Canada at the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics

Canada competed at the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics in Innsbruck. Beckie Scott was named as the chef de mission.[2]

Canada at the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics
IOC code	CAN
NOC	Canadian Olympic Committee
Website	www.olympic.ca (in English and French)
in Innsbruck
Competitors	52 in 12 sports
Flag bearer	Corryn Brown[1]
Medals Ranked 15th	Gold 2 Silver 1 Bronze 6 Total 9
Winter Youth Olympics appearances
2012 2016 2020

Canada did not send any speed skaters (long and short track), along with figure skaters after the governing body for the sport in the country (Speed Skating Canada and Skate Canada, respectively) deemed the event "not developmentally appropriate".[3]

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Gold	Michael Ciccarelli	Snowboarding	Boys' Slopestyle	19 Jan
Gold	Audrey McManiman	Snowboarding	Girls' Slopestyle	19 Jan
Silver	Roni Remme	Alpine Skiing	Girls' Slalom	20 Jan
Bronze	Thomas Scoffin Corryn Brown Derek Oryniak Emily Gray	Curling	Mixed Team	18 Jan
Bronze	Matt Herauf	Freestyle Skiing	Boys' ski cross	21 Jan
Bronze	Canada	Ice hockey	Boys	21 Jan
Bronze	Corey Gillies	Skeleton	Boys' Skeleton	21 Jan
Bronze	Carli Brockway	Skeleton	Girls' Skeleton	21 Jan
Bronze	Taylor Henrich Nathaniel Mah Dusty Korek	Ski Jumping	Mixed Team	21 Jan

Alpine skiing

Canada had qualified a full team of two boys and two girls. The team was announced on June 22, 2011.[4]

Boys

Athlete	Event	Final
		Run 1	Run 2	Total	Rank
Martin Grasic	Slalom	41.57	40.75	1:22.32	10
	Giant slalom	DNF
	Super-G			DNF
	Combined	1:06.88	39.49	1:46.37	20
Lambert Quezel	Slalom	DNF
	Giant slalom	1:00.75	56.66	1:57.41	16
	Super-G			1:07.40	20
	Combined	1:05.96	40.23	1:46.19	18

Girls

Athlete	Event	Final
		Run 1	Run 2	Total	Rank
Roni Remme	Slalom	42.05	39.20	1:21.25
	Giant slalom	1:00.04	1:00.03	2:00.07	15
	Super-G			DNF
	Combined	1:06.37	36.89	1:43.26	9
Mikaela Tommy	Slalom	DNF
	Giant slalom	57.69	DNF
	Super-G			1:07.06	11
	Combined	DNF

Team

Athlete	Event	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final	Rank
Mikaela Tommy Martin Grasic Roni Remme Lambert Quezel	Parallel Mixed Team	Austria L 0-4	Did not advance|

Biathlon

Canada had qualified a full biathlon team of 2 boys and 2 girls. Canada's roster was announced on April 19, 2011.[5]

Boys

Athlete	Event	Final
		Time	Misses	Rank
Stuart Harden	Sprint	19:51.3	0	4
	Pursuit	30:05.7	1	7
Aidan Millar	Sprint	23:23.1	7	43
	Pursuit	34:.16.5	5	32

Girls

Athlete	Event	Final
		Time	Misses	Rank
Sarah Beaudry	Sprint	19:49.9	4	22
	Pursuit	31:05.4	2	14
Danielle Vrielink	Sprint	18:45.9	1	9
	Pursuit	30:34.8	2	11

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Final
		Time	Misses	Rank
Sarah Beaudry Danielle Vrielink Aidan Millar Stuart Harden	Mixed relay	1:17:29.7	5+13	9
Danielle Vrielink Maya Macisaac-Jones Stuart Harden Matthew Saurette	Cross-Country-Biathlon Mixed Relay	1:08:10.9	0+4	13

Bobsleigh

Canada had qualified one boy and one girl sled.

