Athletics at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics explained

Event:	Athletics
Games:	2014 Summer Youth
Venue:	Nanjing Olympic Sports Center
Dates:	20–26 August
Num Events:	37 (18 boys, 18 girls, 1 mixed)
Prev:	2010
Next:	2018

Athletics at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics was held from 20 to 26 August at the Nanjing Olympic Sports Center in Nanjing, China.

Qualification

Each National Olympic Committee (NOC) could enter a maximum of 36 athletes, 18 per each gender and 1 per each event. As hosts, China is given 2 quotas, 1 per each gender and 136 places. 68 spots per each gender was decided by the Tripartite Commission. The remaining 540 places were divided evenly among the individual events and were decided among a single continental qualification event for each continent with the exception of the Americas in which they hosted three. The amount of quotas available to each continent for each event was decided on the results from the 2011 World Youth Championships and 2013 World Youth Championships.^[1] ^[2]

To be eligible to participate at the Youth Olympics athletes must have been born between 1 January 1997 and 31 December 1998.

Qualification timeline

Event	Location	Date
		6–10 July 2011
		10–14 July 2013
2014 Oceania Youth Olympic Qualifying Meet		12–16 March 2014
		4–5 April 2014
		19–21 April 2014
		17–18 May 2014
		21–22 May 2014
		28–31 May 2014
2014 European Youth Olympic Trials		30 May-1 June 2014

Quota distribution

Boys

Event	Africa	Americas	Asia	Europe	Oceania	Total
100m	1	7	3	2	2	15
200m	1	7	4	2	1	15
400m	2	6	4	2	1	15
800m	9	1	1	3	1	15
1500m	9	2	1	2	1	15
3000m	11	1	1	1	1	15
110m Hurdles	2	6	4	2	1	15
400m Hurdles	2	6	5	1	1	15
2000m Steeplechase	10	1	2	1	1	15
High Jump	1	4	4	5	1	15
Pole Vault	1	3	2	8	1	15
Long Jump	1	3	4	6	1	15
Triple Jump	1	4	2	7	1	15
Shot Put	1	3	1	9	1	15
Discus Throw	2	4	2	6	1	15
Hammer Throw	2	1	1	10	1	15
Javelin Throw	2	1	1	10	1	15
10000m Race Walk	1	4	4	5	1	15
Total	60	67	42	82	19	270

Girls

Event	Africa	Americas	Asia	Europe	Oceania	Total
100m	1	8	1	4	1	15
200m	1	5	1	7	1	15
400m	1	8	2	3	1	15
800m	3	3	1	7	1	15
1500m	8	2	1	3	1	15
3000m	8	1	3	2	1	15
100m Hurdles	1	8	1	4	1	15
400m Hurdles	2	6	1	5	1	15
2000m Steeplechase	9	2	1	2	1	15
High Jump	2	2	1	8	2	15
Pole Vault	1	2	1	8	3	15
Long Jump	1	5	1	7	1	15
Triple Jump	1	2	2	9	1	15
Shot Put	1	2	2	9	1	15
Discus Throw	1	2	4	5	3	15
Hammer Throw	1	1	1	11	1	15
Javelin Throw	1	4	1	7	2	15
5000m Race Walk	1	1	5	7	1	15
Total	44	64	30	108	24	270

Schedule

The schedule was released by the Nanjing Youth Olympic Games Organizing Committee.^[3] In the table below, M stands for morning (begins 09:00), A for afternoon (begins 16:00) and E stands for evening (begins 18:30).

