Croatia at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics

Croatia at the
2014 Summer Youth Olympics
Croatia at the; 2014 Summer Youth Olympics
IOC code	CRO
NOC	Croatian Olympic Committee
Website	www.hoo.hr
in Nanjing
Competitors	24 in 13 sports
Medals; Ranked 22nd	Gold 3 Silver 1 Bronze 1 Total 5
Summer Youth Olympics appearances (overview)
	2010; 2014; 2018;

Croatia competed at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics, in Nanjing, China from 16 August to 28 August 2014. Croatia had 24 athletes qualified in 13 sports.^[1]

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	Brigita Matić	Judo	Girls' -78 kg	19 August
Gold	Ivana Babić	Taekwondo	Girls' −55 kg	19 August
Gold	Nikola Obrovac	Swimming	Boys' 50 m breaststroke	22 August
Silver	Toni Filipi	Boxing	Boys' Heavyweight	27 August
Bronze	Brigita Matić	Judo	Mixed Team	21 August
Bronze	Luka Plantić	Boxing	Boys' Middleweight	27 August

Athletics

Croatia 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)

Girls
Field events

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
Athlete	Event	Distance	Position	Distance	Position
Eva Mustafić	Hammer throw	56.73 PB FB	15 qB	NM

Badminton

Croatia qualified one athlete based on the Badminton Junior World Rankings.^[3]

Singles

Athlete	Event	Group stage				Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM	Rank
Athlete	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Maja Pavlinić	Girls' Singles	Lesnaya (UKR) W 2-0	Lee (TPE) L 0-2	Qin (CHN) L 0-2	3	did not advance

Doubles

Athlete	Event	Group stage				Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM	Rank
Athlete	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Maja Pavlinić (CRO) Muhammed Ali Kurt (TUR)	Mixed Doubles	Shishkov (BUL) Heim (GER) W 2-0	Ginting (INA) Beton (SLO) L 0-2	Weisskirchen (GER) Ishaak (SUR) W 2-0	2	did not advance

Boxing

Croatia qualified three athletes based on its performance at the 2014 Youth World Boxing Championships.^[4]

Boys

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries	Semifinals	Final / RM	Rank
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Luka Prtenjača	Welterweight	Solano (DOM) L 0-3	Did not advance	Bout for 5th place Kharabadze (GEO)	—
Luka Plantić	Middleweight	Bye	Nesterov (RUS) L 0-3	Bronze medal Bout Mardonov (UZB) W 3-0
Toni Filipi	Heavyweight	Bye	Kim (KOR) W 2-1	Hernandez (CUB) L 1-2

Fencing

Croatia qualified one athlete at the 2014 World Cadet Championships.^[5]

Boys

Athlete	Event	Pool Round	Seed	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM	Rank
Athlete	Event	Opposition Score	Seed	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Petar Fileš	Foil	Marostega (BRA) Fitzgerald (AUS) Braun (GER) Haglund (USA) W 5-4 Roger (FRA)		Braun (GER) W 15-10

Mixed Team

Athletes	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals / PM	Final / PM	Rank
Athletes	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Europe 4 Theodora Gkountoura (GRE) Claudia Borella (ITA) Inna Brovko (UKR) Tudor Cucu (ROU) Petar Files (CRO) Samuel Unterhauser (GER)	Team	Bye	Asia-Oceania 1 (MIX) L 22-30	America 1 (MIX) W 30-27	America 2 (MIX) L 28-30	6

Gymnastics

Artistic Gymnastics

Croatia qualified one athlete based on its performance at the 2014 European MAG Championships.^[6]

Boys

Athlete	Event	Apparatus						Total	Rank
Athlete	Event	F	PH	R	V	PB	HB	Total	Rank
Jakov Vlahek	Qualification	12.875 23	13.650 7 Q	11.450 31	12.950 34	12.975 17	12.150 26	76.050	21
Jakov Vlahek	Pommel Horse	—						13.533	5

Judo

Croatia qualified two athletes based on its performance at the 2013 Cadet World Judo Championships.^[7]

Individual

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Rep 1	Rep 2	Rep 3	Rep 4	Final / BM	Rank
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Lovro Kovač	Boys' -81 kg	Montoya (COL) W 000-000	Silva (CUB) L 000-100	Did not advance		Bye	Penning (LUX) L 000-100	Did not advance			11
Brigita Matić	Girls' -78 kg	—		Rodríguez (VEN) W 001-000	Snyman (RSA) W 100-000	—				Samardzic (BIH) W 000-000