Boys

Athlete	Event	Final
		Run 1	Run 2	Total	Rank
Payton Berezowski Clay Sparks	Two-Boys	55.26	55.28	1:50.54	9

Girls

Athlete	Event	Final
		Run 1	Run 2	Total	Rank
Mercedes Miller Casey Froese	Two-Girls	57.29	57.29	1:54.58	7

Cross country skiing

Canada had qualified a team of 1 boy and 1 girl.[6]

Boy

Athlete	Event	Final
		Time	Rank
Matthew Saurette	10km classical	32:55.8	29

Girl

Athlete	Event	Final
		Time	Rank
Maya Macisaac-Jones	5km classical	16:31.0	17

Sprint

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
		Total	Rank	Total	Rank	Total	Rank	Total	Rank
Matthew Saurette	Boys' sprint	1:49.26	23 Q	1:48.4	6	Did not advance
Maya Macisaac-Jones	Girls' sprint	2:01.99	15 Q	2:01.3	1 Q	2:02.4	4	Did not advance

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Final
		Time	Misses	Rank
Danielle Vrielink Maya Macisaac-Jones Stuart Harden Matthew Saurette	Cross-Country-Biathlon Mixed Relay	1:08:10.9	0+4	13

Curling

Canada had qualified a mixed curling team of 2 boys and 2 girls. Canada's roster was announced on April 8, 2011.[7]

Skip: Thomas Scoffin
Third: Corryn Brown
Second: Derek Oryniak
Lead: Emily Gray

The mixed team event took place 14–18 January, while the mixed doubles tournament took place 20–22 January.

Mixed team

Final Round Robin Standings

Red Group	Skip	W	L
Sweden	Rasmus Wranå	6	1
Canada	Thomas Scoffin	5	2
Japan	Shingo Usui	4	3
Italy	Amos Mosaner	4	3
Great Britain	Duncan Menzies	3	4
Russia	Mikhail Vaskov	3	4
Austria	Mathias Genner	2	5
Germany	Daniel Rothballer	1	6

Round Robin Results

Draw 1 Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final  Germany (Rothballer) 2 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 4  Canada (Scoffin) 0 0 2 1 0 2 0 1 6 Draw 2 Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final  Austria (Genner) 0 0 0 1 0 3 0 2 6  Canada (Scoffin) 0 3 0 0 1 0 1 0 5 Draw 3 Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final  Canada (Scoffin) 0 1 0 0 1 1 3 X 6  Italy (Mosaner) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 0 Draw 4 Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final  Canada (Scoffin) 1 2 0 4 0 1 X X 8  Great Britain (Menzies) 0 0 0 0 2 0 X X 2

Draw 5 Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final  Russia (Vaskov) 0 0 0 0 1 0 X X 1  Canada (Scoffin) 1 2 2 1 0 1 X X 7 Draw 6 Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Final  Sweden (Wranå) 0 1 0 0 2 0 2 0 1 6  Canada (Scoffin) 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 5 Draw 7 Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final  Canada (Scoffin) 3 0 0 0 4 0 2 X 9  Japan (Usui) 0 1 0 1 0 2 0 X 4

Quarterfinals

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Canada (Scoffin)	2	0	1	0	0	2	1	0	7
Czech Republic (Černovský)	0	2	0	3	2	0	0	0	6

Semifinals

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Canada (Scoffin)	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	X	2
Italy (Mosaner)	2	0	1	3	0	1	1	X	8

Bronze Medal Game

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Canada (Scoffin)	1	0	2	0	1	1	0	1	6
Sweden (Wranå)	0	1	0	3	0	0	0	0	4

Final rank:

Round of 32

Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final  Thomas Scoffin (CAN)  Kelsi Heath (NZL) 0 0 4 1 1 0 3 X 9  Mizuki Kitaguchi (JPN)  Thomas Muirhead (GBR) 1 2 0 0 0 2 0 X 5 Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final  Corryn Brown (CAN)  Martin Reichel (AUT) 1 0 0 3 0 1 1 0 6  Shingo Usui (JPN)  Cao Ying (CHN) 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 4

Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final  Robert-Kent Päll (EST)  Emily Gray (CAN) 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 X 2  Anastasia Moskaleva (RUS)  Tsukasa Horigome (JPN) 1 1 3 0 1 1 1 X 8 Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final  Frederike Manner (GER)  Derek Oryniak (CAN) 0 0 0 1 0 0 X X 1  Yoo Min-hyeon (KOR)  Mako Tamakuma (JPN) 3 2 3 0 5 1 X X 14

Round of 16

Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final  Corryn Brown (CAN)  Martin Reichel (AUT) 1 1 1 2 0 1 1 0 7  Kang Sue-yeon (KOR)  Krystof Krupanský (CZE) 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 4

Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final  Thomas Scoffin (CAN)  Kelsi Heath (NZL) 0 1 0 1 1 0 2 0 5  Mikhail Vaskov (RUS)  Zuzana Hrůzová (CZE) 2 0 1 0 0 1 0 2 6

Quarterfinals

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Korey Dropkin (USA)  Marina Verenich (RUS)	1	2	2	0	4	0	0	X	9
Corryn Brown (CAN)  Martin Reichel (AUT)	0	0	0	1	0	1	1	X	3

Figure skating

Canada had qualified an ice dancing team, a pair, and 2 boys' singles skaters. However, on January 4, 2012, it was announced that, due to a scheduling conflict with the Canadian nationals (held in Moncton, NB), Canada would not send figure skaters after all.[8]

Freestyle skiing

Canada had qualified a full freestyle skiing team of 4 athletes.[9]

Half-pipe

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Aaron MacKay	Boys' halfpipe	72.25	5 Q	76.50	6
Shannon Gunning	Girls' halfpipe	64.00	4 Q	62.00	4

Ski cross

Athlete	Event	Qualifying		1/4 finals	Semifinals	Final
		Time	Rank	Rank	Rank	Rank
Matt Herauf	Boys' ski cross	57.34		Cancelled
India Sherret	Girls' ski cross	1:00.21	4	Cancelled

Ice hockey

Canada would enter a boys team and it consisted of 17 athletes.[10]

The co-coaches were announced October 14, 2011, and would be Jim Hulton and Curtis Hunt.[11]

The players were announced October 21, 2011, and were selected through a process that involved a random draw from a list of 39 names established by Hockey Canada's thirteen branches, with each branch guaranteed at least one representative (Ontario, Québec and Alberta were guaranteed one extra representative each).[12] The players selected are as follows.[13]

Goaltenders:

• Keven Bouchard (QC)
• Sam Walsh (PEI)

Defence:

• Josh Carrick (ON)
• Jarrett Crossman (NB)
• Joe Hicketts (BC)
• Brycen Martin (AB)
• Brendan Nickerson (NS)
• Ryan Pilon (SK)

Forwards:

• Adam Brooks (MB)
• Ryan Burton (ON)
• Eric Cornel (ON)
• Reid Duke (AB)
• Reid Gardiner (SK)
• Ryan Gropp (BC)
• Nicolas Hébert (QC)
• Garrett James (ON)
• Nathan Yetman (NL)

Legend
Advance to the Semifinals

Group A

Legend
	Teams to Playoffs

Team	GP	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	Diff	PTS
Russia	4	3	0	0	1	25	9	+16	9
Canada	4	2	1	0	1	20	7	+13	8
Finland	4	2	0	1	1	13	11	+2	7
United States	4	2	0	0	2	14	18	–4	6
Austria	4	0	0	0	4	3	30	–27	0

January 13, 2012 14:45

Russia

4–3 (2–1, 2–1, 0–1)

Canada

Tyrolean Ice Arena Attendance: 932

Game reference
	Sergey Korobov	Goalies	Keven Bouchard	Referee: Andreas Harnebring Linesmen: Daniel Persson Martin Smeibidlo
	A. Protapovich (E. Tsvetkov) – 5:08 1–0 1–1 5:33 – R. Pilon (J. Hicketts, R. Gardiner) E. Tsvetkov – 11:56 2–1 M. Lazarev (I. Nikolishin) (SH) – 18:58 3–1 3–2 21:37 – A. Brooks (J. Carrick) D. Vovchenko (I. Nikolishin) – 26:38 4–2 4–3 42:05 – R. Gardiner (J. Hicketts)
	2 min	Penalties	4 min
	29	Shots	23

