Switzerland at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics explained

Noc:	SUI
Nocname:	Swiss Olympic Association
Games:	Summer Youth Olympics
Year:	2014
Location:	Nanjing
Competitors:	19
Sports:	9
Rank:	36
Gold:	2
Silver:	1
Bronze:	0
Appearances:	auto

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

Archery

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

Switzerland qualified a male archer from its performance at the 2014 European Archery Youth Championships.^[1]

Individual

Team

Athletics

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

Switzerland qualified four athletes.^[2]

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

Girls

Field events

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
Athlete	Event	Distance	Rank	Distance	Rank
Salome Lang	align=left	High jump	1.74	9 qB	1.73	5
Angelica Moser	align=left	Pole vault	3.80	1 Q	4.36 PB

Beach Volleyball

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

Switzerland qualified a team by being the highest ranked nation not yet qualified.^[3]

Athletes	Event	Preliminary round	Standing	Round of 24	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final /	Rank
Athletes	Event	Opposition Score	Standing	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
align=left rowspan=5	Dunja Gerson Esther Rohrer	align=left rowspan=5	Girls'	W w/o	Q	W 2 - 0	L 1 - 2	did not advance	17
W 2 – 1

Diving

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

Switzerland qualified two quotas based on its performance at the Nanjing 2014 Diving Qualifying Event.^[4]

Athlete	Event	Preliminary		Final
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Guillaume Dutoit	align=left	Boys' 3 m springboard	521.25	4	525.05	9
Vivian Barth	align=left	Girls' 3 m springboard	362.45	10	383.70	9
	align=left	Mixed team	275.80	11

Golf

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

Switzerland qualified one athlete based on the 8 June 2014 IGF World Amateur Golf Rankings.^[5]

Individual

Team

Gymnastics

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

Artistic Gymnastics

Switzerland qualified one athlete based on its performance at the 2014 European MAG Championships and another athlete based on its performance at the 2014 European WAG Championships.^[6]

Boys

Athlete	Event	Apparatus						Total	Rank
Athlete	Event							Total	Rank
align=left rowspan=3	Marco Pfyl	Qualification	13.650 12	13.050 14	13.150 13	13.800 23	13.300 8 Q	12.000 27	78.950	12 Q
All-Around	14.000	12.800	12.700	13.950	12.250	11.325	77.025	13
Parallel Bars	13.541	5

Girls

Athlete	Event	Apparatus				Total	Rank
Athlete	Event					Total	Rank
align=left rowspan=2	Gaia Nesurini	Qualification	13.600 14	11.975 12	12.300 17	12.450 10	50.425	11 Q
All-Around	13.650	12.400	11.350	12.350	49.750	13

Shooting

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

Switzerland was given a wild card to compete.^[7]

Individual

Team

Swimming

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

Switzerland qualified four swimmers.^[8]

Boys

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
align=left rowspan=6	Nils Liess	200 m freestyle	colspan=6
400 m freestyle	3:55.66	10	did not advance
800 m freestyle	DNS
200 m backstroke	colspan=6
100 m butterfly	54.15	5 Q	53.52	3 Q	54.14	6
200 m butterfly	1:58.44	1 Q	1:58.32	4
align=left rowspan=4	Luca Pfyffer	50 m breaststroke	29.49	24	did not advance
100 m breaststroke	1:03.73	17	did not advance
200 m breaststroke	2:16.76	9	did not advance
200 m individual medley	2:09.28	19	did not advance

Girls

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
align=left rowspan=5	Svenja Stoffel	50 m freestyle	colspan=6
50 m backstroke	DNS		did not advance
100 m backstroke	1:07.14	31	did not advance
50 m butterfly	26.93	1 Q	26.89	4 Q	26.62
100 m butterfly	1:01.03	8 Q	1:00.68	9	did not advance
align=left rowspan=4	Lisa Mamie	50 m breaststroke	32.51	12 Q	33.16	16	did not advance
100 m breaststroke	1:10.44	8 Q	1:10.87	15	did not advance
200 m breaststroke	2:37.08	19	did not advance
200 m individual medley	2:23.05	21	did not advance

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Heat		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Nils Liess Lisa Mamie Luca Pfyffer Svenja Stoffel	4×100 m freestyle relay	colspan=4
Nils Liess Lisa Mamie Luca Pfyffer Svenja Stoffel	4×100 m medley relay

Table Tennis

See main article: Table tennis at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics.

Switzerland qualified one athlete based on its performance at the Road to Nanjing series.^[9]

Singles

Team

Athletes	Event	Group Stage	Rank	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final /	Rank
Athletes	Event	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
align=left rowspan=3	Europe 3	align=left rowspan=3	Mixed	Latin America 1 L 1-3	3 qB
Africa 1 W 3-0
Germany L 0-3

Qualification Legend: Q=Main Bracket (medal); qB=Consolation Bracket (non-medal)

Tennis

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

Switzerland qualified one athlete based on the 9 June 2014 ITF World Junior Rankings.^[10]

Singles

Doubles

Athletes	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final /	Rank
Athletes	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
	Girls' Doubles		L 1-2 3-6, 7⁷-6⁴, [8]-[10]	did not advance			9
	Mixed Doubles	W 2–0 (6–3, 6–4)	W 2–0 (7–6, 6–3)	W 2–0 (6–3, 6–3)	W 2–0 (6–2, 6–1)	W 2–1 (4–6, 6–3, 10–4)

Notes and References

News: Youth Olympics Games-2014 Qualification Places Boys . . 23 May 2014 . 24 May 2014.
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 .
News: Number of Entries by NOC: Beach Volleyball . nanjing2014.org . 6 August 2014 . 7 August 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140808062015/http://result.nanjing2014.qq.com/IRS/ENG/ZZ/ZZS103A_YO2014BV%40%40%40%40%40%40%40ENG.htm . 8 August 2014 .
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 .
News: Youth Olympic Games Golf Ranking . . 6 August 2014 . 6 August 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140702151154/http://www.igfgolf.org/olympic-games/youth-olympic-games/youth-olympic-golf-ranking/ . 2 July 2014 .
News: 2nd Youth Olympic Games Qualifiers - Gymnastics . . 8 July 2014 . 8 July 2014.
News: Quota Places by Name and Nation . . 21 June 2014 . 27 June 2014.
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 .
News: Players Qualified for the 2014 Youth Olympic Games . . 16 April 2014 . 20 April 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140309012014/http://www.ittf.com/competitions/PDF_Upload/pictures/PDF27240.pdf . 9 March 2014 .
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 .