Japan at the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics

Japan competed at the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway from 12 to 21 February 2016.

Japan at the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics
IOC code	JPN
NOC	Japanese Olympic Committee
Website	www.joc.or.jp
in Lillehammer
Competitors	29 in 11 sports
Flag bearer	Masamitsu Ito
Medals Ranked 11th	Gold 2 Silver 4 Bronze 0 Total 6
Winter Youth Olympics appearances (overview)
2012 2016 2020 2024

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Gold	Sota Yamamoto	Figure skating	Boys' singles	15 February
Gold	Sena Takenaka	Ice hockey	Girls' individual skills challenge	16 February
Silver	Kazuki Sakakibara	Speed skating	Boys' 500 m	13 February
Silver	Daichi Horikawa	Speed skating	Boys' 1500 m	15 February
Silver	Kazuki Yoshinaga	Short track	Boys' 500 m	16 February
Silver	Yohei Koyama	Alpine skiing	Boys' giant slalom	17 February

Medalists in mixed NOCs events

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Gold	Yako Matsuzawa	Curling	Mixed doubles	21 February
Silver	Kiichi Shigehiro	Short track	Mixed team relay	20 February
Bronze	Kazuki Yoshinaga	Short track	Mixed team relay	20 February

Medals by sport
Sport				Total
Figure skating	1	0	0	1
Ice hockey	1	0	0	1
Speed skating	0	2	0	2
Alpine skiing	0	1	0	1
Short track	0	1	0	1
Total	2	4	0	6

Alpine skiing

Main article: Alpine skiing at the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics

Boys

Athlete	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Total
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Yohei Koyama	Slalom	DNF		did not advance
	Giant slalom	1:18.00	3	1:18.12	4	2:36.12
	Super-G	—				1:12.57	17
	Combined	1:13.15	12	41.72	7	1:54.87	8

Girls

Athlete	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Total
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Chisaki Maeda	Slalom	DNF		did not advance
	Giant slalom	DNF		did not advance
	Super-G	—				1:16.92	21
	Combined	1:18.52	23	44.79	9	2:03.31	15

Parallel mixed team

Athletes	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Chisaki Maeda Yohei Koyama	Parallel mixed team	Austria (AUT) L 2 – 2+	did not advance

Cross-country skiing

Main article: Cross-country skiing at the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics

Boys

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Riku Kasahara	10 km freestyle	—						25:34.1	15
	Classical sprint	3:14.45	30 Q	3:15.13	6	did not advance
	Cross-country cross	3:16.92	23 Q	—		3:16.44	7	did not advance

Girls

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Hikari Miyazaki	5 km freestyle	—						14:07.8	15
	Classical sprint	3:42.71	21 Q	3:38.83	5	did not advance
	Cross-country cross	3:52.03	21 Q	—		3:45.82	6	did not advance

Curling

Main article: Curling at the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics

Mixed team

Main article: Curling at the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics – Mixed team

Team

• Kosuke Aita
• Kota Ito
• Yako Matsuzawa
• Honoka Sasaki

Round Robin

Group A	Skip	W	L
United States	Luc Violette	6	1
Switzerland	Selina Witschonke	6	1
Russia	Nadezhda Karelina	6	1
Turkey	Oğuzhan Karakurt	3	4
Italy	Luca Rizzolli	3	4
China	Du Hongrui	2	5
New Zealand	Matthew Neilson	1	6
Japan	Kota Ito	1	6

Draw 1

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Japan (Ito)	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	X	1
Italy (Rizzolli)	0	1	0	3	0	1	2	X	7

Draw 2

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Japan (Ito)	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	3
Russia (Karelina)	0	2	0	0	1	0	1	1	5

Draw 3

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Final
Japan (Ito)	0	1	0	1	1	1	0	1	0	5
Switzerland (Witschonke)	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	6

Draw 4

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Japan (Ito)	0	0	1	0	0	1	1	X	3
Turkey (Karakurt)	1	1	0	0	2	0	0	X	4