Team

Athletes	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final	Rank
Athletes	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Team Ruska Sadjia Amrane (ALG) Jose Basile (BRA) Harutyun Dermishyan (ARM) Szabina Gercsák (HUN) Lovro Kovac (CRO) Kamila Pasternak (POL) Julian Sancho (CRC) Betina Temelkova (BUL)	Mixed Team	Bye	Team Rouge (MIX) L 2 – 5	Did not advance		5
Team Douillet Gustavo Basile (ARG) Marko Bubanja (AUT) Adonis Diaz (USA) Liudmyla Drozdova (UKR) Lee Hye-kyeong (KOR) Brigita Matic (CRO) Peter Miles (GBR)	Mixed Team	Team Yamashita (MIX) W 3²⁰⁰ – 3¹¹²	Team Nevzorov (MIX) W 5 – 2	Team Geesink (MIX) L 3¹¹¹ – 3²⁰²	Did not advance

Rowing

Croatia qualified two boats. The boys' pairs qualified from the 2013 World Rowing Junior Championships and the girls' single sculls was reallocated to Croatia as an unused quota.^[8]

Athlete	Event	Heats		Repechage		Semifinals		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Ivo Bonacin Bernard Samardžić	Boys' Pairs	3:13.94	3 R	3:15.24	2 FA	—		3:14.76	5
Marina Kaić	Girls' Single Sculls	3:57.25	5 R	3:53.88	2 SA/B	4:01.56	5 FB	4:05.06	12

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

Croatia qualified one boat based on its performance at the 2013 World Byte CII Championships. Croatia also received a reallocated quota place in girls' Byte CII class.^[9]

Athlete	Event	Race											Net Points	Final Rank
Athlete	Event	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	M*	Net Points	Final Rank
Pavle Živanović	Boys' Byte CII	5	8	7	6	(21)	7	11	15	Cancelled		80.00	59.00	7
Karla Šavar	Girls' Byte CII	20	16	19	(23)	20	14	16	20	Cancelled		148.00	125.00	23

Shooting

Croatia qualified two shooters based on its performance at the 2014 European Shooting Championships.^[10]

Individual

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Borna Petanjek	Boys' 10m Air Rifle	612.1	9	Did not advance
Ivana Babić	Girls' 10m Air Rifle	410.9	8 Q	141.4	5

Team

Athletes	Event	Qualification		Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM	Rank
Athletes	Event	Points	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Borna Petanjek (CRO) Ekaterina Parshukova (RUS)	Mixed Team 10m Air Rifle		7 Q	Babayan (ARM) Akter (BAN) L 7-10	Did not advance			17
Ivana Babic (CRO) Sybrand Laurens (RSA)	Mixed Team 10m Air Rifle	811.9	14 Q	Borgo (MEX) Alvian (INA) W 10–6	Riccardi (SMR) Milovanovic (SRB) L 6–10	Did not advance		5

Swimming

Croatia qualified three swimmers.^[11]

Boys

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Sven Arnar Saemundsson	400 m freestyle	3:57.55	18	—		Did not advance
	800 m freestyle	—				8:06.72	8
	200 m individual medley	2:08.97	18	—		Did not advance
Nikola Obrovac	50 m breaststroke	27.97	1 Q	28.00	1 Q	27.83
Nikola Obrovac	100 m breaststroke	1:02.49	4 Q	1:02.79	7 Q	1:01.94	5

Girls

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Ema Šarar	50 m freestyle	26.99	26	Did not advance
	50 m backstroke	29.89	18	Did not advance
	100 m backstroke	—

Table tennis

Croatia qualified one athlete based on its performance at the European Qualification Event.^[12] Later, Croatia qualified another athlete at the Road to Nanjing series.

Singles

Athlete	Event	Group stage	Rank	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM	Rank
Athlete	Event	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Tomislav Pucar	Boys	Group H Hung (HKG) L 2 - 3	2 Q	Zatowka (POL) L 2 - 4	Did not advance			9
		Schmid (SUI) W 3 - 1
		Al-Naggar (QAT) W 3 - 0
Lea Rakovac	Girls	Group F Mischek (AUT) L 1 - 3	1 Q	Arvelo (VEN) W 4 - 1	Kato (JPN) L 1 - 4	Did not advance		5
		Bajor (POL) W 3 - 0
		Edghill (GUY) W 3 - 0

Team

Athletes	Event	Group stage	Rank	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM	Rank
Athletes	Event	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Croatia Lea Rakovac (CRO) Tomislav Pucar (CRO)	Mixed	Austria Mischek (AUT) Levenko (AUT) W 3 - 0	2 Q	Europe 1 Diaconu (ROU) Chen (POR) W 2 - 0	Hong Kong Doo (HKG) Hung (HKG) L 0 - 2	Did not advance		5
		Thailand Khetkhuan (THA) Tanviriyavechakul (THA) L 1 - 2
		Latin America 3 Edghill (GUY) Toranzos (PAR) W 3 - 0

