Lausanne 2020 Sports
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Alpine skiing
Alpine skiing competition at Lausanne 2020 is scheduled to be held in Les Diablerets in Switzerland.
Medals will be awarded in nine events, comprising four for men, four for women and one mixed.
The men's and women's events will be slalom, giant slalom, super-G and Alpine combined, while there will also be a parallel mixed team event.
At the 2016 Winter YOG in Lillehammer, the US's River Radamus claimed three of the four men's gold medals on offer following wins in the giant slalom, super-G and Alpine combined events.
He crashed out, however, in the first run of the slalom as Manuel Traninger secured one of two Alpine skiing victories for Austria.
Nadine Fest won the other in the women's super-G.
Switzerland's Aline Danioth did the women's slalom-Alpine combined double with compatriot Mélanie Meillard topping the women's giant slalom podium.
Danioth won her first-ever global crown at the 2019 International Ski Federation Alpine World Ski Championships in Åre in Sweden, helping Switzerland to victory in the nations team event.
Alpine skiing has been ever-present at the Winter YOG having made its debut at the inaugural edition in Innsbruck in 2012.
Biathlon
Biathlon competition at Lausanne 2020 is due to take place in Prémanon in France on the Les Tuffes site.
Medals will be awarded in six events, comprising two for men, two for women and two mixed.
The men's events will be the 7.5 kilometres sprint and 12.5km individual, while the women's will be the 6km sprint and 10km individual.
There will also be a mixed relay and single mixed relay.
At the 2016 Winter Youth Olympic Games (YOG) in Lillehammer, Norway topped the biathlon medal standings with two gold and four silver.
The country's victories came in the men's 10km pursuit, through Sivert Guttorm Bakken, and the mixed relay.
Biathlon has been ever-present at the Winter YOG having made its debut at the inaugural edition in Innsbruck in 2012.
Bobsleigh
Bobsleigh competition at Lausanne 2020 is scheduled to be held in St Moritz in Switzerland.
Medals will be awarded in two events - men's and women's monobob.
Germany were the dominant force in bobsleigh at the 2016 Winter YOG in Lillehammer, winning the men's title through Jonas Jannusch and the women's crown thanks to Laura Nolte.
St Moritz hosted the Winter Olympic Games in 1928 and 1948 and the bobsleigh track there is the oldest in the world, having been opened back in 1904.
Bobsleigh has been ever-present at the Winter YOG having made its debut at the inaugural edition in Innsbruck in 2012.
Cross-country skiing
Cross-country skiing competition at Lausanne 2020 is due to take place in Vallée de Joux.
Medals will be awarded in six events - three for men and three for women.
Both men and women will contest sprint and cross-country cross events with there also being a 10km for men and 5km for women.
Kim Magnus secured South Korea's two gold medals in the sport at the 2016 Winter YOG in Lillehammer, topping the men's 10km and cross-country cross podiums.
He would go onto claim three medals at the 2017 Asian Winter Games in Sapporo, including sprint gold.
Elsewhere at Lillehammer 2016, Sweden's Johanna Hagström and Moa Lundgren won the women's sprint and cross-country cross events respectively, while there were also victories for Norway's Thomas Helland Larsen in the men's sprint and Russia's Maya Yakunina in the women's 5km.
Cross-country skiing has been ever-present at the Winter YOG having made its debut at the inaugural edition in Innsbruck in 2012.
Curling
Curling competition at Lausanne 2020 is due to take place at the Champéry Palladium.
Medals will be awarded in two events - mixed team and mixed NOC doubles.
Canada are the reigning mixed team champions having beaten the United States 10-4 in the gold medal game at the 2016 Winter YOG in Lillehammer.
Curling has been ever-present at the Winter YOG having made its debut at the inaugural edition in Innsbruck in 2012, when Switzerland claimed the mixed team gold medal.
Figure skating
Figure skating competition at Lausanne 2020 is due to take place in the main host city's Centre Sportif de Malley SA.
Medals will be awarded in five events, comprising men's and women's singles and three mixed - pairs, ice dance and, unique to the Winter YOG, the National Olympic Committee (NOC) team.
