Sweden at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics

Sweden participated at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics in Nanjing from 16 to 28 August 2014. 32 athletes have been selected to compete at the games.[1]

Sweden at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics
IOC code	SWE
NOC	Swedish Olympic Committee
Website	www.sok.se (in Swedish and English)
in Nanjing
Competitors	33 in 13 sports
Flag bearer	Emma Rask
Medals Ranked 42nd	Gold 1 Silver 2 Bronze 3 Total 6
Summer Youth Olympics appearances (overview)
2010 2014 2018

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Gold	Marcus Kinhult Linnea Ström	Golf	Mixed team	26 August
Silver	Linus Islas Flygare	Fencing	Boys' épée	18 August
Silver	Marcus Kinhult	Golf	Boys' individual	21 August
Bronze	Åsa Linde	Fencing	Girls' épée	18 August
Bronze	Sweden women's national under-18 handball team Albana Arifi Julia Bardis Hanna Blomstrand Joumana Chaddad Emma Ekenman-Fernis Sofia Hvenfelt Anna Johansson Thess Krönell Emma Lindqvist Olivia Mellegård Isabella Mouratidou Emma Rask Julia Sandell Lina Wessberg	Handball	Girls' tournament	25 August
Bronze	Agnes Alexiusson	Boxing	Girls' 60 kg	25 August

Medalists in mixed NOCs events

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Gold	Filip Ågren	Equestrian	Team jumping	20 August
Bronze	Linus Islas Flygare Åsa Linde	Fencing	Mixed team	20 August

Boxing

One boxer will compete for Sweden at the games after her performance at the 2014 AIBA Youth World Championships.[2]

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries	Semifinals	Final / RM	Rank
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Agnes Alexiusson	Girls' 60 kg	Bye	Jajaira Gonzalez (USA) L 0–2	Bronze Medal Bout  Esra Yildiz (TUR) W 3–0

Diving

Sweden secured a quota place at the qualifying event in Guadalajara at 2 March 2014.[3]

Athlete	Event	Preliminary		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Veronica Lindahl	Girls' 3 m springboard	386.10	9 Q	374.05	11
Veronica Lindahl (SWE)  Yang Hao (CHN)	Mixed team	N/A		299.85	9

Equestrian

One athlete are qualified for the equestrian events.[4]

Athlete	Horse	Event	Round 1			Round 2			Total	Rank
			Penalties		Rank	Penalties		Rank
			Jump	Time		Jump	Time
Filip Ågren	Abel	Individual jumping	4	4	=16	Did not start			—	—
Europe  Jake Saywell (GBR)  Michael Duffy (IRL)  Matias Alvaro (ITA)  Lisa Nooren (NED) Filip Ågren (SWE)	Galaxy Commander Montelini For The Sun Abel	Team Jumping	(8) 0 0 (8) 0	(0) 0 0 (0) 0	1	(4) 0 0 (0) 0	(0) 0 0 (0) 0	1	0

Fencing

Two fencers have qualified based on the result from the 2014 Cadet World Championships.[5]

Athlete	Event	Pool Round	Seed	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM	Rank
		Opposition Score		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score
Linus Islas Flygare	Boys' épée	Ivan Limarev (RUS) W	3	Mohammad Shaheen (SYR) W 15–4	Kei Hsu Chien (HKG) W 15–6	Justin Yoo (USA) W 15–9	Patrik Esztergalyos (HUN) L 8–15
		Patrik Esztergalyos (HUN) L
		Samuel Unterhauser (GER) W
		Mohammad Shaheen (SYR) W
		Kei Hsu Chien (HKG) L
		Ibrahim Djibo Hassane (NIG) W
Åsa Linde	Girls' épée	Shirwit Gaber (EGY) W	1	BYE	Inna Brovko (UKR) W 15–14	Sinhee Lee (KOR) L 10–15	Catherine Nixon (USA) W 15–8
		Kinka Nagy (HUN) W
		Anna Maria Mroszczak (POL) L
		Sinhee Lee (KOR) W
		Balqis Alqudah (JOR) W
Europe 2 Åsa Linde (SWE)  Anna Szymczak (POL)  Chiara Crovari (ITA) Linus Islas Flygare (SWE)  Enguerand Roger (FRA)  Marios Giakoumatos (GRE)	Mixed Team	N/A		BYE	Americas 1 (MIX) W 30–24	Asia-Oceania 1 (MIX) L 29–30	Asia-Oceania 2 (MIX) W 30–25

Golf

Sweden qualified one team of two athletes based on the 8 June 2014 IGF Combined World Amateur Golf Rankings.[6]

Individual

Athlete	Event	Round 1		Round 2			Round 3			Total
		Score	Rank	Score	Total	Rank	Score	Total	Rank	Score	Rank
Marcus Kinhult	Boys	66	=1	72	138	=3	69	207	2	207 (–9)
Linnea Ström	Girls	75	=19	73	148	=13	73	221	=12	221 (5)	=12

