South Korea at the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics
IOC code	KOR
NOC	Korean Olympic Committee
Website	www.sports.or.kr
in Lillehammer
Competitors	30 in 12 sports
Medals Ranked 2nd	Gold 10 Silver 3 Bronze 3 Total 16
Winter Youth Olympics appearances (overview)
2012 2016 2020 2024

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

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Gold	Kim Magnus	Cross-country skiing	Boys' cross-country cross	13 February
Gold	Kim Min-sun	Speed skating	Girls' 500 m	13 February
Gold	Kim Ji-yoo	Short track	Girls' 1000 m	14 February
Gold	Hwang Dae-heon	Short track	Boys' 1000 m	14 February
Gold	Park Ji-woo	Speed skating	Girls' 1500 m	15 February
Gold	Kim Min-seok	Speed skating	Boys' 1500 m	15 February
Gold	Hong Kyung-hwan	Short track	Boys' 500 m	16 February
Gold	Kim Magnus	Cross-country skiing	Boys' 10 km	18 February
Gold	Park Ji-woo	Speed skating	Girls' mass start	19 February
Gold	Kim Min-seok	Speed skating	Boys' mass start	19 February
Silver	Lee Su-youn	Short track	Girls' 1000 m	14 February
Silver	Kim Magnus	Cross-country skiing	Boys' sprint	16 February
Silver	Chung Jae-woong	Speed skating	Boys' mass start	19 February
Bronze	Chung Jae-woong	Speed skating	Boys' 500 m	13 February
Bronze	Jeong Yu-rim	Snowboarding	Girls' halfpipe	14 February
Bronze	Kim Min-sun	Speed skating	Girls' mass start	19 February

Medalists in mixed NOCs events

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Gold	Chung Jae-woong	Speed skating	Mixed team sprint	17 February
Gold	Kim Ji-yoo	Short track	Mixed team relay	20 February

Alpine skiing

Boys

Girls

Biathlon

Boys

Girls

Mixed

Bobsleigh

Cross-country skiing

Boys

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Kim Magnus	10 km freestyle	—						23:04.8
	Classical sprint	2:57.16	3 Q	3:02.34	1 Q	2:57.19	1 Q	2:55.72
	Cross-country cross	3:01.45	1 Q	—		3:05.14	1 Q	2:59.56

Girls

Curling

Mixed team

Team

• Hong Jun-yeong
• Kim Ho-geon
• Lee Ji-young
• Oh Su-yun

Round Robin

Group B	Skip	W	L
Canada	Mary Fay	7	0
Great Britain	Ross Whyte	6	1
Sweden	Johan Nygren	5	2
Norway	Maia Ramsfjell	4	3
South Korea	Hong Yun-jeong	3	4
Czech Republic	Pavel Mareš	2	5
Estonia	Eiko-Siim Peips	1	6
Brazil	Victor Santos	0	7

Draw 1 Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final  South Korea (Hong) 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 X 2  Great Britain (Whyte) 2 0 1 1 2 3 0 X 9 Draw 2 Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final  Estonia (Peips) 0 1 0 2 0 0 1 0 4  South Korea (Hong) 3 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 6 Draw 3 Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final  South Korea (Hong) 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 X 3  Sweden (Nygren) 0 2 0 0 3 1 1 X 7 Draw 4 Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final  South Korea (Hong) 0 2 2 0 1 2 0 X 7  Czech Republic (Mareš) 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 X 3

Draw 5 Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final  South Korea (Hong) 5 2 2 1 0 2 X X 12  Brazil (Santos) 0 0 0 0 1 0 X X 1 Draw 6 Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final  Canada (Fay) 0 1 2 0 0 3 X X 6  South Korea (Hong) 0 0 0 0 0 0 X X 0 Draw 7 Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Final  Norway (Ramsfjell) 0 0 0 1 1 1 2 0 2 7  South Korea (Hong) 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 5

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
Mili Smith (GBR)  Hong Jun-yeong (KOR)	Mixed doubles	Thompson (NZL)  Middleton (CAN) L 2 – 8	did not advance
Lee Ji-young (KOR)  Johan Nygren (SWE)		Farrell (USA)  Smith (NZL) W 8 – 1	Zhao (CHN)  Haarstad (NOR) L 6 – 11	did not advance
Oh Su-yun (KOR)  Tunic Esenboga (TUR)		Arkhipova (RUS)  Neilson (NZL) W 11 – 4	Han (CHN)  Whyte (GBR) L 6 – 8	did not advance
Maia Ramsfjell (NOR)  Kim Ho-geon (KOR)		Smith (NZL)  Lockmann (SUI) W 10 – 4	Barros (BRA)  Richardson (USA) W 9 – 7	Sasaki (JPN)  Tardi (CAN) L 5 – 7	did not advance

