Speed skating at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics

Speed skating at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics took place at Lake St. Moritz in St. Moritz, Switzerland from 12 to 16 January 2020.[1][2]

Speed skating
at the III Winter Youth Olympic Games
VenueLake St. Moritz
Dates12–16 January
Competitors64 from 22 nations

Unique to the Youth Olympic Games is a mixed NOC team sprint competition.

Medal summary

Medal table

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Japan3115
2 Netherlands2002
3 China1124
 Mixed-NOCs1113
4 Russia0112
5 Colombia0101
 Czech Republic0101
 Spain0101
8 Italy0011
 United States0011
Totals (9 nations)77721

Boys' events

Event Gold Silver Bronze
500 metres
Yudai Yamamoto
 Japan
36.42 Nil Llop
 Spain
36.60 Xue Zhiwen
 China
36.67
1500 metres
Motonaga Arito
 Japan
1:52.24 Pavel Taran
 Russia
1:53.74 Jonathan Tobon
 United States
1:55.67
Mass start
Motonaga Arito
 Japan
30 pts Diego Amaya
 Colombia
20 pts Pavel Taran
 Russia
10 pts

Girls' events

Event Gold Silver Bronze
500 metres
Isabel Grevelt
 Netherlands
40.57 Wang Jingyi
 China
41.07 Yukino Yoshida
 Japan
41.16
1500 metres
Myrthe de Boer
 Netherlands
2:10.44 Yuka Takahashi
 Japan
2:10.58 Yang Binyu
 China
2:10.93
Mass start
Yang Binyu
 China
30 pts Zuzana Kuršová
 Czech Republic
25 pts Katia Filippi
 Italy
10 pts

Mixed event

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Team sprint
 Team 3 (MIX)
 Sini Siro (FIN)
 Yukino Yoshida (JPN)
 Ignaz Gschwentner (AUT)
 Alexander Sergeev (RUS)
2:04.10  Team 16 (MIX)
 Laura Kivioja (FIN)
 Daria Kopacz (POL)
 Theo Collins (GBR)
 Motonaga Arito (JPN)
2:05.92  Team 14 (MIX)
 Ramona Ionel (ROU)
 Valeriia Sorokoletova (RUS)
 Tuukka Suomalainen (FIN)
 Jonathan Tobon (USA)
2:05.96

Qualification system

The overall quota for the Speed skating competition is 64 total skaters, consisting of 32 men and 32 ladies. Each National Olympic Committee (NOC) could send a maximum of six athletes (three per gender) to the Winter Youth Olympics Games but the maximum number of entries per event is two. Skaters are eligible to participate at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics if they were born between 1 January 2002 and 31 December 2004.[3]

The top six athletes, per gender, based on the results of the 2019 World Junior Speed Skating Championships in the 500 and 1500 meters entitled to one quota. Each NOC can receive up to two quotas based on the 2019 World Junior Championships. The remaining quota will be allocated based on the ISU Junior World Cup Speed Skating ranking. The allocation of quotas will be carried out under four restrictions:[3]

  1. the allocation will be disregarded the highest ranked NOC skaters in equal number to the quota the NOCs have already received.
  2. only the highest distance rank of each skater will be considered.
  3. NOC that did not qualify or qualified one quota will get priority before allocation of a third quota to other NOC.
  4. The host nation has the right to enter one athlete in each event if not qualified.

Qualification summary

NOCBoys'Girls'Total
 Austria11
 Belgium11
 Belarus224
 China224
 Colombia11
 Czech Republic224
 Finland224
 Germany224
 Great Britain11
 Hungary11
 Italy123
 Japan224
 Kazakhstan224
 Netherlands224
 Norway224
 Poland224
 Romania22
 Russia224
 South Korea224
 Spain123
 Switzerland11
 United States22
Total: 22 NOCs323264

Quota Allocation

Based on the results of the 2019 World Junior Speed Skating Championships the following countries have earned YOG quota places.[4] The final allocation of quotas was announced by the ISU on November 29, 2019.[5]

Event Athletes per NOC Boys' Girls'
Host nation 1  Switzerland  Switzerland
2019 World Junior Championships 2  Japan
 Russia
 South Korea
 Netherlands
 Japan
1  Austria
 China
 Germany
 Italy
 Netherlands
 South Korea
 Norway
 Poland
 Russia
ISU Junior World Cup Speed Skating ranking 2  Belarus
 Kazakhstan
 Norway
 Poland
 United States
 Belarus
 China
 Czech Republic
 Germany
 Italy
 Kazakhstan
 Spain
1  Austria
 Belgium
 China
 Colombia
 Czech Republic
 Finland
 Germany
 Great Britain
 Netherlands
 Spain
 Austria
 Canada
 Finland
 Ireland
 Norway
 Poland
 Romania
 Russia
 South Korea
Reallocation 1  Czech Republic
 Finland
 Hungary
 Romania
 Finland
 Belgium
Total3232

References

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