Denmark at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics

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

Denmark at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics
IOC code	DEN
NOC	Denmark Olympic Committee
Website	www.dif.dk
in Nanjing
Competitors	15 in 8 sports
Flag bearer	Emily Kristine Pedersen[1]
Medals Ranked 63rd	Gold 0 Silver 1 Bronze 3 Total 4
Summer Youth Olympics appearances
2010 2014 2018

Medalists

Medals awarded to participants of mixed-NOC (Combined) teams are represented in italics. These medals are not counted towards the individual NOC medal tally.

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Gold	Emil Hansen	Triathlon	Mixed Relay	21 August
Silver	Mikkel Honore Rasmus Salling	Cycling	Boys' Team	22 August
Bronze	Emil Hansen	Triathlon	Boys' Race	18 August
Bronze	Anna Madsen Pernille Mathiesen	Cycling	Girls' Team	22 August
Bronze	Anne Sofie Kirkegaard	Athletics	Girls' 400 m Hurdles	25 August

Athletics

Main article: Athletics at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics

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
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Kristoffer Hari	Boys' 100 m	10.82	=7 Q	10.80	=5
Benjamin Lobo Vedel	Boys' 400 m	47.27	2 Q	47.29	5

Girls

Track & road events

Athlete	Event	Heats		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Anne Sofie Kirkegaard	Girls' 400 m hurdles	59.92	4 Q	58.60 PB

Note: Ranks in the heats-phase refer to the overall rank across all heats.

Badminton

Main article: Badminton at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics

Denmark qualified one athlete based on the 2 May 2014 BWF Junior World Rankings.^[2]

Singles

Athlete	Event	Group stage				Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM	Rank
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score
Mia Blichfeldt	Girls' Singles	Thilini Promodika Hendahewa (SRI) L 18–21 15–21	Chlorie Cadeau (SEY) W 21–5 21–2	Akane Yamaguchi (JPN) L 12–21 20–22	3	DNQ			=17

Doubles

Athlete	Event	Group stage				Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM	Rank
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score
Mia Blichfeldt (DEN)  Devins Mananga Nzoussi (CGO)	Mixed Doubles	Guda (AUS)/ Hartawan (INA) L 10–21 7–21	Narongrit (THA)/ Qin (CHN) L 9–21 5–21	Cadeau (SEY)/ Penalver Pereira (ESP) L 16–21 18–21	4	DNQ			=17

Canoeing

Main article: Canoeing at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics

Denmark qualified one boat based on its performance at the 2013 World Junior Canoe Sprint and Slalom Championships.^[3]

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Repechage		Last 16		Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM	Rank
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Opponent Result	Opponent Result	Opponent Result
Bolette Iversen	Girls' K1 sprint	1:55.101	7 Q	BYE		1:54.119	6 Q	Luca Homonnai (HUN) L 1:55.250–1:43.872	DNQ		8
	Girls' K1 slalom	1:32.623	11 R	1:29.397	3 Q	1:31.187	11	DNQ			11

Cycling

Main article: Cycling at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics

Denmark qualified a boys' and girls' team based on its ranking issued by the UCI.^[4][5]

Team

Athletes	Event	Cross-Country Eliminator		Time Trial			BMX		Cross-Country Race			Road Race			Total Pts	Rank
		Rank	Points	Time	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Time	Rank	Points	Time	Rank	Points
Mikkel Honore Rasmus Salling	Boys' Team	=17	0	5:09.44	1	100	3	130	1:01:23	15	2	1:37:23 DNF	7 –	25 0	257
Anna Madsen Pernille Mathiesen	Girls' Team	2	80	6:03.31	3	65	=21	0	45:56	3	65	1:13:08 1:12:36	36 9	0 15	225

Mixed Relay

Athletes	Event	Cross-Country Girls' Race	Cross-Country Boys' Race	Boys' Road Race	Girls' Road Race	Total Time	Rank
Anna Madsen Rasmus Salling Mikkel Honore Pernille Mathiesen	Mixed Team Relay	3:25	3:09	5:18	6:13	18:05	6

