Sri Lanka at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics

Sri Lanka competed at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics, in Nanjing, China from 16 August to 28 August 2014. The Sri Lankan team consisted of nine athletes in six sports.^[2]

Sri Lanka at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics
IOC code	SRI
NOC	National Olympic Committee of Sri Lanka
in Nanjing
Competitors	9 in 6 sports
Flag bearer	Matthew Abeysinghe^[1]
Medals	Gold 0 Silver 0 Bronze 0 Total 0
Summer Youth Olympics appearances
2010 2014 2018

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.

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Bronze	Sachin Dias	Badminton	Mixed Doubles	22 Aug

Athletics

Main article: Athletics at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics

Sri Lanka qualified one male athlete in the Youth Olympic Trials held in Bangkok, Thailand from May 21–22, 2014.^[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
Anuruddha Vidusanka	400 m hurdles	53.31	10 qB	53.30	12

Badminton

Main article: Badminton at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics

Sri Lanka qualified one maleathlete based on the 2 May 2014 BWF Junior World Rankings. Later Sri Lanka was given a female quota to compete by the tripartite committee.^[4][5]

Singles

Athlete	Event	Group stage				Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM	Rank
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score
Sachin Dias	Boys' Singles	Abdelhakim (EGY) W 21–11, 21–9	Nzoussi (CGO) W 21–5, 21–8	Ginting (INA) L 10–21, 21–23	2	did not advance
Thilini Hendahewa	Girls' Singles	Blichfeldt (DEN) W 21–18, 21–15	Yamaguchi (JPN) L 13–21, 6–21	Cadeau (SEY) W 21–3, 21–6	2	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
He Bingjiao (CHN)   Sachin Dias (SRI)	Mixed Doubles	Courtois (FRA)   Sebunnya (UGA) W 2 – 0	Hendahewa (SRI)   Ong (SIN) W 2 – 0	Shivani (IND)   Ayittey (GHA) W w/o	1 Q	Beton (SLO)   Ginting (INA) W 2 – 1	Lee (TPE)   Tsuneyama (JPN) L 1 – 2	Qin (CHN)   Narongrit (THA) W 2 – 0
Thilini Hendahewa (SRI)   Bernard Ong (SIN)	Mixed Doubles	Shivani (IND)   Ayittey (GHA) W w/o	He (CHN)   Dias (SRI) L 0 – 2	Courtois (FRA)   Sebunnya (UGA) W 2 – 0	2	did not advance

Beach Volleyball

Main article: Beach volleyball at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics

Sri Lanka qualified a boys' team by their performance at the AVC Qualification Tournament.^[6][7]

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
Isuru Madushan Chamika Sandaruwan	Boys'	Frutos Toewn/Cacares (PAR) W 2 – 1	3 Q	Ashfiya/Licardo (INA) L 0 – 2	did not advance				25
		Ndayishimiye/Pniyongabo (BDI) W 2 – 0
		Alvarez/Flores (GUA) L 1 – 2
		Berntsen/Mol (NOR) L 0 – 2
		Iarzutkin/Stoyanovskiy (RUS) L 0 – 2

Rowing

Main article: Rowing at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics

Sri Lanka was given a boat to compete by the tripartite committee.^[8]

Athlete	Event	Heats		Repechage		Semifinals		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Vishan Mario Gunatilleka	Boys' Single Sculls	3:59.01	6 R	3:50.56	5 SC/D	3:50.87	6 FD	3:49.53	22

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

Swimming

Main article: Swimming at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics

Sri Lanka qualified two swimmers.^[9][10] In the five races the two swimmers competed in, all five produced new national records.^[11]

Boys

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Matthew Abeysinghe	100 m freestyle	50.87 NR	13 Q	50.86 NR	13	did not advance
	200 m freestyle	1:52.41 NR	15	—		did not advance

Girls

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Machiko Raheem	50 m freestyle	26.79 NR	23	did not advance
	100 m freestyle	58.50 NR	28	did not advance

Tennis

Main article: Tennis at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics

Sri Lanka was given a quota to compete by the tripartite committee.^[12][13]

Singles

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM	Rank
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score
Sharmal Dissanayake	Boys' Singles	K Khachanov (RUS) L 0 – 6, 0 – 6	did not advance

Doubles

Athletes	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM	Rank
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score
Sharmal Dissanayake (SRI)   Pavle Rogan (MNE)	Boys' Doubles	—	N Álvarez (PER)    JJ Rosas (PER) L 2 – 6, 3 – 6	did not advance
Ojasvinee Singh (IND)   Sharmal Dissanayake (SRI)	Mixed Doubles	S Kenin (USA)    A Rybakov (USA) L 2 – 6, 6 – 4, [9] – [11]	did not advance

References

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