Draw 5

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
China (Du)	1	0	0	1	1	0	0	X	3
Japan (Ito)	0	2	1	0	0	2	2	X	7

Draw 6

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
New Zealand (Neilson)	2	0	0	0	3	0	2	X	7
Japan (Ito)	0	2	1	1	0	1	0	X	5

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

Mixed doubles

Athletes	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Honoka Sasaki (JPN)  Tyler Tardi (CAN)	Mixed doubles	Bryce (GBR)  Blahovec (CZE) W 12 – 1	Laidsalu (EST)  Maksimov (RUS) W 6 – 2	Ramsfjell (NOR)  Kim (KOR) W 7 – 5	Han (CHN)  Whyte (GBR) L 3 - 6	Zhao (CHN)  Haarstad (NOR) L 1 - 10	4
Yako Matsuzawa (JPN)  Philipp Hoesli (SUI)		Mjoen (NOR)  Mares (CZE) W 9 – 6	Sillaots (EST)  Violette (USA) W 10 – 5	Thompson (NZL)  Middleton (CAN) W 11 – 1	Zhao (CHN)  Haarstad (NOR) W 7 – 6	Han (CHN)  Whyte (GBR) W 11 – 5
Nadezhda Karelina (RUS)  Kosuke Aita (JPN)		Krupanska (CZE)  Karakurt (TUR) W 8 – 2	Constantini (ITA)  Kinnear (GBR) L 3 – 7	did not advance
Cait Flannery (USA)  Kota Ito (JPN)		Podrabska (CZE)  Degerfeldt (SWE) L 7 – 8	did not advance

Figure skating

Main article: Figure skating at the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics

Singles

Athlete	Event	SP		FS		Total
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Koshiro Shimada	Boys' singles	63.18	6	119.34	6	182.52	6
Sota Yamamoto	Boys' singles	73.07	1	142.45	3	215.52
Kaori Sakamoto	Girls' singles	56.25	5	98.98	6	155.23	6
Yuna Shiraiwa	Girls' singles	60.87	1	105.79	5	166.66	4

Mixed NOC team trophy

Athletes	Event	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 Focus  Maria Golubtsova / Kirill Belobrov (UKR)  Zhao Ying / Xie Zhong (CHN)  Yuna Shiraiwa (JPN)  Lauri Lankila (FIN)	Team trophy	64.68 4	92.74 5	110.01 8	61.57 1	18	5

Ice hockey

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Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Roy Kanda	Boys' individual skills challenge	8	13	did not advance
Sena Takenaka	Girls' individual skills challenge	18	2 Q	16

Nordic combined

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Individual

Athlete	Event	Ski jumping				Cross-country
		Distance	Points	Rank	Deficit	Time	Rank
Yoshihiro Kimura	Normal hill/5 km	88.5	109.7	11	1:28	14:58.5	11

Nordic mixed team

Athlete	Event	Ski jumping			Cross-country
		Points	Rank	Deficit	Time	Rank
Shihori Oi Yoshihiro Kimura Masamitsu Ito Hikari Miyazaki Riku Kasahara	Nordic mixed team	314.2	8	1:22	28:01.7	7

Skeleton

Main article: Skeleton at the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics

Athlete	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Total
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Sho Gonai	Boys	55.63	15	55.71	15	1:51.34	15
Mayu Ijichi	Girls	57.20	13	56.69	9	1:53.89	10
Madoka Oi	Girls	57.70	17	58.82	20	1:56.52	19

Ski jumping

Main article: Ski jumping at the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics

Individual

Athlete	Event	First round			Final			Total
		Distance	Points	Rank	Distance	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Masamitsu Ito	Boys' normal hill	95.5	120.6	4	91.5	114.1	4	234.7	4
Shihori Oi	Girls' normal hill	73.0	72.3	11	72.5	71.3	11	143.6	11

