Namibia at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics

Namibia will compete at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics, in Nanjing, China from 16 August to 28 August 2014.

Namibia at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics
IOC code	NAM
NOC	Namibian National Olympic Committee
in Nanjing
Competitors	30 in 8 sports
Summer Youth Olympics appearances
2010 2014 2018

Archery

Namibia was given a quota to compete by the tripartite committee.[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
Xander Reddig	Boys' Individual	616	27	Koenig (FRA) L 0–6	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
Xander Reddig (NAM)  Viktoriia Oleksiuk (UKR)	Mixed Team	1271	25	Villegas (VEN)  Balaz (SVK) L 0–6	Did not advance				17

Athletics

Namibia qualified one athlete.[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
	Javelin throw

Beach Volleyball

Namibia qualified a girls' team by their performance at the CAVB Qualification Tournament.[3]

Athletes	Event	Preliminary round	Standing	Round of 24	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM	Rank
		Opposition Score		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score
Stephanie Palmhert Kim Seebach	Girls'	Enzo – Lantignotti (ITA)		Did not advance
		McNamara – McNamara (CAN)
		Ocampo – Pacheco (ECU)
		Lassyuta – Pimenova (KAZ)
		Graudina – Kravcenoka (LAT) L 0–2 (9–21, 10–21)

Cycling

Namibia qualified a boys' team based on its ranking issued by the UCI.[4]

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
Tristan de Lange Pascal Marggraff	Boys' Team

Mixed Relay

Athletes	Event	Cross-Country Girls' Race	Cross-Country Boys' Race	Boys' Road Race	Girls' Road Race	Total Time	Rank
Kimberley le Court de Billot (MRI)  Tristan de Lange (NAM)  Pascal Marggraff (NAM)  Milena Wong Wing Wah (MRI)	Mixed Team Relay

Football

Namibia has been selected to represent Africa.[5]

Girls' Tournament

Roster

• Asteria Angula
• Jasmine Baas
• Chaan Beukes
• Chelsea de Gouveia
• Luzane de Wee
• Revival Gawanas
• Christophine Hanse
• Ignacia Haoses
• Queandra Kasume Batista
• Ivone Kooper
• Mbitjitandjambi Mungunda
• Nondiyo Noreses
• Tarakuje Rukero
• Anna Shaende
• Ashley Solomons
• Vetjiwa Tjivau
• Beverly Uueziua
• Bianca van Wyk

Group stage

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
China	2	2	0	0	12	0	+12	6
Mexico	2	1	0	1	9	2	+7	3
Namibia	2	0	0	2	0	19	−19	0

Source:

17 August 2014

20:45

Mexico	9–0	Namibia
Montserrat Hernandez  19', 59' Daniela Garcia  21', 44' Alejandra Zaragoza  30', 55', 76' Dayana Cazares  72' Maria Acedo  79'	Report

Wutaishan Stadium, Nanjing

Attendance: 4,503

Referee: Marilin Miranda (Paraguay)

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20 August 2014

20:45

Namibia	0–10	China
	Report	Wan Wenting  9' Zhang Jiayun  13', 62' Ma Xiaolan  19', 24', 30', 45' Jin Kun  43' Wang Yanwen  54' Fang Jie  66'

Wutaishan Stadium, Nanjing

Attendance: 4,350

Referee: Anna-Marie Keighley (New Zealand)

Fifth place match

25 August 2014

20:45

Papua New Guinea	3–2	Namibia
Bellinda Giada  1', 29' Marity Sep  34'	Report	Ignacia Haoses  16' Ivone Kooper  40+1'

Jiangning Sports Center, Nanjing

Attendance: 8,102

Referee: He Jin (China)

Gymnastics

Trampoline

Namibia qualified one athlete based on its performance at the 2014 African Trampoline Championships. Later Namibia was given a quota to compete by the tripartite committee.[6]

Athlete	Event	Qualification				Final
		Routine 1	Routine 2	Total	Rank	Score	Rank
Reinhardt van Zyl	Boys
Jivanka Kruger	Girls

Swimming

Namibia qualified three swimmers.[7]

Boys

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Lushano Lamprecht	100 m backstroke	58.94	31	Did not advance
	200 m backstroke	2:05.80	18	N/A		Did not advance

Girls

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Sonja Adbelaar	200 m freestyle	2:09.58	33	N/A		Did not advance
	200 m individual medley	2:22.54	19	N/A		Did not advance
Zanre Oberholzer	50 m backstroke	30.39	27	Did not advance
	100 m backstroke	1:04.52	21	Did not advance
	200 m backstroke	2:18.36	18	N/A		Did not advance

Tennis

Namibia was given a quota to compete by the tripartite committee.[8]

Singles

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM	Rank
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score
Lesedi Sheya Jacobs	Girls' Singles	Vondroušová (CZE) L 1–2 6–4, 1–6, 0–6	Did not advance				17

Doubles

Athletes	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM	Rank
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score
Lesedi Sheya Jacobs (NAM)  Sandra Samir (EGY)	Girls' Doubles	N/A	Giangreco Campiz (PAR)  González (ECU) L 0–2 3–6, 5–7	Did not advance			9
Lesedi Sheya Jacobs (NAM)  Guy Orly Iradukunda (BDI)	Mixed Doubles	Ducu (ROU)   Zukas (ARG) L 0–2 3–6, 1–6	Did not advance				17

References

1. "Youth Olympics Games-2014 Qualification Places Boys" (PDF). World Archery Federation. 6 June 2014. Retrieved 7 June 2014.
2. "Number of Entries by NOC: Athletics". nanjing2014.org. 6 August 2014. Archived from the original on 8 August 2014. Retrieved 8 August 2014.
3. "Sierra Leone men and Rwanda women top podium of African qualifiers for Youth Olympic Games". FIVB. 16 April 2014. Retrieved 20 April 2014.
4. "Cycling Boys Qualifiers". UCI. 12 July 2014. Retrieved 12 July 2014.
5. "Namibia women's footballers to represent Africa at 2014 Youth Olympics" (Press release). Inside the games. 20 November 2012. Retrieved 2013-04-07.
6. "2nd Youth Olympic Games Qualifiers – Gymnastics". FIG. 8 July 2014. Retrieved 8 July 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 Youth Olympic Tennis Event – Girls Acceptance List by Country" (PDF). ITF. 1 July 2014. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 July 2014. Retrieved 15 July 2014.