Venezuela at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics

Venezuela at the
2018 Summer Youth Olympics
IOC codeVEN
NOCVenezuelan Olympic Committee
Websitecovoficial.com.ve
in Buenos Aires
Competitors53 in 17 sports
Flag bearerKatherin Echandia[1]
Medals
Ranked 39th
Gold
2
Silver
0
Bronze
0
Total
2
Summer Youth Olympics appearances (overview)

Venezuela competed at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from 6 to 18 October 2018.

Basketball 3×3

Main article: Basketball at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics

Venezuela qualified both teams (8 athletes) via World Ranking as of April 1, 2018 (1st in Boys; 4th in Girls). This is a 2nd qualification in a row for a Venezuelan 3x3 (also qualified in Nanjing 2014 both teams). This is not consider as Team Sport (all athletes have individual World Ranking).

Beach handball

Main article: Beach handball at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics

Venezuela qualified Boys' Team and Girls' Team (18 athletes) to the tournament.

Beach volleyball

Main article: Beach volleyball at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics

Venezuela qualified girls' and boys' from their performance at the 2018 CSV Youth Beach volleyball Tour.[2]

Athletes Event Preliminary round Round of 24 Round of 16 Quarterfinals Semifinals Final / BM
Opposition
Score 		Rank Opposition
Score 		Opposition
Score 		Opposition
Score 		Opposition
Score 		Opposition
Score 		Rank
Richard Brizuela
Gabriel González 		Boys'  Bintang–Danang (INA)
L 0-2
 Brewster–Schwengel (USA)
L 0-2
 Railbiently–Brian (ARU)
W 2-0 		3  A Lezcano–C Lobo (CRC)
L 0-2 		Did not advance
Urimar Narváez
Diana Ramírez 		Girls'  Romero–Gutiérrez (MEX)
W 2-1
 Mali–Kayla (ARU)
W 2-0
 Valentine–Penelope (RWA)
W 2-0 		1 Bye  Thatsarida–Pawarun (THA)
L 1-2 		Did not advance

Boxing

Main article: Boxing at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics
Boys
Athlete Event Preliminary R1 Preliminary R2 Semifinals Final / RM Rank
Opposition
Result 		Opposition
Result 		Opposition
Result 		Opposition
Result
Giodanny Jiménez -75 kg  Poutoa (SAM)
L 0–5 		 Douibi (ALG)
L 0–5 		Did not advance  Millas (ITA)
W WO 		5

Cycling

Main article: Cycling at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics

Venezuela qualified one athlete in BMX freestyle based on its performance at the 2018 Urban Cycling World Championship.[3]

  • Mixed BMX freestyle - 1 girl

Equestrian

Main article: Equestrian at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics

Venezuela qualified a rider based on its ranking in the FEI World Jumping Challenge Rankings. [4]

Athlete Horse Event Round 1 Round 2 Total Jump-Off Rank
Penalties Rank Penalties Total Rank Penalties Rank Penalties Time
Bernardo Lander Roi Quake Z Individual Jumping EL Did not advance 29
South America
 Philip Mattos Botelho (BRA)
 Bernardo Lander (VEN)
 Gonzalo Bedoya (BOL)
 Agostina Llano Zuccolillo (PAR)
 Richard Kierkegaard (ARG) 		Denise Z
Roi Quake Z
Ankara I
Red Sugar Z
Legolas I 		Team Jumping
12 #
4
4 #
0
0		 4
0
4 #
0
0
0		 0 4 Did not advance 4

Fencing

Main article: Fencing at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics

Venezuela qualified one athlete based on its performance at the 2018 Cadet World Championship.[5]

Gymnastics

Main article: Gymnastics at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics

Artistic

Venezuela qualified one gymnast based on its performance at the 2018 American Junior Championship.[6]

  • Boys' artistic individual all-around - 1 quota

Multidiscipline

Team Athlete Acrobatic Artistic Rhythmic Trampoline Total
points 		Rank
Yevgeny Marchenko
(Brown) 		 Daniela González (PUR)
 Adriel González (PUR) 		36 — 430 10
 Byun Seong-won (KOR) — 45 —
 Lay Giannini (ITA) 55
 Víctor Betancourt (VEN) 54
 Kate Sayer (AUS) 36
 Elvira Katsali (GRE) 89
 Valeriia Sotskova (ISR) — 26 —
 Anastasia Pingou (CYP) 20
 Ekaterina Fetisova (UZB) 39
 Fu Fantao (CHN) — 8
 Alyssa Oh (USA) 12

Judo

Main article: Judo at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics

Modern pentathlon

Main article: Modern pentathlon at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics

Venezuela qualified one pentathlete based on its performance at the Pan American Youth Olympic Games Qualifier.[7]