It is the same programme as that used for 2016 Winter YOG in Lillehammer, where Russia won three of the four gold medals on offer to them.
Polina Tsurskaya was crowned the women's singles champion, while Ekaterina Borisova and Dmitry Sopot came out on top in the pairs and Anastasia Shpilevaya and Grigory Smirnov prevailed in ice dance.
The men's singles title went the way of Japan's Sōta Yamamoto.
Figure skating has been ever-present at the Winter YOG having made its debut at the inaugural edition in Innsbruck in 2012.
Freestyle skiing
Freestyle skiing competition at Lausanne 2020 is due to take place in Leysin in Switzerland.
Medals will be awarded in eight events, comprising four for men and four for women.
The four events for both genders will be ski halfpipe, ski slopestyle, ski big air and ski cross.
After its thrilling debut at the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympic Games, big air is a new addition to the Winter YOG from Lillehammer 2016, where the six freestyle skiing gold medals were split between as many countries.
On the men's side, there were triumphs for the United States' Birk Irving in halfpipe, Norway's Birk Ruud in the then newly-added slopestyle discipline, Canada's Reece Howden in ski cross.
Ruud has since gone onto claim a slopestyle silver medal at the 2019 International Ski Federation Freestyle Ski and Snowboarding World Championships in Utah in the US.
Great Britain's Madison Rowlands, Russia's Lana Prusakova and Switzerland's Talina Gantenbein were the winners of the women's halfpipe, slopestyle and ski cross events respectively.
Freestyle skiing has been ever-present at the Winter YOG having made its debut at the inaugural edition in Innsbruck in 2012.
Ice hockey
Ice hockey competition at Lausanne 2020 is scheduled to be held in the main host city's Centre Sportif de Malley SA.
Medals will be awarded in four events - the men's and women's six-team tournaments and men's and women's mixed NOC 3-on-3 tournaments.
The United States took the men's team title at the 2016 Winter YOG in Lillehammer, while Sweden successfully defended their women's team crown from Innsbruck 2012.
Men's and women's individual skill challenges were held at Innsbruck 2012 and Lillehammer 2016 but will not feature at Lausanne 2020.
Luge
Luge competition at Lausanne 2020 is scheduled to be held in St. Moritz in Switzerland.
Medals will be awarded in five events, comprising two for men, two for men and one mixed.
The men's and women's events will be single and double.
Doubles is one of two additional events for women at Lausanne 2020, along with Nordic combined.
There will also be a mixed team relay.
Germany, Canada, Italy and Latvia claimed one gold medal each in luge at the 2016 Winter YOG in Lillehammer.
Latvia's Kristers Aparjods and Canada's Brooke Apshkrum won the men's and women's singles gold medals respectively, while there were victories for Italy's Felix Schwarz and Lukas Gufler in the men's doubles event and Germany in the team relay.
Luge has been ever-present at the Winter YOG having made its debut at the inaugural edition in Innsbruck in 2012.
Nordic combined
Nordic combined competition at Lausanne 2020 is due to take place in Prémanon in France on the Les Tuffes site.
Medals will be awarded in two events, one for men and, for the first time at the Winter YOG, one for women.
The men's event will be an individual normal hill/10km, while the women's will be an individual normal hill/5km.
At the 2016 Winter YOG in Lillehammer, Germany's Tim Kopp won the men's individual normal hill 5km and Russia triumphed in the mixed team normal hill/3x3.3km competition.
Nordic combined has been ever-present at the Winter YOG having made its debut at the inaugural edition in Innsbruck in 2012.
Short track speed skating
Short track speed skating competition at Lausanne 2020 is scheduled to be held in the main host city's Centre Sportif de Malley SA.
Medals will be awarded in five events - two for men, two for women and one mixed.
The men's and women's events will be 500m and 1,000m, while there will also be a mixed NOC relay.
South Korea topped the short track speed skating medal standings at the 2016 Winter YOG in Lillehammer, winning three gold and one silver.
Among the country's winners was Hwang Dae-heon in the men's 1,000m.
He is now a world champion in the 500m and 5,000m relay and Olympic silver medallist in the 500m having finished runner-up to China's Wu Dajing at Pyeongchang 2018.
