Mexico at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics explained

Noc:	MEX
Nocname:	Comité Olímpico Mexicano
Games:	Summer Youth Olympics
Year:	2014
Location:	Nanjing
Competitors:	78
Sports:	20
Rank:	54
Gold:	0
Silver:	5
Bronze:	6
Appearances:	auto

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

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
	Alejandra Orozco	Diving	Mixed Team
	Rubén Nava			19 Aug
	Ana Lilia Durán			21 Aug
	Santos Valdés	Shooting	Mixed Teams' 10m Air Rifle
	Valeria Ortuño			23 Aug
	Rodrigo Diego			24 Aug
	Maria Fernanda Orozco			24 Aug
	Ricardo Vera	Modern pentathlon	Mixed relay
				18 Aug
				23 Aug
				24 Aug
				24 Aug
	Mexico girls' national football team			26 Aug
	Rodrigo Diego			26 Aug

Archery

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

Mexico qualified two archers from its performance at the 2013 World Archery Youth Championships.^{[1] [2]}

Individual

Athlete	Event	Ranking round		Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final /	Rank
		Score	Seed	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score
Luis Tapia	Boys' Individual	681	5	W 6–0	L 3–7	Did not advance			9
Alexa Rivera Jimenez	Girls' Individual	604	27	L 0–6	Did not advance				17

Team

Athletes	Event	Ranking round		Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final /	Rank
		Score	Seed	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score
	Mixed Team	1283	18	L 3-5	Did not advance				17
	Mixed Team	1283	17	W 6-2	L 4-5	Did not advance			9

Athletics

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

Mexico qualified 7 athletes to compete in the following events.^[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

Field Events

Girls

Track & road events

Athlete	Event	Heats		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Cecilia Tamayo	align=left	100 m	11.88	10 qB	11.83	8
Paola Morán	align=left	400 m hurdles	1:00.93 PB	9 qB	59.74 PB	9
Valeria Ortuño	align=left	5 km walk	23:19.27

Field events

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Distance	Rank	Distance	Rank
Ximena Esquivel	align=left	High jump	1.74	9 qB	1.73	11
Maria Fernanda Orozco	align=left	Shot put	17.21	3 Q	17.55

Badminton

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

Mexico qualified two athletes based on the 2 May 2014 BWF Junior World Rankings.^{[4] [5]}

Singles

Athlete	Event	Group stage				Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final /	Rank
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score
Luis Ramon Garrido	Boys' Singles	L 0-2	L 0-2	L 0-2	4	Did not advance
Sabrina Solis	Girls' Singles	W 2-0	W 2-0	L 0-2	2	Did not advance

Doubles

Athlete	Event	Group stage				Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final /	Rank
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score
	Mixed Doubles	L 0-2	W 2-1	L 0-2	3	Did not advance
	Mixed Doubles	L 0-2	L 0-2	W 2-1	3	Did not advance

Boxing

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

Mexico qualified one boxer based on its performance at the 2014 AIBA Youth World Championships^[6]

Boys

Canoeing

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

Mexico qualified one boat based on its performance at the 2013 World Junior Canoe Sprint and Slalom Championships.^[7]

Girls

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Repechage		Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final /	Rank
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Victoria Morales	C1 slalom	DNF		Did not advance
C1 sprint	2:29.258	4 Q	W 2:27.150	L 2:26.608	W 2:25.429

Cycling

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

Mexico qualified a boys' and girls' team based on its ranking issued by the UCI.^{[8] [9]}

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
José Alfredo Rodríguez José Gerardo Ulloa	Boys' Team	8	20	5:12.59	4	50	7	50	54:46	1	100	1:37:42 1:37:23	36 16	1	221	5
Brenda Santoyo Dayana García	Girls' Team	20	0	6:04.08	5	40	21	0	50:01	15	2	1:12:36 1:27:40	21 49	0	42	23

Mixed Relay

Diving

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

Mexico qualified four quotas, representing by two athletes, based on its performance at the Nanjing 2014 Diving Qualifying Event.^[10]

Athlete	Event	Preliminary		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank
align=left rowspan=2	Rodrigo Diego	align=left	Boys' 3 m springboard	591.85	2	593.65
align=left	Boys' 10 m platform	484.00	3	512.75
align=left rowspan=2	Alejandra Orozco	align=left	Girls' 3 m springboard	431.65	2	398.05	6
align=left	Girls' 10 m platform	403.15	3	430.25
	align=left	Mixed team	275.80	11
	align=left	Mixed team	379.50

Fencing

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

Mexico qualified one athlete at the 2014 Cadet World Championships.^[11]

Girls

Mixed Team

Field hockey

See main article: Field hockey at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics.

