India at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics

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.

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 bearersManu Bhaker
Jeremy Lalrinnunga
Medals
Ranked 17th
Gold
3
Silver
9
Bronze
1
Total
13
Summer Youth Olympics appearances (overview)

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 and later also won a silver in the mixed 10 metre air pistol event under mixed-NOCs. Both Boys' and Girls' Hockey 5s teams won silver medals in their debut.

Medalists

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

Competitors

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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

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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
 
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

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Track and Road events

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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  
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

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Athlete Event Stage 1 Stage 2 Total
Distance Rank Distance Rank Total Rank
Praveen Chithravel Boy's triple jump 15.84 3 15.68 5 31.52  
Kunwer Ajai Raj Boy's javelin throw 71.45 9 75.06 3 146.51 6

Badminton

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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)
 
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
 
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

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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

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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

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

Preliminary round

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Pool B

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1   Australia 5 5 0 0 23 9 +14 15 Quarterfinals
2   India 5 4 0 1 34 8 +26 12
3   Austria 5 3 0 2 11 16 −5 9
4   Bangladesh 5 2 0 3 12 22 −10 6
5   Canada 5 1 0 4 13 22 −9 3 9th place game
6   Kenya 5 0 0 5 10 26 −16 0 11th place game
Source: FIH
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Head-to-head result.
7 October 2018
11:45
India   10–0   Bangladesh
Anand   4'
Rajbhar   4'9'
Sanjay   6'
Prasad   9'18'
Chirmako   11'17'
Singh   12'
Moirangthem   20'
Report
Umpires:
Hideki Kinoshita (JPN)
Hristiyan Vasilev (BUL)
8 October 2018
14:45
India   9–1   Austria
Sanjay (field hockey)   2'
Anand   4'10'17'
Chirmako   6'11'14'18'
Prasad   13'
Report Drusany   8'
Umpires:
Hristiyan Vasilev (BUL)
Nick Saunders (NZL)
9 October 2018
09:30
Kenya   1–7   India
Ouma   7' Report Chirmako   5'10'
Moirangthem   5'11'
Prasad   8'
Sanjay (field hockey)   14'
Rajbhar   17'
Umpires:
Hideki Kinoshita (JPN)
Jonathan Altamirano (MEX)
10 October 2018
17:45
India   3–4   Australia
Prasad   6'18'
Anand   20'
Report Davis   2'
Collins   3'
Murray   18'
B. Marais   19'
Umpires:
Nick Saunders (NZL)
Jonathan Altamirano (MEX)
11 October 2018
13:15
Canada   2–5   India
Childs   15'16' Report Sanjay   4'17'
Anand   7'
Chirmako   10'
Rajbhar   17'
Umpires:
Jonathan Altamirano (MEX)
Hristiyan Vasilev (BUL)

Final round

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Quarterfinal
12 October 2018
11:00
India   4–2   Poland
Anand   1'8'
Singh   3'
Sanjay   17'
Report E. Bembenek   16'
Nowkowski   18'
Umpires:
Darren Hubach (RSA)
James Unkles (AUS)
Semifinal
13 October 2018
15:00
Argentina   1–3   India
Zarate   4' Report Rajbhar   3'
Chirmako   12'18'
Umpires:
Peter Kabaso (KEN)
Hristiyan Vasilev (BUL)
Gold medal match
14 October 2018
15:00
India   2–4   Malaysia
Prasad   3'6' Report Rosdi   5'
Anuar   14'19'
Ishak   18'
Umpires:
Jonathan Altamirano (MEX)
Hristiyan Vasilev (BUL)

Girl's 5s

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

Preliminary round

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Pool A

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1   Argentina (H) 5 5 0 0 41 2 +39 15 Quarterfinals
2   India 5 4 0 1 29 10 +19 12
3   South Africa 5 3 0 2 19 13 +6 9
4   Austria 5 2 0 3 19 13 +6 6
5   Uruguay 5 1 0 4 23 13 +10 3 9th place game
6   Vanuatu 5 0 0 5 0 80 −80 0 11th place game
Source: FIH
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Head-to-head result.
(H) Hosts
7 October 2018
14:00
India   4–2   Austria
Lalremsiami   4'17'
Tete   5'
Khan   16'
Report Hruby   13'
Kern   20'
Umpires:
Sophie Bockelmann (GER)
Margaux Brand (CAN)
8 October 2018
09:30
India   2–1   Uruguay
Lalremsiami   1'19' Report Verga   10'
Umpires:
Sophie Bockelmann (GER)
Rhiannon Murrie (AUS)
9 October 2018
16:15
Vanuatu   0–16   India
Report Lalremsiami   2'10'
Reet   3'6'
Tete   4'13'
Kaur   5'5'
Chetna   6'14'17'
Khan   8'11'12'15'
Chaudhary   20'
Umpires:
Cynthia Clement (GHA)
Jianjun Chen (CHN)
10 October 2018
12:30
India   2–5   Argentina
Khan   8'
Reet   10'
Report di Santo   7'
Ramallo   10'12'
Bruggesser   17'
Palet   19'
Umpires:
Rhiannon Murrie (AUS)
Fatma Mahmoud (EGY)
11 October 2018
14:00
South Africa   2–5   India
de Waal   10'
Welham   19'
Report Khan   2'17'
Reet   10'
Lalremsiami   12'
Chaudhary   13'
Umpires:
Rhiannon Murrie (AUS)
Fatma Mahmoud (EGY)

Final round

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Quarterfinal
12 October 2018
14:00
India   3–0   Poland
Lalremsiami   10'
Tete   14'
Kaur   14'
Report
Umpires:
Lizé Srtydom (RSA)
Jianjun Chen (CHN)
Semifinal
13 October 2018
16:00
India   3–0   China
Khan   1'
Reet   5'
Lalremsiami   20'
Report
Umpires:
Lizé Srtydom (RSA)
Victoria Pazos (PAR)
Gold medal match
14 October 2018
16:30
Argentina   3–1   India
Palet   7'
Ramallo   10'
Bruggesser   12'
Report Khan   1'
Umpires:
Sophie Bockelmann (GER)
Rhiannon Murrie (AUS)

Judo

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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
  Giménez (VEN)
L 0s1–11
 
Tababi Devi (Team Athens) Mixed team Bye Los Angeles
W 5–3
Rio de Janeiro
W 5–3
Beijing
L 3–4
 

Rowing

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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

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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  
Saurabh Chaudhary Boys' 10 m air pistol 580 1 Q 244.2  
Mehuli Ghosh Girls' 10 m air rifle 628.1 1 Q 248.0  
Manu Bhaker Girls' 10 m air pistol 576 1 Q 236.5  
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
 

Sport climbing

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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

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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 did not advance
Advait Page Boys' 800 m freestyle 8:16.06 17

Table tennis

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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

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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  
Sneha Soren Girl's 48 kg 67 5 84 5 151 5

Wrestling

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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
 
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

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  1. ^ a b "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. Archived from the original on 14 October 2018. Retrieved 15 December 2017.
  8. ^ "Asian Youth Championship: Youth A Combined" (PDF). IFSC. 9 July 2017. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 February 2018. 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.