| Games: | Summer Youth Olympics |
| Games Link: | 2018 Summer Youth Olympics |
| Year: | 2018 |
| Noc: | SRI |
| Nocname: | National Olympic Committee of Sri Lanka |
| Website: | https://www.olympic.lk/ |
| Competitors: | 13 |
| Sports: | 7 |
| Location: | Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Start Date: | 6 |
| End Date: | 18 October 2018 |
| Gold: | 0 |
| Silver: | 0 |
| Bronze: | 1 |
| Rank: | 83 |
| Appearances: | auto |
Sri Lanka participated at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires, Argentina from 6 October to 18 October 2018.
Sri Lanka made its Youth Olympics (and Olympics) debut in three sports it qualified in: archery, basketball and gymnastics. Sri Lanka also made its Youth Olympics debut in the sport of shooting.
Parami Wasanthi Maristela won Sri Lanka's first ever Youth Olympics medal, a bronze in the girls' 2000 metre steeplechase athletics event.[1]
The following is the list of number of competitors participating at the Games per sport/discipline.
| width=86 | Sport | width=55 | Men | width=55 | Women | width=55 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Archery | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||||
| Athletics | 2 | 2 | 4 | ||||
| Badminton | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Basketball | 0 | 4 | 4 | ||||
| Gymnastics | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Shooting | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||||
| Swimming | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||||
| Total | 5 | 8 | 13 |
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 October | |||||
| 15 October |
| Medals by sport | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sport | bgcolor=#f7f6a8 | bgcolor=#dce5e5 | bgcolor=#ffdab9 | Total | ||||
| bgcolor=#f7f6a8 | 0 | bgcolor=#dce5e5 | 0 | bgcolor=#ffdab9 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Total | bgcolor=gold | 0 | bgcolor=silver | 0 | bgcolor=#c96 | 1 | 1 | |
| Medals by day | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Day | bgcolor=#f7f6a8 | bgcolor=#dce5e5 | bgcolor=#ffdab9 | Total | |||
| 15 October | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Total | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |||
See main article: Archery at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics. Sri Lanka qualified one archer based on its performance at the 2017 World Archery Youth Championships.[2] [3] [4]
See main article: Athletics at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics. Sri Lanka qualified two athletes. On the first day of the Asian trials held in Bangkok, Thailand, Sri Lanka won two quotas. Dilan Bogoda took first place in the boys' 400 metres event, while Parami Wasanthi Maristela won the 2000 metres steeplechase in a world leading team to qualify.[5] [6] [7] On the second day of trials, high jumper Seniru Amarasinghe qualified in second place with the third ranked jump in the world (in the age category), while sprinter Shelinda Jansen qualified in third position.[8] [9] [10] [11]
| Athlete | Event | Stage 1 | Stage 2 | Total | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Result | Rank | Result | Rank | Total | Rank | ||||
| Dilan Bogoda | align=left | Boys' 400 m | 48.52 PB | 5 | 48.81 | 7 | 1:37.33 | 7 | |
| Shalinda Jansen | align=left | Girls' 200 m | 25.00 | 11 | 24.07 PB | 9 | 49.07 | 9 | |
| Parami Wasanthi Maristela | align=left | Girls' 2000 metre steeplechase | 6:33.06 PB | 3 | 13:47 | 17 (4) | 7 | ||
See main article: Badminton at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics. Sri Lanka qualified a girls' quota after it was reallocated to the country from an unused tripartie commission universality spot.[12]
See main article: Basketball at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics. Sri Lanka qualified a girls' basketball team of four athletes.[13] This marked the country's debut in the sport at the Youth Olympics.[14]
See main article: Basketball at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics – Girls' tournament.
| Athlete | Event | Qualification | Final | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Points | Time | Rank | Points | Time | Rank | |||
| Leia Hamza | align=left rowspan=2 | Shoot-out Contest | 3 | 28.3 | 22 | did not advance | ||
| Rashmi Perera | 1 | 29.5 | 34 | did not advance | ||||
See main article: Gymnastics at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics.
Sri Lanka qualified one gymnast based on its performance at the 2018 Asian Junior Championship.[15]
| Team | Athlete | Acrobatic | Artistic | Rhythmic | Trampoline | Total points | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Team Nadia Comăneci (Yellow) | 15 | 410 | 9 | ||||
| 105 | colspan=2 rowspan=6 | ||||||
| Sergey Naidin | 31 | ||||||
| 21 | |||||||
| 41 | |||||||
| 36 | |||||||
| 33 | |||||||
| 19 | rowspan=3 | ||||||
| 28 | |||||||
| 42 | |||||||
| 20 | |||||||
| 19 |
See main article: Shooting at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics. Sri Lanka received a reallocated spot in the boys' 10 m air rifle event.
See main article: Swimming at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics. Sri Lanka qualified one male swimmer. Akalanka Peiris met the A or B standard times for all of his events.[16]
| Athlete | Event | Heat | Semifinal | Final | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | |||
| align=left rowspan=3 | Akalanka Peiris | 50 m backstroke | 26.33 NR | 9 Q | 26.36 | 10 | did not advance | |
| 100 m backstroke | 57.34 | 16 Q | 57.35 | 16 | did not advance | |||
| 50 m butterfly | 25.18 | 25 | did not advance | |||||