Sri Lanka at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics

Sri Lanka at the Youth Olympic Games

Flag of Sri Lanka
IOC code  SRI
NOC National Olympic Committee of Sri Lanka
At the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics in Nanjing
Competitors 9 in 6 sports
Flag bearer Matthew Abeysinghe[1]
Medals Gold
0		 Silver
0		 Bronze
0		 Total
0

Sri Lanka will compete at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics, in Nanjing, China from 16 August to 28 August 2014. The Sri Lankan team consisted of nine athletes in six sports.[2]

Medalists

Medals awarded to participants of mixed-NOC (Combined) teams are represented in italics. These medals are not counted towards the individual NOC medal tally.

Medal Name Sport Event Date
 Bronze Dias, SachinSachin Dias Badminton Mixed Doubles 22 Aug

Athletics

Sri Lanka qualified one male athlete in the Youth Olympic Trials held in Bangkok, Thailand from May 21–22, 2014.[3]

Qualification Legend: Q=Final A (medal); qB=Final B (non-medal); qC=Final C (non-medal); qD=Final D (non-medal); qE=Final E (non-medal)

Boys
Track & road events
Athlete Event Heats Final
Result Rank Result Rank
Anuruddha Vidusanka 400 m hurdles 53.31 10 qB 53.30 12

Badminton

Sri Lanka qualified one maleathlete based on the 2 May 2014 BWF Junior World Rankings. Later Sri Lanka was given a femalequota to compete by the tripartite committee.[4][5]

Singles
Athlete Event Group stage Quarterfinal Semifinal Final / BM Rank
Opposition
Score		 Opposition
Score		 Opposition
Score		 Rank Opposition
Score		 Opposition
Score		 Opposition
Score
Sachin Dias Boys' Singles  Abdelhakim (EGY)
W 21–11, 21–9		  Nzoussi (CGO)
W 21–5, 21–8		  Anthony (INA)
L 10–21, 21–23		 2 Did not advance
Thilini Hendahewa Girls' Singles  Blichfeldt (DEN)
W 21–18, 21–15		  Yamaguchi (JPN)
L 13–21, 6–21		  Cadeau (SEY)
W 21–3, 21–6		 2 Did not advance
Doubles
Athlete Event Group stage Quarterfinal Semifinal Final / BM Rank
Opposition
Score		 Opposition
Score		 Opposition
Score		 Rank Opposition
Score		 Opposition
Score		 Opposition
Score
 He Bingjiao (CHN)
 Sachin Dias (SRI)		 Mixed Doubles  Courtois (FRA)
 Sebunnya (UGA)
W 2 – 0		  Hendahewa (SRI)
 Ong (SIN)
W 2 – 0		  Shivani (IND)
 Ayittey (GHA)
W w/o		 1 Q  Beton (SLO)
 Ginting (INA)
W 2 – 1		  Lee (TPE)
 Tsuneyama (JPN)
L 1 – 2		  Qin (CHN)
 Narongrit (THA)
W 2 – 0		 3rd
 Thilini Hendahewa (SRI)
 Soon Yang Bernard Ong (SIN)		 Mixed Doubles  Shivani (IND)
 Ayittey (GHA)
W w/o		  He (CHN)
 Dias (SRI)
L 0 – 2		  Courtois (FRA)
 Sebunnya (UGA)
W 2 – 0		 2 Did not advance

Beach Volleyball

Sri Lanka qualified a boys' team by their performance at the AVC Qualification Tournament.[6][7]

Athletes Event Preliminary round Standing Round of 24 Round of 16 Quarterfinals Semifinals Final / BM Rank
Opposition
Score		 Opposition
Score		 Opposition
Score		 Opposition
Score		 Opposition
Score		 Opposition
Score
Isuru Madushan
Chamika Sandaruwan		 Boys'  Frutos Toewn/Cacares (PAR)
W 2 – 1		 3 Q  Ashfiya/Licardo (INA)
L 0 – 2		 Did not advance
 Ndayishimiye/Pniyongabo (BDI)
W 2 – 0
 Alvarez/Flores (GUA)
L 1 – 2
 Berntsen/Mol (NOR)
L 0 – 2
 Iarzutkin/Stoyanovskiy (RUS)
L 0 – 2

