Ghana at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics explained

Noc:	GHA
Nocname:	Ghana Olympic Committee
Games:	Summer Youth Olympics
Year:	2014
Location:	Nanjing
Competitors:	10
Sports:	5
Rank:	49
Gold:	1
Silver:	0
Bronze:	0
Appearances:	auto

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

Athletics

See main article: Athletics at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics.

Ghana qualified two 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

Field Events

Girls

Track & road events

Badminton

See main article: Badminton at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics.

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

Singles

Doubles

Beach Volleyball

See main article: Beach volleyball at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics.

Ghana qualified a boys' and girls' team by their performance at the CAVB Qualification Tournament.^[3]

Athletes	Event	Preliminary round	Standing	Round of 24	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final /	Rank
		Opposition Score		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score
align=left rowspan=5	Philip Amissah Nicholas Tetteh	align=left rowspan=5	Boys'	L 0 – 2	3 Q	L 0 – 2	did not advance	25
L 0 – 2
W 2 – 1
W 2 – 1
W
align=left rowspan=5	Doris Douduwa Esther Essumang	align=left rowspan=5	Girls'	L 0 – 2	6	did not advance
L 0 – 2
L 0 – 2
L 0 – 2
L 0 – 2

Swimming

See main article: Swimming at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics.

Ghana qualified two swimmers.^[4]

Boys

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
align=left rowspan=2	Kwaku Addo	50 m freestyle	24.66	38	did not advance
50 m butterfly	27.45	41	did not advance

Girls

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
align=left rowspan=2	Ophelia Swayne	50 m freestyle	28.76	37	did not advance
50 m butterfly	29.51	27	did not advance

Weightlifting

See main article: Weightlifting at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics.

Ghana was given a quota to compete in a girls' event by the tripartite committee.^[5]

Girls

Notes and References

1. News: Number of Entries by NOC: Athletics . nanjing2014.org . 6 August 2014 . 8 August 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140808234918/http://result.nanjing2014.qq.com/IRS/ENG/ZZ/ZZS103A_YO2014AT%40%40%40%40%40%40%40ENG.htm . 8 August 2014 .
2. News: BWF Junior World Rankings: Boys' Singles . . 8 July 2014 . 8 July 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140714215859/http://bwfbadminton.org/file.aspx?id=573142&dl=1 . 14 July 2014 . dead .
3. News: Sierra Leone men and Rwanda women top podium of African qualifiers for Youth Olympic Games . . 16 April 2014 . 20 April 2014.
4. News: Number of Entries by NOC: Swimming . nanjing2014.org . 6 August 2014 . 9 August 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140808210533/http://result.nanjing2014.qq.com/IRS/ENG/ZZ/ZZS103A_YO2014SW%40%40%40%40%40%40%40ENG.htm . 8 August 2014 .
5. News: Universality Places . . July 2013 . 14 December 2013.