India at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics

India participated at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires, Argentina from 6 October to 18 October 2018. India managed their best ever medal haul of the Youth Olympics in this edition. Among the 206 participating nations, India ranked 17th on the medals tally.

• Jeremy Lalrinnunga won India's first ever Youth Olympics gold medal.
• Tababi Devi won the first ever Youth Olympics medal for India in Judo and later also won a silver in the mixed team event under mixed-NOCs.
• Manu Bhaker became the first Indian girl to win a Youth Olympics gold medal.
• Both Boys' and Girls' Hockey 5s teams won silver medals in their debut.

India at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics
IOC code	IND
NOC	Indian Olympic Association
Website	http://www.olympic.ind.in/
in Buenos Aires, Argentina 6 – 18 October 2018
Competitors	46 in 13[1] sports
Flag bearer	Opening: Manu Bhaker Closing:Jeremy Lalrinnunga
Medals Ranked 17th	Gold 3 Silver 9 Bronze 1 Total 13
Summer Youth Olympics appearances
2010 2014 2018

Medalists

Further information: 2018 Summer Youth Olympics medal table

Medals awarded to participants of Mixed-NOC teams are represented in (italics). These medals are not counted towards the Individual NOC Medal tally.

Medal Name Sport Event Date  Gold Jeremy Lalrinnunga Weightlifting Boys' 62 kg October 8  Gold Manu Bhaker Shooting Girls' 10 metre air pistol October 9  Gold Saurabh Chaudhary Shooting Boys' 10 metre air pistol October 10  Gold Lakshya Sen Badminton Mixed team October 12  Silver Tushar Mane Shooting Boys' 10 metre air rifle October 7  Silver Tababi Devi Judo Girls' 44 kg October 7  Silver Mehuli Ghosh Shooting Girls' 10 metre air rifle October 8  Silver Tababi Devi Judo Mixed team October 10  Silver Manu Bhaker Shooting Mixed 10 metre air pistol October 12  Silver Lakshya Sen Badminton Boys' singles October 12  Silver Simran Kaur Wrestling Girl's freestyle 43 kg October 13  Silver India men's national field hockey team Prashant Chauhan     Shivam Anand Rahul Rajbhar Maninder Singh Rabichandra Moirangathem Sudeep Chirmako Pawan Sanjay Vivek Prasad Field hockey Boys' tournament October 14  Silver India women's national field hockey team Bichu Devi Kharibam           Ishika Chaudhary Khushboo Salima Tete Mumtaz Khan Baljeet Kaur Chetna Reet Lalremsiami Field hockey Girls' tournament October 14  Silver Suraj Panwar Athletics Boys' 5 km walk October 15  Silver Akash Malik Archery Boys' individual October 17  Bronze Praveen Chitravel Athletics Boys' triple jump October 16

Medals by sport Sport Total Shooting 2 2 0 4 Weightlifting 1 0 0 1 Field hockey 0 2 0 2 Athletics 0 1 1 2 Archery 0 1 0 1 Badminton 0 1 0 1 Judo 0 1 0 1 Wrestling 0 1 0 1 Total 3 9 1 13

Medals by gender Gender Total Male 2 5 1 8 Female 1 4 0 5 Total 3 9 1 13 Medals by date Day Date Total Day 1 7 October 0 2 0 2 Day 2 8 October 1 1 0 2 Day 3 9 October 1 0 0 1 Day 4 10 October 1 0 0 1 Day 5 11 October 0 0 0 0 Day 6 12 October 0 1 0 1 Day 7 13 October 0 1 0 1 Day 8 14 October 0 2 0 2 Day 9 15 October 0 1 0 1 Day 10 16 October 0 0 1 1 Day 11 17 October 0 1 0 1 Day 12 18 October 0 0 0 0 Total 3 9 1 13

Competitors

India placed 46 athletes in 13 sports with 36 events, its largest contingent till now.[1] India marks its debut in field hockey 5s and sport climbing at the Youth Olympics. The contingent includes ISSF senior and junior world cup champion Manu Bhaker, Commonwealth Games medallist shooter Mehuli Ghosh,ISSF senior world champion Saurabh Choudary, world youth boxing champion Jyoti Gulia and world youth silver medalist Jeremy Lalrinunga in weightlifting.