January 15, 2012 18:00

Canada

5–1 (1–0, 2–1, 2–0)

United States

Tyrolean Ice Arena Attendance: 2,575

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	Keven Bouchard	Goalies	Logan Halladay	Referee: Simon Aicher Linesmen: Andrei Haurylenka Tilen Pahor
	E. Cornel – 3:58 1–0 R. Gropp (E. Cornel) – 16:30 2–0 2–1 17:39 – B. Clarke (J. Jacobs) R. Duke (A. Brooks, R. Pilon) – 28:54 3–1 A. Brooks (B. Martin, R. Gardiner) (PP) – 43:21 4–1 R. Gropp (R. Gardiner, E. Cornel) (PP) – 44:06 5–1
	2 min	Penalties	12 min
	27	Shots	16

January 17, 2012 11:15

Austria

0–9 (0–4, 0–2, 0–3)

Canada

Tyrolean Ice Arena Attendance: 749

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	Stefan Müller	Goalies	Sam Walsh	Referee: Stian Halm Linesmen: Andrei Haurylenka Benjamin Hoppe
	0–1 0:40 – A. Brooks (N. Hébert, B. Martin) 0–2 2:16 – R. Burton (N. Yetman, J. Crossman) 0–3 6:15 – R. Gropp (E. Cornel) (PP) 0–4 12:07 – E. Cornel (R. Gropp) 0–5 16:42 – R. Gardiner (R. Gropp) 0–6 24:35 – G. James 0–7 38:31 – R. Duke (B. Martin, A. Brooks) (PP) 0–8 40:14 – R. Pilon 0–9 41:24 – R. Duke (B. Martin, J. Carrick)
	10 min	Penalties	6 min
	16	Shots	44

January 18, 2012 11:45

Canada

3–2 GWS (0–0, 2–1, 0–1) (OT: 0–0) (SO: 2–1)

Finland

Tyrolean Ice Arena Attendance: 1,261

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	Keven Bouchard	Goalies	Kaapo Kahkonen	Referee: Andreas Harnebring Linesmen: Andrei Haurylenka Martin Smeibidlo
	A. Brooks (R. Duke) – 15:11 1–0 1–1 21:05 – J. Kiviranta (M. Pitkanen) E. Cornel (R. Gropp, J. Hicketts) – 22:01 2–1 2–2 36:42 – J. Kiviranta (M. Pitkanen, O. Nieminen)
	E. Cornel R. Gropp R. Gardiner	Shootout	J. Kiviranta K. Kapanen M. Honkanen
	6 min	Penalties	8 min
	27	Shots	25

Semifinals

January 20, 2012 18:45

Canada

1–2 (1–1, 0–0, 0–1)

Finland

Tyrolean Ice Arena Attendance: 1,426

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	Keven Bouchard	Goalies	Kaapo Kahkonen	Referee: Simon Aicher Linesmen: Benjamin Hoppe Tilen Pahor
	J. Carrick (R. Gardiner, E. Cornel) (PP) – 4:17 1–0 1–1 11:29 – O. Nieminen (J. Kiviranta, M. Pitkanen) 1–2 40:26 – E. Sopanen (O. Nieminen, M. Pitkanen) (PP)
	8 min	Penalties	10 min
	17	Shots	19

Bronze medal game

January 21, 2012 14:45

Canada

7 – 5 (3–1, 4–1, 0–3)

