India at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics

Sporting event delegation

India competed at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics, in Nanjing, China from 16 August to 28 August 2014. India, which had won 8 medals in 2010 games, managed just 2 medals this time.

Medalists[edit]

Archery[edit]

Two archers from India qualified due to their performance at the 2013 World Archery Youth Championships.^[2][3]

Athletics[edit]

Five athletes from India qualified.^[5]

Qualification Legend: Q=Final A (medal); qB=Final B (non-medal)

Boys

Track & road events

Field Events

Girls

Track & road events

Field events

Badminton[edit]

Two shuttlers from India qualified based on the BWF World Junior Rankings.^[6][7]

Athlete	Event	Group stage				Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM	Rank
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score
Aditya Joshi	Boys’ Singles	Petrovic (SRB) W (21–17, 21–16)	Sarsiekienov (UKR) W (21–14, 21–13)	Pham CC (VIE) W (21–14, 21–13)	1 Q	CJ Wei (MAS) W (20–22, 21–18, 21–12)	Shi Yq (CHN) L (10–21, 22–24)	Ginting (INA) L (17–21, 16–21)	4
Ruthvika Shivani	Girls’ Singles	Konieczna (POL) W (21–10, 21–4)	Lai (AUS) W (21–18, 21–11)	Hartawan (INA) L (14–21, 15–21)	2	Did Not Advance
Tessa Kabelo (BOT)  Aditya Joshi (IND)	Mixed Doubles	Sarsiekienov (UKR)  Yamaguchi (JPN) L (19–21, 17–21)	Chen (NED)  Krapez (SLO) L (13–21, 21–17, 13–21)	Mitsova (BUL)  Abdelhakim (EGY) W (20–22, 21–18, 21–11)	3	Did Not Advance
Ruthvika Shivani (IND)  Abraham Ayittey (GHA)		Ong (SIN)  Hendahewa (SRI) L WO	Courtois (FRA)  Sebunnya (UGA) L WO	He Bj (CHN)  Dias (SRI) L WO	4	Did Not Advance

Two boxers from India qualified based on their performance in the 2014 Youth World Championships.^[8]

Boys

Canoeing[edit]

One boat from India qualified based on its performance at the 2013 World Junior Canoe Sprint and Slalom Championships.^[9]

Girls

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Repechage		Quarterfinals		Semifinals		Final / BM	Rank
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time
Kirti Kewat	C1 slalom	1:50.492	5 Q	—		DNF	—	Did Not Advance
	C1 sprint	2:31.856	5 qR	2:33.175	1 Q	2:35.385	2	Did Not Advance

Qualification Legend: Q=Next Round; qR=Repechage

One team of two athletes from India qualified based on the 8 June 2014 IGF Combined World Amateur Golf Rankings.^[10]

Gymnastics[edit]

Artistic Gymnastics[edit]

One gymnast from India qualified based on the performance at the 2014 Asian Artistic Gymnastics Championships.^[11]

Boys

Athlete	Event	Apparatus						Total	Rank
		Floor	Pommel horse	Rings	Vault	Parallel bars	Horizontal bar
Abhijeet Kumar[4]	Qualification	12.650	13.000	10.000	13.600	12.650	12.250	74.150	26

One boat from India qualified based on its performance at the Asian Qualification Regatta.^[12]

Athlete	Event	Seeding Heats		Heats		Repechage		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Amit Kumar Atul Kumar	Boys’ Pairs	3:28.36	4	3:22.68	6 R	3:25.03	5 FB	3:26.56	6

Qualification Legend: FA=Final A (medal); FB=Final B (non-medal); R=Repechage

Sailing[edit]

India was given a reallocation boat based on being a top ranked nation not yet qualified.^[13]

Shooting[edit]

2 shooters from India qualified based on their performance in the 2014 Asian Shooting Championships.^[14]

Individual

Team

Swimming[edit]

India qualified two swimmers.^[15]

Table Tennis[edit]

2 athletes from India qualified based on their performance in the 2014 Asian Qualifying Event.^[16]

Singles

Qualification Legend: Q=Main Bracket (medal); qB=Consolation Bracket (non-medal)

One athlete from India qualified based on the 9 June 2014 ITF World Junior Rankings.^[17]

Weightlifting[edit]

Two lifters in the boys’ events and one lifter in the girls’ event qualified from India based on the team ranking after the 2013 Weightlifting Youth World Championships.^[18]

Wrestling[edit]

Four wrestlers from India qualified based on their performance at the 2014 Asian Cadet Championships.^[19]

References[edit]