Sports	Boys	Girls	Total	Events
Archery	1	1	2	3
Athletics	5	2	7	7
Badminton	1	1	2	3
Boxing	0	1	1	1
Field Hockey	9	9	18	2
Judo	0	1	1	1
Rowing	2	0	2	1
Shooting	2	2	4	6
Sport Climbing	1	0	1	1
Swimming	2	0	2	4
Table Tennis	1	1	2	3
Weightlifting	1	1	2	2
Wrestling	0	2	2	2
Total	25	21	46	36

Archery

Main article: Archery at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics

India qualified two archers based on its performance at the Asian Continental Qualification Tournament.[2][3]

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
Akash Malik	Boys' individual	679	5	Lee (CAN) W 6–5	Solera (ESP) W 6–2	Vaca (MEX) W 6–4	Roos (BEL) W 6–0	Cowles (USA) L 0–6
Himani Kumari	Girls' individual	665	3	Walter (SAM) W 7–1	Gnoriega (USA) L 4–6	Did not advance
Selin Satır (TUR) /  Akash Malik (IND)	Mixed team	1296	24	Jerez (DOM) /  De Carvalho (BRA) W 5–3	Winkel (NED) /  Cheremiskin (RUS) W 6–2	Giannasio (ARG) /  Aitthiwat (THA) L 0–6	Did not advance
Himani Kumari (IND) /  Wian Roux (RSA)		1274	29	Tromans-Ansell (GBR) /  Shabani (IRI) L 1–5	Did not advance

Athletics

Main article: Athletics at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics

Track and Road events

Athlete	Event	Stage 1		Stage 2		Total
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Total	Rank
Nisar Ahmed	Boy's 200 m	22.08	19	21.72 PB	19	43.80	19
Sreekiran Nandakumar	Boy's 800 m	1:52.42	9	2:06.51	24	3:58.93	22
Suraj Panwar	Boys' 5 km walk	20:23.30 PB	2	20:35.87	1	40:59.17
Vishnupriya Jayaprakashan	Girl's 400 m hurdles	1:02.56	11	1:01.92	12	2:04.48	12
Seema	Girl's 3000 m	10:03.34	14	14:25	12	26	13

Field events

Athlete	Event	Stage 1		Stage 2		Total
		Distance	Rank	Distance	Rank	Total	Rank
Praveen Chitravel	Boy's triple jump	15.84	3	15.68	5	31.52
Kunwer Ajai Raj Singh Rana	Boy's javelin throw	71.45	9	75.06	3	146.51	6

Badminton

Main article: Badminton at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics

India qualified two players based on the Badminton Junior World Rankings.[4][5]

Athlete	Event	Group Stage				Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Lakshya Sen	Boys' singles	Kamel (EGY) W (21–14, 21–10)	Bosniuk (UKR) W (23–21, 21–8)	Farias (BRA) W (23–6, 21–16)	1 Q	Rumbay (INA) W (21–17, 21–19)	Naraoka (JPN) W (14–21, 21–15, 24–22)	Li Sf (CHN) L (15–21, 19–21)
Jakka Vaishnavi Reddy	Girls' singles	Andreu (ESP) W (21–13, 21–6)	Gai (USA) L (18–21, 21–23)	Saponara (PER) W (21–14, 21–8)	2	Did not advance
Lakshya Sen (Team Alpha)	Mixed teams	Epsilon W 110–98	Delta L 99–110	Zeta W 110–103	2	Gamma W 110–94	Theta W 110–90	Omega W 110–106
Jakka Vaishnavi Reddy (Team Gamma)		Omega L 99–110	Sigma L 86–110	Theta W 110–107	3	Alpha L 94–110	Did not advance

Boxing

Main article: Boxing at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics

India qualified one boxer based on its performance at the 2017 Youth Women’s World Boxing Championships.

