Italy at the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics

IOC code	ITA
NOC	Italian National Olympic Committee
Website	www.coni.it
in Lillehammer
Competitors	37 in 13 sports
Medals Ranked 15th	Gold 1 Silver 2 Bronze 6 Total 9
Winter Youth Olympics appearances
2012 2016 2020 2024

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

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Gold	Felix Schwarz Lukas Gufler	Luge	Doubles	15 February
Silver	Pietro Canzio	Alpine skiing	Boys' super-G	13 February
Silver	Anita Muraro	Ice hockey	Girls' individual skills challenge	16 February
Bronze	Pietro Canzio	Alpine skiing	Boys' combined	14 February
Bronze	Noemi Bonazza	Speed skating	Girls' 1500 m	15 February
Bronze	Caterina Carpano	Snowboarding	Girls' snowboard cross	15 February
Bronze	Marion Oberhofer Fabian Malleier Felix Schwarz Lukas Gufler	Luge	Mixed team relay	16 February
Bronze	Lara Malsiner	Ski jumping	Girls' normal hill	16 February
Bronze	Samuela Comola Irene Lardschneider Cedric Christille Patrick Braunhofer	Biathlon	Mixed relay	21 February

Medalists in mixed NOCs events

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Gold	Noemi Bonazza	Speed skating	Mixed team sprint	17 February
Bronze	Chiara Cristelli	Speed skating	Mixed team sprint	17 February

Alpine skiing

Main article: Alpine skiing at the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics

Boys

Athlete	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Total
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Pietro Canzio	Slalom	50.30	4	50.44	9	1:40.74	5
	Giant slalom	1:17.69	2	did not finish
	Super-G	—				1:10.65
	Combined	1:12.45	6	41.20	3	1:53.65
Michael Tedde	Slalom	DNF		did not advance
	Giant slalom	1:19.92	13	1:20.04	12	2:39.96	11
	Super-G	—				1:11.52	7
	Combined	1:12.04	2	43.08	18	1:55.12	10

Girls

Athlete	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Total
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Sofia Pizzato	Slalom	DNF		did not advance
	Giant slalom	1:19.73	7	1:16.10	9	2:35.83	7
	Super-G	—				1:14.47	9
	Combined	1:17.39	18	Disqualified
Carlotta Saracco	Slalom	55.01	5	51.66	8	1:46.67	5
	Giant slalom	1:19.84	8	1:16.62	12	2:36.46	10
	Super-G	—				1:16.18	15
	Combined	1:15.72	10	44.65	8	2:00.37	7

Parallel mixed team

Athletes	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
Athletes	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Carlotta Saracco Pietro Canzio	Parallel mixed team	Russia (RUS) L 0 – 4	did not advance

Biathlon

Main article: Biathlon at the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics

Boys

Athlete	Event	Time	Misses	Rank
Patrick Braunhofer	Sprint	19:56.7	2	9
Patrick Braunhofer	Pursuit	30:01.5	4	4
Cedric Christille	Sprint	21:03.4	2	25
Cedric Christille	Pursuit	34:04.1	8	32

Girls

Athlete	Event	Time	Misses	Rank
Samuela Comola	Sprint	18:55.2	0	6
Samuela Comola	Pursuit	25:58.5	1	5
Irene Lardschneider	Sprint	20:49.9	3	29
Irene Lardschneider	Pursuit	27:18.7	2	14

Mixed

Athletes	Event	Time	Misses	Rank
Samuela Comola Patrick Braunhofer	Single mixed relay	43:32.7	3+13	11
Samuela Comola Irene Lardschneider Cedric Christille Patrick Braunhofer	Mixed relay	1:20:06.0	0+6

Cross-country skiing

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Boys

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Luca Del Fabbro	10 km freestyle	—						25:20.5	10
	Classical sprint	3:08.01	17 Q	3:02.91	3 q	3:24.85	6	did not advance
	Cross-country cross	3:13.08	12 Q	—		3:08.12	3 q	3:06.23	5