Mexico qualified a boys' team based on its performance at the 2014 Youth American Championship.^[12]

Boys' tournament

See main article: Field hockey at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics – Boys' tournament.

Roster

• José Alan Hernández
• Irving Barush Chávez
• Miguel Ángel Othón Moreno
• José Jesús Montaño
• Daniel Rangel
• Iván Carballo
• Alejandro Méndez
• Agustín Valdez
• Reymundo Lemus

Group Stage

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Quarterfinal

Crossover

Seventh and eighth place

Football

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

Mexico qualified in the girls competition.^[13]

Girls' Tournament

See main article: Football at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics – Girls' tournament.

Roster

• Mariana Maldonado
• Montserrat Hernández
• Joselyn Cázares
• Alejandra Zaragoza
• Vanessa Rodríguez
• Ana Karen Saucedo
• Kelsey Brann Hernández
• Alma López
• Vanessa Rodríguez
• Elizabeth Anguiano
• María Akemi Carreón
• Paulina Gutiérrez
• Vannya García
• Daniela García
• María del Carmen Acedo
• Alexia Delgado
• Dulce Eileen Martínez
• Jimena López

Group stage----

Semi-final

Bronze medal match

Golf

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

Mexico qualified one team of two athletes based on the 8 June 2014 IGF Combined World Amateur Golf Rankings.^[14]

Individual

Athlete	Event	Round 1		Round 2			Round 3			Total
		Score	Rank	Score	Total	Rank	Score	Total	Rank	Score	Rank
Aarón Terrazas	align=left	Boys	73 (+1)	19	78 (+6)	151 (+7)	24	69 (-3)	220 (+4)	22	220	22
María Fassi	align=left	Girls	72 (par)	10	75 (+3)	147 (+3)	12	75 (+3)	222 (+6)	15	222	15

Team

Gymnastics

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

Artistic Gymnastics

Mexico qualified two athletes based on its performance at the 2014 Junior Pan American Artistic Gymnastics Championships.^[15]

Boys

Girls

Athlete	Event	Apparatus				Total	Rank
align=left rowspan=4	Stephanie Hernández	Qualification	12.450	13.550	12.150	12.950	51.150	8 Q
All-around	12.450	13.350	12.150	11.400	49.450	15
Uneven bars	10.433	8
Balance beam	12.358	7

Rhythmic Gymnastics

Mexico qualified one athlete based on its performance at the 2014 Junior Pan American Rhythmic Championships.^[15]

Individual

Trampoline

Mexico qualified two athletes based on its performance at the 2014 Junior Pan American Trampoline Championships.^[15]

Athlete	Event	Qualification				Final
		Routine 1	Routine 2	Total	Rank	Score	Rank
Luis Loria	Boys	45.160	55.435	100.595	2 Q	55.815	4
Karina Cantú	Girls	40.330	48.110	88.440	8 Q	48.345	7

Modern Pentathlon

See main article: Modern pentathlon at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics.

Mexico qualified one athlete based on its performance at the PANAM YOG Qualifiers and another based on its performance at the 2014 Youth A World Championships.^[16]

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
Ricardo Vera	Boys' Individual		18	2:30.75	21	248		18	220	14:07.58	14	453	921	18
Martha Derrant	Girls' Individual		15	2:08.63	14	315		12	250	12:44.76	15	536	1101	16
Team 9	Mixed Relay		2	2:02.14 1:03.02 0:59.12	9	334		2	297	12:10.26	4	570	1201
Team 18	Mixed Relay		5	2:08.33 1:07.36 1:00.97	22	315		5	291	12:28.10	11	521	1158	9

Sailing

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

Mexico qualified two boats; one based on its performance at the Byte CII North American & Caribbean Continental Qualifier and the other based on its performance at the Techno 293 North American & Caribbean Continental Qualifier.^{[17] [18]}

Athlete	Event	Race											Net Points	Final Rank
		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	M*
Paula Pelayo	Girls' Byte CII	7	21	11	14	10	(25)	9	12	Cancelled		109.00	84.00	13
Mariana Aguilar	Girls' Techno 293	(17)	14	17	16	13	14	20	Cancelled			111.00	94.00	18

Shooting

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

Mexico qualified three athletes at the 2014 American Qualification Tournament.^[19]