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries	Semifinals	Final / RM	Rank
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Jyoti Gulia	Girls' 51kg	La Piana (ITA) L 0–5	Did not advance		5

Field hockey

Main article: Field hockey at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics

India qualified 2 teams (Men and Women) based on its performance at the 2018 Youth Olympics Qualifiers. Both teams won silver medals.

Boy's 5s

Team: Prashant Chauhan, Shivam Anand, Rahul Rajbhar, Maninder Singh, Sanjay, Sudeep Chirmako, Pawan, Rabichandra Moirangathem, Vivek Prasad

Preliminary round

Pool B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Australia	5	5	0	0	23	9	+14	15	Quarterfinals
2	India	5	4	0	1	34	8	+26	12
3	Austria	5	3	0	2	11	16	−5	9
4	Bangladesh	5	2	0	3	12	22	−10	6
5	Canada	5	1	0	4	13	22	−9	3	9th place game
6	Kenya	5	0	0	5	10	26	−16	0	11th place game

Source: Buenos Aires 2018
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Head-to-head result.

7 October 2018 11:45 India  10–0  Bangladesh Anand  4' Rajbhar  4', 9' Sanjay  6' Prasad  9', 18' Chirmako  11', 17' Singh  12' Moirangthem  20' Report Umpires: Hideki Kinoshita (JPN) Hristiyan Vasilev (BUL)

8 October 2018 14:45 India  9–1  Austria Sanjay  2' Anand  4', 10', 17' Chirmako  6', 11', 14', 18' Prasad  13' Report Drusany  8' Umpires: Hristiyan Vasilev (BUL) Nick Saunders (NZL)

9 October 2018 09:30 Kenya  1–7  India Ouma  7' Report Chirmako  5', 10' Moirangthem  5', 11' Prasad  8' Sanjay  14' Rajbhar  17' Umpires: Hideki Kinoshita (JPN) Jonathan Altamirano (MEX)

10 October 2018 17:45 India  3–4  Australia Prasad  6', 18' Anand  20' Report Davis  2' Collins  3' Murray  18' B. Marais  19' Umpires: Nick Saunders (NZL) Jonathan Altamirano (MEX)

11 October 2018 13:15 Canada  2–5  India Childs  15', 16' Report Sanjay  4', 17' Anand  7' Chirmako  10' Rajbhar  17' Umpires: Jonathan Altamirano (MEX) Hristiyan Vasilev (BUL)

Final round

Quarterfinal

12 October 2018 11:00 India  4–2  Poland Anand  1', 8' Singh  3' Sanjay  17' Report E. Bembenek  16' Nowkowski  18' Umpires: Darren Hubach (RSA) James Unkles (AUS)

Semifinal

13 October 2018 15:00 Argentina  1–3  India Zarate  4' Report Rajbhar  3' Chirmako  12', 18' Umpires: Peter Kabaso (KEN) Hristiyan Vasilev (BUL)

Gold medal match

14 October 2018 15:00 India  2–4  Malaysia Prasad  3', 6' Report Rosdi  5' Anuar  14', 19' Ishak  18' Umpires: Jonathan Altamirano (MEX) Hristiyan Vasilev (BUL)

Girl's 5s

Team: Salima Tete, Reet, Khushboo, Ishika Chaudhary, Mumtaz Khan, Baljeet Kaur, Chetna, Bichu Devi Kharibam, Lalremsiami

Preliminary round

Pool A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Argentina (H)	5	5	0	0	41	2	+39	15	Quarterfinals
2	India	5	4	0	1	29	10	+19	12
3	South Africa	5	3	0	2	19	13	+6	9
4	Austria	5	2	0	3	19	13	+6	6
5	Uruguay	5	1	0	4	23	8	+15	3	9th place game
6	Vanuatu	5	0	0	5	0	80	−80	0	11th place game

Source: Buenos Aires 2018
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Head-to-head result.
(H) Host.

