Venezuela at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics

Venezuela at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics
IOC code	VEN
NOC	Venezuelan Olympic Committee
Website	www.covoficial.com.ve
in Nanjing
Competitors	59 in 15 sports
Medals Ranked 53rd	Gold 0 Silver 6 Bronze 2 Total 8
Summer Youth Olympics appearances (overview)
2010 2014 2018

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

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Silver	Carlos Claverie	Swimming	Boys' 200m breaststroke	20 Aug
Silver	Carlos Claverie	Swimming	Boys' 50m breaststroke	22 Aug
Silver	Robeilys Peinado	Athletics	Girls' pole vault	23 Aug
Silver		Football	Girls	26 Aug
Silver	Anthony Montero Chirinos	Wrestling	Boys' freestyle −63 kg	27 Aug
Silver	Jose Gomez Rolando Hernandez	Beach Volleyball	Boys	27 Aug
Bronze	Carlos Claverie	Swimming	Boys' 100m breaststroke	18 Aug
Bronze	Elvismar Rodriguez	Judo	Girls' −78 kg	19 Aug

Archery

Main article: Archery at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics

Venezuela qualified two archers from its performance at the American Continental Qualification Tournament. ^{[1] [2]}

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
Jose Capote	Boys' Individual	620	25	Han  (TPE) L 2–6	Did not advance				17
Verona Villegas	Girls' Individual	628	17	Freywald  (GER) W 6–2	Lee  (KOR) L 2–6	Did not advance			9

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
Jose Capote  (VEN)   Tanya Giaccheri  (ITA)	Mixed Team	1270	26	Machado  (BRA)   Szafran  (POL) L 3–5	Did not advance				17
Verona Villegas  (VEN)   Boris Balaz  (SVK)	Mixed Team	1289	8	Oleksiuk  (UKR)   Reddig  (NAM) W6–0	Li  (CHN)   Moreno  (PHI) L 3–5	Did not advance			9

Athletics

Main article: Athletics at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics

Venezuela qualified eight athletes. ^[3]

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
Josneyber Ramirez	100 m	10.82	=7 Q	10.82	7
Samuel Cedeno	110 m hurdles	14.13	18 qC	14.19	14
Cumache Yolver	400 m hurdles	55.34	14 qB	54.15 PB	14
Jeferson Chacon	10 km walk	—		DNF

Field Events

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Distance	Rank	Distance	Rank
Edison Luna	Triple jump	13.97	15 qB	DNS

Girls

Track & road events

Athlete	Event	Heats		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
María Simancas	400 m	56.63	14 qB	54.92	11

Field events

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Distance	Rank	Distance	Rank
Robeilys Peinado	Pole vault	3.70	2 Q	4.10
Yerilda Zapata	Discus throw	36.90	15 qB	41.86	11

Basketball

Main article: Basketball at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics

Venezuela qualified a boys' and girls' team from their performance at the 2013 3x3 World Tour Final. ^{[4] [5]}

Skills Competition

Athlete	Event	Qualification				Final
		Round 1	Round 2	Total	Rank	Round 1	Round 2	Total	Rank
Adrian Espinoza	Boys' Dunk Contest	18	16	34	11	Did not advance
Jose Materan	Boys' Dunk Contest	DNS				Did not advance

Athlete	Event	Qualification			Final
		Points	Time	Rank	Points	Time	Rank
Laury Garcia	Girls' Shoot-out Contest	4	24.5	23	Did not advance
Givanna Padilla	Girls' Shoot-out Contest	2	27.3	54	Did not advance

Boys' tournament

Main article: Basketball at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics – Boys' tournament

Roster

• Cristhian Centeno
• Garmendia Daniel
• Adrian Espinoza
• Jose Materan

Group Stage

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	Argentina	9	7	2	156	101	+55	16	Round of 16
2	Russia	9	7	2	153	117	+36	16
3	Spain	9	7	2	145	135	+10	16
4	New Zealand	9	6	3	145	129	+16	15
5	Venezuela	9	5	4	136	128	+8	14
6	Brazil	9	4	5	116	92	+24	13 [a]
7	Romania	9	4	5	130	122	+8	13 [a]
8	Tunisia	9	3	6	115	130	−15	12
9	Andorra	9	2	7	129	168	−39	11	Eliminated
10	Guatemala	9	0	9	74	177	−103	9

Source: ^{[ citation needed ]}
Notes:

1. BRA +5, ROU −5

18 August 2014 18:00

Romania

15–13

Venezuela

Wutaishan Sports Center, Nanjing

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18 August 2014 20:00

Venezuela

15–16

New Zealand

Wutaishan Sports Center, Nanjing

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19 August 2014 20:00

Guatemala

12–17

Venezuela

Wutaishan Sports Center, Nanjing

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20 August 2014 17:40

Russia

14–15

Venezuela

Wutaishan Sports Center, Nanjing

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20 August 2014 21:40

Venezuela

15–21

Argentina

Wutaishan Sports Center, Nanjing

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22 August 2014 19:00

Tunisia

5–13

Venezuela

Wutaishan Sports Center, Nanjing

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23 August 2014 18:00

Venezuela

19–17

Andorra

Wutaishan Sports Center, Nanjing

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23 August 2014 21:00

Spain

15–14

Venezuela

Wutaishan Sports Center, Nanjing

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24 August 2014 18:40

Venezuela

15–13

Brazil

Wutaishan Sports Center, Nanjing

Knockout Stage

Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final	Rank
Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score
Puerto Rico W20–18	Argentina L13–21	Did not advance		6

Girls' tournament

Roster

• Laury Garcia
• Montilla Maria
• Givanna Padilla
• Genesis Rivera

Group Stage

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	Netherlands	9	8	0	1	164	87	+77	24	Round of 16
2	Hungary	9	8	0	1	146	91	+55	24
3	Spain	9	7	0	2	151	95	+56	21
4	Estonia	9	5	0	4	130	109	+21	15
5	China	9	5	0	4	128	103	+25	15
6	Germany	9	4	0	5	111	133	−22	12
7	Brazil	9	3	0	6	101	123	−22	9
8	Venezuela	9	2	0	7	101	153	−52	6
9	Slovenia	9	2	0	7	120	156	−36	6	Eliminated
10	Syria	9	1	0	8	68	170	−102	3

Source: ^{[ citation needed ]}

18 August 2014 19:20

Germany

12–10

Venezuela

Wutaishan Sports Center, Nanjing

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19 August 2014 17:40

Venezuela

12–10

Brazil

Wutaishan Sports Center, Nanjing

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19 August 2014 20:20

Netherlands

22–9

Venezuela

Wutaishan Sports Center, Nanjing

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20 August 2014 19:00

Venezuela

vs.

China

Wutaishan Sports Center, Nanjing

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22 August 2014 18:20

Estonia

16–7

Venezuela

Wutaishan Sports Center, Nanjing

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22 August 2014 21:00

Slovenia

vs.

Venezuela

Wutaishan Sports Center, Nanjing

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23 August 2014 18:40

Venezuela

16–17

Syria

Wutaishan Sports Center, Nanjing

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24 August 2014 17:20

Hungary

vs.

Venezuela

Wutaishan Sports Center, Nanjing

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24 August 2014 21:20

Venezuela

vs.

Spain

Wutaishan Sports Center, Nanjing

Knockout Stage

Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final	Rank
Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score
United States L7–21	Did not advance

Beach Volleyball

Main article: Beach volleyball at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics

Venezuela qualified a boys' team from their performance at the 2014 CSV Youth Beach Volleyball Tour. ^[6]

Athletes	Event	Preliminary round	Standing	Round of 24	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM	Rank
		Opposition Score		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score
Jose Gomez Rolando Hernandez	Boys'	DeFalco – Richard  (USA) W 2–0	1 Q	Bye	Bogarin – Frutos  (PAR) W 2–0	Figueroa – Rivera  (PUR) W 2–1	Aulisi – Aveiro  (ARG) W 2–0	Iarzutkin – Stoyanovskiy  (RUS) L 0–2
		Ndagano – Ndayisabye  (RWA) W
		Kmiecik – Macura  (POL) W
		Kratz – Pristauz  (AUT) W
		Ashfiya – Licardo  (INA) W 2–0

Cycling

Main article: Cycling at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics

Venezuela qualified a girls' team based on its ranking issued by the UCI. ^[7]

Team

Athletes	Event	Cross-Country Eliminator		Time Trial			BMX		Cross-Country Race			Road Race			Total Pts	Rank
		Rank	Points	Time	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Time	Rank	Points	Time	Rank	Points
Daryorie Arrieche Andrea Contreras	Girls' Team

Mixed Relay

Athletes	Event	Cross-Country Girls' Race	Cross-Country Boys' Race	Boys' Road Race	Girls' Road Race	Total Time	Rank
Andrea Contreras  (VEN)   Mohamed Imam  (EGY)   Nikolaos Zegklis  (GRE)   Daryorie Arrieche  (VEN)	Mixed Team Relay

Football

Main article: Football at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics

Venezuela qualified 1 girls' team by virtue of winning the 2013 South American Under-17 Women's Championship ^[8]

Girls' Tournament

Main article: Football at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics – Girls' tournament

Roster

• Valentina Bonaiuto
• Iceis Briceno
• Nayluisa Caceres
• Yenleidys Caldoza
• Argelis Campos
• Deyna Castellanos
• Olimar Castillo
• Leidy Delpino
• Nikol Gonza
• Fatima Lobo
• Sandra Luzardo
• Greisbell Marquez
• Maria Ortegano
• Nathalie Pasquel
• Katherine Portillo
• Yuleisi Rivero
• Estefania Sequera
• Hilary Vergara

