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India at the
2018 Summer Youth Olympics
IOC codeIND
NOCIndian Olympic Association
Websitehttp://www.olympic.ind.in/
in Buenos Aires, Argentina
6 – 18 October 2018
Competitors46 in 13[1] sports
Flag bearerOpening: Manu Bhaker
Closing:Jeremy Lalrinnunga
Medals
Ranked 17th
Gold
3
Silver
9
Bronze
1
Total
13
Summer Youth Olympics appearances

India participated at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires, Argentina from 6 October to 18 October 2018. India managed their best ever medal haul of the Youth Olympics in this edition. Among the 206 participating nations, India ranked 17th on the medals tally.

  • Jeremy Lalrinnunga won India's first ever Youth Olympics gold medal.
  • Tababi Devi won the first ever Youth Olympics medal for India in Judo and later also won a silver in the mixed team event under mixed-NOCs.
  • Manu Bhaker became the first Indian girl to win a Youth Olympics gold medal.
  • Both Boys' and Girls' Hockey 5s teams won silver medals in their debut.

Medalists[edit | edit source]

Medals awarded to participants of Mixed-NOC teams are represented in (italics). These medals are not counted towards the Individual NOC Medal tally.

Competitors[edit | edit source]

India placed 46 athletes in 13 sports with 36 events, its largest contingent till now.[1] India marks its debut in field hockey 5s and sport climbing at the Youth Olympics. The contingent includes ISSF senior and junior world cup champion Manu Bhaker, Commonwealth Games medallist shooter Mehuli Ghosh, ISSF senior world champion Saurabh Choudary, world youth boxing champion Jyoti Gulia and world youth silver medalist Jeremy Lalrinunga in weightlifting.

Sports Boys Girls Total Events
Archery 1 1 2 3
Athletics 5 2 7 7
Badminton 1 1 2 3
Boxing 0 1 1 1
Field Hockey 9 9 18 2
Judo 0 1 1 1
Rowing 2 0 2 1
Shooting 2 2 4 6
Sport Climbing 1 0 1 1
Swimming 2 0 2 4
Table Tennis 1 1 2 3
Weightlifting 1 1 2 2
Wrestling 0 2 2 2
Total 25 21 46 36

Archery[edit | edit source]

India qualified two archers based on its performance at the Asian Continental Qualification Tournament.[2][3]

Athlete Event Ranking round Round of 32 Round of 16 Quarterfinals Semifinals Final / BM Rank
Score Seed Opposition
Score
Opposition
Score
Opposition
Score
Opposition
Score
Opposition
Score
Akash Malik Boys' individual 679 5  Lee (CAN)
W 6–5
 Solera (ESP)
W 6–2
 Vaca (MEX)
W 6–4
 Roos (BEL)
W 6–0
 Cowles (USA)
L 0–6
2nd place, silver medalist(s)
Himani Kumari Girls' individual 665 3  Walter (SAM)
W 7–1
 Gnoriega (USA)
L 4–6
Did not advance
 Selin Satır (TUR) /
 Akash Malik (IND)
Mixed team 1296 24  Jerez (DOM) /
 De Carvalho (BRA)
W 5–3
 Winkel (NED) /
 Cheremiskin (RUS)
W 6–2
 Giannasio (ARG) /
 Aitthiwat (THA)
L 0–6
Did not advance
 Himani Kumari (IND) /
 Wian Roux (RSA)
1274 29  Tromans-Ansell (GBR) /
 Shabani (IRI)
L 1–5
Did not advance

Athletics[edit | edit source]

Track and Road events[edit | edit source]

Athlete Event Stage 1 Stage 2 Total
Result Rank Result Rank Total Rank
Nisar Ahmed Boy's 200 m 22.08 19 21.72 PB 19 43.80 19
Sreekiran Nandakumar Boy's 800 m 1:52.42 9 2:06.51 24 3:58.93 22
Suraj Panwar Boys' 5 km walk 20:23.30 PB 2 20:35.87 1 40:59.17 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
Vishnupriya Jayaprakashan Girl's 400 m hurdles 1:02.56 11 1:01.92 12 2:04.48 12
Seema Girl's 3000 m 10:03.34 14 14:25 12 26 13

