South Korea at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics

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South Korea at the
2018 Summer Youth Olympics
IOC codeKOR
NOCKorean Sport & Olympic Committee
Websitehttp://www.sports.or.kr/
in Buenos Aires, Argentina
6 – 18 October 2018
Competitors28 in 14 sports
Flag bearerSong Gun Kim (opening)
Medals
Ranked 44th
Gold
1
Silver
4
Bronze
7
Total
12
Summer Youth Olympics appearances (
overview)

South Korea participated at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires, Argentina from 6 October to 18 October 2018.[1]

Medalists

Medal Name Sport Event Date
 Gold Cho Won-hee Taekwondo Boys' 63 kg 9 Oct
 Silver Hyun Jun Fencing Boys' sabre 7 Oct
 Silver Kang Mi-reu Taekwondo Girls' 44 kg 7 Oct
 Silver Kim Kang-min Taekwondo Boys' 55 kg 8 Oct
 Silver Sung Yun-ho Shooting Boys' 10 meter air pistol 10 Oct
 Bronze Im Seong-bin Taekwondo Boys' 48 kg 7 Oct
 Bronze Kim Ju-hee Judo Girls' 63 kg 8 Oct
 Bronze Lee Ye-ji Taekwondo Girls' 49 kg 8 Oct
 Bronze Lee Ju-eun Fencing Girls' sabre 9 Oct
 Bronze Kim Ye-ri
Dancesport
 B-Girls 11 Oct
 Bronze Wang Hee-song Swimming Girls' 200 m breaststroke 12 Oct
 Bronze Son Ye-ryeong Archery Girls' individual 16 Oct

Competitors

Sport Boys Girls Total
Archery 1 1 2
Athletics 1 0 1
Dancesport
 0 1 1
Fencing 1 2 3
Golf 1 0 1
Gymnastics 1 2 3
Judo 0 1 1
Roller speed skating 1 0 1
Shooting 1 0 1
Sport climbing 2 0 2
Swimming 2 2 4
Table tennis 1 1 2
Taekwondo 3 2 5
Triathlon 0 1 1
Total 15 13 28

Archery

Main article: Archery at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics

South Korea qualified two archers based on its performance at the 2017 World Archery Youth Championships.[2][3]

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
Song In-jun
 Boys' Individual 691 1  Tura (SMR)
W 6–2 		 Benítez (PAR)
W 7–1 		 Roos (BEL)
L 1–7 		did not advance 7
Son Ye-ryeong Girls' Individual 663 4  Kang (PRK)
W 6–0 		 Naumova (UKR)
W 6–0 		 Chang (TPE)
W 6–0 		 Zhang (CHN)
L 4–6 		 Vázquez Cadena (MEX)
W 7–3 		3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
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
 
Song In-jun (KOR)
 Mst Radia Akther Shapla (BAN
) 		Mixed Team 1271 31  Vázquez Cadena (MEX)
 Mustafin (KAZ)
L 2–6 		did not advance 17
 Son Ye-ryeong (KOR)
 Dan Thompson (GBR) 		1293 25  van der Winkel (NED)
 Cheremiskin (RUS)
L 2–6 		did not advance 17

Athletics

Main article: Athletics at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics

Dancesport

Main article:
Dancesport at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics

South Korea qualified one dancer based on its performance at the 2018 World Youth Breaking Championship.[4]

  • B-Girls - Yell

Fencing

Main article: Fencing at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics

South Korea qualified four athletes based on its performance at the 2018 Cadet World Championship,[5] but only 3 participated.[1]

Athlete Event Pool Round Seed Round of 16 Quarterfinals Semifinals Final / BM Rank
Opposition
Score 		Opposition
Score 		Opposition
Score 		Opposition
Score 		Opposition
Score
Hyun Jun Boys' Sabre Pool 2

 Vidovszky (USA)
W 5-4
 El Araby (EGY)
W 5-1
 Coly (SEN)
W 5-0
 Mahbas (IRQ)
W 5-0
 Rabb (HUN)
L 2-5
 Shaker (IRI)
W 5-2
 Heathcock (GER)
W 5-4