Team

Athletes	Event	Round 1 (Foursome)		Round 2 (Fourball)			Round 3 (Individual Stroke)				Total
		Score	Rank	Score	Total	Rank	Boy	Girl	Total	Rank	Score	Rank
Marcus Kinhult Linnea Ström	Mixed	65	=6	67	132	=2	70	70	140	=5	272 (–16)

Gymnastics

Athlete	Event	Floor		Pommel Horse		Rings		Vault		Parallel Bars		Horizontal Bar		Total
		Score	Rank	Score	Rank	Score	Rank	Score	Rank	Score	Rank	Score	Rank	Score	Rank
Kim Wanström	Boys' qualification	12.550	31	11.850	26	12.150	28	13.400	–	12.950	16	12.350	23	75.250	22

Handball

Sweden won the 2013 European Women's Youth Championships and qualified for the Youth Olympic Games.[7]

Girls' tournament

Roster

• Joumana Chaddad
• Thess Krönell
• Emma Ekenman-Fernis
• Albana Arifi
• Sofia Hvenfelt
• Emma Lindqvist
• Julia Bardis
• Lina Wessberg
• Olivia Mellegård
• Anna Johansson
• Hanna Blomstrand
• Isabella Mouratidou
• Julia Sandell
• Emma Rask

Group stage

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Sweden	2	2	0	0	71	38	+33	4	Semifinals
2	Brazil	2	1	0	1	56	50	+6	2
3	China (H)	2	0	0	2	32	71	−39	0	5th place game

Source: Nanjing 2014
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head number of goals scored; 5) goal difference.
(H) Host.

20 August 16:00	China	14–39	Sweden	Jiangning Sports Centre Gymnasium, Nanjing Referees: Karim Gasmi, Raof Gasmi (France)
	Shanshan (5)	(8–20)	Fernis, Mellegård, Blomstrand (7)
		Report

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22 August 16:00	Sweden	32–24	Brazil	Jiangning Sports Centre Gymnasium, Nanjing Referees: Mariko Shimajiri, Tomoko Ota (Japan)
	Mellegård (7)	(16–11)	de Paula, Carneiro (6)
		Report

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Semifinal

24 August 13:00	Sweden	24–25	South Korea	Jiangning Sports Centre Gymnasium, Nanjing Referees: Arthur Brunner, Morad Salah (Switzerland)
	Ekenman-Fernis (10)	(10–11)	Kang (6)
		Report

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Bronze medal game

25 August 13:00	Brazil	16–23	Sweden	Jiangning Sports Centre Gymnasium, Nanjing Referees: Mariko Shimajiri, Tomoko Ota (Japan)
	Rodrigues Arruda (5)	(5–11)	Blomstrand, Bardis, Rask (4)
		Report

Judo

Individual

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Rep 1	Rep 2	Final / BM	Rank
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Nellie Einstein	Girls' 52 kg	Liu Xiaoyu (CHN) W 011–001	Khulan Tseregbaatar (MGL) W 000S1–000	Layana Colman (BRA) L 000S2–010	Did not advance	Liu Xiaoyu (CHN) L 000–001	Did not advance		11

Team

Athletes	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final	Rank
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Team Yamashita  Frank de Wit (NED)  Nellie Einstein (SWE)  Sandrine Mbazoghe Endamne (GAB)  Lubjana Piovesana (GBR)  Sara Rodriguez (ESP)  Tsogtbaatar Tsend-Ochir (MGL)  Jorre Verstraeten (BEL)	Mixed Team	Team Douillet (MIX) L 3^112 – 3^200	Did not advance			9

Sailing

Sweden qualified one boat based on its performance at the Byte CII European Continental Qualifiers.[8]

Athlete	Event	Race								Net Points	Final Rank
		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	M*
Arvid Nordquist	Boys' Byte CII	(23)	9	17	15	17	20	5	18	101	16

Swimming

Sweden has been assigned eight quota places by FINA, but decided to compete with only six athletes.[9]

Athletes	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Position	Time	Position	Time	Position
Isak Eliasson	Boys’ 50 m freestyle	23.37	12 Q	23.40	15	Did not advance
	Boys’ 100 m freestyle	51.96	24	Did not advance
Petter Fredriksson	Boys’ 50 m backstroke	26.72	15 Q	26.36	13	Did not advance
	Boys’ 100 m backstroke	56.96	16 Q	57.11	15	Did not advance
	Boys’ 200 m backstroke	2:06.48	21	N/A		Did not advance
Jessica Billquist	Girls’ 50 m breaststroke	32.55	13 Q	32.73	13	Did not advance
	Girls’ 100 m breaststroke	1:12.06	17	Did not advance
Sophie Hansson	Girls’ 50 m breaststroke	32.38	8 Q	32.02	4 Q	32.01	5
	Girls’ 100 m breaststroke	1:11.32	13 Q	1:10.49	11	Did not advance
Jaqueline Hippi	Girls’ 100 m freestyle	57.67	20	Did not advance
	Girls’ 200 m freestyle	2:06.59	26	N/A		Did not advance
	Girls’ 200 m individual medley	2:20.84	17	N/A		Did not advance
Sara Wallberg	Girls’ 200 m breaststroke	2:34.00	9	N/A		Did not advance
Isak Eliasson Petter Fredriksson Sophie Hansson Jaqueline Hippi	Mixed 4 x 100 m medley relay	4:03.09	14	N/A		Did not advance