The three quotas places that Mexico obtained were thanks to José Santos Valdés who finished in the 2nd place at the Men's Air Rifle event, to Lia Borgo Torres who ended 1st at the Women Air Rifle event and Ana Paula Ruiz who won the Women 10m Air Pistol event. All of this events were held al the 2014 ISSF Cup Pistol/Rifle, Fort Benning.^[20]

Individual

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Santos Valdés	Boys' 10m Air Rifle	614.8	7 Q	81.1	8
Lía Borgo	Girls' 10m Air Rifle	409.0	10	Did not advance
Alejandra Cervantes	Girls' 10m Air Pistol	372	9	did not advance

Team

Athletes	Event	Qualification		Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final /	Rank
		Points	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
	Mixed Team 10m Air Rifle		Q		W 10 - 7	W 10 - 8	L 2 - 10
	Mixed Team 10m Air Rifle	822.6	3 Q	L 6 - 10	Did not advance			17
	Mixed teams' 10 m air pistol	735	17	Did not advance

Swimming

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

Mexico qualified four swimmers.^[21]

Boys

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
align=left rowspan=4	Ricardo Vargas	200 m freestyle	1:54.18	25	Did not advance
400 m freestyle	3:58.55	19	Did not advance
800 m freestyle	8:10.55	10
200 m butterfly	2:03.28	10	Did not advance
align=left rowspan=3	Luis Jasso Segovia	50 m breaststroke	30.25	32	Did not advance
100 m breaststroke	1:04.48	23	Did not advance
200 m breaststroke	2:17.25	10	Did not advance

Girls

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
align=left rowspan=5	Natalia Becerra	200 m freestyle	2:05.24	24	Did not advance
400 m freestyle	4:17.89	15	Did not advance
800 m freestyle	8:49.76	10
100 m butterfly	1:04.54	24	Did not advance
200 m individual medley	2:22.61	20	Did not advance
align=left rowspan=2	Allyson Macias	400 m freestyle	4:16.49	11	Did not advance
800 m freestyle	8:41.53	5

Taekwondo

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

Mexico qualified four athletes based on its performance at the Taekwondo Qualification Tournament.^{[22] [23]}

Boys

Girls

Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final	Rank
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Brenda Lúa	−44 kg		L 0 - 0 (SUP)	Did not advance		5
Mitzi Carrillo	−49 kg	W 13 (PTG) - 1	W 20 (PTG) - 1	L 1 - 6	Did not advance
Ashley Arana	+63 kg

Tennis

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

Mexico qualified one athlete based on the 9 June 2014 ITF World Junior Rankings.^[24]

Singles

Doubles

Athletes	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final /	Rank
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score
	Girls' Doubles		W 2-1 1–6, 7–5, [10–8]	W 2-0 7–6^(7–3), 6–1	L 0-2 2–6, 4–6	L 0-2 3–6, 5–7	4
	Mixed Doubles	L 0-2 4-6, 2-6	Did not advance				17

Triathlon

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

Mexico qualified two athletes based on its performance at the 2014 American Youth Olympic Games Qualifier.^[25]

Individual

Athlete	Event	Swim (750m)	Trans 1	Bike (20 km)	Trans 2	Run (5 km)	Total Time	Rank
Diego López	Boys	09:27	00:43	30:26	00:22	18:23	0:59:21	21
Jessica Romero	Girls	10:07	00:53	34:11	00:29	21:27	1:07:07	28

Relay

Athlete	Event	Total Times per Athlete (Swim 250m, Bike 6.6 km, Run 1.8 km)	Total Group Time	Rank
World Team 1	Mixed Relay	23:58 21:07 23:07 20:52	1:29:04	10
America 4	Mixed Relay	valign=bottom	24:05 20:37 24:39 21:07	1:30:28	12

Weightlifting

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

Mexico qualified 2 quotas in the boys' events and 2 quotas in the girls' events based on the team ranking after the 2013 Weightlifting Youth World Championships.^{[26] [27]}

Boys

Athlete	Event	Snatch		Clean & jerk		Total	Rank
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Oscar Rodríguez	−62 kg	105	6	138	4	243	6
Raúl Manriquez	+85 kg	130	6	175	5	305	5

Girls

Athlete	Event	Snatch		Clean & jerk		Total	Rank
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Janeth Gómez	−53 kg	75	5	95	4	170	5
Ana Lilia Durán	−63 kg	90	3	120	2	210

Wrestling

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

Mexico qualified two athletes based on its performance at the 2014 Pan American Cadet Championships.^[28]

Boys

Athlete	Event	Group stage				Final /	Rank
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score
Maximiliano García	Freestyle -100kg	L 1 - 4	L 0 - 4	L 0 - 3	4
Emilio Pérez	Greco-Roman -42kg	L 0 – 4	L 0 – 4		3	5th Place Match W 4 - 0	5

