Short track speed skating at the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics
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Short track speed skating
at the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics
will be held at the Tyrolean Ice Arena in Innsbruck
, Austria
from 20 January to 22 January. The difference in the Youth Olympic program for short track speed skating compared to the Winter Olympics, is that there will be no 1500 metre event and no relay for each gender, instead a mixed NOC relay will take place.
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.
Short track speed skating
Short track speed skating is a form of competitive ice speed skating. In competitions, multiple skaters skate on an oval ice track with a circumference of 111.12 m...
at the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics
2012 Winter Youth Olympics
The 2012 Winter Youth Olympic Games, officially known as the I Winter Youth Olympic Games , will be an international multi-sport event for youths that will take place in Innsbruck from 13 to 22 January 2012. They will become the inaugural Winter Youth Olympics, a major sports and cultural festival...
will be held at the Tyrolean Ice Arena in Innsbruck
Innsbruck
- Main sights :- Buildings :*Golden Roof*Kaiserliche Hofburg *Hofkirche with the cenotaph of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor*Altes Landhaus...
, Austria
Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
from 20 January to 22 January. The difference in the Youth Olympic program for short track speed skating compared to the Winter Olympics, is that there will be no 1500 metre event and no relay for each gender, instead a mixed NOC relay will take place.
Medal table
| Total | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Boys' events
| 500 metres |
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| 1000 metres |
Girls' events
| 500 metres |
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| 1000 metres |
Mixed
| Mixed team relay |
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 Championships2011 World Junior Short Track Speed Skating Championships
The 2011 World Junior Short Track Speed Skating Championships took place between February 25 and 27, 2011 in Courmayeur, Italy at the Forum Sport Center ice rink...
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.