Field events[edit | edit source]

Athlete Event Stage 1 Stage 2 Total
Distance Rank Distance Rank Total Rank
Praveen Chitravel Boy's triple jump 15.84 3 15.68 5 31.52 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Kunwer Ajai Raj Singh Rana Boy's javelin throw 71.45 9 75.06 3 146.51 6

Badminton[edit | edit source]

India qualified two players based on the Badminton Junior World Rankings.[4][5]

Athlete Event Group Stage Quarterfinals Semifinals Final / BM
Opposition
Score
Opposition
Score
Opposition
Score
Rank Opposition
Score
Opposition
Score
Opposition
Score
Rank
Lakshya Sen Boys' singles  Kamel (EGY)
W (21–14, 21–10)
 Bosniuk (UKR)
W (23–21, 21–8)
 Farias (BRA)
W (23–6, 21–16)
1 Q  Rumbay (INA)
W (21–17, 21–19)
 Naraoka (JPN)
W (14–21, 21–15,
24–22)
 Li Sf (CHN)
L (15–21, 19–21)
2nd place, silver medalist(s)
Jakka Vaishnavi Reddy Girls' singles  Andreu (ESP)
W (21–13, 21–6)
 Gai (USA)
L (18–21, 21–23)
 Saponara (PER)
W (21–14, 21–8)
2 Did not advance
Lakshya Sen (Team Alpha) Mixed teams Epsilon
W 110–98
Delta
L 99–110
Zeta
W 110–103
2 Gamma
W 110–94
Theta
W 110–90
Omega
W 110–106
1st place, gold medalist(s)
Jakka Vaishnavi Reddy (Team Gamma) Omega
L 99–110
Sigma
L 86–110
Theta
W 110–107
3 Alpha
L 94–110
Did not advance

Boxing[edit | edit source]

India qualified one boxer based on its performance at the 2017 Youth Women’s World Boxing Championships.

Athlete Event Preliminaries Semifinals Final / RM Rank
Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Jyoti Gulia Girls' 51kg  La Piana (ITA)
L 0–5
Did not advance 5

Field hockey[edit | edit source]

India qualified 2 teams (Men and Women) based on its performance at the 2018 Youth Olympics Qualifiers. Both teams won silver medals.

Boy's 5s[edit | edit source]

Team: Prashant Chauhan, Shivam Anand, Rahul Rajbhar, Maninder Singh, Sanjay, Sudeep Chirmako, Pawan, Rabichandra Moirangathem, Vivek Prasad

Preliminary round[edit | edit source]

Pool B Template:2018 Summer Youth Olympics boys' field hockey group B standings

7 October 2018
11:45
#REDIRECT Template:National men's field hockey team right 10–0  Bangladesh
Anand
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Rajbhar
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Sanjay
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Prasad
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Chirmako
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Singh
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Moirangthem
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Report
Umpires:
Hideki Kinoshita (JPN)
Hristiyan Vasilev (BUL)
8 October 2018
14:45
#REDIRECT Template:National men's field hockey team right 9–1  Austria
Sanjay
  1. REDIRECT Template:Field hockey goal

Anand
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Chirmako
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Prasad
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Report Drusany
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Umpires:
Hristiyan Vasilev (BUL)
Nick Saunders (NZL)
9 October 2018
09:30
#REDIRECT Template:National men's field hockey team right 1–7  India
Ouma
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Report Chirmako
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Moirangthem
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Prasad
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Sanjay
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Rajbhar
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Umpires:
Hideki Kinoshita (JPN)
Jonathan Altamirano (MEX)
10 October 2018
17:45
#REDIRECT Template:National men's field hockey team right 3–4  Australia
Prasad
  1. REDIRECT Template:Field hockey goal

Anand
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Report Davis
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Collins
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Murray
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B. Marais
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Umpires:
Nick Saunders (NZL)
Jonathan Altamirano (MEX)
11 October 2018
13:15
#REDIRECT Template:National men's field hockey team right 2–5  India
Childs
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Report Sanjay
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Anand
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Chirmako
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Rajbhar
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Umpires:
Jonathan Altamirano (MEX)
Hristiyan Vasilev (BUL)