2  Coly (SEN)
W DNF 		 Kato (JPN)
W 15-12 		 Vidovszky (USA)
W 15-14 		 Rabb (HUN)
L 13-15 		2nd place, silver medalist(s)


Gymnastics

Main article: Gymnastics at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics

Artistic

South Korea qualified two gymnasts based on its performance at the 2018 Asian Junior Championship.[6]

  • Boys' artistic individual all-around - 1 quota
  • Girls' artistic individual all-around - 1 quota

Rhythmic

South Korea qualified one gymnast based on its performance at the 2018 Asian Junior Championship.[6]

  • Girls' rhythmic individual all-around - 1 quota

Golf

Main article: Golf at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics
Individual
Athlete Event Round 1 Round 2 Round 3 Total
Score Rank Score Total Rank Score Total Rank Score Par Rank
Park Sangha Boys' Individual 73 (+3) 12 77 (+7) 140 23 73 (+3) 223 12 223 +13 16
Team
Athletes Event Round 1
(Fourball) 		Round 2
(Foursome) 		Round 3
(Individual Stroke) 		Total
Score Rank Score Rank Girl Boy Total Rank Score Par Rank
 Ribka Vania (INA)
 Park Sangha (KOR) 		Mixed team 66 (-4) 16 69 (-1) 2 75 73 148 (+8) 16 283 +3 8

Judo

Main article: Judo at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics
Athlete Event Round of 16 Quarterfinals Semifinals Repechage1 Repechage2 Repechage3 Final/BM match
Opposition
Result 		Opposition
Result 		Opposition
Result 		Opposition
Result 		Opposition
Result 		Opposition
Result 		Opposition
Result 		Rank
Kim Ju-hee Girls' −63 kg  Alessia Corrao (BEL)
L 01-11 		did not advance Bye  Marin Visser (NED)
W 01–00s2 		 Itzel Pecha (MEX)
W 10–00 		 Nikol Pencue (COL)
W 01–00s1 		3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Team
Team Event Round 1 Round 2 Semifinals Final Rank
Opposition
Result 		Opposition
Result 		Opposition
Result 		Opposition
Result
Seoul
 Mohammed Al-Mishri (LBA)
 Alex Barto (SVK)
 Sairy Colón (PUR)
 María Giménez (VEN)
 Yuri Israelyan (ARM)
 Kim Ju-hee (KOR)
 Omaria Ramírez (DOM)
 Wu Xiao-zhang (TPE) 		Mixed Team Los Angeles
L 3–5 		did not advance 9

Modern pentathlon

Main article: Modern pentathlon at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics

South Korea qualified two pentathletes based on its performance at the Asian/Oceanian Youth Olympic Games Qualifier.[7] South Korea qualified a second male based on its performance at the 2018 Youth A World Championship.[8] The nation must choose between the two boys.

Eventually no South Korean modern pentathletes competed.[1]

Roller speed skating

Main article: Roller speed skating at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics

South Korea qualified two roller skaters based on its performance at the 2018 Roller Speed Skating World Championship.[9]

Shooting

Main article: Shooting at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics

South Korea qualified one sport shooter based on its performance at the 2017 Asian Championships.[10]

  • Boys' 10m Air Pistol - 1 quota
Individual
Athlete Event Qualification Final
Points Rank Points Rank
Sung Yun-ho Boys' 10 m air pistol 569-15 6 236.7 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
Mixed
Athlete Event Qualification Round of 16 Quarterfinal Semifinal Final
Points Rank Opposition Score Opposition Score Opposition Score Opposition Score Rank
 Doua Chalghoum (TUN)
 Sung Yun-ho (KOR) 		Mixed 10 metre air pistol 720-7 20 did not advance

Sport climbing

Main article: Sport climbing at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics

South Korea qualified one sport climber based on its performance at the 2017 World Youth Sport Climbing Championships.[11]

Swimming

Main article: Swimming at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics

Table tennis

Main article: Table tennis at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics

South Korea qualified one table tennis player based on its performance at the Asian Continental Qualifier.[12] South Korea also qualified a female table tennis player based on its performance at the Road to Buenos Aires (Asia) series.[13]

