Slovenia at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics

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

Slovenia at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics
IOC code	SLO
NOC	Slovenian Olympic Committee
Website	www.olympic.si
in Nanjing
Competitors	48 in 14 sports
Medals Ranked 29th	Gold 2 Silver 2 Bronze 3 Total 7
Summer Youth Olympics appearances
2010 2014 2018

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Gold	Urh Kastelic Jan Prevolnik Matic Kotar Jaka Malus Tilen Sokolič Jakob Beđeti Žiga Urbič Gal Marguč Rok Cvetko Leon Rašo Darko Stojnić Aleks Kavčič Luka Kikanović Blaž Janc	Handball	Boys' tournament	25 August
Gold	Anže Urankar	Canoeing	Boys' K1 slalom	27 August
Silver	Žiga Lah	Basketball	Boys' dunk contest	21 August
Silver	Ela Mićunović	Basketball	Girls' shoot-out contest	21 August
Bronze	Maruša Štangar	Judo	Girls' 52 kg	18 August
Bronze	Nastja Govejšek	Swimming	Girls' 50 metre butterfly	20 August
Bronze	Leda Kroselj	Athletics	Girls' pole vault	23 August

Archery

Main article: Archery at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics

Slovenia qualified a male archer from its performance at the 2013 World Archery Youth Championships.^[1] Slovenia later qualified a female archer from its performance at the 2014 European Archery Youth Championships.^[2]

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
Gašper Štrajhar	Boys' Individual	615	28	Tapia (MEX) L 0–6	Did not advance				17
Ivana Laharnar	Girls' Individual	635	13	Sutton (AUS) W 6–2	Marin (ESP) L 2–6	Did not advance			9

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
Gašper Štrajhar (SLO)  Melanie Gaubil (FRA)	Mixed Team	1278	21	Peters (CAN)  Tuokkola (FIN) L 4-5	Did not advance				17
Ivana Laharnar (SLO)  Francisco Rodriguez Sas (ARG)	Mixed Team	1284	16	Rivera (MEX)  Koenig (FRA) L 2-6	Did not advance				17

Athletics

Main article: Athletics at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics

Slovenia qualified four athletes.^[3]

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)

Girls

Field events

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Distance	Rank	Distance	Rank
Tina Božič	Triple jump	12.22	10 qB	DNS
Lara Omerzu	High jump	1.78	1 Q	1.75	7
Leda Krošelj	Pole vault	3.70	2 Q	3.90
Tjaša Stanko	Javelin throw	50.14	7 Q	47.21	9

Badminton

Main article: Badminton at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics

Slovenia qualified two athletes based on the 2 May 2014 BWF Junior World Rankings.^[4][5]

Singles

Athlete	Event	Group stage				Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM	Rank
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score
Andraž Krapež	Boys' Singles	Weisskirchen (GER) L 0-2	Vlaar (NED) W 2-1	Citron (FRA) L 1-2	3	did not advance
Katarina Beton	Girls' Singles	He (CHN) L 0-2	Lee (MAS) L 0-2	Lais (AUT) W 2-1	3	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
Alida Chen (NED)  Andraž Krapež (SLO)	Mixed Doubles	Abdelhakim (EGY)  Mitsova (BUL) W 2-0	Joshi (IND)  Kabelo (BOT) W 2-1	Sarsekenov (UKR)  Yamaguchi (JPN) W 2-0	1QF	Narongrit (THA)  Qin (CHN) L 0-2	did not advance		5
Katarina Beton (SLO)  Anthony Ginting (INA)	Mixed Doubles	Weisskirchen (GER)  Ishaak (SUR) W 2-0	Kurt (TUR)  Pavlinić (CRO) W 2-0	Shishkov (BUL)  Heim (GER) W 2-0	1QF	Angodavidanalage (SRI)  He (CHN) L 1-2	did not advance		5

Basketball

Main article: Basketball at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics

Slovenia qualified a boys' and girls' team from their performance at the 2013 3x3 World Tour Final.^[6][7]

