Azerbaijan at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics

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

Azerbaijan at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics
Flag of Azerbaijan
IOC code	AZE
NOC	Azerbaijan Olympic Committee
Website	www.noc-aze.org
in Nanjing
Competitors	21 in 9 sports
Medals Ranked 10th	Gold 5 Silver 6 Bronze 1 Total 12
Summer Youth Olympics appearances (overview)
2010 2014 2018

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Gold	Said Guliyev	Taekwondo	Boys' -73 kg	20 August
Gold	Islambek Dadov	Wrestling	Boys' Greco-Roman -69kg	25 August
Gold	Rufat Huseynov	Boxing	Boys' -49 kg	27 August
Gold	Teymur Mamedov	Wrestling	Boys' Freestyle -63kg	27 August
Gold	Igbal Hajizade	Wrestling	Boys' Freestyle -100kg	27 August
Silver	Natig Gurbanli	Judo	Boys' -55 kg	17 August
Silver	Leyla Aliyeva	Judo	Girls' -44 kg	17 August
Silver	Ceren Ozbek	Taekwondo	Girls' -44 kg	17 August
Silver	Boris Yotov	Rowing	Boys' Single Sculls	20 August
Silver	Jabbar Najafov	Wrestling	Boys' Greco-Roman -50kg	25 August
Silver	Leyla Gurbanova	Wrestling	Girls' Freestyle -52kg	26 August
Bronze	Nazim Babayev	Athletics	Boys' Triple Jump	25 August

Archery

Main article: Archery at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics

Azerbaijan qualified a female archer from its performance at the 2013 World Archery Youth Championships.^[1]

Individual

Athlete	Event	Ranking round		Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM	Rank
		Score	Seed	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score
Sughrakhanim Mugabilzada	Girls' Individual	618	23	Zyzanska (POL) L 3–7	Did not advance				17

Team

Athletes	Event	Ranking round		Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM	Rank
		Score	Seed	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score
Sughrakhanim Mugabilzada (AZE)  Hiroki Muto (JPN)	Mixed Team	1292	1	Zinsou (BEN)  Lee (KOR) W 6-2	Rivera (MEX)  Koenig (FRA) W 5-4	Li (CHN)  Moreno (PHI) L 1-5	Did not advance		8

Athletics

Main article: Athletics at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics

Azerbaijan qualified three athletes.^[2]

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

Field Events

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Distance	Rank	Distance	Rank
Nazim Babayev	Triple jump	15.65	2 Q	15.96

Girls

Track & road events

Athlete	Event	Heats		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Benafeta Gadiez	3000 m	9:14.06 PB	8 Q	9:22.60	8

Field events

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Distance	Position	Distance	Position
Yelena Gladkova	Pole vault	3.55	9 qB	3.70	2

Boxing

Main article: Boxing at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics

Azerbaijan qualified three boxers based on its performance at the 2014 AIBA Youth World Championships^[3]

Boys

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries	Semifinals	Final / RM	Rank
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Rufat Huseynov	-49 kg	Kakara (IND) W 2-1	Aikhynbay (KAZ) W 2-1	Latipov (UZB) W 3-0
Masud Yusifzada	-52 kg	Muhammad Ali (GBR) L 1-2	Did not advance	Bout for 5th place  Asenov (BUL) L w/o	6
Mahammadali Tahirov	+91 kg	Bye	Kadiru (GER) L TKO	Bronze medal Bout  Kerimkhanov (RUS) L 0-3	4

Judo

Main article: Judo at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics

Azerbaijan qualified two athletes based on the results at the 2013 IJF Cadet World Championships.^[4][5]

Individual

Athlete	Event	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Rep 1	Final / BM	Rank
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Natig Gurbanli	Boys' -55 kg	Bye	Verstraeten (BEL) W 001-000	—	Zhauyntayev (KAZ) L 000-001
Leyla Aliyeva	Girls' -44 kg	Saiyn (KAZ) W 101-000	Turcheva (RUS) W 000-000	—	Çakmaklı (TUR) L 000-000

