Cuba at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics

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

Cuba at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics
IOC code	CUB
NOC	Cuban Olympic Committee
in Nanjing
Competitors	12 in 7 sports
Medals Ranked 35th	Gold 2 Silver 1 Bronze 1 Total 4
Summer Youth Olympics appearances
2010 2014 2018

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Gold	Javier Ibanez	Boxing	Boys' -56 kg	27 August
Gold	Yordan Hernandez	Boxing	Boys' -91 kg	27 August
Silver	Alain Limonta	Boxing	Boys' -60 kg	27 August
Bronze	Ivan Felipe Silva Morales	Judo	Boys' -81 kg	18 August

Archery

Cuba qualified a female archer from its performance at the 2013 World Archery Youth Championships.[1][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
Rosangel Sainz Rodriguez	Girls' Individual	602	28	Melanie Gaubil (FRA) L 2–6	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
Rosangel Sainz Rodriguez (CUB)  Luis Tapia (MEX)	Mixed Team	1283	18	Freywald (GER)  Zolkepeli (MAS) L 3-5	Did not advance				17

Boxing

Cuba 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
Javier Ibanez	-56 kg	Said (TUN) W 3-0	McGrail (GBR) W 2-1	Mihaylov (BUL) W 3-0
Alain Limonta	-60 kg	Bye	Hosaka (JPN) W 3-0	Zhussupov (KAZ) L 1-2
Yordan Hernandez	-91 kg	Marton (UKR) W 3-0	Gallagher (IRL) W 3-0	Filipi (CRO) W 2-1

Canoeing

Cuba qualified one boat based on its performance at the 2013 World Junior Canoe Sprint and Slalom Championships.[4]

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
Hector Bouza Leyva	K1 slalom	1:20.322	9 Q	N/A		1:22.509	10	Did not advance			10
	K1 sprint	1:37.696	7 Q	N/A		1:36.729	5 Q	Daineka (BLR) 1:35.219 L	Did not advance

Judo

Cuba qualified two athletes based on its performance at the 2013 Cadet World Judo Championships.[5]

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
Ivan Felipe Silva Morales	Boys' -81 kg	N/A	Kovac (CRO) W 100-000	Kovac (NED) L 001-010	Did not advance	N/A		Egutidze (POR) W 101-000	Bubanja (AUT) W 000-000	Majdov (SRB) W 010-000

Team

Athletes	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final	Rank
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
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

Cuba qualified one boat based on its performance at the 2013 World Rowing Junior Championships. Later Cuba qualified another boat based on its performance at the Latin American Qualification Regatta.[6]

Athlete	Event	Heats		Repechage		Semifinals		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Orlando Sotolongo	Boys' Single Sculls	3:25.11	1 SA/B	N/A		3:24.33	3 FA	3:32.14	6
Ilianny Roman Olivera	Girls' Single Sculls	3:51.70	3 R	3:52.30	3 SC/D	3:58.09	1 FC	4:01.70	13

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

Swimming

Cuba qualified three swimmers.[7]

Boys

Athlete	Event	Heat		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Luis Vega Torres	400 m freestyle	4:11.37	31	Did not advance
	800 m freestyle	N/A		8:31.85	21
Huberto del Rio Casin	200 m butterfly	2:03.41	11	Did not advance

Girls

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Elisbet Gamez Matos	50 m freestyle	26.85	24	Did not advance
	100 m freestyle	57.25	15 Q	57.11	15	Did not advance
	200 m freestyle	2:02.73	14	N/A		Did not advance

Triathlon

Cuba qualified one athlete based on its performance at the 2014 American Youth Olympic Games Qualifier.[8]

Individual

Athlete	Event	Swim (750m)	Trans 1	Bike (20 km)	Trans 2	Run (5 km)	Total Time	Rank
Victor Herrera de la Hoz	Boys	09:28	00:43	29:56	00:30	20:35	1:01:12	26

Relay

Athlete	Event	Total Times per Athlete (Swim 250m, Bike 6.6 km, Run 1.8 km)	Total Group Time	Rank
World Team 1  Jessica Romero Tinoco (MEX)  Victor Manuel Herrera de la Hoz (CUB)  Sofiya Pryyma (UKR)  Philip Horwarth (AUT)	Mixed Relay	23:58 21:07 23:07 20:52	1:29:04	10

References

1. "Youth Olympics Games-2014 Qualification Places Boys" (PDF). World Archery Federation. 14 June 2014. Retrieved 27 June 2014.
2. "Youth Olympics Games-2014 Qualification Places Girls" (PDF). World Archery Federation. 6 June 2014. Retrieved 7 June 2014.
3. "Meet the Qualified Athletes for Nanjing 2014 Youth Olympic Games". AIBA. 23 May 2014. Archived from the original on 22 March 2015. Retrieved 23 May 2014.
4. "2014 Youth Olympics Games Qualification" (PDF). ICF. 20 February 2014. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 March 2014. Retrieved 13 March 2014.
5. "2014 YOG IJF Athlete List" (PDF). International Judo Federation. 18 July 2014. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 August 2014. Retrieved 4 August 2014.
6. "2014 YOG Qualification: Rowing" (PDF). FISA. 4 June 2014. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 11 June 2014.
7. "Number of Entries by NOC: Swimming". nanjing2014.org. 6 August 2014. Archived from the original on 8 August 2014. Retrieved 9 August 2014.
8. "2014 American YOG Qualifier". ITU. 3 May 2014. Retrieved 3 May 2014.