Burundi at the
2014 Summer Youth Olympics
IOC codeBDI
NOCComité National Olympique du Burundi
in Nanjing
Competitors8 in 3 sports
Medals
Ranked 70th
Gold
0
Silver
1
Bronze
0
Total
1
Summer Youth Olympics appearances

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

Medalists

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
 Silver Thierry Ndikuwenayo Athletics Boys' 3000 m 24 August
 Silver Amedee Manirakiza Athletics Mixed 8x100m Relay 26 August

Athletics

Main article: Athletics at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics

Burundi qualified five 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
Track & road events
Athlete Event Heats Final
Result Rank Result Rank
Rodrigue Biziyaremye 1500 m 3:49.79 6 Q 3:48.20 PB 7
Thierry Ndikuwenayo 3000 m 8:16.11 PB 5 Q 8:06.05 PB 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
Amedee Manirakiza 2000 m steeplechase 5:45.54 7 Q 5:47.52 4
Girls
Track & road events
Athlete Event Heats Final
Result Rank Result Rank
Francine Niyomwungere 1500 m 4:29.27 10 Q 4:30.54 9
Cavaline Nahimana 3000 m 9:07.23 3 Q 9:14.45 5

Beach Volleyball

Main article: Beach volleyball at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics

Burundi qualified a boys' team by their performance at the CAVB Qualification Tournament.[2]

Athletes Event Preliminary round Standing Round of 24 Round of 16 Quarterfinals Semifinals Final / BM Rank
Opposition
Score 		Opposition
Score 		Opposition
Score 		Opposition
Score 		Opposition
Score 		Opposition
Score
Bosco Ndayishimye
Fiston Niyongabo 		Boys'  Stoyanovskiy/Iarzutkin (RUS)
L 0 – 2 		6 did not advance
 Siddihaluge/Mallawa (SRI)
L 0 – 2
 Mol/Berntsen (NOR)
L 0 – 2
 Bogarin/Frutos (PAR)
L 0 – 2
 Flores/Alvarez (GUA)
L 0 – 2

Tennis

Main article: Tennis at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics

Burundi qualified one athlete based on the 9 June 2014 ITF World Junior Rankings.[3]

Singles
Athlete Event Round of 32 Round of 16 Quarterfinals Semifinals Final / BM Rank
Opposition
Score 		Opposition
Score 		Opposition
Score 		Opposition
Score 		Opposition
Score
Guy Orly Iradukunda Boys' Singles  M Blaško (SVK)
L 3 – 6, 3 – 6 		did not advance
Doubles
Athletes Event Round of 32 Round of 16 Quarterfinals Semifinals Final / BM Rank
Opposition
Score 		Opposition
Score 		Opposition
Score 		Opposition
Score 		Opposition
Score
 Guy Orly Iradukunda (BDI)
 Lloyd Harris (RSA) 		Boys' Doubles —  K Majchrzak (POL)
  J Zieliński (POL)
L 1 – 6, 4 – 6 		did not advance
 Lesedi Sheya Jacobs (NAM)
 Guy Orly Iradukunda (BDI) 		Mixed Doubles  I Ducu (ROU)
  M Zukas (ARG)
L 3 – 6, 1 – 6 		did not advance

References

  1. ^ "Number of Entries by NOC: Athletics". nanjing2014.org. 6 August 2014. Archived from the original on 8 August 2014. Retrieved 8 August 2014.
  2. ^ "Sierra Leone men and Rwanda women top podium of African qualifiers for Youth Olympic Games". FIVB. 16 April 2014. Retrieved 20 April 2014.
  3. ^ "2014 Youth Olympic Tennis Event – Boys Acceptance List by Country" (PDF). ITF. 1 July 2014. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 July 2014. Retrieved 15 July 2014.
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