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Youth Olympic teams set
Nations named for ice hockey tournaments
13.08.2015
Defending men's Youth Olympic champs Finland will compete in the 2016 tournament. Photo: Christopher Kelemen / GEPA Pictures
The participating teams for the 2016 Youth Olympic Winter Games' men's and women's ice hockey tournaments have been named. Almost all of the top-eight nations in the IIHF World Ranking will send a team to one of the two tournaments, joining hosts Norway.
In the upcoming Youth Olympic Winter Games, ice hockey will be represented with two men’s and two women’s events, an ice hockey tournament and a skills challenge. Male and female athletes born in 2000 and 2001 will be eligible to participate in the Games which will be staged in Lillehammer, Norway from 12-21 February 2016.
There will be five teams each in the men’s and women’s tournaments. Four teams for each tournament from eight different nations were selected according to a special combined men’s and women’s under-18 world ranking established after the Men's and Women's U18 World Championships in 2015. Norway as the host nation will be awarded one male team and one female team to participate in each of the tournaments.
Teams
Men's Ice Hockey Tournament:
USA
Canada
Russia
Finland
Norway
Women's Ice Hockey Tournament:
Czech Republic
Sweden
Switzerland
Slovakia
Norway
Running Order
Participating nations were able to select whether they wished to participate either in the men's or women's ice hockey tournament according to the running order based on the ranking of the U18 men's and U18 women's national teams in the 2014 and 2015 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship program.
1. USA
2. Canada
3. Czech Republic
4. Russia
5. Finland
6. Sweden
7. Switzerland
8. Slovakia
9. Germany
10. Japan
11. France
12. Norway
13. Denmark
14. Latvia
15. Hungary
16. Belarus
17. Austria
18. Kazakhstan
19. Great Britain
Introducing the Skills Challenge
Besides the team tournaments, an individual Skills Challenge for women and men will be held. In this event, the best 15 female and 15 male athletes from all entered nations are allowed to compete as well as athletes from the host country Norway. The participants were selected from a global qualification program based on the series of individual skill tests designed by the IIHF. The qualification events were held domestically and in a Global Skills Challenge Summit in July 2015.
The following Skills Challenge competitions make up the program:
- Fastest Lap
- Shooting Accuracy
- Skating Agility
- Fastest Shot
- Passing Precision
- Puck Control
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