New Zealand at the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics

New Zealand at the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics
IOC code	NZL
NOC	New Zealand Olympic Committee
Website	www.olympic.org.nz
in Lillehammer
Competitors	11 in 5 sports
Flag bearer	Finn Bilous
Medals Ranked 22nd	Gold Silver Bronze Total 0 1 1 2
Winter Youth Olympics appearances
2012 2016

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

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
02 ! Silver	Bilous, FinnFinn Bilous	Freestyle skiing	Boys' halfpipe	000000002016-02-14-000014 February
03 ! Bronze	Bilous, FinnFinn Bilous	Freestyle skiing	Boys' slopestyle	000000002016-02-19-000019 February

Alpine skiing

Boys

Girls

Curling

Mixed team

Team

• Matthew Neilson
• Ben Smith
• Courtney Smith
• Holly Thompson

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 B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final Russia (Karelina) 3 0 1 0 2 0 0 1 7 New Zealand (Neilson) 0 2 0 1 0 0 2 0 5 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 A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final Turkey (Karakurt) 2 0 2 1 2 0 6 X 13 New Zealand (Neilson) 0 4 0 0 0 1 0 X 5 Draw 4 Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final Switzerland (Witschonke) 0 3 3 0 1 0 2 X 9 New Zealand (Neilson) 2 0 0 1 0 1 0 X 4

Draw 5 Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final New Zealand (Neilson) 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 X 3 United States (Violette) 0 2 1 3 0 2 2 X 10 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 A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final New Zealand (Neilson) 0 0 2 1 2 0 0 0 5 China (Du) 1 1 0 0 0 2 1 1 6

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
Holly Thompson (NZL)  Sterling Middleton (CAN)	Mixed doubles	Smith (GBR)  Hong (KOR) W 8 – 2	Polat (TUR)  Zhang (CHN) W 9 – 2	Matsuzawa (JPN)  Hoesli (SUI) L 1 – 11	Did not advance
Courtney Smith (NZL)  Henwy Lockmann (SUI)		Ramsfjell (NOR)  Kim (KOR) L 4 – 10	Did not advance
Maria Arkhipova (RUS)  Matthew Neilson (NZL)		Lee (KOR)  Nygren (SWE) L 4 – 11	Did not advance
Cora Farrell (USA)  Ben Smith (NZL)		Oh (KOR)  Esenboga (TUR) L 1 – 8	Did not advance

Freestyle skiing

Halfpipe

Athlete	Event	Final
		Run 1	Run 2	Run 3	Best	Rank
Finn Bilous	Boys' halfpipe	89.60	90.80	92.20	92.20	02 !

Slopestyle

Athlete	Event	Final
		Run 1	Run 2	Best	Rank
Finn Bilous	Boys' slopestyle	86.00	61.20	86.00	03 !
Jackson Wells	Boys' slopestyle	61.40	79.00	79.00	6

Ice hockey

Snowboarding

Halfpipe

Slopestyle

See also

• New Zealand at the 2016 Summer Olympics

References