Golf

Main article: Golf at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics

Denmark 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	Score	Rank
John Axelsen	Boys	70 (−2)	=11	74 (+2)	144 (Par)	=13	68 (−4)	212 (−4)	=5
Emily Kristine Pedersen	Girls	75 (+3)	=19	73 (+1)	148 (+4)	=13	67 (−5)	215 (−1)	6

Team

Athletes	Event	Round 1 (Foursome)		Round 2 (Fourball)			Round 3 (Individual Stroke)			Total
		Score	Rank	Score	Total	Rank	Boy	Girl	Combined	Score	Rank
John Axelsen Emily Kristine Pedersen	Mixed	65 (−7)	=6	65 (−7)	130 (−14)	1	73 (+1)	71 (−1)	144 (Par)	274 (−14)	4

Rowing

Main article: Rowing at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics

Denmark qualified one boat based on its performance at the 2013 World Rowing Junior Championships.^[7]

Athlete	Event	Heats		Repechage		Semifinals		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Astrid Steensberg	Girls' Single Sculls	3:55.51	2 R	3:57.54	3 SC/D	3:59.73	2 FC	4:02.03	14

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

Denmark was given a wild card to compete.^[8]

Individual

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Christina van Elzelingen	Girls' 10m Air Pistol	369	11	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
Christina van Elzelingen (DEN)  Christopher Summerell (AUS)	Mixed Team 10m Air Pistol	746	8 Q	Teh (SIN)/ Mohamed (EGY) L 5–10	Did not advance			9

Triathlon

Main article: Triathlon at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics

Denmark qualified two athletes based on its performance at the 2014 European Youth Olympic Games Qualifier.^[9]

Individual

Athlete	Event	Swim (750m)	Trans 1	Bike (20 km)	Trans 2	Run (5 km)	Total Time	Rank
Emil Hansen	Boys	9:38	0:42	28:43	0:19	15:27	54:49
Alberte Pedersen	Girls	10:46	0:41	32:46	0:41	17:39	1:02:16	10

Relay

Athlete	Event	Total Times per Athlete (Swim 250m, Bike 6.6 km, Run 1.8 km)	Total Group Time	Rank
Europe 1  Kristin Ranwig (GER)  Emil Hansen (DEN)  Emilie Morier (FRA)  Ben Dijkstra (GBR)	Mixed Relay	21:49 19:25 21:43 19:20	1:22:17
Europe 4  Amber Rombaut (BEL)  Miguel Cassiano (POR)  Alberte Pedersen (DEN)  Omri Bahat (ISR)		21:21 19:50 22:28 20:15	1:23:54	4

References

1. "Opening Ceremony Flag Bearers - Youth Olympic Games, Nanjing 2014" (PDF). olympic.org. International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 25 August 2014.
2. "BWF Junior World Rankings: Girls' Singles". BWF. 8 July 2014. Archived from the original on 2014-07-14. Retrieved 8 July 2014.
3. "2014 Youth Olympics Games Qualification" (PDF). ICF. 20 February 2014. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 March 2014. Retrieved 13 March 2014.
4. "Cycling Boys Qualifiers". UCI. 12 July 2014. Retrieved 12 July 2014.^{[permanent dead link]}
5. "Cycling Girls Qualifiers". UCI. 12 July 2014. Retrieved 12 July 2014.^{[permanent dead link]}
6. "Youth Olympic Games Golf Ranking". IGF. 8 June 2014. Archived from the original on 2 July 2014. Retrieved 7 July 2014.
7. "2014 YOG Qualification: Rowing". FISA. 20 February 2014. Archived from the original on 27 February 2014. Retrieved 27 February 2014.
8. "Quota Places by Name and Nation". ISSF. 21 June 2014. Retrieved 27 June 2014.
9. "2014 European YOG Qualifier". ITU. 17 May 2014. Retrieved 18 May 2014.