Uganda at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics

Uganda at the Youth Olympic Games
Flag of Uganda IOC code  UGA NOC Uganda Olympic Committee
At the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics in Nanjing
Competitors	6 in 4 sports
Medals Rank: 70	Gold 0	Silver 1	Bronze 0	Total 1

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

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Silver	Balimumiti, GeofreyGeofrey Balimumiti	Athletics	Boys' 800 m	25 August

Athletics

Uganda qualified three 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
Geofrey Balimumiti	800 m	1:50.43	3 Q	1:49.37
Steven Mande	1500 m	3:54.88 PB	14 qB	3:59.12	15

Girls

Track & road events

Athlete	Event	Heats		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Janat Chemusto	3000 m	9:10.74	7 Q	9:22.42	7

Badminton

Uganda 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
Daniel Mihigo	Boys' Singles	K Tsuneyama (JPN) L 0 – 2	L Penalver (ESP) L 0 – 2	K Jakowczuk (POL) 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
Lole Courtois (FRA)  Daniel Mihigo (UGA)	Mixed Doubles	B He (CHN)  S Dias (SRI) L 0 – 2	R Shivani (IND)  A Ayittey (GHA) W w/o	T Hendahewa (SRI)  B Ong (SIN) L 0 – 2	3	Did not advance

Rowing

Uganda was given a boat to compete by the tripartite committee.^[3]

Athlete	Event	Heats		Repechage		Semifinals		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Constance Mbambu	Girls' Single Sculls	4:53.18	6 R	4:44.62	5 SC/D	4:50.42	6 FD	4:56.12	24

Qualification Legend: FA=Final A (medal); FB=Final B (non-medal); FC=Final C (non-medal); FD=Final D (non-medal); SA/B=Semifinals A/B; SC/D=Semifinals C/D; R=Repechage

Table Tennis

Uganda was given a quota to compete by the tripartite committee.^[4]

Singles

Athlete	Event	Group Stage	Rank	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM	Rank
		Opposition Score		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score
Florence Seera	Girls	K Stefcova (CZE) L 0 – 3	4 qB	G Piccolin (ITA) L w/o	Did not advance			25
		G Arvelo (VEN) L 0 – 3
		H Doo (HKG) L 0 – 3

Team

Athletes	Event	Group Stage	Rank	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM	Rank
		Opposition Score		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score
Africa 2  Florence Seera (UGA)  Christ Bienatiki (CGO)	Mixed	Europe 2  N Trosman (ISR)  E Ranefur (SWE) L w/o	4 qB	India  S Mukherjee (IND)  A Yadav (IND) L w/o	Did not advance	N/A		25
		United States  L Zhang (USA)  K Avvari (USA) L w/o
		Chinese Taipei  S Chiu (TPE)  H Yang (TPE) L w/o

Qualification Legend: Q=Main Bracket (medal); qB=Consolation Bracket (non-medal)

References

1. "Number of Entries by NOC: Athletics". nanjing2014.org. 6 August 2014. Retrieved 8 August 2014.
2. "BWF Junior World Rankings: Boys' Singles". BWF. 8 July 2014. Retrieved 8 July 2014.
3. "2014 YOG Qualification: Rowing". FISA. 20 February 2014. Retrieved 27 February 2014.
4. "Players Qualified for the 2014 Youth Olympic Games" (PDF). ITTF. 24 June 2014. Retrieved 27 June 2014.