Girls

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Chiara De Zolt Ponte	5 km freestyle	—						14:18.0	19
	Classical sprint	3:45.38	26 Q	3:43.53	5	did not advance
	Cross-country cross	3:45.38	13 Q	—		3:39.46	3	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

Stefania Constantini
Martina Ghezze
Luca Rizzolli
Alberto Zisa

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 C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Italy (Rizzolli)	1	0	2	2	1	1	0	X	7
New Zealand (Neilson)	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	X	2

Draw 3

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Italy (Rizzolli)	0	0	1	0	2	0	2	0	5
United States (Violette)	2	2	0	1	0	2	0	1	8

Draw 4

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
China (Du)	0	1	0	0	1	1	0	X	3
Italy (Rizzolli)	1	0	2	1	0	0	2	X	6

Draw 5

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Turkey (Karakurt)	0	1	0	4	0	2	2	X	9
Italy (Rizzolli)	1	0	1	0	3	0	0	X	5

Draw 6

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

Draw 7

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Switzerland (Witschonke)	0	2	1	0	2	3	0	1	9
Italy (Rizzolli)	0	0	0	4	0	0	2	0	6

Tiebreaker

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Turkey (Karakurt)	1	2	0	1	0	0	2	0	6
Italy (Rizzolli)	0	0	3	0	1	0	0	1	5

Mixed doubles

Athletes	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
Athletes	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Stefania Constantini (ITA) Callum Kinnear (GBR)	Mixed doubles	Burgess (CAN) Peips (EST) W 9 – 1	Karelina (RUS) Aita (JPN) W 7 – 3	Zhao (CHN) Haarstad (NOR) L 9 – 10	did not advance
Martina Ghezze (ITA) Michael Mellemseter (NOR)		Witschonke (SUI) Gustsin (EST) L 3 – 9	did not advance
Tova Petterson (SWE) Alberto Zisa (ITA)		Sillaots (EST) Violette (USA) L 4 – 7	did not advance
Beyzanur Konuksever (TUR) Luca Rizzolli (ITA)		Laidsalu (EST) Maksimov (RUS) L 4 – 5	did not advance

Figure skating

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Singles

Athlete	Event	SP		FS		Total
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Adrien Bannister	Boys' singles	46.68	10	106.71	9	153.39	9
Lucrezia Gennaro	Girls' singles	47.45	11	86.73	9	134.18	9

Couples

Athletes	Event	SP/SD		FS/FD		Total
Athletes	Event	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Irma Caldara Edoardo Caputo	Pairs	35.49	9	64.66	9	100.15	9
Francesca Righi Pietro Papetti	Ice dancing	38.22	12	57.32	11	95.54	12

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 Courage Anastasia Shpilevaya / Grigory Smirnov (RUS) Irma Caldara / Edoardo Caputo (ITA) Alexandra Hagarova (SVK) Cha Jun-hwan (KOR)	Team trophy	86.48 8	68.81 1	75.55 2	139.97 6	17	6
Team Determination Francesca Righi / Pietro Papetti (ITA) Alina Ustimkina / Nikita Volodin (RUS) Annika Hocke (GER) Adam Siao Him Fa (FRA)	Team trophy	53.70 1	100.98 6	82.41 3	97.80 4	14	8
Team Hope Emilia Kalehanava / Uladzislau Palkhouski (BLR) Kim Su-yeon / Kim Hyung-tae (KOR) Lucrezia Gennaro (ITA) Adrien Bannister (ITA)	Team trophy	65.42 5	70.50 2	83.64 4	119.28 5	16	7

Freestyle skiing

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Ski cross

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Group heats		Semifinal	Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Points	Rank	Position	Position
Tobias Knollseisen	Boys' ski cross	44.69	11	8	12	did not advance

Slopestyle

Athlete	Event	Final
Athlete	Event	Run 1	Run 2	Best	Rank
Sophia Insam	Girls' slopestyle	18.20	47.20	47.20	9

Ice hockey

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Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Anita Muraro	Girls' individual skills challenge	12	8 Q	14

Luge

Main article: Luge at the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics

Individual sleds

Athlete	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Total
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Fabian Malleier	Boys	48.082	4	48.037	5	1:36.119	5
Ivan Nagler	Boys	48.105	6	48.139	6	1:36.244	7
Marion Oberhofer	Girls	53.724	8	53.830	12	1:47.554	11
Lukas Gufler Felix Schwarz	Doubles	52.200	1	52.060	1	1:44.260

Mixed team relay

Athlete	Event	Girls		Boys		Doubles		Total
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Marion Oberhofer Fabian Malleier Felix Schwarz Lukas Gufler	Team relay	57.917	8	57.683	3	57.440	1	2:53.040

Nordic combined

Main article: Nordic combined at the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics

Individual

Athlete	Event	Ski jumping				Cross-country
Athlete	Event	Distance	Points	Rank	Deficit	Time	Rank
Aaron Kostner	Normal hill/5 km	90.0	110.5	10	1:25	14:31.4	9

Nordic mixed team

Athlete	Event	Ski jumping			Cross-country
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank	Deficit	Time	Rank
Lara Malsiner Aaron Kostner Alessio Longo Chiara De Zolt Ponte Luca Del Fabbro	Nordic mixed team	281.2	11	2:06	28:38.0	10

Ski jumping

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Individual

Athlete	Event	First round			Final			Total
Athlete	Event	Distance	Points	Rank	Distance	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Alessio Longo	Boys' normal hill	72.5	67.8	18	71.0	58.0	18	125.8	18
Lara Malsiner	Girls' normal hill	95.5	116.3	3	94.5	115.3	2	231.6

Team

Athlete	Event	First round		Final		Total
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Lara Malsiner Aaron Kostner Alessio Longo	Team competition	219.7	11	259.3	10	479.0	11

Short track speed skating

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Girls

Athlete	Event	Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Gloria Ioriatti	500 m	46.103	3 SC/D	PEN		did not advance
Gloria Ioriatti	1000 m	1:43.603	3 ADV	1:39.573	5 FB	1:42.581	8

Mixed team relay

Athlete	Event	Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Team E Gloria Ioriatti (ITA) Anna Seidel (GER) Aaron Heo (USA) Hong Kyung-hwan (KOR)	Mixed team relay	4:16.056	2 FA	PEN

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

Snowboard cross

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Group heats		Semifinal	Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Points	Rank	Position	Position
Caterina Carpano	Girls' snowboard cross	52.44	7 Q	15	5 Q	2 FA

Snowboard and ski cross relay

Athlete	Event	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final
Athlete	Event	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
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Francesco Betti	500 m	38.63	21	38.59	23	77.228	22
	1500 m	—				1:59.79	24
	Mass start	—				5:58.40	23
Jeffrey Rosanelli	500 m	37.558	14	37.61	13	75.17	14
	1500 m	—				1:56.65	13
	Mass start	—				6:48.52	26

Girls

Athlete	Event	Race 1		Race 2		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Noemi Bonazza	500 m	40.72	7	40.76	6	81.48	6
	1500 m	—				2:05.49
	Mass start	—				5:54.82	8
Chiara Cristelli	500 m	40.89	9	41.16	10	82.05	10
	1500 m	—				2:07.16	6
	Mass start	—				5:55.36	9

Mixed team sprint

Athletes	Event	Final
Athletes	Event	Time	Rank
Team 1 Jasmin Guentert (SUI) Kim Min-sun (KOR) Isa Izmailov (RUS) Jeffrey Rosanelli (ITA)	Mixed team sprint	1:59.75	7
Team 6 Noemi Bonazza (ITA) Sumiya Buyantogtokh (MGL) Chung Jae-woong (KOR) Shen Manyang (CHN)	Mixed team sprint	1:57.85
Team 10 Chiara Cristelli (ITA) Mihaela Hogas (ROU) Ole Jeske (GER) Allan Johansson (NOR)	Mixed team sprint	1:58.87
Team 11 Anna Nifantava (BLR) Yuna Onodera (JPN) Daan Baks (NED) Francesco Betti (ITA)	Mixed team sprint	2:00.13	9

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