Final round[edit | edit source]

Quarterfinal
12 October 2018
11:00
#REDIRECT Template:National men's field hockey team right 4–2  Poland
Anand
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Singh
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Sanjay
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Report E. Bembenek
  1. REDIRECT Template:Field hockey goal

Nowkowski
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Umpires:
Darren Hubach (RSA)
James Unkles (AUS)
Semifinal
13 October 2018
15:00
#REDIRECT Template:National men's field hockey team right 1–3  India
Zarate
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Report Rajbhar
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Chirmako
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Umpires:
Peter Kabaso (KEN)
Hristiyan Vasilev (BUL)
Gold medal match
14 October 2018
15:00
#REDIRECT Template:National men's field hockey team right 2–4  Malaysia
Prasad
  1. REDIRECT Template:Field hockey goal
Report Rosdi
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Anuar
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Ishak
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Umpires:
Jonathan Altamirano (MEX)
Hristiyan Vasilev (BUL)

Girl's 5s[edit | edit source]

Team: Salima Tete, Reet, Khushboo, Ishika Chaudhary, Mumtaz Khan, Baljeet Kaur, Chetna, Bichu Devi Kharibam, Lalremsiami

Preliminary round[edit | edit source]

Pool A Template:2018 Summer Youth Olympics girls' field hockey group A standings

7 October 2018
14:00
#REDIRECT Template:National women's field hockey team right 4–2  Austria
Lalremsiami
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Tete
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Khan
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Report Hruby
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Kern
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Umpires:
Sophie Bockelmann (GER)
Margaux Brand (CAN)
8 October 2018
09:30
#REDIRECT Template:National women's field hockey team right 2–1  Uruguay
Lalremsiami
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Report Verga
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Umpires:
Sophie Bockelmann (GER)
Rhiannon Murrie (AUS)
9 October 2018
16:15
#REDIRECT Template:National women's field hockey team right 0–16  India
Report Lalremsiami
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Reet
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Tete
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Kaur
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Chetna
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Khan
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Chaudhary
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Umpires:
Cynthia Clement (GHA)
Jianjun Chen (CHN)
10 October 2018
12:30
#REDIRECT Template:National women's field hockey team right 2–5  Argentina
Khan
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Reet
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Report di Santo
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Ramallo
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Bruggesser
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Palet
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Umpires:
Rhiannon Murrie (AUS)
Fatma Mahmoud (EGY)
11 October 2018
14:00
#REDIRECT Template:National women's field hockey team right 2–5  India
de Waal
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Welham
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Report Khan
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Reet
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Lalremsiami
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Chaudhary
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Umpires:
Rhiannon Murrie (AUS)
Fatma Mahmoud (EGY)

Final round[edit | edit source]

Quarterfinal
12 October 2018
14:00
#REDIRECT Template:National women's field hockey team right 3–0  Poland
Lalremsiami
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Tete
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Kaur
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Report
Umpires:
Lizé Srtydom (RSA)
Jianjun Chen (CHN)
Semifinal
13 October 2018
16:00
#REDIRECT Template:National women's field hockey team right 3–0  China
Khan
  1. REDIRECT Template:Field hockey goal

Reet
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Lalremsiami
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Report
Umpires:
Lizé Srtydom (RSA)
Victoria Pazos (PAR)
Gold medal match
14 October 2018
16:30
#REDIRECT Template:National women's field hockey team right 3–1  India
Palet
  1. REDIRECT Template:Field hockey goal

Ramallo
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Bruggesser
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Report Khan
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Umpires:
Sophie Bockelmann (GER)
Rhiannon Murrie (AUS)

Judo[edit | edit source]

Athlete Event Round of 16 Quarterfinals Semifinals Repechage Final / BM
Round of 8 Quarterfinals Semifinals
Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Rank
Tababi Devi Girls' 44 kg  Wangmo (BHU)
W 10–0
 Muminoviq (KOS)
W 1s2–0
 Puljiz (CRO)
W 10–0s1
N/A  Giménez (VEN)
L 0s1–11
2nd place, silver medalist(s)
Tababi Devi (Team Athens) Mixed team Bye Los Angeles
W 5–3
Rio de Janeiro
W 5–3
N/A Beijing
L 3–4
2nd place, silver medalist(s)