  • Boys' singles -
    Cho Daeseong
  • Girls' singles - Choi Haeeun

Taekwondo

Main article: Taekwondo at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics
Boys
Athlete Event Round of 16 Quarterfinals Semifinals Final
Opposition
Result 		Opposition
Result 		Opposition
Result 		Opposition
Result 		Rank
Im Seong-bin 48 kg Bye  Zurab Kintsurashvili (GEO)
W 30-11 		 Ulugbek Rashitov (UZB)
L 10-21 		did not advance 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Kim Kang-min 55 kg  Daniel Goichman (ISR)
W 33-11 		 Georgios Ioannou (GRE)
W 23-15 		 Zaid Abdul Kareem (JOR)
W 31-16 		 
Georgii Popov (RUS
)
L 26-33 		2nd place, silver medalist(s)
Cho Won-hee 63 kg Bye  Ramiro Ravachino (ARG)
W 41-21 		 Javad Aghayev (AZE)
W 15-13 		 Nareupong Thepsen (THA)
W 21-16 		1st place, gold medalist(s)
Girls
Athlete Event Round of 16 Quarterfinals Semifinals Final
Opposition
Result 		Opposition
Result 		Opposition
Result 		Opposition
Result 		Rank
Kang Mi-reu 44 kg Bye  Mahla Momenzadeh (IRI)
W 15-14 		 Lena Stojković (CRO)
W 16-13 		 Polina Shcherbakova (RUS)
L 6-12 		2nd place, silver medalist(s)
Lee Ye-ji 49 kg  Aaliyah Powell (GBR)
W 21-14 		 Anastasija Zolotic (USA)
L 11-21 		did not advance 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)

Triathlon

Main article: Triathlon at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics

South Korea qualified one athlete based on its performance at the 2018 Asian Youth Olympic Games Qualifier.[14]

Individual
Athlete Event Swim (750m) Trans 1 Bike (20 km) Trans 2 Run (5 km) Total Time Rank
Lee Jung-won Girls 10:06 0:40 30:15 0:38 21:06 1:02:45 19
Relay
Athlete Event Total Times per Athlete
(Swim 250m, Bike 6.6 km,
Run 1.8 km) 		Total Group Time Rank
Asia 1
 Lee Jung-won (KOR)
 Teppei Tokuyama (JPN)
 Emma Ada Middleditch (SGP)
 Daniil Zubtsov (KAZ) 		Mixed Relay 22:57 (8)
21:44 (9)
24:01 (7)
23:15 (10) 		1:31:57 10

References

  1. ^ a b c NOC Entries
  2. ^ "YOG 2018 Qualification Places - Boys" (PDF). World Archery Federation. Retrieved 15 December 2017.
  3. ^ "YOG 2018 Qualification Places - Girls" (PDF). World Archery Federation. Retrieved 15 December 2017.
  4. ^ "The Winners Are..." World DanceSport Federation. 20 May 2018. Retrieved 21 May 2018.
  5. ^ "2018 Youth Olympic Games - Buenos Aires FIE Qualifications" (PDF). FIE. 10 April 2018. Retrieved 14 May 2018.
  6. ^
    FIG
    . 25 June 2018. Retrieved 26 June 2018.
  7. UIPM
    . 14 September 2017. Retrieved 13 October 2017.
  8. UIPM
    . 29 April 2018. Retrieved 14 May 2018.
  9. ^ "Inline Speed Skating Worlds: presented the "5-Rings-Athletes"". FIRS. 5 July 2018. Retrieved 6 July 2018.
  10. ^ "Quota Places by Name and Nation". ISSF. 11 December 2017. Retrieved 15 December 2017.
  11. ^ "World Youth Championship". IFSC. 10 September 2017. Retrieved 13 October 2017.
  12. ^ "Favourites prevail in Greater Noida, Buenos Aires invitations reserved in style". ITTF. 5 November 2017. Retrieved 10 November 2017.
  13. ^ "Manav Vikash Thakkar and Andrea Pavlovic add names to list". ITTF. 9 May 2018. Retrieved 10 May 2018.
  14. ITU
    . 17 June 2018. Retrieved 25 June 2018.
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