Group stage

Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Venezuela	2	2	0	0	13	2	+11	6
Slovakia	2	1	0	1	6	6	0	3
Papua New Guinea	2	0	0	2	0	11	−11	0

Source: ^{[ citation needed ]}

14 August 2014

18:00 CST

Papua New Guinea	0–7	Venezuela
	Report	Deyna Castellanos 19', 40', 49', 69' Hilary Vergara 47' Nathalie Pasquel 61' Greisbell Marquez 82'

Wutaishan Stadium, Nanjing

Referee: He Jin (China)

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17 August 2014

18:00

Venezuela	6–2	Slovakia
Deyna Castellanos 10', 13', 33' Nathalie Pasquel 45', 72' Yuleisi Rivero 61'	Report	Martina Surnovska 40', 58'

Wutaishan Stadium, Nanjing

Attendance: 4,503

Referee: Christina Unkel (United States)

Semi-final

23 August 2014

18:00

Venezuela	1–1	Mexico
Argelis Campos 2'	Report	Dayana Cazares 8'
Penalties
Olimar Castillo Nathalie Pasquel Sandra Luzardo Deyna Castellanos Nayluisa Caceres	4–3	Kimberly Rodriguez Vanessa Gonzalez Marianna Maldonado Daniela Garcia Montserrat Hernandez

Wutaishan Stadium, Nanjing

Attendance: 4,690

Referee: Morag Pirie (Great Britain)

Gold medal match

26 August 2014

20:45

Venezuela	0–5	China
	Report	Wan Wenting 10' Xie Qiwen 19' Ma Xiaolan 34' Zhang Jiayun 45' Wu Xi 80+1'

Wutaishan Stadium, Nanjing

Attendance: 11,678

Referee: Gladys Lengwe (Zambia)

Golf

Main article: Golf at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics

Venezuela qualified one team of two athletes based on the 8 June 2014 IGF Combined World Amateur Golf Rankings. ^[9]

Individual

Athlete	Event	Round 1		Round 2			Round 3			Total
		Score	Rank	Score	Total	Rank	Score	Total	Rank	Score	Rank
Jorge García	Boys
Maria Merchan	Girls	71	7	73	144	6

Team

Athletes	Event	Round 1 (Foursome)		Round 2 (Fourball)			Round 3 (Individual Stroke)				Total
		Score	Rank	Score	Total	Rank	Boy	Girl	Total	Rank	Score	Rank
Jorge García Maria Merchan	Mixed										278 (−10)	8

Judo

Main article: Judo at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics

Venezuela qualified two athletes based on its performance at the 2013 Cadet World Judo Championships. ^[10]

Individual

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Rep 1	Rep 2	Rep 3	Rep 4	Final / BM	Rank
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Luis Gonzalez	Boys' −66 kg	—	Manzi  (ITA) W010–000	Abe  (JPN) L000–100	Did not advance	—		Wawrzyczek  (POL) L 000–000	Did not advance		11
Elvismar Rodriguez	Girls' −78 kg	—	Pasternak  (POL) W110–000	Matic  (CRO) L000–001	Did not advance	—		Bye	Pasternak  (POL) W100–000	Duchene  (FRA) W100–001

Team

Athletes	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final	Rank
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Team Tani   Francesco Aufieri  (MLT)   Rostislav Dashkov  (KGZ)   Luis Gonzalez  (VEN)   Natig Gurbanli  (AZE)   Ulyana Minenkova  (BLR)   Khulan Tseregbaatar  (MGL)   Hassiatou Yahaya Aboubacar  (NIG)	Mixed Team	Team Xian (MIX) L 0 – 7	Did not advance			9
Team Kano   Melisa Çakmaklı  (TUR)   Salim Darukhi  (TJK)   Mariam Janashvili  (GEO)   Arso Milic  (MNE)   Gavin Mogopa  (BOT)   Elvismar Rodriguez  (VEN)   Stoyan Tarapanov  (BUL)   Tea Tintor  (SRB)	Mixed Team	Team Rouge (MIX) L 2 – 5	Did not advance			9

Modern Pentathlon

Main article: Modern pentathlon at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics

Venezuela qualified one athlete based on its performance at the PANAM YOG Qualifiers. ^[11]

Athlete	Event	Fencing Ranking Round (épée one touch)		Swimming (200 m freestyle)			Fencing Final Round (épée one touch)			Combined: Shooting/Running (10 m air pistol)/(3000 m)			Total Points	Final Rank
		Results	Rank	Time	Rank	Points	Results	Rank	Points	Time	Rank	Points
Berengerth Seguera	Boys' Individual
Unknown   Berengerth Seguera  (VEN)	Mixed Relay