The other South Korean victors in Lillehammer were Hong Kyung-hwan in the men's 500m and Kim Ji-yoo in the women's 1,000m ahead of compatriot Lee Su-youn.
China's Yize Zang was the only non-South Korean gold medallist by coming out on top in the women's 500m.
Short track speed skating has been ever-present at the Winter YOG having made its debut at the inaugural edition in Innsbruck in 2012.
Skeleton
Skeleton competition at Lausanne 2020 is due to take place in St Moritz in Switzerland.
Medals will be awarded in two events - the men's and women's individual.
Russia's Evgenii Rukosuev and Great Britain's Ashleigh Fay Pittaway won the respective events at the 2016 Winter YOG in Lillehammer.
Skeleton has been ever-present at the Winter YOG having made its debut at the inaugural edition in Innsbruck in 2012.
Ski jumping
Ski jumping competition at Lausanne 2020 is due to take place in Prémanon in France on the Les Tuffes site.
Medals will be awarded in three events - the men's and women's individual, and mixed teams.
Slovenia claimed a clean sweep of the ski jumping gold medals at the 2016 Winter YOG in Lillehammer with Bor Pavlovčič and Ema Klinec winning the respective men's and women's individual events and also joining forces with Vid Vrhovnik to secure the team title.
Ski jumping has been ever-present at the Winter YOG having made its debut at the inaugural edition in Innsbruck in 2012.
Ski mountaineering
The Lausanne 2020 programme will feature ski mountaineering in what marks a first in the history of Winter Olympic sport.
The lung-busting new addition involves scaling mountains on skis, or carrying them depending on the severity of the ascent, before skiing back down.
Medals will be awarded in five events, comprising two for men, two for women and one mixed.
The men's and women's events will be sprint and individual with a mixed NOC relay completing the programme for the sport, which will be staged in Villars-sur-Ollon in Switzerland.
Ski mountaineering was approved as Lausanne 2020's eighth sport in July 2017.
The decision was announced following a meeting of the International Olympic Committee's ruling Executive Board in Lausanne.
Snowboard
Snowboard competition at Lausanne 2020 is scheduled to be spread across two locations.
Leysin will play host to snowboard freestyle events, while Villars-sur-Ollon will stage snowboard cross events.
Medals will be awarded in eight events - four for men and four for women.
The quartet of disciplines for both genders will be halfpipe, slopestyle, snowboard cross and, for the first time at a Winter YOG, big air.
The United States dominated snowboarding at the 2016 Winter YOG in Lillehammer, winning five of the six gold medals on offer.
Jake Pates triumphed in the men's halfpipe and slopestyle events, while Chloe Kim prevailed in the women's equivalents.
Kim is now the reigning Olympic and world champion in halfpipe following victories at Pyeongchang 2018 and Utah 2019 respectively.
Jake Vedder was the US's other gold medallist at Lillehammer 2016 thanks to success in the men's snowboard cross.
France's Manon Petit topped the women's snowboard cross podium.
Snowboard has been ever-present at the Winter YOG having made its debut at the inaugural edition in Innsbruck in 2012.
Speed skating
Speed skating competition at Lausanne 2020 is scheduled to be held on a natural frozen lake in St Moritz.
It will mark an amazing flashback to the 1948 Winter Olympic Games, during which the competition was held on the exact same spot.
Medals will be awarded in seven events, comprising three for men, three for women and one mixed.
The men's and women's events will be 500 metres, 1,500m and mass start with a mixed NOC team sprint completing the programme.
South Korea claimed five of the six gold medals on offer to them at the 2016 Winter YOG in Lillehammer.
Kim Min-Seok, now a double Olympic medallist and the winner of three Asian Winter Games medals, including two golds, tasted victory in the men's 1,500m and mass start.
Compatriot Park Ji-Woo won the two equivalent women's events, while another South Korean, Kim Min-sun, took the women's 500m crown.
China's Li Yanzhe was also a podium topper after finishing first in the men's 500m.
Speed skating has been ever-present at the Winter YOG having made its debut at the inaugural edition in Innsbruck in 2012.