Figure skating

Singles

Couples

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 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
Team Motivation  Guoste Damuleviciute / Deividas Kizala (LTU)  Ekaterina Borisova / Dmitry Sopot (RUS)  Byun Ji-hyun (KOR)  Chew Kai Xiang (MAS)	Team trophy	55.56 2	104.80 8	99.94 6	86.56 2	18	4

Freestyle skiing

Halfpipe

Slopestyle

Ice hockey

Short track speed skating

Boys

Athlete	Event	Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Hong Kyung-hwan	500 m	42.537	1 SA/B	41.944	2 FA	41.885
	1000 m	1:31.417	2 SA/B'	PEN		did not advance
Hwang Dae-heon	500 m	41.968	1 SA/B	41.972	1 FA	PEN
	1000 m	1:32.893	1 SA/B	1:27.312	1 FA	1:28.022

Girls

Athlete	Event	Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Kim Ji-yoo	500 m	44.253	1 SA/B	44.588	1 FA	PEN
	1000 m	1:40.773	1 SA/B	1:35.442	1 FA	1:34.041
Lee Su-youn	500 m	45.228	2 SA/B	46.014	2 FA	PEN
	1000 m	1:37.417	1 SA/B	1:35.583	2 FA	1:34.118

Mixed team relay

Athlete	Event	Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Team B  Ane Farstad (NOR)  Kim Ji-yoo (KOR)  Stijn Desmet (BEL)  Quentin Fercoq (FRA)	Mixed team relay	4:16.206	2 FA	4:14.413
Team D  Gong Li (CHN)  Lee Su-youn (KOR)  Shaoang Liu (HUN)  Yerkebulan Shamukhanov (KAZ)	Mixed team relay	PEN		did not advance
Team E  Gloria Ioriatti (ITA)  Anna Seidel (GER)  Aaron Heo (USA)  Hong Kyung-hwan (KOR)	Mixed team relay	4:16.056	2 FA	PEN
Team G  Elizaveta Kuznetsova (RUS)  Angelina Tarasova (RUS)  Martinius Elvebakken (NOR)  Hwang Dae-heon (KOR)	Mixed team relay	4:20.469	4 FB	4:23.553	5

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

Skeleton

Snowboarding

Halfpipe

Athlete	Event	Final
		Run 1	Run 2	Run 3	Best	Rank
Lee Min-sik	Boys' halfpipe	77.00	20.25	77.50	77.50	4
Jeong Yu-rim	Girls' halfpipe	82.25	84.50	42.25	84.50

Slopestyle

Speed skating

Boys

Athlete	Event	Race 1		Race 2		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Chung Jae-woong	500 m	37.24	6	36.89	3	74.13
	1500 m	—				1:55.57	8
	Mass start	—				20 pts
Kim Min-seok	500 m	37.15	5	37.07	6	74.22	5
	1500 m	—				1:51.35
	Mass start	—				30 pts

Girls

Athlete	Event	Race 1		Race 2		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Kim Min-sun	500 m	39.30	1	39.36	1	78.66
	1500 m	—				2:11.76	16
	Mass start	—				10 pts
Park Ji-woo	500 m	40.33	4	40.37	4	80.71	4
	1500 m	—				2:03.53
	Mass start	—				30 pts

Mixed team sprint

Athletes	Event	Final
		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 4  Camilla Evjevik (NOR)  Park Ji-woo (KOR)  Jonas Kristensen (NOR)  Gawel Oficjalski (POL)	Mixed team sprint	1:59.93	8
Team 6  Noemi Bonazza (ITA)  Sumiya Buyantogtokh (MGL)  Chung Jae-woong (KOR)  Shen Manyang (CHN)	Mixed team sprint	1:57.85
Team 13  Sofya Napolskikh (RUS)  Elena Samkova (RUS)  Jaakko Hautamaki (FIN)  Kim Min-seok (KOR)	Mixed team sprint	1:58.97	5