South Korea at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics

South Korea at the
2018 Summer Youth Olympics
South Korea at the; 2018 Summer Youth Olympics
IOC code	KOR
NOC	Korean Sport & Olympic Committee
Website	http://www.sports.or.kr/
in Buenos Aires, Argentina; 6 – 18 October 2018
Competitors	28 in 14 sports
Flag bearer	Song Gun Kim (opening)
Medals; Ranked 44th	Gold 1 Silver 4 Bronze 7 Total 12
Summer Youth Olympics appearances (overview)
	2010; 2014; 2018;

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

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
Athlete	Event	Score	Seed	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
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

Team

Athletes	Event	Ranking round		Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM	Rank
Athletes	Event	Score	Seed	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
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)	Mixed Team	1293	25	van der Winkel (NED) Cheremiskin (RUS) L 2–6	did not advance				17

Athletics

Dancesport

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

B-Girls - Yell

Fencing

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
Athlete	Event	Opposition Score	Seed	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
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

~~Boys' Foil - Kwon Jungsung~~
Girls' Épée - Lim Taehee
Girls' Sabre - Lee Jueun

Gymnastics

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

Individual

Athlete	Event	Round 1		Round 2			Round 3			Total
Athlete	Event	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
Athletes	Event	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

Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage1	Repechage2	Repechage3	Final/BM match
Athlete	Event	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

Team

Team	Event	Round 1	Round 2	Semifinals	Final	Rank
Team	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
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

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.

Boys' Individual - Shin Hyoseop or Moon Juseong
Girls' Individual - Yoon Yangji

Eventually no South Korean modern pentathletes competed.^[1]

Roller speed skating

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

Boys' combined speed event - Cheon Jongji
Girls' combined speed event - Lee Yerim

Shooting

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
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Sung Yun-ho	Boys' 10 m air pistol	569-15	6	236.7

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final
Athlete	Event	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

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

Boys' combined - 1 quota (Seongmin Eog)

Swimming

Table tennis

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

Boys

Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
Athlete	Event	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
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
Cho Won-hee	63 kg	Bye	Ramiro Ravachino (ARG) W 41-21	Javad Aghayev (AZE) W 15-13	Nareupong Thepsen (THA) W 21-16

Girls

Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
Athlete	Event	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
Lee Ye-ji	49 kg	Bye	Aaliyah Powell (GBR) W 21-14	Anastasija Zolotic (USA) L 11-21	did not advance

Triathlon

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

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

[entries-1] 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.

[Gymnastics-6] "2018 Youth Olympic Games Gymnastics Qualifiers". FIG. 25 June 2018. Retrieved 26 June 2018.

[7] "YOG 2018 Continental Qualifier - Asia/Oceania". UIPM. 14 September 2017. Retrieved 13 October 2017.

[8] "Twelve athletes secure places in Buenos Aires". 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] "2018 Subic Bay ASTC Triathlon Asian YOG Qualifier". ITU. 17 June 2018. Retrieved 25 June 2018.

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