Triathlon at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics

Triathlon at the Games of the Olympiad
Venue	Xuanwu Lake
Dates	August 17–21

Triathlon at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics
Events
Individual	Boys	Girls
Relay			Mixed

Triathlon at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics was held from August 17 to August 21. The events took place at Xuanwu Lake in Nanjing, China.

Qualification

Each National Olympic Committee (NOC) can enter a maximum of 2 competitors, 1 per each gender. As hosts, China was given the maximum quota, but only selected a female athlete thus the other quota was reallocated to the next best Asian performer. A further 4, 2 in each gender was decided by the Tripartite Commission. The remaining 58 places shall be decided by qualification events, namely five continental qualification tournaments.^[1]

To be eligible to participate at the Youth Olympics athletes must have been born between 1 January 1997 and 31 December 1998.^[1]

Boys

Event	Location	Date	Total Places	Qualified
Host Nation	-	-	0	China
2014 Oceania YOG Qualifier[2]	Penrith	11–12 January 2014	2	Australia New Zealand
2014 African YOG Qualifier[3]	East London	23 March 2014	3	Egypt South Africa Zimbabwe
2014 American YOG Qualifier[4]	Monterrey	2–4 May 2014	8	United States Canada Venezuela Chile Mexico Colombia Cuba El Salvador
2014 European YOG Qualifier[5]	Weert	17-18 May 2014	11	Austria Belgium Denmark Germany Great Britain Hungary Israel Italy Portugal Russia Spain
2014 Asian YOG Qualifier[6]	Burabay	1–2 June 2014	6	Hong Kong Japan Kazakhstan South Korea Singapore Chinese Taipei
Tripartite Invitation[7]	-	-	2	Bermuda Solomon Islands
TOTAL			32

Girls

Event	Location	Date	Total Places	Qualified
Host Nation	-	-	1	China
2014 Oceania YOG Qualifier[8]	Penrith	11–12 January 2014	2	Australia New Zealand
2014 African YOG Qualifier[3]	East London	23 March 2014	3	Egypt South Africa Zimbabwe
2014 American YOG Qualifier[4]	Monterrey	2–4 May 2014	8	United States Canada Mexico Chile Brazil Colombia Venezuela El Salvador
2014 European YOG Qualifier[5]	Weert	17-18 May 2014	11	Austria Belgium Denmark France Germany Great Britain Hungary Netherlands Russia Spain Ukraine
2014 Asian YOG Qualifier[6]	Burabay	1–2 June 2014	5	Hong Kong Japan South Korea Philippines Singapore
Tripartite Invitation[9]	-	-	2	Bermuda Costa Rica
TOTAL			32

Schedule

The schedule was released by the ITU. ^[10]

All times are CST (UTC+8)

Medal Summary

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Australia	1	0	0	1
1	Great Britain	1	0	0	1
1	Europe 1	1	0	0	1
2	Europe 3	0	1	0	1
2	New Zealand	0	1	0	1
2	United States	0	1	0	1
3	Denmark	0	0	1	1
3	France	0	0	1	1
3	Oceania 1	0	0	1	1
Total		3	3	3	9

Events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Boys'	Ben Dijkstra Great Britain (GBR)	Daniel Hoy New Zealand (NZL)	Emil Deleuran Hansen Denmark (DEN)
Girls'	Brittany Dutton Australia (AUS)	Stephanie Jenks United States (USA)	Émilie Morier France (FRA)
Mixed Relay	Europe 1  Ben Dijkstra Great Britain (GBR)  Emil Deleuran Hansen Denmark (DEN)  Émilie Morier France (FRA)  Kristin Ranwig Germany (GER)	Europe 3  Carmen Gomez Cortes Spain (ESP)  Bence Lehmann Hungary (HUN)  Sian Rainsley Great Britain (GBR)  Giulio Soldati Italy (ITA)	Oceania 1  Brittany Dutton Australia (AUS)  Daniel Hoy New Zealand (NZL)  Elizabeth Stannard New Zealand (NZL)  Jack van Stekelenburg Australia (AUS)

References