Rowing

Sri Lanka was given a boat to compete by the tripartite committee.[8]

Athlete Event Heats Repechage Semifinals Final
Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank
Vishan Mario Gunatilleka Boys' Single Sculls 3:59.01 6 R 3:50.56 5 SC/D 3:50.87 6 FD 3:49.53 22

Qualification Legend: FA=Final A (medal); FB=Final B (non-medal); FC=Final C (non-medal); FD=Final D (non-medal); SA/B=Semifinals A/B; SC/D=Semifinals C/D; R=Repechage

Swimming

Sri Lanka qualified two swimmers.[9][10] In the five races the two swimmers competed in, all five produced new national records.[11]

Boys
Athlete Event Heat Semifinal Final
Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank
Matthew Abeysinghe 100 m freestyle 50.87 NR 13 Q 50.86 NR 13 Did not advance
200 m freestyle 1:52.41 NR 15 N/A Did not advance
Girls
Athlete Event Heat Semifinal Final
Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank
Machiko Raheem 50 m freestyle 26.79 NR 23 Did not advance
100 m freestyle 58.50 NR 28 Did not advance

Tennis

Sri Lanka was given a quota to compete by the tripartite committee.[12]

Singles
Athlete Event Round of 32 Round of 16 Quarterfinals Semifinals Final / BM Rank
Opposition
Score		 Opposition
Score		 Opposition
Score		 Opposition
Score		 Opposition
Score
Sharmal Dissanayake Boys' Singles  K Khachanov (RUS)
L 0 – 6, 0 – 6		 Did not advance
Doubles
Athletes Event Round of 32 Round of 16 Quarterfinals Semifinals Final / BM Rank
Opposition
Score		 Opposition
Score		 Opposition
Score		 Opposition
Score		 Opposition
Score
 Sharmal Dissanayake (SRI)
 Pavle Rogan (MNE)		 Boys' Doubles N/A  N Álvarez (PER)
  JJ Rosas (PER)
L 2 – 6, 3 – 6		 Did not advance
 Ojasvinee Singh (IND)
 Sharmal Dissanayake (SRI)		 Mixed Doubles  S Kenin (USA)
  A Rybakov (USA)
L 2 – 6, 6 – 4, [9] – [11]		 Did not advance

References

  1. ↑ Jayakody, Sajeewa (10 August 2014). "Matthew leads squad for Youth Olympic Games". Sunday Observer (Sri Lanka).
  2. ↑ "Nine athletes to Youth Olympics". The Sunday Times (Sri Lanka). 10 August 2014. Retrieved 10 August 2014.
  3. ↑ Vidusanka qualifies for Youth Olympics
  4. ↑ "BWF Junior World Rankings: Boys' Singles". BWF. 8 July 2014. Retrieved 8 July 2014.
  5. ↑ "BWF Junior World Rankings: Girls' Singles". BWF. 8 July 2014. Retrieved 8 July 2014.
  6. ↑ "Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Thailand claim two berths apiece for Nanjing Youth Olympics". FIVB. 6 April 2014. Retrieved 20 April 2014.
  7. ↑ Madushan, Sandaruwan qualify for Youth Olympics beach volleyball
  8. ↑ "2014 YOG Qualification: Rowing". FISA. 20 February 2014. Retrieved 27 February 2014.
  9. ↑ "Number of Entries by NOC: Swimming". nanjing2014.org. 6 August 2014. Retrieved 9 August 2014.
  10. ↑ Three top Lankan swimmers for Arena Grand Prix, USA
  11. ↑ "Matthew, Machiko break records at Youth Olympic Games". Daily News (Sri Lanka). 22 August 2014. Retrieved 23 August 2014.
  12. ↑ "2014 Youth Olympic Tennis Event – Boys Acceptance List by Country". ITF. 1 July 2014. Retrieved 15 July 2014.