South Korea at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics

South Korea at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics
IOC code	KOR
NOC	Korean Sport & Olympic Committee
Website	http://www.sports.or.kr/
in Buenos Aires, Argentina 6 – 18 October 2018
Competitors	28 in 14 sports
Flag bearer	Song Gun Kim (opening)
Medals Ranked 44th	Gold 1 Silver 4 Bronze 7 Total 12
Summer Youth Olympics appearances (overview)
2010 2014 2018

South Korea participated at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires, Argentina from 6 October to 18 October 2018. ^[1]

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Gold	Cho Won-hee	Taekwondo	Boys' 63 kg	9 Oct
Silver	Hyun Jun	Fencing	Boys' sabre	7 Oct
Silver	Kang Mi-reu	Taekwondo	Girls' 44 kg	7 Oct
Silver	Kim Kang-min	Taekwondo	Boys' 55 kg	8 Oct
Silver	Sung Yun-ho	Shooting	Boys' 10 meter air pistol	10 Oct
Bronze	Im Seong-bin	Taekwondo	Boys' 48 kg	7 Oct
Bronze	Kim Ju-hee	Judo	Girls' 63 kg	8 Oct
Bronze	Lee Ye-ji	Taekwondo	Girls' 49 kg	8 Oct
Bronze	Lee Ju-eun	Fencing	Girls' sabre	9 Oct
Bronze	Kim Ye-ri	Dancesport	B-Girls	11 Oct
Bronze	Wang Hee-song	Swimming	Girls' 200 m breaststroke	12 Oct
Bronze	Son Ye-ryeong	Archery	Girls' individual	16 Oct

Competitors

Sport	Boys	Girls	Total
Archery	1	1	2
Athletics	1	0	1
Dancesport	0	1	1
Fencing	1	2	3
Golf	1	0	1
Gymnastics	1	2	3
Judo	0	1	1
Roller speed skating	1	0	1
Shooting	1	0	1
Sport climbing	2	0	2
Swimming	2	2	4
Table tennis	1	1	2
Taekwondo	3	2	5
Triathlon	0	1	1
Total	15	13	28

Archery

Main article: Archery at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics

South Korea qualified two archers based on its performance at the 2017 World Archery Youth Championships. ^{[2] [3]}

Individual

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
Song In-jun	Boys' Individual	691	1	Tura  (SMR) W6–2	Benítez  (PAR) W7–1	Roos  (BEL) L1–7	did not advance		7
Son Ye-ryeong	Girls' Individual	663	4	Kang  (PRK) W6–0	Naumova  (UKR) W6–0	Chang  (TPE) W6–0	Zhang  (CHN) L4–6	Vázquez Cadena  (MEX) W7–3

Team

Athletes	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
Song In-jun  (KOR)   Mst Radia Akther Shapla  (BAN)	Mixed Team	1271	31	Vázquez Cadena  (MEX)   Mustafin  (KAZ) L2–6	did not advance				17
Son Ye-ryeong  (KOR)   Dan Thompson  (GBR)		1293	25	van der Winkel  (NED)   Cheremiskin  (RUS) L2–6	did not advance				17

Athletics

Main article: Athletics at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics

Dancesport

Main article: Dancesport at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics

South Korea qualified one dancer based on its performance at the 2018 World Youth Breaking Championship. ^[4]

• B-Girls - Yell

Fencing

Main article: Fencing at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics

South Korea qualified four athletes based on its performance at the 2018 Cadet World Championship, ^[5] but only 3 participated. ^[1]

Athlete	Event	Pool Round	Seed	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM	Rank
		Opposition Score		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score
Hyun Jun	Boys' Sabre	Pool 2   Vidovszky  (USA) W 5-4   El Araby  (EGY) W 5-1   Coly  (SEN) W 5-0   Mahbas  (IRQ) W 5-0   Rabb  (HUN) L 2-5   Shaker  (IRI) W 5-2   Heathcock  (GER) W 5-4	2	Coly  (SEN) W DNF	Kato  (JPN) W 15-12	Vidovszky  (USA) W 15-14	Rabb  (HUN) L 13-15

• Boys' Foil - Kwon Jungsung
• Girls' Épée - Lim Taehee
• Girls' Sabre - Lee Jueun

Gymnastics

Main article: Gymnastics at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics

Artistic

South Korea qualified two gymnasts based on its performance at the 2018 Asian Junior Championship. ^[6]

• Boys' artistic individual all-around - 1 quota
• Girls' artistic individual all-around - 1 quota

Rhythmic

South Korea qualified one gymnast based on its performance at the 2018 Asian Junior Championship. ^[6]

• Girls' rhythmic individual all-around - 1 quota

Golf

Main article: Golf at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics

Individual

Athlete	Event	Round 1		Round 2			Round 3			Total
		Score	Rank	Score	Total	Rank	Score	Total	Rank	Score	Par	Rank
Park Sangha	Boys' Individual	73 (+3)	12	77 (+7)	140	23	73 (+3)	223	12	223	+13	16

Team

Athletes	Event	Round 1 (Fourball)		Round 2 (Foursome)		Round 3 (Individual Stroke)				Total
		Score	Rank	Score	Rank	Girl	Boy	Total	Rank	Score	Par	Rank
Ribka Vania  (INA)   Park Sangha  (KOR)	Mixed team	66 (-4)	16	69 (-1)	2	75	73	148 (+8)	16	283	+3	8