Skills Competition

Athlete	Event	Qualification				Final First Stage				Final Second Stage
		Round 1	Round 2	Total	Rank	Round 1	Round 2	Total	Rank	Round 1	Round 2	Total	Rank
Žiga Lah	Boys' Dunk Contest	27	27	54	1 Q	30	29	59	1	26	0	26

Athlete	Event	Qualification			Final
		Points	Time	Rank	Points	Time	Rank
Ela Mićunović	Girls' Shoot-out Contest	6	22.4	3 Q	4	31.6

Boys' tournament

Main article: Basketball at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics – Boys' tournament

Roster

• Gregor Klobčar
• Milan Kovačevič
• Žiga Lah
• Aljaž Slutej

Group stage

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	Lithuania	9	9	0	165	129	+36	18	Round of 16
2	Slovenia	9	7	2	152	120	+32	16
3	China	9	6	3	164	143	+21	15[a]
4	Puerto Rico	9	6	3	152	136	+16	15[a]
5	Poland	9	5	4	153	127	+26	14
6	France	9	4	5	151	127	+24	13
7	Hungary	9	3	6	158	165	−7	12
8	Uruguay	9	2	7	103	154	−51	11[b]
9	Germany	9	2	7	118	149	−31	11[b]	Eliminated
10	Indonesia	9	1	8	86	152	−66	10

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Notes:

1. CHN +1, PUR −1
2. URU +1, GER −1

18 August 2014 17:00

Hungary

19–21

Slovenia

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18 August 2014 21:20

Slovenia

15–11

France

Wutaishan Sports Center, Nanjing

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19 August 2014 19:40

Germany

9–21

Slovenia

Wutaishan Sports Center, Nanjing

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20 August 2014 17:40

Slovenia

12–16

Puerto Rico

Wutaishan Sports Center, Nanjing

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20 August 2014 20:40

Uruguay

11–13

Slovenia

Wutaishan Sports Center, Nanjing

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22 August 2014 19:20

Slovenia

21–6

Indonesia

Wutaishan Sports Center, Nanjing

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23 August 2014 18:20

Lithuania

21–14

Slovenia

Wutaishan Sports Center, Nanjing

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23 August 2014 20:40

Slovenia

19–15

China

Wutaishan Sports Center, Nanjing

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24 August 2014 19:20

Poland

12–16

Slovenia

Wutaishan Sports Center, Nanjing

Knockout Stage

Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final	Rank
Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score
Romania L 14-20	did not advance			9

Girls' tournament

Roster

• Maruša Derlink
• Althea Gwashavanhu
• Ela Mićunović
• Maruša Seničar

Group stage

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	Netherlands	9	8	0	1	164	87	+77	24	Round of 16
2	Hungary	9	8	0	1	146	91	+55	24
3	Spain	9	7	0	2	151	95	+56	21
4	Estonia	9	5	0	4	130	109	+21	15
5	China	9	5	0	4	128	103	+25	15
6	Germany	9	4	0	5	111	133	−22	12
7	Brazil	9	3	0	6	101	123	−22	9
8	Venezuela	9	2	0	7	101	153	−52	6
9	Slovenia	9	2	0	7	120	156	−36	6	Eliminated
10	Syria	9	1	0	8	68	170	−102	3

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

18 August 2014 18:40

Hungary

18–12

Slovenia

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19 August 2014 18:00

Slovenia

18–20

China

Wutaishan Sports Center, Nanjing

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19 August 2014 21:20

Spain

21–7

Slovenia

Wutaishan Sports Center, Nanjing

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20 August 2014 19:20

Slovenia

14–16

Estonia

Wutaishan Sports Center, Nanjing

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22 August 2014 17:20

Germany

13–18

Slovenia

Wutaishan Sports Center, Nanjing

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22 August 2014 21:00

Slovenia

vs.

Venezuela

Wutaishan Sports Center, Nanjing

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23 August 2014 20:00

Brazil

20–9

Slovenia

Wutaishan Sports Center, Nanjing

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24 August 2014 18:00

Slovenia

14–11

Syria

Wutaishan Sports Center, Nanjing

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24 August 2014 21:00

Netherlands

vs.

