Sri Lanka at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics

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Sri Lanka at the
2018 Summer Youth Olympics
Flag of Sri Lanka.svg
IOC code SRI
NOC National Olympic Committee of Sri Lanka
Website https://www.olympic.lk/
in Buenos Aires, Argentina
6 – 18 October 2018
Competitors13 in 7 sports
Medals
Ranked 83rd
Gold
0
Silver
0
Bronze
1
Total
1
Summer Youth Olympics appearances

Sri Lanka participated at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires, Argentina from 6 to 18 October 2018.

Contents

Sri Lanka made its Youth Olympics (and Olympics) debut in three sports it qualified in: archery, basketball and gymnastics. Sri Lanka also made its Youth Olympics debut in the sport of shooting.

Parami Wasanthi Maristela won Sri Lanka's first ever Youth Olympics medal, a bronze in the girls' 2000 metre steeplechase. [1]

Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors participating at the Games per sport/discipline.

SportMenWomenTotal
Archery 101
Athletics 224
Badminton 011
Basketball 044
Gymnastics 011
Shooting 101
Swimming 101
Total5813

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.

Archery

Sri Lanka qualified one archer based on its performance at the 2017 World Archery Youth Championships. [2] [3] [4]

Individual
AthleteEventRanking roundRound of 32Round of 16QuarterfinalsSemifinalsFinal / BMRank
ScoreSeedOpposition
Score		Opposition
Score		Opposition
Score		Opposition
Score		Opposition
Score
Ravien Dalpatadu Boys' singles 66714 QFlag of Cuba.svg  Hazael Jesus Rodríguez Valero  (CUB)
W 6–5		Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  Feng Hao  (CHN)
W 6–5		Flag of Ukraine.svg  Artem Ovchynnikov  (UKR)
L 2–6		did not advance=5
Team
AthletesEventRanking roundRound of 32Round of 16QuarterfinalsSemifinalsFinal / BMRank
ScoreSeedOpposition
Score		Opposition
Score		Opposition
Score		Opposition
Score		Opposition
Score
Flag of Sri Lanka.svg  Ravien Dalpatadu  (SRI)
Flag of Chile.svg  Isabella Bassi  (CHI)		 Mixed team 129820 QFlag of Estonia.svg  Hendrik Õun  (EST)
Flag of the Philippines.svg  Nicole Marie Tagle  (PHI)
L 4–5		did not advance=17

Athletics

Sri Lanka qualified two athletes. On the first day of the Asian trials held in Bangkok, Thailand, Sri Lanka won two quotas. Dilan Bogoda took first place in the boys' 400 metres event, while Parami Wasanthi Maristela won the 2000 metres steeplechase in a world leading team to qualify. [5] [6] [7] On the second day of the trials, high jumper Seniru Amarasinghe qualified in second place with the third ranked jump in the world (in the age category), while sprinter Shelinda Jansen qualified in third position. [8] [9] [10] [11]

Track & road events
AthleteEventStage 1Stage 2Total
ResultRankResultRankTotalRank
Dilan Bogoda Boys' 400 m 48.52 PB548.8171:37.337
Shalinda Jansen Girls' 200 m 25.001124.07 PB949.079
Parami Wasanthi Maristela Girls' 2000 metre steeplechase 6:33.06 PB313:4717 (4)7Bronze medal icon.svg
Field event
AthleteEventStage 1Stage 2Total
DistancePositionDistancePositionTotalRank
Seniru Amarasinghe Boys' high jump 2.05=42.1444.194

Badminton

Sri Lanka qualified a girls' quota after it was reallocated to the country from an unused Tripartite Commission universality spot. [12]