Table tennis

Elias Ranefur secured a quota place at the Road to Nanjing Series in Avarua.[10]

Singles

Athlete	Event	Group Stage	Rank	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM	Rank
		Opposition Score		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score
Elias Ranefur	Boys	Group C  Dominic Huang (AUS) W 3–0	3 qB	Krishnateja Avvari (USA) W 3–1	Kerem Ben Yahia (TUN) W 3–0	Yin Jing Yuan (SIN) W 3–2	Abhishek Yadav (IND) W 3–1	17
		Hugo Calderano (BRA) L 1–3
		Fermin Tenti (ARG) L 2–3

Team

Athletes	Event	Group Stage	Rank	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM	Rank
		Opposition Score		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score
Europe 2  Nicole Trosman (ISR) Elias Ranefur (SWE)	Mixed	Florence Seera (UGA)  Christ Bienatiki (CGO) W 3–0 (WO)	2 Q	Maria Lorenzotti (URU)  Hugo Calderano (BRA) W 2–1	Miyu Kato (JPN)  Yuto Muramatsu (JPN) L 0–2	Did not advance		=5
		Chiu Ssu-Hua (TPE)  Yang Heng-Wei (TPE) L 0–3
		Lily Zhang (USA)  Krishnateja Avvari (USA) W 2–1

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

Taekwondo

At the YOG qualifying event in Taipei at 20 March 2014, Patricia Stirner secured a quota place for Sweden after finishing in sixth place in girls' 49 kg event.[11]

Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final	Rank
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Patricia Striner	Girls' 49 kg	Mitzi Carrillo (MEX) L 1 – 13 (PTG)	Did not advance			9

Tennis

Sweden qualified one athlete based on the 9 June 2014 ITF World Junior Rankings.[12]

Singles

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM	Rank
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score
Daniel Appelgren	Boys' singles	Francisco Bahamonde (ARG) L 1–2	Did not advance

Doubles

Athletes	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM	Rank
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score
Daniel Appelgren (SWE)  Petar Čonkić (SRB)	Boys' doubles	N/A	André Bíró (HUN)  Clement Geens (BEL) L 1–2	Did not advance
Jeļena Ostapenko (LAT) Daniel Appelgren (SWE)	Mixed doubles	Ivana Jorović (SRB)  Petar Čonkić (SRB) W 2–1	Fanni Stollár (HUN)  Kamil Majchrzak (POL) L 1–2	Did not advance

References

1. "Här är hela truppen till YOG Nanjing". Swedish Olympic Committee (in Swedish). 9 July 2014. Retrieved 9 July 2014.
2. "Agnes klar för Ungdoms-OS!". swebox.se (in Swedish). 22 April 2014. Retrieved 22 April 2014.
3. "Nanjing 2014 - Diving Qualifying Event Info & Results". FINA. 5 March 2014. Archived from the original on 5 March 2014. Retrieved 5 March 2014.
4. Filip Ågren uttagen till YOG i Nanjing. (in Swedish). Swedish Equestrian Federation. 2 January 2014.
5. "2014 Youth Olympic Games - Nanjing FIE Qualifications" (PDF). FIE. 10 July 2014. Retrieved 10 July 2014.
6. "Youth Olympic Games Golf Ranking". IGF. 8 June 2014. Archived from the original on 2 July 2014. Retrieved 7 July 2014.
7. 11 teams qualify for 2014 Women's Youth World Championship. European Handball Federation. 27 August 2013.
8. "2014 YOG Qualification Byte CII". International Sailing Federation. 5 July 2014. Retrieved 5 July 2014.
9. http://iof3.idrottonline.se/ImageVaultFiles/id_81807/cf_104/Uttagningskriterier_YOC_2014_rev140203.PDF
10. http://www.ittf.com/_front_page/ittf_full_story1.asp?ID=35656&Competition_ID=2434&
11. http://iof3.idrottonline.se/svenskataekwondoforbundet/kyorugi/landslagkyorugi/juniorer/
12. "2014 Youth Olympic Tennis Event – Boys Acceptance List by Country" (PDF). ITF. 1 July 2014. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 July 2014. Retrieved 15 July 2014.