Team

Athletes	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final	Rank
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Team Tani  Francesco Aufieri (MLT)  Rostislav Dashkov (KGZ)  Luis Gonzalez (VEN)  Natig Gurbanli (AZE)  Ulyana Minenkova (BLR)  Khulan Tseregbaatar (MGL)  Hassiatou Yahaya Aboubacar (NIG)	Mixed Team	Team Xian (MIX) L 0 – 7	Did not advance			9
Team Van De Walle  Paola Acevedo (PUR)  Leyla Aliyeva (AZE)  Nokutula Banda (ZAM)  Marco Montoya (COL)  Ivan Silva Morales (CUB)  Unelle Snyman (RSA)  Peta Zadro (BIH)	Mixed Team	Bye	Team Geesink (MIX) L 3 – 4	Did not advance		5

Rowing

Main article: Rowing at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics

Azerbaijan qualified one boat based on their performance at the 2013 Rowing Junior Championships.^[6]

Athlete	Event	Heats		Repechage		Semifinals		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Boris Yotov	Boys' Single Sculls	3:25.47	1 SA/B	—		3:23.85	2 FA	3:21.82

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

Shooting

Main article: Shooting at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics

Azerbaijan was given a wild card to compete.^[7]

Individual

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Urfan Akhundov	Boys' 10m Air Pistol	548	16	Did not advance

Team

Athletes	Event	Qualification		Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM	Rank
		Points	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Urfan Akhundov (AZE)  Afaf El-Hodhod (EGY)	Mixed Team 10m Air Pistol				Madrid (GUA)/ Rasmane (LAT) L 6 - 10	Did not advance		5

Swimming

Main article: Swimming at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics

Azerbaijan qualified one swimmer.^[8][9]

Girls

Athlete	Event	Heat		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Elvira Hasanova	200 m individual medley	2:33.52	26	Did not advance

Taekwondo

Main article: Taekwondo at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics

Azerbaijan qualified four athletes based on its performance at the Taekwondo Qualification Tournament.^[10][11]

Boys

Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final	Rank
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Said Guliyev	−73 kg	—	Serrano (COL) W 7 - 4	Eissa (EGY) W 8 - 1	Karim (GER) W 10 - 4

Girls

Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final	Rank
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Ceren Ozbek	−44 kg	Bye	Lúa (MEX) W 0 (SUP) - 0	Stones (GBR) W 3 - 2	Wongpattanakit (THA) L 1 - 21 (PTG)
Safiye Polat	−49 kg	Bye	Huang (TPE) L 5 - 6	Did not advance		5
Gulhanim Yeşildaş	−55 kg	Martignani (ITA) L 0 - 0 (SUP)	Did not advance			9

Wrestling

Main article: Wrestling at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics

Azerbaijan qualified five athletes based on its performance at the 2014 European Cadet Championships.^[12]

Key:

• VT - Victory by Fall.
• PP - Decision by Points - the loser with technical points.
• PO - Decision by Points - the loser without technical points.

Boys

Athlete	Event	Group stage				Final / RM	Rank
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score
Teymur Mammadov	Freestyle -63kg	Julakidze (GEO) W 4 - 0 ST	Steyn (RSA) W 4 - 0 ST	Dydasco (PLW) W 4 - 0 ST	1 Q	Montero (VEN) W 0 - 3 PO
Igbal Hajizada	Freestyle -100kg	Filho (BRA) W 4 - 0 ST	García (MEX) W 4 - 0 ST	Elgizawee (EGY) W 3-0 PO	1 Q	Ceacusta (MDA) W 3 - 1 PP
Jabbar Najafov	Greco-Roman -50kg	Beytekin (TUR) W 4 - 0 ST	Aghaniachari (IRI) W 3 - 1 PP	Cojocari (MDA) W 4 - 0 ST	1 Q	Bakhromov (UZB) L 1 - 3 PP
Islambek Dadov	Greco-Roman -69kg	Alimov (UZB) W 3 - 0 PP	Polivadov (KAZ) W 3 - 0 PO	Ibrahim (EGY) W 3 - 0 PO	1 Q	Manville (USA) W 3 - 0 PO

Girls

Athlete	Event	Group stage				Final / RM	Rank
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score
Leyla Gurbanova	Freestyle -52kg	Kennett (CAN) W	Kremzer (UKR) W	Vasquez (ESA) W 4 - 0	1 Q	Mukaida (JPN) L 1 - 3 PP

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