Athlete Event Fencing
Ranking Round
(épée one touch) 		Swimming
(200 m freestyle) 		Fencing
Final round
(épée one touch) 		Combined: Shooting/Running
(10 m air pistol)/(3000 m) 		Total
Points 		Final
Rank
Results Rank Time Rank Points Results Rank Points Time Rank Points
 Angel Hernandez (VEN)
 Boys' Individual
 Angel Hernandez (VEN)
 Elžbieta Adomaitytė (LTU) 		Mixed Relay

Sailing

Main article: Sailing at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics

Venezuela qualified one boat based on its performance at the Central and South American IKA Twin Tip Qualifiers.[8][9]

  • Girls' IKA Twin Tip Racing - 1 boat

Triathlon

Main article: Triathlon at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics

Venezuela qualified one athlete based on its performance at the 2018 American Youth Olympic Games Qualifier.[10]

Individual
Athlete Event Swim (750m) Trans 1 Bike (20 km) Trans 2 Run (5 km) Total Time Rank
Karina Clemant Girls 9:56 0:48 30:17 0:40 20:37 1:02:18 17
Relay
Athlete Event Total Times per Athlete
(Swim 250m, Bike 6.6 km,
Run 1.8 km) 		Total Group Time Rank
Americas 2
 Karina Clemant (VEN)
 Cristian Andres Triana Peña (COL)
 Giovanna Lacerda (BRA)
 Javier Antonio de la Peña Schott (MEX) 		Mixed Relay 23:23 (11)
21:26 (6)
23:49 (6)
22:01 (7) 		1:30:39 1P 6

Weightlifting

Main article: Weightlifting at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics

Venezuela qualified one quota in the boys' events and one quota in the girls' events based on the team ranking after the 2017 Weightlifting Youth World Championships.

Boy
Athlete Event Snatch Clean & jerk Total Rank
Result Rank Result Rank
Carlos David Trejo Gonzalez −62 kg 115 3 140 6 255 5
Girl
Athlete Event Snatch Clean & jerk Total Rank
Result Rank Result Rank
Katherin Oriana Echandia Zarate −44 kg 72 1 90 1 162 1st place, gold medalist(s)

Wrestling

Main article: Wrestling at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics
Key:
  • VFA – Victory by Fall
  • VSU – Without any points scored by the opponent
  • VSU1 – With point(s) scored by the opponent
  • VPO – Without any points scored by the opponent
  • VPO1 – With point(s) scored by the opponent
Athlete Event Group stage Final / RM Rank
Opposition
Score 		Opposition
Score 		Opposition
Score 		Opposition
Score 		Rank Opposition
Score
María Jose Mosquera Rojas Girls' freestyle −49kg  Varakina (BLR)
L 3 – 8 VPO1 		 Ikei (USA)
L 2 – 12 VSU1 		 Akhmedova (UZB)
L 1 – 12 VSU1 		 Raimova (KAZ)
W 14 – 8 VPO1 		4 Q  Duenas (GUM)
W 10 – 0 VSU 		7
Mayra Alejandra Parra Alvarez Girls' freestyle −57kg  Ringaci (MDA)
L 2 – 11 VPO1 		 Szél (HUN)
L 0 – 10 VSU 		 Mansi (IND)
W 9 – 8 VPO1 		 Toida (CMR)
W 10 – 0 VSU 		3 Q  López (MEX)
L 0 – 7 VPO 		6

References

  1. ^ "Katherin Echandia elevará el tricolor patrio en los JJOO Buenos Aires 2018" [Katherin Echandia will carry the flag of Venezuela in 2018 Summer Youth Olympics]. Ministry of Popular Power for Communication and Information. 15 September 2018. Archived from the original on 18 September 2018.
  2. ^ "Bolivia Logra El Oro Historico y Divide El Podio Con Paraguay En El Clasificatorio YOG De Cochabmaba". South American Volleyball Confederation. 17 June 2018. Retrieved 25 June 2018.
  3. ^ "Countries that will participate in the 2018 Youth Olympics" (PDF). UCI. 1 June 2018. Retrieved 1 June 2018.
  4. ^ "Qualified NOC's to the 3rd Youth Olympic Games – Buenos Aires - 2018" (PDF). FEI. 17 January 2018. Retrieved 17 January 2018.
  5. ^ "2018 Youth Olympic Games - Buenos Aires FIE Qualifications" (PDF). FIE. 10 April 2018. Retrieved 14 May 2018.
  6. ^ "2018 Youth Olympic Games Gymnastics Qualifiers". FIG. 25 June 2018. Archived from the original on 27 June 2018. Retrieved 26 June 2018.
  7. ^ "YOG 2018 Continental Qualifier - Pan America". UIPM. 1 September 2017. Retrieved 13 October 2017.
  8. ^ "First direct qualifier spots won for Kiteboarding Youth Olympics". 22 January 2018. Retrieved 22 January 2018.
  9. ^ "2018 Youth Olympic Games - Qualification". World Sailing. 5 June 2018. Retrieved 5 June 2018.
  10. ^ "Results: 2018 Salinas CAMTRI Triathlon American YOG Qualifier". ITU. 1 July 2018. Retrieved 1 July 2018.