Notes and References

1. News: Youth Olympics Games-2014 Qualification Places Boys . . 14 June 2014 . 27 June 2014.
2. News: Youth Olympics Games-2014 Qualification Places Girls . . 6 June 2014 . 7 June 2014.
3. News: "En atletismo, México estará presente con 7 deportistas en los Juegos Olímpicos de la Juventud 2014" (In athletics, Mexico will be present with 7 athletes at the Youth Olympic Games 2014) . . 19 May 2014 . 27 May 2014.
4. 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 . 2014-07-14 . dead .
5. News: BWF Junior World Rankings: Girls' Singles . . 8 July 2014 . 8 July 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140714153712/http://bwfbadminton.org/file.aspx?id=573140&dl=1 . 2014-07-14 . dead .
6. News: Meet the Qualified Athletes for Nanjing 2014 Youth Olympic Games. AIBA. 23 May 2014. 23 May 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20150322110203/http://aiba.org/en-US/news/ozqsp/newsId/5907/news.aspx. 22 March 2015. dead.
7. News: 2014 Youth Olympics Games Qualification . . 20 February 2014 . 13 March 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140313194559/http://www.canoeicf.com/icf/Canoe-Events/Olympic-Games/2014-Youth-Olympic-Games/main/0/text_files/file/2014%20YOG%20CANOEING%20QUALIFICATION%20TABLE.pdf . 13 March 2014 .
8. News: Cycling Boys Qualifiers . . 12 July 2014 . 12 July 2014 .
9. News: Cycling Girls Qualifiers . . 12 July 2014 . 12 July 2014 .
10. News: Nanjing 2014 - Diving Qualifying Event Info & Results . . 5 March 2014 . 5 March 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140305165744/http://www.fina.org/H2O/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4281&Itemid=1594 . 5 March 2014 .
11. News: 2014 Youth Olympic Games - Nanjing FIE Qualifications . . 10 July 2014 . 10 July 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140825175830/http://www.fie.ch/download/homepage/fr/athletes%20qualifies%20JOJ%202014.pdf . 25 August 2014 .
12. News: Hockey teams announced for Nanjing 2014 Youth Olympic Games . . 28 July 2014 . 4 August 2014.
13. https://web.archive.org/web/20130906024936/http://www.fifa.com/womensyoutholympic/qualifiers/index.html Qualifiers – Girls' Youth Olympic Football Tournaments Nanjing 2014
14. News: Youth Olympic Games Golf Ranking . . 8 June 2014 . 7 July 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140702151154/http://www.igfgolf.org/olympic-games/youth-olympic-games/youth-olympic-golf-ranking/ . 2 July 2014 .
15. News: 2nd Youth Olympic Games Qualifiers - Gymnastics . . 8 July 2014 . 8 July 2014.
16. News: 2014 Youth Olympic Games Modern Pentathlon final athletes'list . . 9 July 2014 . 9 July 2014.
17. News: 2014 YOG Qualification Byte CII . . 5 July 2014 . 5 July 2014.
18. News: 2014 YOG Qualification Tehcno 293 . . 5 July 2014 . 5 July 2014.
19. News: Quota Places by Name and Nation . . 25 April 2014 . 25 April 2014.
20. Web site: Youth heading to Nanjing, passing by Fort Benning. ISSF World Cup Rifle / Pistol - Fort Benning, USA .
21. 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 .
22. News: WTF Qualification Tournament for Nanjing 2014 – Day 1 . . 20 March 2014 . 22 March 2014 .
23. News: WTF Qualification Tournament for Nanjing 2014 – Day 2 . . 21 March 2014 . 22 March 2014 .
24. News: 2014 Youth Olympic Tennis Event – Girls Acceptance List by Country . . 1 July 2014 . 15 July 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140719210308/http://nanjing.itftennis.com/media/179730/179730.pdf . 19 July 2014 .
25. News: 2014 American YOG Qualifier . . 3 May 2014 . 3 May 2014.
26. News: Boys Team Classification from World Youth Championships . . 25 September 2013 . 14 December 2013.
27. News: Girls Team Classification from World Youth Championships . . 25 September 2013 . 14 December 2013.
28. News: Wrestling Qualifiers Named for Youth Olympic Games . . 28 July 2014 . 30 July 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140810041126/http://www.fila-official.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1287:wrestling-qualifiers-named-for-youth-olympic-games&catid=60:actualite&Itemid=100235&lang=en . 10 August 2014 .