Qualification Legend: Q=Main Bracket (medal); qB=Consolation Bracket (non-medal)

Taekwondo

Croatia qualified two athletes based on its performance at the Taekwondo Qualification Tournament.^[13]^[14]

Girls

Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final	Rank
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Ivana Babić	−55 kg	Bye	Mwaka Masale (COD) W 14 (PTG) - 1	Roebben (BEL) W 13 - 4	Sarıdoğan (TUR) W 1 - 0
Matea Jelić	−63 kg	Tolba (EGY) W 14 - 5	Turutina (RUS) L 4 - 7	Did not advance		5

Tennis

Croatia qualified one athlete based on the ITF ranking.^[15]

Singles

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM	Rank
Athlete	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Nino Serdarušić	Boys' Singles	Geens (BEL) L 0-2 3-6, 2-6	Did not advance				17

Doubles

Athletes	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM	Rank
Athletes	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Nino Serdarušić (CRO) Petros Chrysochos (CYP)	Boys' Doubles	—	Matsumura (JPN) Yamasaki (JPN) L 0-2 3-6, 4-6	Did not advance			9
Akvile Parazinskaite (LTU) Nino Serdarušić (CRO)	Mixed Doubles	Minnen (BEL) Geens (BEL) L 1-2 6-3, 3-6, [4]-[10]	Did not advance				17

References

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^ "2014 YOG Qualification Byte CII". International Sailing Federation. 5 July 2014. Retrieved 5 July 2014.
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^ "2014 Youth Olympic Tennis Event – Boys Acceptance List by Country" (PDF). ITF. 1 July 2014. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 July 2014. Retrieved 15 July 2014.

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[9] "2014 YOG Qualification Byte CII". International Sailing Federation. 5 July 2014. Retrieved 5 July 2014.

[10] "Quota Places by Name and Nation". ISSF. 31 January 2013. Retrieved 27 February 2014.

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[13] "WTF Qualification Tournament for Nanjing 2014 – Day 1" (PDF). World Taekwondo Federation. 20 March 2014. Retrieved 22 March 2014.^{[permanent dead link]}

[14] "WTF Qualification Tournament for Nanjing 2014 – Day 2" (PDF). World Taekwondo Federation. 21 March 2014. Retrieved 22 March 2014.^{[permanent dead link]}

[15] "2014 Youth Olympic Tennis Event – Boys Acceptance List by Country" (PDF). ITF. 1 July 2014. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 July 2014. Retrieved 15 July 2014.

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v t e Nations at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics in Nanjing
Africa	Algeria Angola Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Burundi Cameroon Cape Verde Central African Republic Chad Comoros Congo Democratic Republic of the Congo Djibouti Egypt Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Ethiopia Gabon Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea‑Bissau Ivory Coast Kenya Lesotho Liberia* Libya Madagascar Malawi Mali Mauritania Mauritius Morocco Mozambique Namibia Niger Nigeria* Rwanda São Tomé‑Príncipe Senegal Seychelles Sierra Leone* Somalia South Africa Sudan Swaziland Tanzania Togo Tunisia Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe
America	Antigua‑Barbuda Argentina Aruba Bahamas Barbados Belize Bermuda Bolivia Brazil British Virgin Islands Canada Cayman Islands Chile Colombia Costa Rica Cuba Dominica Dominican Republic Ecuador El Salvador Grenada Guatemala Guyana Haiti Honduras Jamaica Mexico Nicaragua Panama Paraguay Peru Puerto Rico Saint Kitts‑Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent‑Grenadines Suriname Trinidad‑Tobago United States Uruguay Venezuela Virgin Islands
Asia	Afghanistan Bahrain Bangladesh Brunei Bhutan Cambodia China East Timor Hong Kong India Indonesia Iran Iraq Japan Jordan Kazakhstan North Korea South Korea Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Laos Lebanon Malaysia Maldives Mongolia Myanmar Nepal Oman Pakistan Palestine Philippines Qatar Saudi Arabia Singapore Sri Lanka Syria Chinese Taipei Tajikistan Thailand Turkmenistan United Arab Emirates Uzbekistan Vietnam Yemen
Europe	Albania Andorra Armenia Austria Azerbaijan Belarus Belgium Bosnia‑Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Finland France Georgia Germany Great Britain Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland Israel Italy Latvia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Macedonia Malta Moldova Monaco Montenegro Netherlands Norway Poland Portugal Romania Russia San Marino Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey Ukraine
Oceania	American Samoa Australia Cook Islands Fiji Guam Kiribati Marshall Islands Micronesia Nauru New Zealand Palau Papua New Guinea Samoa Solomon Islands Tonga Tuvalu Vanuatu
Related	Independent Olympic Athletes Teams of athletes from more than one NOC