7 October 2018 14:00 India  4–2  Austria Lalremsiami  4', 17' Tete  5' Khan  16' Report Hruby  13' Kern  20' Umpires: Sophie Bockelmann (GER) Margaux Brand (CAN)

8 October 2018 09:30 India  2–1  Uruguay Lalremsiami  1', 19' Report Verga  10' Umpires: Sophie Bockelmann (GER) Rhiannon Murrie (AUS)

9 October 2018 16:15 Vanuatu  0–16  India Report Lalremsiami  2', 10' Reet  3', 6' Tete  4', 13' Kaur  5', 5' Chetna  6', 14', 17' Khan  8', 11', 12', 15' Chaudhary  20' Umpires: Cynthia Clement (GHA) Jianjun Chen (CHN)

10 October 2018 12:30 India  2–5  Argentina Khan  8' Reet  10' Report di Santo  7' Ramallo  10', 12' Bruggesser  17' Palet  19' Umpires: Rhiannon Murrie (AUS) Fatma Mahmoud (EGY)

11 October 2018 14:00 South Africa  2–5  India de Waal  10' Welham  19' Report Khan  2', 17' Reet  10' Lalremsiami  12' Chaudhary  13' Umpires: Rhiannon Murrie (AUS) Fatma Mahmoud (EGY)

Final round

Quarterfinal

12 October 2018 14:00 India  3–0  Poland Lalremsiami  10' Tete  14' Kaur  14' Report Umpires: Lizé Srtydom (RSA) Jianjun Chen (CHN)

Semifinal

13 October 2018 16:00 India  3–0  China Khan  1' Reet  5' Lalremsiami  20' Report Umpires: Lizé Srtydom (RSA) Victoria Pazos (PAR)

Gold medal match

14 October 2018 16:30 Argentina  3–1  India Palet  7' Ramallo  10' Bruggesser  12' Report Khan  1' Umpires: Sophie Bockelmann (GER) Rhiannon Murrie (AUS)

Judo

Main article: Judo at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics

Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage			Final / BM
					Round of 8	Quarterfinals	Semifinals
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Tababi Devi	Girls' 44 kg	Wangmo (BHU) W 10–0	Muminoviq (KOS) W 1s2–0	Puljiz (CRO) W 10–0s1	N/A			Giménez (VEN) L 0s1–11
Tababi Devi (Team Athens)	Mixed team	Bye	Los Angeles W 5–3	Rio de Janeiro W 5–3	N/A			Beijing L 3–4

Rowing

Main article: Rowing at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics

India qualified one boat based on its performance at the 2018 Asian Youth Olympic Games Qualification Regatta.[6]

Athlete	Event	Round 1		Round 2			Round 3			Points	Rank	Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Points	Rank	Time	Points	Rank			Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Satnam Singh Ashish Goliyan	Boys' pair	3:27.57	6	1:38.85	3	3	1:36.90	3	3	6	8 Q	1:32.00	4 FB	1:38.01	8

Shooting

Main article: Shooting at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics

India qualified four sport shooters based on its performance at the 2017 Asian Championships.[7]

Individual

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Shahu Tushar Mane	Boys' 10 m air rifle	623.7	3 Q	247.5
Saurabh Chaudhary	Boys' 10 m air pistol	580	1 Q	244.2
Mehuli Ghosh	Girls' 10 m air rifle	628.1	1 Q	248.0
Manu Bhaker	Girls' 10 m air pistol	576	1 Q	236.5

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final
		Points	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Shahu Tushar Mane (IND) /  Latifa Al-Maazmi (UAE)	Mixed 10 metre air rifle	803.2	20	Did not advance				20
Carlos Arze (PER) /  Mehuli Ghosh (IND)		809.9	19	Did not advance				19
Saurabh Chaudhary (IND) /  Nubaira Babur (PAK)	Mixed 10 metre air pistol	738	15	Štrbac (CRO) /  Kurdzi (BLR) L 3–10	Did not advance
Bezhan Fayzullaev (TJK) /  Manu Bhaker (IND)		751	5	Kanyakorn (THA) /  Abdelfatah (EGY) W 10–4	Rankelytė (LTU) /  Usanli (MDA) W 10–8	Ibarra (MEX) /  Honta (UKR) W 10–3	Seeger (GER) /  Kirov (BUL) L 3–10