All times are CST (UTC+8)

Date →	Wed 20	Thu 21	Fri 22	Sat 23		Sun 24		Mon 25		Tue 26
Event ↓	E	E	E	M	E	M	E	M	E	A
Boys' 100 m		H			F
Boys' 200 m			H				F
Boys' 400 m	H			F
Boys' 800 m			H						F
Boys' 1500 m		H				F
Boys' 3000 m	H						F
Boys' 110 m hurdles	H				F
Boys' 400 m hurdles			H					F
Boys' 2000 m steeplechase		H							F
Boys' 10 km walk							F
Boys' Long jump		Q				F
Boys' Triple jump			Q						F
Boys' High jump	Q				F
Boys' Pole vault			Q						F
Boys' Shot put		Q					F
Boys' Discus throw	Q				F
Boys' Javelin throw			Q						F
Boys' Hammer throw		Q					F
Date →	Wed 20	Thu 21	Fri 22	Sat 23		Sun 24		Mon 25		Tue 26
Event ↓	E	E	E	M	E	M	E	M	E	A
Girls' 100 m		H			F
Girls' 200 m			H			F
Girls' 400 m	H				F
Girls' 800 m	H				F
Girls' 1500 m			H					F
Girls' 3000 m	H						F
Girls' 100 m hurdles	H			F
Girls' 400 m hurdles			H						F
Girls' 2000 m steeplechase		H							F
Girls' 5 km walk					F
Girls' Long jump	Q				F
Girls' Triple jump			Q					F
Girls' High jump		Q					F
Girls' Pole vault	Q				F
Girls' Shot put		Q					F
Girls' Discus throw	Q				F
Girls' Javelin throw			Q						F
Girls' Hammer throw		Q					F
Mixed 8x100 m relay										H	F

Medal summary

Medal table

Nanjing 2014 Final Athletics Results

Results

Boys' events

100 m	10.56	10.57	10.60
200 m	20.80	21.20	21.31
400 m	46.31	46.76 PB	46.91 PB
800 m	1:49.14	1:49.37 PB	1:49.73
1500 m	3:41.99 PB	3:45.08 PB	3:45.72 PB
3000 m	7:56.20	8:06.05 PB	8:06.33
110 m hurdles	12.96 PB	13.40 PB	13.43 PB
400 m hurdles	50.61 PB	50.61 PB	51.19 PB
2000 m steeplechase	5:38.42	5:40.29	5:40.94
10 km race walk	42:03.64 PB	42:10.95 PB	42:14.11
High jump	2.20	2.14 PB	2.14 PB
Pole vault	5.10 PB	5.05	5.05 PB
Long jump	7.54	7.44 PB	7.37
Triple jump	16.15	16.01	15.96
Shot put	23.17 PB	21.00	20.13
Discus throw	64.14 PB	63.52	57.48 PB
Hammer throw	82.65 PB	81.90	78.59 PB
Javelin throw	74.48 PB	73.98	72.40

Girls' events

100 m	11.65	11.71	11.76
200 m	23.55	23.94	24.28
400 m	52.50 PB	52.74 PB	53.33 PB
800 m	2:04.90 PB	2:06.01 PB	2:06.03
1500 m	4:15.38	4:17.91	4:18.36 PB
3000 m	9:01.58 PB	9:05.07	9:06.10 PB
100 m hurdles	13.34 PB	13.38	13.61
400 m hurdles	57.91 PB	58.26 PB	58.60 PB
2000 m steeplechase	6:22.67	6:26.02	6:31.92 PB
5 km race walk	22:22.08 SB	23:19.27	23:38.10
High jump	1.89 PB	1.87 PB	1.85
Pole vault	4.36 PB	4.10	3.90
Long jump	6.26 PB	6.21	6.17 PB
Triple jump	13.33 PB	13.06 PB	13.01 PB
Shot put	18.95	17.55	17.31
Discus throw	52.79 PB	51.64	50.70
Hammer throw	68.35 PB	68.35	67.35
Javelin throw	59.52 PB	53.68	52.27 PB

Mixed events

8×100 m relay

1:40.20

1:41.39

1:43.60

Participating nations

169 nations participated in athletics.^[4]

External links

Official Results Book – Athletics

Notes and References

News: Qualification System: Athletics . . July 2012 . 7 June 2014.
News: Athletics Quota Places by Continent and Event . . 22 September 2013 . 7 June 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140602201043/http://eyot2014baku.com/application/uploads/2014/04/event.pdf . 2 June 2014 .
News: Sport Explanatory Brochure: Athletics . Nanjing Youth Olympic Games Organizing Committee . 4 March 2014 . 5 June 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 .