Current Commission head Claudia Bokel, Angela Ruggiero, ice hockey gold medallist with the United States at the 1998 Winter Olympic Games in Nagano, former Olympic high champion Stefan Holm of Sweden and New Zealand's windsurfing gold medallist Barbara Kendall all participated.

Another IOC member, The Netherlands' Camiel Eulings, also participated.

CanadianTodd Nicholson, Paralympic gold medallist in the sport at Turin 2006 and the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) representative on the IOC Athletes' Commission, was also in attendance for the match.

He was joined by Inge Andersen, secretary general of the Norwegian Olympic Committee, and Kit McConnell, the IOC sports director.

The contest took place at the “Try the Sport” venue, a key feature of the second edition of the Winter Youth Olympic Games where attendees can try sports they may not have played before.

Ruggiero, widely expected to stand for chair of the IOC Athletes' Commission when Bokel steps down at Rio 2016, claimed a women’s version of ice sledge hockey might be demonstrated at the 2018 Winter Paralympic Games in Pyeongchang.

The IPC claimed this was unlikely, though. 

A spokesperson for the governing body told insidethegames that “although we are always looking at ways to develop the women’s game in ice sledge hockey, there have been no formal conversations with any Organising Committees to include demonstration events at future Paralympic Winter Games”.

Currently, only men’s ice sledge hockey is on the Winter Paralympics programme.

It made its Paralympic debut at the 1994 Games here in Lillehammer.