Team

Athlete	Event	First round		Final		Total
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Shihori Oi Yoshihiro Kimura Masamitsu Ito	Team competition	288.5	8	290.2	8	578.7	8

Short track speed skating

Main article: Short track speed skating at the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics

Boys

Athlete	Event	Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Kiichi Shigehiro	500 m	42.671	2 SA/B	42.403	4 FB	43.041	7
	1000 m	1:33.688	1 SA/B	1:27.288	2 FA	1:28.718	4
Kazuki Yoshinaga	500 m	43.657	2 SA/B	42.416	2 FA	41.969
	1000 m	1:33.006	2 SA/B	1:28.295	3 FB	1:41.778	6

Girls

Athlete	Event	Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Shione Kaminaga	500 m	46.032	2 SA/B	46.741	3 FB	47.916	5
	1000 m	1:41.026	3 FC	—		1:35.903	11

Mixed team relay

Athlete	Event	Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Team C  Petra Jaszapati (HUN)  Julia Moore (AUS)  Tjerk De Boer (NED)  Kiichi Shigehiro (JPN)	Mixed team relay	4:15.332	1 FA	4:14.495
Team F  Katrin Manoilova (BUL)  Anita Nagay (KAZ)  Karlis Kruzbergs (LAT)  Kazuki Yoshinaga (JPN)	Mixed team relay	4:15.669	1 FA	4:17.181
Team H  Shione Kaminaga (JPN)  Gioya Lancee (NED)  Moritz Kreuseler (GER)  Ma Wei (CHN)	Mixed team relay	4:27.607	3 FB	4:22.198	4

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

Snowboarding

Main article: Snowboarding at the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics

Halfpipe

Athlete	Event	Final
		Run 1	Run 2	Run 3	Best	Rank
Junna Asaya	Girls' halfpipe	78.25	70.00	80.75	80.75	4

Snowboard cross

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Group heats		Semifinal	Final
		Time	Rank	Points	Rank	Position	Position
Yoshiki Takahara	Boys' snowboard cross	49.39	10 Q	15	5 Q	3 FB	5

Snowboard and ski cross relay

Athlete	Event	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final
		Position	Position	Position
Caterina Carpano (ITA)  Minja Lehikoinen (FIN)  Yoshiki Takahara (JPN)  Tobias Knollseisen (ITA)	Team snowboard ski cross	3	did not advance

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

Speed skating

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Boys

Athlete	Event	Race 1		Race 2		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Daichi Horikawa	500 m	37.35	8	37.03	4	74.386	8
	1500 m	—				1:52.96
	Mass start	—				5:53.03	7
Kazuki Sakakibara	500 m	36.84	2	37.12	7	73.97
	1500 m	—				1:57.26	16

Girls

Athlete	Event	Race 1		Race 2		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Moe Kumagai	500 m	40.71	6	41.00	9	81.71	8
	1500 m	—				2:14.34	20
Yuna Onodera	500 m	41.58	12	41.70	13	83.28	11
	1500 m	—				2:11.37	15
	Mass start	—				5:56.41	11

Mixed team sprint

Athletes	Event	Final
		Time	Rank
Team 3  Viola Feichtner (AUT)  Li Huawei (CHN)  Li Yanzhe (CHN)  Kazuki Sakakibara (JPN)	Mixed team sprint	1:59.20	6
Team 8  Natalie Kerschbaummayr (CZE)  Moe Kumagai (JPN)  Dmitrii Filimonov (RUS)  Kaspar Kaljuvee (EST)	Mixed team sprint	DSQ
Team 11  Anna Nifantava (BLR)  Yuna Onodera (JPN)  Daan Baks (NED)  Francesco Betti (ITA)	Mixed team sprint	2:00.13	9
Team 12  Lea Scholz (GER)  Yauheniya Varabyova (BLR)  Daichi Horikawa (JPN)  Lukas Mann (GER)	Mixed team sprint	1:58.95	4

See also

• Japan at the 2016 Summer Olympics