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Skeleton at the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics

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Skeleton
at the I Winter Youth Olympic Games
VenueOlympic Sliding Centre Innsbruck
Igls
Dates21 January
Competitors28 from 15 nations
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Skeleton at the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics was held at the Olympic Sliding Centre Innsbruck in Igls, Innsbruck, Austria on 16 January. The competition had a boys' and a girls' event.

Qualification System

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Each nation can send a maximum of 4 athletes (2 boys and 2 girls). The FIBT ranking will be used to allocate places to NOC's. Participation, for each of the men's and women's competitions, is limited to a total of 15 athletes, including the host nation. The NOC quotas are based on the updated FIBT ranking. Qualification is achieved by the results of athletes, who gain a qualification place for their NOC. Male and female athletes of non represented continents may also participate, with 1 male and 1 female athlete, provided that the maximum quota of 15 men and 15 women is not yet filled[1]

Medal summary

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Medal table

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  *   Host nation (Austria)

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Germany (GER)2002
2 Austria (AUT)*0202
3 Canada (CAN)0022
Totals (3 entries)2226

Events

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
Boys'
details
Sebastian Berneker
 Germany
1:52.73 Stefan Geisler
 Austria
1:54.70 Corey Gillies
 Canada
1:55.82
Girls'
details
Jacqueline Lölling
 Germany
57.43 Carina Mair
 Austria
58.40 Carli Brockway
 Canada
58.48

Qualification system

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Each nation could send a maximum of 4 athletes (2 boys and 2 girls). The FIBT ranking were used to allocate places to NOC's. Participation, for each of the men's and women's competitions, was limited to a total of 15 athletes, including the host nation. The NOC quotas were based on the updated FIBT ranking which was released by FIBT at a later time. Qualification was achieved by the results of athletes, who gained a qualification place for their NOC.[2]

Boys'

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The FIBT did not release a final list of qualified teams, this is just a list of teams in alphabetical order according to qualification system.

Event Vacancies Qualified
Europe/Africa 7  Germany
 Italy
 Latvia
 Romania
 Russia
 Spain
 Switzerland
Americas 4 3  Canada
 Mexico
 United States
Asia/Oceania 3  Japan
 Japan
 South Korea
Host 1  Austria
TOTAL 14

Girls'

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The FIBT did not release a final list of qualified teams, this is just a list of teams in alphabetical order according to qualification system.

Event Vacancies Qualified
Europe/Africa 9  Germany
 Germany
 Italy
 Netherlands
 Romania
 Romania
 Russia
 Russia
 Slovenia
Americas 4 3  Canada
 United States
 United States
Asia/Oceania 3 1  Japan
Host 1  Austria
TOTAL 14

Qualification summary

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NOC Boys' Girls' Total
 Austria 1 1 2
 Canada 1 1 2
 Germany 1 2 3
 Italy 1 1 2
 Japan 2 1 3
 Latvia 1 1
 Mexico 1 1
 Netherlands 1 1
 Romania 1 2 3
 Russia 1 2 3
 Slovenia 1 1
 Spain 1 1
 Switzerland 1 1
 South Korea 1 1
 United States 1 2 3
Total athletes 14 14 28
Total NOCs 13 10 15

References

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  1. ^ "Olympic Documents - Athletes, Olympic Games, IOC and More" (PDF). 11 November 2021.
  2. ^ YOG Newsletter