Uganda at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics

Uganda at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics
IOC code	UGA
NOC	Uganda Olympic Committee
Website	www.nocuganda.com
in Nanjing
Competitors	6 in 4 sports
Medals Ranked 70th	Gold 0 Silver 1 Bronze 0 Total 1
Summer Youth Olympics appearances
2010 2014 2018

Uganda competed at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics , in Nanjing, China from 16 August to 28 August 2014.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Silver	Geofrey Balimumiti	Athletics	Boys' 800 m	25 August

Athletics

Main article: Athletics at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics

Uganda qualified three athletes. ^[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)

Boys

Track & road events

Athlete	Event	Heats		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Geofrey Balimumiti	800 m	1:50.43	3 Q	1:49.37
Steven Mande	1500 m	3:54.88 PB	14 qB	3:59.12	15

Girls

Track & road events

Athlete	Event	Heats		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Janat Chemusto	3000 m	9:10.74	7 Q	9:22.42	7

Badminton

Main article: Badminton at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics

Uganda was given a quota to compete by the tripartite committee. ^[2]

Singles

Athlete	Event	Group stage				Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM	Rank
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score
Daniel Mihigo	Boys' Singles	K Tsuneyama  (JPN) L 0 – 2	L Penalver  (ESP) L 0 – 2	K Jakowczuk  (POL) L 0 – 2	4	did not advance

Doubles

Athlete	Event	Group stage				Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM	Rank
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score
Lole Courtois (FRA)   Daniel Mihigo  (UGA)	Mixed Doubles	B He  (CHN)   S Dias  (SRI) L 0 – 2	R Shivani  (IND)   A Ayittey  (GHA) W w/o	T Hendahewa  (SRI)   B Ong  (SIN) L 0 – 2	3	did not advance

Rowing

Main article: Rowing at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics

Uganda was given a boat to compete by the tripartite committee. ^[3]

Athlete	Event	Heats		Repechage		Semifinals		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Constance Mbambu	Girls' Single Sculls	4:53.18	6 R	4:44.62	5 SC/D	4:50.42	6 FD	4:56.12	24

Qualification Legend: FA=Final A (medal); FB=Final B (non-medal); FC=Final C (non-medal); FD=Final D (non-medal); SA/B=Semifinals A/B; SC/D=Semifinals C/D; R=Repechage

Table Tennis

Main article: Table tennis at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics

Uganda was given a quota to compete by the tripartite committee. ^[4]

Singles

Athlete	Event	Group Stage	Rank	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM	Rank
		Opposition Score		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score
Florence Seera	Girls	Group A   K Stefcova  (CZE) L 0 – 3	4 qB	G Piccolin  (ITA) L w/o	did not advance			25
		G Arvelo  (VEN) L 0 – 3
		H Doo  (HKG) L 0 – 3

Team

Athletes	Event	Group Stage	Rank	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM	Rank
		Opposition Score		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score
Africa 2   Florence Seera  (UGA)   Christ Bienatiki  (CGO)	Mixed	Europe 2   N Trosman  (ISR)   E Ranefur  (SWE) L w/o	4 qB	India   S Mukherjee  (IND)   A Yadav  (IND) L w/o	did not advance			25
		United States   L Zhang  (USA)   K Avvari  (USA) L w/o
		Chinese Taipei   S Chiu  (TPE)   H Yang  (TPE) L w/o

Qualification Legend: Q=Main Bracket (medal); qB=Consolation Bracket (non-medal)

References

1. "Number of Entries by NOC: Athletics". nanjing2014.org. 6 August 2014. Archived from the original on 8 August 2014. Retrieved 8 August 2014.
2. "BWF Junior World Rankings: Boys' Singles". BWF . 8 July 2014. Retrieved 8 July 2014.
3. "2014 YOG Qualification: Rowing". FISA . 20 February 2014. Archived from the original on 27 February 2014. Retrieved 27 February 2014.
4. "Players Qualified for the 2014 Youth Olympic Games" (PDF). ITTF . 24 June 2014. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 March 2014. Retrieved 27 June 2014.