Rowing[edit | edit source]

India qualified one boat based on its performance at the 2018 Asian Youth Olympic Games Qualification Regatta.[6]

Athlete Event Round 1 Round 2 Round 3 Points Rank Semifinal Final
Time Rank Time Points Rank Time Points Rank Time Rank Time Rank
Satnam Singh
Ashish Goliyan
Boys' pair 3:27.57 6 1:38.85 3 3 1:36.90 3 3 6 8 Q 1:32.00 4 FB 1:38.01 8

Shooting[edit | edit source]

India qualified four sport shooters based on its performance at the 2017 Asian Championships.[7]

Individual
Athlete Event Qualification Final
Points Rank Points Rank
Shahu Tushar Mane Boys' 10 m air rifle 623.7 3 Q 247.5 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
Saurabh Chaudhary Boys' 10 m air pistol 580 1 Q 244.2 1st place, gold medalist(s)
Mehuli Ghosh Girls' 10 m air rifle 628.1 1 Q 248.0 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
Manu Bhaker Girls' 10 m air pistol 576 1 Q 236.5 1st place, gold medalist(s)
Mixed
Athlete Event Qualification Round of 16 Quarterfinal Semifinal Final
Points Rank Opposition Score Opposition Score Opposition Score Opposition Score Rank
 Shahu Tushar Mane (IND) /
 Latifa Al-Maazmi (UAE)
Mixed 10 metre air rifle 803.2 20 Did not advance 20
 Carlos Arze (PER) /
 Mehuli Ghosh (IND)
809.9 19 Did not advance 19
 Saurabh Chaudhary (IND) /
 Nubaira Babur (PAK)
Mixed 10 metre air pistol 738 15  Štrbac (CRO) /
 Kurdzi (BLR)
L 3–10
Did not advance
 Bezhan Fayzullaev (TJK) /
 Manu Bhaker (IND)
751 5  Kanyakorn (THA) /
 Abdelfatah (EGY)
W 10–4
 Rankelytė (LTU) /
 Usanli (MDA)
W 10–8
 Ibarra (MEX) /
 Honta (UKR)
W 10–3
 Seeger (GER) /
 Kirov (BUL)
L 3–10
2nd place, silver medalist(s)

Sport climbing[edit | edit source]

India qualified one sport climber based on its performance at the 2017 Asian Youth Sport Climbing Championships.[8]

Athlete Event Speed
Qualification
Bouldering
Qualification
Lead
Qualification
Points Final
Time Points Result Points Hold
Reached
Time Points Speed Bouldering Lead Rank
Bharath Pereira Boy's combined 7.17 7 1T 2z 14 20 1:31 21 2058 Did not advance 18

Swimming[edit | edit source]

Athlete Event Heat Semifinal Final
Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank
Srihari Nataraj Boys' 50 m backstroke 26.55 18 Did not advance
Boys' 100 m backstroke 56.75 9 Q 56.48 9 Q 56.12 6
Boys' 200 m backstroke 2:04.80 13 N/A Did not advance
Advait Page Boys' 800 m freestyle N/A 8:16.06 17

Table tennis[edit | edit source]

India qualified one table tennis player based on its performance at the Road to Buenos Aires (Asia) series in Thailand and one more in the form of Archana Kamath at the Road to Buenos Aires (Oceania) in the Cook Islands.[9][10]

