Botswana at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics

Botswana at the Youth Olympic Games
Flag of Botswana IOC code  BOT NOC Botswana National Olympic Committee
At the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics in Nanjing
Competitors	8 in 4 sports
Medals Rank: 61	Gold 0	Silver 2	Bronze 0	Total 2

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

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Silver	Sibanda, KaraboKarabo Sibanda	Athletics	Boys' 400 m	23 August
Silver	Thebe, BabolokiBaboloki Thebe	Athletics	Boys' 200 m	24 August

Athletics

Botswana 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
Baboloki Thebe	200 m	20.99	2 Q	21.20
Karabo Sibanda	400 m	47.43	4 Q	46.76
Gorata Gabankitse	800 m	1:54.66	14 qB	1:58.30	13
Kagiso Kebatshwaretse	3000 m	8:45.33 PB	13 qB	8:39.38 PB	13

Girls

Track & road events

Athlete	Event	Heats		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Thandi Uerimuna	800 m	2:11.97	14 qB	2:12.13	13

Badminton

Botswana was given a quota to compete by the tripartite committee.^[2]

Singles

Athlete	Event	Group stage				Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM	Rank
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score
Tessa Kabelo	Girls' Singles	X Liang (SIN) L 0 – 2	A Demirbag (TUR) L 0 – 2	G Kim (KOR) L 0 – 2	4	Did not advance

Doubles

Athlete	Event	Group stage				Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM	Rank
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score
Tessa Kabelo (BOT)  Aditya Joshi (IND)	Mixed Doubles	A Yamaguchi (JPN)  R Sarsiekienov (UKR) L 0 – 2	A Chen (NED)  A Krapez (SLO) L 1 – 2	M Mitsova (BUL)  A Hussein (EGY) W 2 – 1	3	Did not advance

Judo

Botswana was given a quota to compete by the tripartite committee.^[3]

Individual

Athlete	Event	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM	Rank
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Gavin Mogopa	Boys' -55 kg	O Karaca (TUR) L 0000 – 1000	Did not advance	J Verstraeten (BEL) L 0000 – 1000	5

Team

Athletes	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final	Rank
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Team Kano  Melisa Cakmakli (TUR)  Salim Darukhi (TJK)  Mariam Janashvili (GEO)  Arso Milic (MNE)  Gavin Mogopa (BOT)  Elvismar Rodriguez (VEN)  Stoyan Tarapanov (BUL)  Tea Tintor (SRB)	Mixed Team	Team Rouge (MIX) L 2 – 5	Did not advance			9

Swimming

Botswana qualified one swimmer.^[4]

Girls

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Naomi Ruele	50 m backstroke	29.86	17	Did not advance
	100 m backstroke	1:05.98	29	Did not advance

References

1. "Number of Entries by NOC: Athletics". nanjing2014.org. 6 August 2014. Retrieved 8 August 2014.
2. "BWF Junior World Rankings: Girls' Singles". BWF. 8 July 2014. Retrieved 8 July 2014.
3. "2014 YOG IJF Athlete List" (PDF). International Judo Federation. 18 July 2014. Retrieved 4 August 2014.
4. "Number of Entries by NOC: Swimming". nanjing2014.org. 6 August 2014. Retrieved 9 August 2014.