Sri Lanka at the
2018 Summer Youth Olympics
IOC codeSRI
NOCNational Olympic Committee of Sri Lanka
Websitehttps://www.olympic.lk/
in Buenos Aires, Argentina
6 – 18 October 2018
Competitors13 in 7 sports
Medals
Ranked 83rd
Gold
0
Silver
0
Bronze
1
Total
1
Summer Youth Olympics appearances

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]

Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors participating at the Games per sport/discipline.

Sport Men Women 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

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.

Archery

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]

Individual
Athlete Event Ranking round Round of 32 Round of 16 Quarterfinals Semifinals Final / BM Rank
Score Seed Opposition
Score 		Opposition
Score 		Opposition
Score 		Opposition
Score 		Opposition
Score
Ravien Dalpatadu Boys' singles 667 14 Q  Hazael Jesus Rodríguez Valero (CUB)
W 6–5 		 Feng Hao (CHN)
W 6–5 		 Artem Ovchynnikov (UKR)
L 2–6 		did not advance =5
Team
Athletes Event Ranking round Round of 32 Round of 16 Quarterfinals Semifinals Final / BM Rank
Score Seed Opposition
Score 		Opposition
Score 		Opposition
Score 		Opposition
Score 		Opposition
Score
 Ravien Dalpatadu (SRI)
 Isabella Bassi (CHI) 		Mixed team 1298 20 Q  Hendrik Õun (EST)
 Nicole Marie Tagle (PHI)
L 4–5 		did not advance =17

Athletics

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]

Track & road events
Athlete Event Stage 1 Stage 2 Total
Result Rank Result Rank Total Rank
Dilan Bogoda Boys' 400 m 48.52 PB 5 48.81 7 1:37.33 7
Shalinda Jansen Girls' 200 m 25.00 11 24.07 PB 9 49.07 9
Parami Wasanthi Maristela Girls' 2000 metre steeplechase 6:33.06 PB 3 13:47 17 (4) 7 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Field event
Athlete Event Stage 1 Stage 2 Total
Distance Position Distance Position Total Rank
Seniru Amarasinghe Boys' high jump 2.05 =4 2.14 4 4.19 4

Badminton

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]

Girl
Athlete Event Group stage Quarterfinal Semifinal Final / BM Rank
Opposition
Score 		Opposition
Score 		Opposition
Score 		Rank Opposition
Score 		Opposition
Score 		Opposition
Score
Hasini Nusaka Ambalangodage Singles  Jiménez (DOM)
W 2–0 (21–14, 21–16) 		 Chaiwan (THA)
L 0–2 (5–21, 12–21) 		 Ilori (NGR)
W 2–0 (21–8, 21–9) 		2 did not advance 9
Team
Athlete Event Group stage Quarterfinal Semifinal Final / BM Rank
Opposition
Score 		Opposition
Score 		Opposition
Score 		Rank Opposition
Score 		Opposition
Score 		Opposition
Score
Team Alpha
 Hasini Nusaka Ambalangodage (SRI)
 Lakshya Sen (IND)
 Giovanni Toti (ITA)
 Vannthoun Vath (CAM)
 Brian Yang (CAN)
 Maria Delcheva (BUL)
 Jennie Gai (USA)
 Ashwathi Pillai (SWE)
 Mixed Teams  Epsilon (MIX)
W 110–98 		 Delta (MIX)
L 99–110 		 Zeta (MIX)
W 110–103 		2 Q  Gamma (MIX)
W 110–94 		 Theta (MIX)
W 110–90 		 Omega (MIX)
W 110–106 		1st place, gold medalist(s)

Basketball

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]

Girls' tournament

Main article: Basketball at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics – Girls' tournament
Athletes Event Group stage Quarterfinal Semifinal Final / BM Rank
Opposition
Score 		Opposition
Score 		Opposition
Score 		Opposition
Score 		Rank Opposition
Score 		Opposition
Score 		Opposition
Score
Leia Hamza
Fathima Morseth
Rashmi Perera
Nihari Perera 		Girls' tournament  Egypt (EGY)
W 17–15 		 United States (USA)
L 8–21 		 Ukraine (UKR)
L 6–18 		 Venezuela (VEN)
L 10–21 		4 did not advance
Skills Competition
Athlete Event Qualification Final
Points Time Rank Points Time Rank
Leia Hamza Shoot-out Contest 3 28.3 22 did not advance
Rashmi Perera 1 29.5 34 did not advance

Gymnastics

Main article: Gymnastics at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics

Artistic

Sri Lanka qualified one gymnast based on its performance at the 2018 Asian Junior Championship.[15]

Girls
Individual Qualification
Athlete Event Apparatus Total Rank
V UB BB F
Milka Gehani Individual 12.833 8.966 11.333 11.266 44.298 28

Multidiscipline

Team Athlete Acrobatic Artistic Rhythmic Trampoline Total
points 		Rank
Team Nadia Comăneci
(Yellow) 		 Anastassiya Arkhipova (KAZ)
 Dmitriy Nemerenko (KAZ) 		15 — 410 9
 Uri Zeidel (ISR) — 105 —
Sergey Naidin 31
 Mathys Cordule (FRA) 21
 Zarith Imaan Khalid (MAS) 41
 Lisa Zimmermann (GER) 36
 Milka Dona (SRI) 33
 Natalie Garcia (CAN) — 19 —
 Ioanna Magopoulou (GRE) 28
 Ketevan Arbolishvili (GEO) 42
 Takumi Fujimoto (JPN) — 20
 Michelle Mares (MEX) 19

Shooting

Main article: Shooting at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics

Sri Lanka received a reallocated spot in the boys' 10 m air rifle event.

Boys
Individual
Athlete Event Qualification Final
Points Rank Points Rank
Chanidu Seanayake Mudiyanselage 10m air rifle 610.6 17 did not advance
Team
Athletes Event Qualification Round of 16 Quarterfinals Semifinals Final / BM Rank
Points Rank Opposition
Result 		Opposition
Result 		Opposition
Result 		Opposition
Result
 Chanidu Seanayake Mudiyanselage (SRI)
 Anna Janssen (GER) 		Mixed 10 m air rifle 819.0 14 Q  Hayk Babayan (ARM)
 Victoria Rossiter (AUS)
L 9–10 		did not advance

Swimming

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]

Boy
Athlete Event Heat Semifinal Final
Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank
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

See also

References

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  10. ^ Peiris, Sudarshana (6 July 2018). "Parami best in the world, 4 Juniors make the cut". www.thepapare.com. Dialog Axiata. Retrieved 6 July 2018.
  11. ^ Peiris, Sudarshana (3 October 2018). "Carrying Sri Lanka's medal hopes at the YOG". www.thepapare.com. Dialog Axiata. Retrieved 3 October 2018.
  12. ^ "Youth Olympic Qualifiers updated 8 June WS" (PDF). Badminton World Federation. Retrieved 24 June 2018.
  13. ^ "33 countries to compete at 2018 Youth Olympic Games". www.fiba.basketball/. International Basketball Federation (FIBA). 5 April 2018. Retrieved 6 April 2018.
  14. ^ "Congratulations U18 3x3 Women's Youth Team!!". www.slbasketball.com/. Sri Lanka Basketball Federation. 27 September 2018. Retrieved 1 October 2018.
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