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

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 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[edit]

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]

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]

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]

Track and Road events[edit]

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]

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 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Kunwer Ajai Raj Boy's javelin throw 71.45 9 75.06 3 146.51 6

Badminton[edit]

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]

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]

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]

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

Preliminary round[edit]

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 field hockey ball 4'
Rajbhar field hockey ball 4'9'
Sanjay field hockey ball 6'
Prasad field hockey ball 9'18'
Chirmako field hockey ball 11'17'
Singh field hockey ball 12'
Moirangthem field hockey ball 20'
Report
Umpires:
Hideki Kinoshita (JPN)
Hristiyan Vasilev (BUL)
8 October 2018
14:45
India  9–1  Austria
Sanjay (field hockey) field hockey ball 2'
Anand field hockey ball 4'10'17'
Chirmako field hockey ball 6'11'14'18'
Prasad field hockey ball 13'
Report Drusany field hockey ball 8'
Umpires:
Hristiyan Vasilev (BUL)
Nick Saunders (NZL)
9 October 2018
09:30
Kenya  1–7  India
Ouma field hockey ball 7' Report Chirmako field hockey ball 5'10'
Moirangthem field hockey ball 5'11'
Prasad field hockey ball 8'
Sanjay (field hockey) field hockey ball 14'
Rajbhar field hockey ball 17'
Umpires:
Hideki Kinoshita (JPN)
Jonathan Altamirano (MEX)
10 October 2018
17:45
India  3–4  Australia
Prasad field hockey ball 6'18'
Anand field hockey ball 20'
Report Davis field hockey ball 2'
Collins field hockey ball 3'
Murray field hockey ball 18'
B. Marais field hockey ball 19'
Umpires:
Nick Saunders (NZL)
Jonathan Altamirano (MEX)
11 October 2018
13:15
Canada  2–5  India
Childs field hockey ball 15'16' Report Sanjay field hockey ball 4'17'
Anand field hockey ball 7'
Chirmako field hockey ball 10'
Rajbhar field hockey ball 17'
Umpires:
Jonathan Altamirano (MEX)
Hristiyan Vasilev (BUL)

Final round[edit]

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

Girl's 5s[edit]

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

Preliminary round[edit]

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 field hockey ball 4'17'
Tete field hockey ball 5'
Khan field hockey ball 16'
Report Hruby field hockey ball 13'
Kern field hockey ball 20'
Umpires:
Sophie Bockelmann (GER)
Margaux Brand (CAN)
8 October 2018
09:30
India  2–1  Uruguay
Lalremsiami field hockey ball 1'19' Report Verga field hockey ball 10'
Umpires:
Sophie Bockelmann (GER)
Rhiannon Murrie (AUS)
9 October 2018
16:15
Vanuatu  0–16  India
Report Lalremsiami field hockey ball 2'10'
Reet field hockey ball 3'6'
Tete field hockey ball 4'13'
Kaur field hockey ball 5'5'
Chetna field hockey ball 6'14'17'
Khan field hockey ball 8'11'12'15'
Chaudhary field hockey ball 20'
Umpires:
Cynthia Clement (GHA)
Jianjun Chen (CHN)
10 October 2018
12:30
India  2–5  Argentina
Khan field hockey ball 8'
Reet field hockey ball 10'
Report di Santo field hockey ball 7'
Ramallo field hockey ball 10'12'
Bruggesser field hockey ball 17'
Palet field hockey ball 19'
Umpires:
Rhiannon Murrie (AUS)
Fatma Mahmoud (EGY)
11 October 2018
14:00
South Africa  2–5  India
de Waal field hockey ball 10'
Welham field hockey ball 19'
Report Khan field hockey ball 2'17'
Reet field hockey ball 10'
Lalremsiami field hockey ball 12'
Chaudhary field hockey ball 13'
Umpires:
Rhiannon Murrie (AUS)
Fatma Mahmoud (EGY)

Final round[edit]

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

Judo[edit]

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
2nd place, silver medalist(s)
Tababi Devi (Team Athens) Mixed team Bye Los Angeles
W 5–3
Rio de Janeiro
W 5–3
Beijing
L 3–4
2nd place, silver medalist(s)

Rowing[edit]

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]

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]

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]

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[edit]

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]

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]

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]

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  5. ^ "BWF Junior World Ranking – Girls Invited to 2018 Youth Olympics" (PDF). BWF Corporate. Retrieved 19 May 2018.
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