Slovenia

Wutaishan Sports Center, Nanjing

Canoeing

Main article: Canoeing at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics

Slovenia qualified two boats based on its performance at the 2013 World Junior Canoe Sprint and Slalom Championships.^[8]

Boys

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Repechage		Round of 16		Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM	Rank
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Leon Breznik	C1 slalom	1:21.785	4 Q	—				Jisung (KOR) W 1:27.756	Hendrick (IRL) L 1:25.750	Breznik (SVK) L 1:23:257	4
	C1 sprint	2:58.495	14 Q	—		3:14.354	14	Did not advance			14
Anže Urankar	K1 slalom	1:08.336	3 Q	—		1:08.607	3 Q	Sherman (USA) W 1:09.675	Sunderland (GBR) W 1:10.877	Grigar (SVK) W 1:09.057
	K1 sprint	1:42.498	12 R	1:44.654	4 Q	1:39.292	11	Did not advance			11

Cycling

Main article: Cycling at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics

Slovenia qualified a boys' and girls' team based on its ranking issued by the UCI.^[9][10]

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
Jon Božič Peter Zupančič	Boys' Team	14	3	5:17.30	8	20	19	0	59:17	11	8	1:38:53 1:49:13	45 52	0	31	18
Katja Jeretina Anita Žnidaršič	Girls' Team	27	0	6:05.81	7	25	20	0	-1 LAP	23	0	1:12:36 1:12:53	4 34	50	75	15

Mixed Relay

Athletes	Event	Cross-Country Girls' Race	Cross-Country Boys' Race	Boys' Road Race	Girls' Road Race	Total Time	Rank
Anita Žnidaršič Peter Zupančič Jon Božič Katja Jeretina	Mixed Team Relay					18:52	15

Golf

Main article: Golf at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics

Slovenia qualified one team of two athletes based on the 8 June 2014 IGF Combined World Amateur Golf Rankings.^[11]

Individual

Athlete	Event	Round 1		Round 2			Round 3			Total
		Score	Rank	Score	Total	Rank	Score	Total	Rank	Score	Rank
Žan Luka Štirn	Boys	70 (-2)	11	71 (-1)	141 (-3)	6	72 (par)	213 (-3)	10	213	=10
Ana Belac	Girls	76 (+4)	22	72 (par)	148 (+4)	13	75 (+3)	223 (+7)	17	223	=17

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
Žan Luka Štirn Ana Belac	Mixed	69 (-3)	17	74 (+2)	143 (-1)	17	69 (-3)	76 (+4)	288 (par)	15	288	15

Handball

Main article: Handball at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics

Slovenia qualified a boys team by winning the gold medal at the 2013 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival.^[12]

Boys' tournament

Main article: Handball at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics – Boys' tournament

Roster

• Jakob Beđet
• Rok Cvetko
• Blaž Janc
• Urh Kastelic
• Aleks Kavčič
• Luka Kikanović
• Matic Kotar
• Jaka Malus
• Gal Marguč
• Jan Prevolnik
• Leon Rašo
• Tilen Sokolič
• Darko Stojnić
• Žiga Urbič

Group stage

Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
Slovenia	2	2	0	0	71	35	+36	4	Semifinals
Qatar	2	1	0	1	49	61	−12	2
Tunisia	2	0	0	2	35	59	−24	0	5th place game

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

21 August 20:00	Slovenia	33 - 12	Tunisia	Jiangning Sports Centre Gymnasium, Nanjing
	Marguč 10 Kavčič 5 Malus, Janc 4 Prevolnik, Sokolič 3 Beđeti 2 Kikanović, Rašo 1	(18 - 4)	Ben Dhia 4 Ghachem 3 Ben Araar 2 Ayari, Haj Romdhane, Zouaoui 1
	2× 5×		4× 10×

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22 August 20:00	Qatar	23 - 38	Slovenia	Jiangning Sports Centre Gymnasium, Nanjing

