Triathlon at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics

Triathlon at the III Summer Youth Olympic Games
Venue	Parque Tres de Febrero
Dates	7–11 October
No. of events	3 (1 boys, 1 girls, 1 mixed)
Competitors	64 (32 boys, 32 girls) from 42 nations

Triathlon at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics was held from 7 to 11 October. The events took place at Parque Tres de Febrero in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Qualification

Each National Olympic Committee (NOC) can enter a maximum of 2 competitors, 1 per each gender. As hosts, Argentina was given the maximum quota and a further 4, 2 in each gender was decided by the Tripartite Commission. The remaining 58 places shall be decided by qualification events, namely five continental qualification tournaments.^[1]

To be eligible to participate at the Youth Olympics athletes must have been born between 1 January 2001 and 31 December 2002.^[1]

Event	Location	Date	Total Places	Qualified Boys	Qualified Girls
Host Nation	-	-	1	Argentina	Argentina
2018 Oceania YOG Qualifier[2]	New Plymouth	25 March 2018	2	Australia  New Zealand	Australia  New Zealand
2018 Africa YOG Qualifier[3]	Rabat	21 April 2018	3	South Africa  Tunisia  Egypt	South Africa  Tunisia  Egypt
2018 Asian YOG Qualifier[4]	Subic Bay	17 June 2018	5	Japan  China  Hong Kong  Malaysia  Syria  Kazakhstan	Singapore  South Korea  China  Japan  Hong Kong
2018 American YOG Qualifier[5]	Salinas	1 July 2018	7/8	Mexico  Canada  United States  Ecuador  Chile  Brazil  Colombia	United States  Mexico  Ecuador  Brazil  Venezuela  Peru  Cuba  Colombia
2018 European YOG Qualifier[6]	Banyoles	7–8 July 2018	12	France  Portugal  Hungary  Italy  Sweden  Israel  Germany  Switzerland  Great Britain  Belgium  Spain  Slovenia	Italy  France  Portugal  Russia  Switzerland  Hungary  Great Britain  Luxembourg  Netherlands  Belgium  Germany  Denmark
Tripartite Invitation	-	-	2/1	Aruba  Virgin Islands	Grenada
TOTAL			32

• The second female tripartie spot was not awarded and thus it was reallocated to the Americas, as per the qualification system.

Schedule

The schedule is expected to be released by the Buenos Aires Youth Olympic Games Organizing Committee.

All times are ART (UTC-3)

Event Date	Event Day	Starting Time	Event Details
October 7	Sunday	11:00	Girls' Race
October 8	Monday	11:00	Boys' Race
October 11	Thursday	11:00	Mixed Team Relay

Medal summary

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
–	Mixed-NOCs	1	1	1	3
1	New Zealand	1	0	0	1
	South Africa	1	0	0	1
3	Denmark	0	1	0	1
	Portugal	0	1	0	1
5	Italy	0	0	1	1
	Switzerland	0	0	1	1
Totals (6 entries)		3	3	3	9

Events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Boys' details	Dylan McCullough  New Zealand	Alexandre Montez  Portugal	Alessio Crociani  Italy
Girls' details	Amber Schlebusch  South Africa	Sif Bendix Madsen  Denmark	Anja Weber  Switzerland
Mixed Relay details	Europe 1  Sif Bendix Madsen (DEN)  Alessio Crociani (ITA)  Anja Weber (SUI)  Alexandre Montez (POR)	Oceania 1  Charlotte Derbyshire (AUS)  Dylan McCullough (NZL)  Brea Roderick (NZL)  Joshua Ferris (AUS)	Europe 3  Marie Horn (GER)  Henry Graf (GER)  Emilie Noyer (FRA)  Igor Bellido (ESP)

References

1. "Qualification System: Triathlon" (PDF). ITU. 23 March 2017. Retrieved 19 March 2018.
2. "Results: 2018 New Plymouth OTU Triathlon Oceania YOG Qualifier and Junior Oceania Championships". ITU. 25 March 2018. Retrieved 10 May 2018.
3. "Results: 2018 Rabat ATU Triathlon African Championships and YOG Qualifier". ITU. 22 April 2018. Retrieved 10 May 2018.
4. "2018 Subic Bay ASTC Triathlon Asian YOG Qualifier". ITU. 17 June 2018. Retrieved 25 June 2018.
5. "Results: 2018 Salinas CAMTRI Triathlon American YOG Qualifier". ITU. 1 July 2018. Retrieved 1 July 2018.
6. "Results: 2018 Banyoles ETU Triathlon European YOG Qualifier". ITU. 7 July 2018. Retrieved 7 July 2018.

External links

• Official Results Book – Triathlon