Sport climbing

Main article: Sport climbing at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics

India qualified one sport climber based on its performance at the 2017 Asian Youth Sport Climbing Championships.[8]

Athlete	Event	Speed Qualification		Bouldering Qualification		Lead Qualification			Points	Final
		Time	Points	Result	Points	Hold Reached	Time	Points		Speed	Bouldering	Lead	Rank
Bharath Pereira	Boy's combined	7.17	7	1T 2z	14	20	1:31	21	2058	Did not advance			18

Swimming

Main article: Swimming at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Srihari Nataraj	Boys' 50 m backstroke	26.55	18	Did not advance
	Boys' 100 m backstroke	56.75	9 Q	56.48	9 Q	56.12	6
	Boys' 200 m backstroke	2:04.80	13	N/A		Did not advance
Advait Page	Boys' 800 m freestyle	N/A				8:16.06	17

Table tennis

Main article: Table tennis at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics

India qualified one table tennis player based on its performance at the Road to Buenos Aires (Asia) series in Thailand and one more in the form of Archana Kamath at the Road to Buenos Aires (Oceania) in the Cook Islands.[9][10]

Athlete	Event	Group Stage				Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Manav Thakkar	Boys' singles	Stankevičius (LTU) W 4–2	Ahmadian (IRI) L 1–4	Choong (MAS) W 4–2	2 Q	Harimoto (JPN) L 1–4	Did not advance
Archana Kamath	Girls' singles	Goi R X (SGP) W 4–1	Al-Hodaby (EGY) W 4–0	Vovk (SLO) W 4–1	1 Q	Lee K Y (HKG) W 4–2	Ning J (AZE) W 4–3	Sun Ys (CHN) L 1–4	Dragoman (ROU) L 1–4	4
Archana Kamath Manav Thakkar	Mixed team	Ning J / Yu Kh (AZE) L 0–3	Gauthier / Rembert (FRA) W 3–0	Morri (SMR) /  Lorenzo (ARG) W 3–0	2 Q	Dragoman / Pletea (ROU) L 1–2	Did not advance

Weightlifting

Main article: Weightlifting at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics

Jeremy Lalrinnunga at his final attempt

India qualified two athletes based on its performance at the 2018 Asian Youth Championships.[11][12]

Athlete	Event	Snatch		Clean & jerk		Total	Rank
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Jeremy Lalrinnunga	Boy's 62 kg	124	1	150	1	274
Sneha Soren	Girl's 48 kg	67	5	84	5	151	5

Wrestling

Main article: Wrestling at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics

India qualified two athletes based on its performance at the 2018 Asian Cadet Championships.

Key:

• VT – Victory by Fall.
• PP – Decision by Points – the loser with technical points.
• PO – Decision by Points – the loser without technical points.
• ST – Technical superiority – the loser without technical points and a margin of victory of at least 10 points.
• SP – Technical superiority – the loser with technical points and a margin of victory of at least 10 points.
• VB – Victory by Injury
• VC – Victory due to 3 cautions

Athlete	Event	Group stage					Final / RM	Rank
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score
Simran Kaur	Girls' freestyle 43 kg	Derry (NZL) W 5–0 ^VB	Leorda (MDA) W 5–0 ^VT	Mahmoud (EGY) W 4–1 ^SP	Batbaatar (MGL) W 3–1 ^PP	1	Shilson (USA) L 1–3 ^PP
Mansi Ahlawat	Girls' freestyle 57 kg	Szél (HUN) L 0–3 ^PO	Toida (CMR) W 3–1 ^PP	Parra (VEN) L 1–3 ^PP	Ringaci (MDA) L 0–5 ^VT	4	Ahmed (EGY) L 0–5 ^VT	8

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