Girl
AthleteEventGroup stageQuarterfinalSemifinalFinal / BMRank
Opposition
Score		Opposition
Score		Opposition
Score		RankOpposition
Score		Opposition
Score		Opposition
Score
Hasini Nusaka Ambalangodage Singles Flag of the Dominican Republic.svg  Jiménez  (DOM)
W 2–0 (21–14, 21–16)		Flag of Thailand.svg  Chaiwan  (THA)
L 0–2 (5–21, 12–21)		Flag of Nigeria.svg  Ilori  (NGR)
W 2–0 (21–8, 21–9)		2did not advance9
Team
AthleteEventGroup stageQuarterfinalSemifinalFinal / BMRank
Opposition
Score		Opposition
Score		Opposition
Score		RankOpposition
Score		Opposition
Score		Opposition
Score
Team Alpha
Flag of Sri Lanka.svg  Hasini Nusaka Ambalangodage  (SRI)
Flag of India.svg  Lakshya Sen  (IND)
Flag of Italy.svg  Giovanni Toti  (ITA)
Flag of Cambodia.svg  Vannthoun Vath  (CAM)
Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Brian Yang  (CAN)
Flag of Bulgaria.svg  Maria Delcheva  (BUL)
Flag of the United States.svg  Jennie Gai  (USA)
Flag of Sweden.svg  Ashwathi Pillai  (SWE)
 Mixed Teams Olympic flag.svg Epsilon (MIX)
W 110–98		Olympic flag.svg Delta (MIX)
L 99–110		Olympic flag.svg Zeta (MIX)
W 110–103		2 QOlympic flag.svg Gamma (MIX)
W 110–94		Olympic flag.svg Theta (MIX)
W 110–90		Olympic flag.svg Omega (MIX)
W 110–106		Gold medal icon.svg

Basketball

Sri Lanka qualified a girls' basketball team of four athletes. [13] This marked the country's debut in the sport at the Youth Olympics. [14]

Girls' tournament

AthletesEventGroup stageQuarterfinalSemifinalFinal / BMRank
Opposition
Score		Opposition
Score		Opposition
Score		Opposition
Score		RankOpposition
Score		Opposition
Score		Opposition
Score
Leia Hamza
Fathima Morseth
Rashmi Perera
Nihari Perera 		Girls' tournament Flag of Egypt.svg  Egypt  (EGY)
W 17–15		Flag of the United States.svg  United States  (USA)
L 8–21		Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine  (UKR)
L 6–18		Flag of Venezuela.svg  Venezuela  (VEN)
L 10–21		4did not advance
Skills Competition
AthleteEventQualificationFinal
PointsTimeRankPointsTimeRank
Leia Hamza Shoot-out Contest 328.322did not advance
Rashmi Perera 129.534did not advance

Gymnastics

Artistic

Sri Lanka qualified one gymnast based on its performance at the 2018 Asian Junior Championship. [15]

Girls
Individual Qualification
AthleteEventApparatusTotalRank
VUBBBF
Milka Gehani Individual 12.8338.96611.33311.26644.29828

Multidiscipline

TeamAthleteAcrobaticArtisticRhythmicTrampolineTotal
points		Rank
Team Nadia Comăneci
(Yellow)		Flag of Kazakhstan.svg  Anastassiya Arkhipova  (KAZ)
Flag of Kazakhstan.svg  Dmitriy Nemerenko  (KAZ)		15—4109
Flag of Israel.svg  Uri Zeidel  (ISR)—105—
Sergey Naidin 31
Flag of France.svg  Mathys Cordule  (FRA)21
Flag of Malaysia.svg  Zarith Imaan Khalid  (MAS)41
Flag of Germany.svg  Lisa Zimmermann  (GER)36
Flag of Sri Lanka.svg  Milka Dona  (SRI)33
Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Natalie Garcia  (CAN)—19—
Flag of Greece.svg  Ioanna Magopoulou  (GRE)28
Flag of Georgia.svg  Ketevan Arbolishvili  (GEO)42
Flag of Japan.svg  Takumi Fujimoto  (JPN)—20
Flag of Mexico.svg  Michelle Mares  (MEX)19

Shooting

Sri Lanka received a reallocated spot in the boys' 10 m air rifle event.