Sailing

Main article: Sailing at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics

Venezuela was given a reallocation boat based on being a top ranked nation not yet qualified. Later they were given a reallocation spot based on being a top ranked nation not yet qualified. ^[12]

Athlete	Event	Race											Net Points	Final Rank
		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	M*
Manuel de la Rosa	Boys' Techno 293	13	(21) OCS	14	17	12	18	21 OCS	Cancelled			116.00	95.00	18
Barbara Moya	Girls' Techno 293	21	(22) OCS	19	21	20	21	12	Cancelled			136.00	114.00	20

Swimming

Main article: Swimming at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics

Venezuela qualified four swimmers. ^[13]

Boys

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Robinson Molina	50 m backstroke	26.22	9 Q	26.35	12	Did not advance
	100 m backstroke	57.74	22	Did not advance
Carlos Claverie	50 m breaststroke	28.19	2 Q	28.19	2 Q	27.94
	100 m breaststroke	1:01.62	1 Q	1:01.71	2 Q	1:01.56
	200 m breaststroke	2:14.02	1 Q	—		2:11.74

Girls

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Simone Palomo	200 m butterfly	2:16.94	17	—		Did not advance
Fernandez Vanessa	200 m butterfly	2:19.84	24	—		Did not advance

Table Tennis

Main article: Table tennis at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics

Venezuela qualified one athlete based on its performance at the Latin American Qualification Event. ^[14]

Singles

Athlete	Event	Group Stage	Rank	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM	Rank
		Opposition Score		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score
Gremlis Arvelo	Girls	Group A   Doo  (HKG)
		Seera  (UGA) W 3 – 0
		Stefcova  (CZE)

Team

Athletes	Event	Group Stage	Rank	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM	Rank
		Opposition Score		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score
Latin America 2   Gremlis Arvelo  (VEN)   Fermin Tenti  (ARG)	Mixed		qB	Latin America 3   Edghill  (GUY)   Toranzos  (PAR) W 2–1

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

Triathlon

Main article: Triathlon at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics

Venezuela qualified two athletes based on its performance at the 2014 American Youth Olympic Games Qualifier. ^[15]

Individual

Athlete	Event	Swim (750m)	Trans 1	Bike (20 km)	Trans 2	Run (5 km)	Total Time	Rank
Jose Solorzano	Boys	09:54	00:44	29:21	00:28	16:52	0:57:19	15
Katherine Clemant Materano	Girls	10:07	00:50	31:40	00:29	20:48	1:03:54	14

Relay

Athlete	Event	Total Times per Athlete (Swim 250m, Bike 6.6km, Run 1.8km)	Total Group Time	Rank
America 1  Katherine Vanesa Clemant Materano (VEN)  Javier Martin (CHI)  Stephanie Jenks (USA)  Charles Paquet (CAN)	Mixed Relay	23:14 20:33 22:08 19:46	1:25:41	7
America 3   Barbara Dos Santos  (BRA)   Tyler Smith  (BER)   Giovanna Gonzalez Miranda  (ESA)   Jose Solorzano  (VEN)	Mixed Relay	22:51 21:04 24:11 22:11	1:30:17	11

Weightlifting

Main article: Weightlifting at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics

Venezuela qualified 1 quota in the boys' events and 1 quota in the girls' events based on the team ranking after the 2013 Weightlifting Youth World Championships. ^{[16] [17]}

Boys

Athlete	Event	Snatch		Clean & jerk		Total	Rank
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Wilson Magallanes	−69 kg	115	6	153	4	268	5

Girls

Athlete	Event	Snatch		Clean & jerk		Total	Rank
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Yorlis Zabala	−53 kg	80	3	95	4	175	4

Wrestling

Main article: Wrestling at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics

Venezuela qualified three athletes based on its performance at the 2014 Pan American Cadet Championships. ^[18]

Key:

• VT – Victory by Fall.
• PP – Decision by Points – the loser with technical points.
• PO – Decision by Points – the loser without technical points.

Boys

Athlete	Event	Group stage					Final / RM	Rank
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score
Eliezer Aular	Freestyle −54kg	Corbett  (NZL)	Guvazhokov  (RUS) L0–4	Matevosyan  (ARM)	Kuatbek  (KAZ)	4 Q	Sejfualau  (MKD) L1–3	8
Anthony Montero Chirinos	Freestyle −63kg	Kumar  (IND) W3–1 PP	Moore  (CAN) W	Lloyd  (NZL) W	—	1 Q	Mammadov  (AZE) L0–3 PO

Girls

Athlete	Event	Group stage				Final / RM	Rank
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score
Adrianny Castillo	Freestyle −46kg	Kadour  (ALG) W4–0	Roik  (BLR) W	Bolormaa  (MGL) L0–4	2 Q	Doncila  (MDA) L1–3 PP	4

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