Skeleton at the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics

Skeleton at the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics was held at the Olympic Sliding Centre Innsbruck in Igls, Innsbruck, Austria on 16 January. The competition had a boys' and a girls' event.

Skeleton at the I Winter Youth Olympic Games
Venue	Olympic Sliding Centre Innsbruck Igls
Dates	21 January
Competitors	28 from 15 nations

Qualification System

Each nation can send a maximum of 4 athletes (2 boys and 2 girls). The FIBT ranking will be used to allocate places to NOC's. Participation, for each of the men's and women's competitions, is limited to a total of 15 athletes, including the host nation. The NOC quotas are based on the updated FIBT ranking. Qualification is achieved by the results of athletes, who gain a qualification place for their NOC. Male and female athletes of non represented continents may also participate, with 1 male and 1 female athlete, provided that the maximum quota of 15 men and 15 women is not yet filled

Medal summary

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Austria)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Germany (GER)	2	0	0	2
2	Austria (AUT)*	0	2	0	2
3	Canada (CAN)	0	0	2	2
Totals (3 entries)		2	2	2	6

Events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Boys'	Sebastian Berneker  Germany	1:52.73	Stefan Geisler  Austria	1:54.70	Corey Gillies  Canada	1:55.82
Girls'	Jacqueline Lölling  Germany	57.43	Carina Mair  Austria	58.40	Carli Brockway  Canada	58.48

Qualification system

Each nation could send a maximum of 4 athletes (2 boys and 2 girls). The FIBT ranking were used to allocate places to NOC's. Participation, for each of the men's and women's competitions, was limited to a total of 15 athletes, including the host nation. The NOC quotas were based on the updated FIBT ranking which was released by FIBT at a later time. Qualification was achieved by the results of athletes, who gained a qualification place for their NOC.

Boys'

The FIBT did not release a final list of qualified teams, this is just a list of teams in alphabetical order according to qualification system.

Event	Vacancies	Qualified
Europe/Africa	7	Germany  Italy  Latvia  Romania  Russia  Spain  Switzerland
Americas	4 3	Canada  Mexico  United States
Asia/Oceania	3	Japan  Japan  South Korea
Host	1	Austria
TOTAL	14

Girls'

The FIBT did not release a final list of qualified teams, this is just a list of teams in alphabetical order according to qualification system.

Event	Vacancies	Qualified
Europe/Africa	9	Germany  Germany  Italy  Netherlands  Romania  Romania  Russia  Russia  Slovenia
Americas	4 3	Canada  United States  United States
Asia/Oceania	3 1	Japan
Host	1	Austria
TOTAL	14

Qualification summary

NOC	Boys'	Girls'	Total
Austria	1	1	2
Canada	1	1	2
Germany	1	2	3
Italy	1	1	2
Japan	2	1	3
Latvia	1		1
Mexico	1		1
Netherlands		1	1
Romania	1	2	3
Russia	1	2	3
Slovenia		1	1
Spain	1		1
Switzerland	1		1
South Korea	1		1
United States	1	2	3
Total athletes	14	14	28
Total NOCs	13	10	15