Boys
Individual
AthleteEventQualificationFinal
PointsRankPointsRank
Chanidu Seanayake Mudiyanselage 10m air rifle 610.617did not advance
Team
AthletesEventQualificationRound of 16QuarterfinalsSemifinalsFinal / BMRank
PointsRankOpposition
Result		Opposition
Result		Opposition
Result		Opposition
Result
Flag of Sri Lanka.svg  Chanidu Seanayake Mudiyanselage  (SRI)
Flag of Germany.svg  Anna Janssen  (GER)		 Mixed 10 m air rifle 819.014 QFlag of Armenia.svg  Hayk Babayan  (ARM)
Flag of Australia.svg  Victoria Rossiter  (AUS)
L 9–10		did not advance

Swimming

Sri Lanka qualified one male swimmer. Akalanka Peiris met the A or B standard times for all of his events. [16]

Boy
AthleteEventHeatSemifinalFinal
TimeRankTimeRankTimeRank
Akalanka Peiris 50 m backstroke 26.33 NR 9 Q26.3610did not advance
100 m backstroke 57.3416 Q57.3516did not advance
50 m butterfly 25.1825did not advance

See also

References

  1. ↑ Peiris, Sudarshana (15 October 2018). "Parami wins Sri Lanka's maiden YOG medal". www.thepapare.com. Dialog Axiata . Retrieved 15 October 2018.
  2. ↑ "YOG 2018 Qualification Places - Boys" (PDF). World Archery Federation . Retrieved 15 December 2017.
  3. ↑ "Kavisha to represent Sri Lanka at Youth Olympics". www.srilankasports.com/. Go Strategic Communications (Pvt) Ltd. 21 August 2018. Retrieved 27 August 2018.
  4. ↑ "Dalpatadu to Represent SL at YOG". The Daily Mirror . Colombo, Sri Lanka. 2 October 2018. Retrieved 2 October 2018.
  5. ↑ "Dilan Qualifies to Youth Olympic Games". www.ceylonathletics.com/. Ceylon Athletics. 4 July 2018. Retrieved 4 July 2018.
  6. ↑ "Wasanthi Won Gold at Youth Olympics Trials , Now Ranked Number 01 In The World". www.ceylonathletics.com/. Ceylon Athletics. 4 July 2018. Retrieved 4 July 2018.
  7. ↑ Fernando, Reemus (4 July 2018). "Maristella clocks historic world leading time". The Island . Colombo, Sri Lanka. Retrieved 5 July 2018.
  8. ↑ "Shelinda, Seniru Qualify for Youth Olympics". www.ceylonathletics.com/. Ceylon Athletics. 5 July 2018. Retrieved 5 July 2018.
  9. ↑ Ramakrishnan, Karuppiah (6 July 2018). "Four Lankan athletes qualify for Youth Olympics". Daily News . Colombo, Sri Lanka. Retrieved 6 July 2018.
  10. ↑ Peiris, Sudarshana (6 July 2018). "Parami best in the world, 4 Juniors make the cut". www.thepapare.com. Dialog Axiata . Retrieved 6 July 2018.
  11. ↑ Peiris, Sudarshana (3 October 2018). "Carrying Sri Lanka's medal hopes at the YOG". www.thepapare.com. Dialog Axiata . Retrieved 3 October 2018.
  12. ↑ "Youth Olympic Qualifiers updated 8 June WS" (PDF). Badminton World Federation. Retrieved 24 June 2018.
  13. ↑ "33 countries to compete at 2018 Youth Olympic Games". www.fiba.basketball/. International Basketball Federation (FIBA). 5 April 2018. Retrieved 6 April 2018.
  14. ↑ "Congratulations U18 3x3 Women's Youth Team!!". www.slbasketball.com/. Sri Lanka Basketball Federation. 27 September 2018. Retrieved 1 October 2018.
  15. ↑ "2018 Youth Olympic Games Gymnastics Qualifiers". FIG . 25 June 2018. Retrieved 26 June 2018.
  16. ↑ Ranasinghe, Dinushki (2 October 2018). "Akalanka eyes Youth Olympic Gold". www.thepapare.com. Dialog Axiata . Retrieved 2 October 2018.
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