Tuvalu at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics | |
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IOC code | TUV |
NOC | Tuvalu Association of Sports and National Olympic Committee |
in Nanjing | |
Competitors | 3 in 2 sports |
Medals |
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Summer Youth Olympics appearances | |
Tuvalu competed at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics , in Nanjing, China from 16 August to 28 August 2014.
Tuvalu, formerly known as the Ellice Islands, is a Polynesian island country located in the Pacific Ocean, situated in Oceania, about midway between Hawaii and Australia. It lies east-northeast of the Santa Cruz Islands, southeast of Nauru, south of Kiribati, west of Tokelau, northwest of Samoa and Wallis and Futuna, and north of Fiji. It comprises three reef islands and six true atolls spread out between the latitude of 5° to 10° south and longitude of 176° to 180°, west of the International Date Line. Tuvalu has a population of 10,640. The total land area of the islands of Tuvalu is 26 square kilometres (10 sq mi).
The 2014 Summer Youth Olympic Games, officially known as II Summer Youth Olympic Games, were the second Summer Youth Olympic Games, an international sports, education and cultural festival for teenagers, held from 16 to 28 August 2014 in Nanjing, China. These were the second Olympic Games held in China after the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
Nanjing, alternatively romanized as Nanking and Nankin, also in the Nanjing dialect as Lanjin, is the capital of Jiangsu province of the People's Republic of China and the second largest city in the East China region, with an administrative area of 6,600 km2 (2,500 sq mi) and a total population of 8,270,500 as of 2016. The inner area of Nanjing enclosed by the city wall is Nanjing City (南京城), with an area of 55 km2 (21 sq mi), while the Nanjing Metropolitan Region includes surrounding cities and areas, covering over 60,000 km2 (23,000 sq mi), with a population of over 30 million.
Tuvalu qualified one athlete. [1]
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)
Athlete | Event | Qualification | Final | ||
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Distance | Rank | Distance | Rank | ||
Taui Saiasi Hauma | Discus throw | NM qB | 33.45 | 16 |
Tuvalu was given a team to compete from the tripartite committee. [2]
Athletes | Event | Preliminary round | Standing | Round of 24 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final / BM | Rank |
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Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | ||||
Loluama Eti Valisi Sakalia | Girls' | L 0 – 2 | 5 | Did not advance | |||||
L 0 – 2 | |||||||||
W w/o | |||||||||
L 0 – 2 | |||||||||
L 0 – 2 |
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