete	Event	Girls		Boys		Doubles		Total
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
	Team relay	57.750	6	1:00.090	12	1:00.020	8	2:57.860	10

Nordic combined[]

Individual

Athlete	Event	Ski jumping				Cross-country
Athlete	Event	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

Athlete	Event	Ski jumping			Cross-country
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank	Deficit	Time	Rank
Ben Loomis Casey Larson		286.2	10	1:59	28:26.7	8

Short track speed skating[]

Boys

Athlete	Event	Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
	500 m	44.052	3 SC/D	44.396	2 FC	45.413	11
	1000 m	1:31.071	3 SC/D	1:52.861	1 FC	1:35.707	10

Mixed team relay

Athlete	Event	Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Team A (USA) (CHN) Pavel Sitnikov (RUS) (HUN)	Mixed team relay	4:18.683	3 FB	4:25.169	6
Team E (ITA) Anna Seidel (GER) (USA) (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[]

Athlete	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Total
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
	Boys	55.16	11	54.95	11	1:50.11	11
	Boys	55.43	13	55.61	14	1:51.04	13
	Girls	56.95	11	56.58	8	1:53.53	9
	Girls	57.19	12	57.61	16	1:54.80	16

Ski jumping[]

Individual

Athlete	Event	First round			Final			Total
Athlete	Event	Distance	Points	Rank	Distance	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Casey Larson	Boys' normal hill	97.0	119.0	6	87.0	102.5	9	221.5	6
	Girls' normal hill	74.0	65.8	12	69.0	58.7	12	124.5	12

Team

Athlete	Event	First round		Final		Total
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Ben Loomis Casey Larson	Team competition	273.8	10	257.8	11	531.6	10

Snowboarding[]

Halfpipe

Athlete	Event	Final
Athlete	Event	Run 1	Run 2	Run 3	Best	Rank
	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
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Points	Rank	Position	Position
	Boys' snowboard cross	47.91	2 Q	20	1 Q	1 FA
	Girls' snowboard cross	52.04	5 Q	13	9	Did not advance

Slopestyle

Athlete	Event	Final
Athlete	Event	Run 1	Run 2	Best	Rank
	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

Athlete	Event	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final
Athlete	Event	Position	Position	Position
		2 Q	4 FB	8

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

Speed skating[]

Boys

Athlete	Event	Race 1		Race 2		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
		37.14	4	37.19	9	74.34	6
		N/A				1:53.87	5
		N/A				6:01.63	24

Mixed team sprint

Athletes	Event	Final
Athletes	Event	Time	Rank
Team 9 Elisa Dul (NED) (POL) (USA) (KAZ)		1:58.80

References[]

^ "United States Youth Olympic Team" (PDF). United States Olympic Committee.
^ "2016 U.S. Youth Olympics Boys' Ice Hockey Team". USA Hockey. 2 November 2011.

[ywogteam-1] "United States Youth Olympic Team" (PDF). United States Olympic Committee.

[2] "2016 U.S. Youth Olympics Boys' Ice Hockey Team". USA Hockey. 2 November 2011.

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United States at the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics

Contents

Medalists[]

Medalists in mixed NOCs events[]

Alpine Skiing[]

Biathlon[]

Bobsleigh[]

Cross-country skiing[]

Curling[]

Mixed team[]

Mixed doubles[]

Round of 32[]

Round of 16[]

Figure skating[]

Freestyle skiing[]

Ice hockey[]

Boys' tournament[]

Luge[]

Nordic combined[]

Short track speed skating[]

Skeleton[]

Ski jumping[]

Snowboarding[]

Speed skating[]

See also[]

References[]