Judo

Main article: Judo at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics

Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage1	Repechage2	Repechage3	Final/BM match
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Kim Ju-hee	Girls' −63 kg	Alessia Corrao  (BEL) L 01-11	did not advance		Bye	Marin Visser  (NED) W 01–00s2	Itzel Pecha  (MEX) W 10–00	Nikol Pencue  (COL) W 01–00s1

Team

Team	Event	Round 1	Round 2	Semifinals	Final	Rank
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Seoul   Mohammed Al-Mishri  (LBA)   Alex Barto  (SVK)   Sairy Colón  (PUR)   María Giménez  (VEN)   Yuri Israelyan  (ARM)   Kim Ju-hee  (KOR)   Omaria Ramírez  (DOM)   Wu Xiao-zhang  (TPE)	Mixed Team	Los Angeles L 3–5	did not advance			9

Modern pentathlon

Main article: Modern pentathlon at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics

South Korea qualified two pentathletes based on its performance at the Asian/Oceanian Youth Olympic Games Qualifier. ^[7] South Korea qualified a second male based on its performance at the 2018 Youth A World Championship. ^[8] The nation must choose between the two boys.

• Boys' Individual - Shin Hyoseop or Moon Juseong
• Girls' Individual - Yoon Yangji

Eventually no South Korean modern pentathletes competed. ^[1]

Roller speed skating

Main article: Roller speed skating at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics

South Korea qualified two roller skaters based on its performance at the 2018 Roller Speed Skating World Championship. ^[9]

• Boys' combined speed event - Cheon Jongji
• Girls' combined speed event - Lee Yerim

Shooting

Main article: Shooting at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics

South Korea qualified one sport shooter based on its performance at the 2017 Asian Championships. ^[10]

• Boys' 10m Air Pistol - 1 quota

Individual

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Sung Yun-ho	Boys' 10 m air pistol	569-15	6	236.7

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final
		Points	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Doua Chalghoum  (TUN)   Sung Yun-ho  (KOR)	Mixed 10 metre air pistol	720-7	20	did not advance

Sport climbing

Main article: Sport climbing at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics

South Korea qualified one sport climber based on its performance at the 2017 World Youth Sport Climbing Championships. ^[11]

• Boys' combined - 1 quota (Seongmin Eog)

Swimming

Main article: Swimming at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics

Table tennis

Main article: Table tennis at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics

South Korea qualified one table tennis player based on its performance at the Asian Continental Qualifier. ^[12] South Korea also qualified a female table tennis player based on its performance at the Road to Buenos Aires (Asia) series. ^[13]

• Boys' singles - Cho Daeseong
• Girls' singles - Choi Haeeun

Taekwondo

Main article: Taekwondo at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics

Boys

Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Im Seong-bin	48 kg	Bye	Zurab Kintsurashvili  (GEO) W 30-11	Ulugbek Rashitov  (UZB) L 10-21	did not advance
Kim Kang-min	55 kg	Daniel Goichman  (ISR) W 33-11	Georgios Ioannou  (GRE) W 23-15	Zaid Abdul Kareem  (JOR) W 31-16	Georgii Popov  (RUS) L 26-33
Cho Won-hee	63 kg	Bye	Ramiro Ravachino  (ARG) W 41-21	Javad Aghayev  (AZE) W 15-13	Nareupong Thepsen  (THA) W 21-16

Girls

Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Kang Mi-reu	44 kg	Bye	Mahla Momenzadeh  (IRI) W 15-14	Lena Stojković  (CRO) W 16-13	Polina Shcherbakova  (RUS) L 6-12
Lee Ye-ji	49 kg		Aaliyah Powell  (GBR) W 21-14	Anastasija Zolotic  (USA) L 11-21	did not advance

Triathlon

Main article: Triathlon at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics

South Korea qualified one athlete based on its performance at the 2018 Asian Youth Olympic Games Qualifier. ^[14]

Individual

Athlete	Event	Swim (750m)	Trans 1	Bike (20 km)	Trans 2	Run (5 km)	Total Time	Rank
Lee Jung-won	Girls	10:06	0:40	30:15	0:38	21:06	1:02:45	19

Relay

Athlete	Event	Total Times per Athlete (Swim 250m, Bike 6.6 km, Run 1.8 km)	Total Group Time	Rank
Asia 1   Lee Jung-won  (KOR)   Teppei Tokuyama  (JPN)   Emma Ada Middleditch  (SGP)   Daniil Zubtsov  (KAZ)	Mixed Relay	22:57 (8) 21:44 (9) 24:01 (7) 23:15 (10)	1:31:57	10

References

1. NOC Entries
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11. "World Youth Championship". IFSC . 10 September 2017. Retrieved 13 October 2017.
12. "Favourites prevail in Greater Noida, Buenos Aires invitations reserved in style". ITTF . 5 November 2017. Retrieved 10 November 2017.
13. "Manav Vikash Thakkar and Andrea Pavlovic add names to list". ITTF . 9 May 2018. Retrieved 10 May 2018.
14. "2018 Subic Bay ASTC Triathlon Asian YOG Qualifier". ITU . 17 June 2018. Retrieved 25 June 2018.