Athlete Event Group Stage Round of 16 Quarterfinal Semifinal Final / BM
Opposition
Score
Opposition
Score
Opposition
Score
Rank Opposition
Score
Opposition
Score
Opposition
Score
Opposition
Score
Rank
Manav Thakkar Boys' singles  Stankevičius (LTU)
W 4–2
 Ahmadian (IRI)
L 1–4
 Choong (MAS)
W 4–2
2 Q  Harimoto (JPN)
L 1–4
Did not advance
Archana Kamath Girls' singles  Goi R X (SGP)
W 4–1
 Al-Hodaby (EGY)
W 4–0
 Vovk (SLO)
W 4–1
1 Q  Lee K Y (HKG)
W 4–2
 Ning J (AZE)
W 4–3
 Sun Ys (CHN)
L 1–4
 Dragoman (ROU)
L 1–4
4
Archana Kamath
Manav Thakkar
Mixed team  Ning J /
Yu Kh (AZE)
L 0–3
 Gauthier /
Rembert (FRA)
W 3–0
 Morri (SMR) /
 Lorenzo (ARG)
W 3–0
2 Q  Dragoman /
Pletea (ROU)
L 1–2
Did not advance

Weightlifting[edit | edit source]

Jeremy Lalrinnunga at his final attempt

India qualified two athletes based on its performance at the 2018 Asian Youth Championships.[11][12]

Athlete Event Snatch Clean & jerk Total Rank
Result Rank Result Rank
Jeremy Lalrinnunga Boy's 62 kg 124 1 150 1 274 1st place, gold medalist(s)
Sneha Soren Girl's 48 kg 67 5 84 5 151 5

Wrestling[edit | edit source]

India qualified two athletes based on its performance at the 2018 Asian Cadet Championships.

Key:

  • VT – Victory by Fall.
  • PP – Decision by Points – the loser with technical points.
  • PO – Decision by Points – the loser without technical points.
  • ST – Technical superiority – the loser without technical points and a margin of victory of at least 10 points.
  • SP – Technical superiority – the loser with technical points and a margin of victory of at least 10 points.
  • VB – Victory by Injury
  • VC – Victory due to 3 cautions
Athlete Event Group stage Final / RM Rank
Opposition
Score
Opposition
Score
Opposition
Score
Opposition
Score
Rank Opposition
Score
Simran Kaur Girls' freestyle 43 kg  Derry (NZL)
W 5–0 VB
 Leorda (MDA)
W 5–0 VT
 Mahmoud (EGY)
W 4–1 SP
 Batbaatar (MGL)
W 3–1 PP
1  Shilson (USA)
L 1–3 PP
2nd place, silver medalist(s)
Mansi Ahlawat Girls' freestyle 57 kg  Szél (HUN)
L 0–3 PO
 Toida (CMR)
W 3–1 PP
 Parra (VEN)
L 1–3 PP
 Ringaci (MDA)
L 0–5 VT
4  Ahmed (EGY)
L 0–5 VT
8

References[edit | edit source]

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Bhaker leads Indian contingent as Youth Olympic Games opens". timesofindia.indiatimes.com. TOI. Retrieved 12 October 2018.
  2. "YOG 2018 Qualification Places – Boys" (PDF). World Archery Federation. Retrieved 15 December 2017.
  3. "YOG 2018 Qualification Places – Girls" (PDF). World Archery Federation. Retrieved 15 December 2017.
  4. "BWF Junior World Ranking – Boys Invited to 2018 Youth Olympics" (PDF). BWF Corporate. Retrieved 19 May 2018.
  5. "BWF Junior World Ranking – Girls Invited to 2018 Youth Olympics" (PDF). BWF Corporate. Retrieved 19 May 2018.
  6. "2018 Youth Olympic Games Rowing Places Obtained" (PDF). FISA. 30 October 2017. Retrieved 10 November 2017.
  7. "Quota Places by Name and Nation". ISSF. 11 December 2017. Retrieved 15 December 2017.
  8. "Asian Youth Championship: Youth A Combined" (PDF). IFSC. 9 July 2017. Retrieved 3 August 2017.
  9. "Manav Vikash Thakkar and Andrea Pavlovic add names to list". ITTF. 9 May 2018. Retrieved 10 May 2018.
  10. "Last in Road to Buenos Aires places booked, surprise names emerge successful". ITTF. 12 June 2018. Retrieved 25 June 2018.
  11. "Boys Team YOG Classification from Asian Youth Championships" (PDF). International Weightlifting Federation. 30 April 2018. Retrieved 10 May 2018.
  12. "Girls Team YOG Classification from Asian Youth Championships" (PDF). International Weightlifting Federation. 30 April 2018. Retrieved 10 May 2018.

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