Semifinals

24 August 20:00	Norway	30 - 33	Slovenia	Jiangning Sports Center Gymnasium
		(14 - 13)

Gold-medal match

25 August 20:30	Egypt	25 - 31	Slovenia	Jiangning Sports Center Gymnasium
		(11 - 13)

Judo

Main article: Judo at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics

Slovenia qualified one athlete based on its performance at the 2013 Cadet World Judo Championships.^[13]

Individual

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Rep 1	Rep 2	Rep 3	Rep 4	Final / BM	Rank
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Maruša Štangar	Girls' -52 kg	Minenkova (BLR) W 101-001	Siderot (POR) W 100-000	Elizeche (ARG) W 100-000	Temelkova (BUL) L 000-002	—				Liu (CHN) W 100-000

Team

Athletes	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final	Rank
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Team Xian  Hifumi Abe (JPN)  Chiara Carminucci (ITA)  Naomi de Brune (AUS)  Jolan Florimont (FRA)  Brillith Gamarra Carbajal (PER)  Felix Penning (LUX)  Maruša Štangar (SLO)  Idan Vardi (ISR)	Mixed Team	Team Tani (MIX) W 7 – 0	Team Berghmans (MIX) W 4 – 3	Team Rouge (MIX) L 3 – 4	Did not advance

Rowing

Main article: Rowing at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics

Slovenia qualified one boat based on its performance at the 2013 World Rowing Junior Championships.^[14]

Athlete	Event	Heats		Repechage		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Vid Pugelj Žiga Zarič	Boys' Pairs	3:14.65	3 R	3:12.55	1 FA	3:12.30	4

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

Sailing

Main article: Sailing at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics

Slovenia was given a reallocation boat based on being a top ranked nation not yet qualified.^[15]

Athlete	Event	Race											Net Points	Final Rank
		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	M*
Toni Vrščaj	Boys' Techno 293	12	13	7	(14)	10	7	10	Cancelled			73.00	59.00	10

Shooting

Main article: Shooting at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics

Slovenia was given a wild card to compete.^[16]

Individual

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Jože Čeper	Boys' 10m Air Pistol	550	15	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
Yashaswini Singh Deswal (IND)  Jože Čeper (SLO)	Mixed Team 10m Air Pistol	754	3 Q	Audrey-Anne Le Sieur (CAN)  Jiayu Wu (CHN) W 10-5	Lidia Nencheva (BUL)  Vladimir Svechnikov (UZB) L 5-10	Did not advance		5

Swimming

Main article: Swimming at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics

Slovenia qualified four swimmers.^[17]

Boys

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Grega Popović	400 m freestyle	4:01.69	23	—		Did not advance
	800 m freestyle	—				8:19.37	17
Žan Pogačar	50 m backstroke	26.85	19	Did not advance
	100 m backstroke	57.46	20	Did not advance
	200 m backstroke	2:02.84	9	—		Did not advance

Girls

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Tjaša Pintar	50 m freestyle	26.33	13 Q	25.94	8 Q	25.82	6
	100 m freestyle	56.39	11 Q	56.42	13	Did not advance
	200 m freestyle	2:01.56	9	—		Did not advance
	400 m freestyle	4:22.77	18	—		Did not advance
	50 m breaststroke	—
Nastja Govejšek	50 m freestyle	26.18	8 Q	25.90	7 Q	25.95	7
	100 m freestyle	56.09	8 Q	55.82	9	Did not advance
	50 m butterfly	27.09	3 Q	26.77	2 Q	26.70
	100 m butterfly	1:06.08	27	Did not advance

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Heat		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Nastja Govejšek Tjaša Pintar Žan Pogačar Grega Popović	4 × 100 m freestyle relay	3:38.17	9	Did not advance
Nastja Govejšek Tjaša Pintar Žan Pogačar Grega Popović	4 × 100 m medley relay	4:06.32	17	Did not advance

Taekwondo

Main article: Taekwondo at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics

Slovenia qualified one athlete based on its performance at the Taekwondo Qualification Tournament.^[18]

Boys

Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final	Rank
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Lucijan Kobal	+73 kg	Voronovskyy (UKR) L 2 - 7	Did not advance			5

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