United States

Tyrolean Ice Arena Attendance: 1,592

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	Keven Bouchard	Goalies	Logan Halladay	Referee: Stian Halm Linesmen: Benjamin Hoppe Martin Smeibidlo
	E. Cornel (R. Gardiner, J. Hicketts) (PP) – 4:19 1–0 R. Pilon (R. Gardiner, E. Cornel) – 6:58 2–0 R. Gropp (R. Gardiner, R. Pilon) (PP) – 13:22 3–0 3–1 14:53 – N. Billitier (A. Baughman) 3–2 19:40 – R. MacInnis (J. Eichel) A. Brooks (R. Duke, B. Martin) – 21:27 4–2 R. Gardiner (J. Hicketts) – 22:35 5–2 R. Gropp – 23:10 6–2 R. Gropp (R. Gardiner) – 25:40 7–2 7–3 31:44 – J. Eichel (N. Schmaltz) 7–4 38:54 – N. Magyar (J. Jacobs, J. Wegwerth) 7–5 40:10 – N. Schmaltz (R. MacInnis, M. Godbout) (PP)
	8 min	Penalties	12 min
	19	Shots	40

Final rank:

Luge

Canada had qualified a team of two boys and one girl.

Boys

Athlete	Event	Run 1	Run 2	Total	Rank
John Fenell	Boys' singles	40.162	40.029	1:20.191	7
Mitchel Malyk	Boys' singles	40.096	39.947	1:20.043	5

Girls

Athlete	Event	Run 1	Run 2	Total	Rank
Tara Disturnal	Girls' singles	40.793	40.903	1:21.696	11

Nordic combined

Canada had qualified one boy athlete.

Boy

Athlete	Event	Ski jumping		Cross-country		Final
		Points	Rank	Deficit	Ski Time	Total Time	Rank
Nathaniel Mah	Boys' Individual	122.6	9	1:00	28:35.0	29:35.0	11

Skeleton

Canada had qualified one boy and one girl in skeleton.

Boy

Athlete	Event	Final
		Run 1	Run 2	Total	Rank
Corey Gillies	Boys' individual	58.35	57.47	1:55.82

Girl

Athlete	Event	Final
		Run 1	Run 2	Total	Rank
Carli Brockway	Girls' individual	CAN	58.48	58.48

Ski jumping

Canada had qualified one boy and one girl athlete.

Boys

Athlete	Event	1st Jump		2nd Jump		Overall
		Distance	Points	Distance	Points	Points	Rank
Dusty Korek	Boys' individual	72.5m	123.8	70.5m	117.0	240.8	8

Girls

Athlete	Event	1st Jump		2nd Jump		Overall
		Distance	Points	Distance	Points	Points	Rank
Taylor Henrich	Girls' individual	64.0m	99.4	66.0m	105.2	204.6	5

Team w/Nordic Combined

Athlete	Event	1st Round	2nd Round	Total	Rank
Taylor Henrich Nathaniel Mah Dusty Korek	Mixed Team	277.1	309.9	587.0

Snowboarding

Canada had qualified a full team of 4 athletes (2 boys and 2 girls).[14]

Men

Athlete	Event	Qualifying			Semifinal			Final
		Run 1	Run 2	Rank	Run 1	Run 2	Rank	Run 1	Run 2	Rank
Michael Ciccarelli	Boys' halfpipe	53.25	78.75	4 q	84.75	77.25	1 Q	74.50	84.00	4
	Boys' slopestyle	86.50	90.75	1 Q				85.75	94.25
Tyler Nicholson	Boys' slopestyle	55.75	82.75	3 Q				44.25	84.00	6

Women

Athlete	Event	Qualifying			Semifinal			Final
		Run 1	Run 2	Rank	Run 1	Run 2	Rank	Run 1	Run 2	Rank
Audrey McManiman	Girls' halfpipe	51.50	37.00	7 q	64.25	34.00	4	Did not advance
	Girls' slopestyle	83.00	30.00	1 Q				84.25	62.75
Quincy Korte-King	Girls' halfpipe	57.00	59.00	5 q	48.25	71.75	3 Q	61.25	69.75	5
	Girls' slopestyle	75.75	66.00	6 Q				49.00	51.50	7

See also

• Canada at the 2012 Summer Olympics

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