Youth Olympic Summer Games 2010
Venue: | Singapore |
Stadion: | Marina Bay Floating Stadium |
Opening ceremony: | August 14, 2010 |
Closing ceremony: | August 26, 2010 |
Opened by: | Sellapan Ramanathan (President of Singapore) |
Olympic oath : |
Caroline Rosanna Chew Pei Jia (athlete) David Lim Fong Jock (coach) Syed Abdul Kadir (referee) |
Competitions: | 201 in 26 sports |
Countries: | 205 |
Athletes: | 3,522 (1,846 boys, 1,676 girls) |
Nanjing 2014 → |
Medal table (201 decisions) | |||||
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space | country | gold | silver | bronze | total |
1 | China | 30th | 16 | 5 | 51 |
2 | Russia | 18th | 14th | 1 | 33 |
3 | South Korea | 11 | 4th | 4th | 19th |
4th | Ukraine | 9 | 9 | 15th | 33 |
5 | Mixed teams | 9 | 8th | 11 | 28 |
6th | Cuba | 9 | 3 | 2 | 14th |
7th | Australia | 8th | 13 | 8th | 29 |
8th | Japan | 8th | 5 | 3 | 16 |
9 | Hungary | 6th | 4th | 5 | 15th |
10 | France | 6th | 2 | 7th | 15th |
... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... |
13 | Germany | 4th | 9 | 9 | 22nd |
... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... |
47 | Austria | 1 | - | 3 | 4th |
... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... |
70 | Switzerland | - | 1 | 2 | 3 |
Complete medal table |
The 1st Summer Youth Olympic Games took place from August 14th to 26th, 2010 in Singapore . The event, held for the first time, was intended to inspire young people for the Olympic sports. 3522 young people aged 14 to 18 from 205 nations competed in 201 competitions in 26 sports.
Candidate cities
According to the decision of the members of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on July 5, 2007 as part of their 119th session to introduce the Youth Olympic Games , a youth version of the Olympic Games , eleven cities initially ran for hosting the event. The list of applicants was later reduced to two candidatures. On February 21, 2008, Singapore's application prevailed with 53:44 votes against that of the Russian capital Moscow .
organization
The budget for the 1st Summer Youth Olympic Games was around 222 million euros, three times the originally estimated cost. The IOC supported the event with more than 100 million euros. The competitions were held at 18 different sports facilities, twelve of which existed before and five were only temporarily set up to host the games. The opening and closing ceremonies took place on The Float @ Marina Bay , the world's largest floating stage , which was built in 2007 in Singapore's Marina Bay.
The accommodation for the athletes and their supervisors was built on the premises of Nanyang Technical University . The Youth Olympic Games program provided that all participants stay in Singapore for the entire duration of the Games. This should enable them to come into contact with other young people and take part in cultural and educational programs.
Participating Nations
3522 young people from all 205 countries with National Olympic Committees were represented at the Games in Singapore. This was one more country than the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing . Although the NOK of Kuwait was excluded from the event after the government of the country tried to exert political influence, the Kuwaiti athletes were allowed to compete under the Olympic flag .
The German-speaking countries were represented at the games as follows:
- Germany : 70 participants in 20 sports
- Austria : 16 participants in 12 sports
- Switzerland : 22 participants in 10 sports
- Luxembourg : 5 participants in 2 sports
- Liechtenstein : 3 participants in 2 sports.
Sports and schedule
Legend for the competition program shown below:
Opening and closing ceremony | Qualifying competitions | x | Final decisions |
Last column: total number of decisions in the individual sports
2010 Summer Youth Olympic Games schedule (with number of decisions) | |||||||||||||||||
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do | Fr. | Sat | So | Mon | Tuesday | Wed | do | Fr. | Sat | So | Mon | Tuesday | Wed | do | total | ||
August | 12. | 13. | 14th | 15th | 16. | 17th | 18th | 19th | 20th | 21st | 22nd | 23. | 24. | 25th | 26th | ||
Opening ceremony | |||||||||||||||||
badminton | 2 | 2 | |||||||||||||||
3x3 basketball | 2 | 2 | |||||||||||||||
Archery | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |||||||||||||
Boxing | 11 | 11 | |||||||||||||||
fencing | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7th | ||||||||||||
Soccer | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||||||
Weightlifting | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 11 | |||||||||||
Handball | 2 | 2 | |||||||||||||||
hockey | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||||||
Judo | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 9 | ||||||||||||
Canoeing | Canoe racing | 3 | 3 | ||||||||||||||
Canoe slalom | 3 | 3 | |||||||||||||||
athletics | 12 | 12 | 12 | 36 | |||||||||||||
Modern pentathlon | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |||||||||||||
Cycling | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||
horse riding | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||||||
Wrestling | Freestyle | 4th | 5 | 9 | |||||||||||||
Greco-Rom. | 5 | 5 | |||||||||||||||
rowing | 4th | 4th | |||||||||||||||
shoot | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4th | ||||||||||||
Swimming | swim | 3 | 8th | 4th | 7th | 3 | 9 | 34 | |||||||||
Diving | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4th | ||||||||||||
sailing | 4th | 4th | |||||||||||||||
Taekwondo | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 10 | |||||||||||
tennis | 2 | 2 | 4th | ||||||||||||||
Table tennis | 2 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||||||||
Triathlon | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |||||||||||||
Gymnastics | Apparatus gymnastics | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 12 | |||||||||||
Rhythmic sports gymnastics | 2 | 2 | |||||||||||||||
Trampoline exercise | 2 | 2 | |||||||||||||||
volleyball | 2 | 2 | |||||||||||||||
Closing ceremony | |||||||||||||||||
Medal decisions | 15th | 19th | 16 | 18th | 11 | 15th | 25th | 27 | 20th | 6th | 26th | 3 | 201 | ||||
do | Fr. | Sat | So | Mon | Tuesday | Wed | do | Fr. | Sat | So | Mon | Tuesday | Wed | do | total | ||
August | 12. | 13. | 14th | 15th | 16. | 17th | 18th | 19th | 20th | 21st | 22nd | 23. | 24. | 25th | 26th |
mascot
The official mascots of the youth games were Lyo and Merly . Lyo was a male lion , Merly a female Merlion . The design of the mascots came from the designers Lee Wee Na and Stanley Toh, the names were determined through a public competition.
doping
There were two doping cases during the Games, both in a wrestling.
reporting
The premiere of the Youth Olympic Games generated a great deal of media interest. Around 1500 journalists were accredited , and television broadcasters from 166 countries reported on the competitions. The IOC deployed 29 young journalists as youth reporters who were supposed to convey their point of view of the games. The IOC also included the Internet in its reporting; in addition to its own Facebook page, a YouTube channel with current videos was set up.
"Scandal" on the part of Iran
On August 16, 2010, the final of Taekwondo up to 48 kilograms was to be held, for which an Israeli and an Iranian participant had qualified. Before the final, however, the Iranian support team announced that Mohammad Soleimani had injured his leg so badly that it was impossible for him to take part in the final. Observers assumed that the Iranian team did not let their athletes fight an Israeli because Iran does not see Israel as a sovereign state and it would have been a shame for the Iranian to have to stand under an Israeli flag at the award ceremony.
The Israeli athlete then won the final without a fight. The next day, the IOC said: “Based on the current state of knowledge, we assume that he was injured.” (IOC Vice President Thomas Bach ), “Soleimani has been x-rayed and has an ankle injury. The leg is not broken ”(IOC spokesman Mark Adams). That would not be a scandal that many news agencies and media spoke of prematurely. However, it would not have been the first time that athletes from Iran did not compete against Israeli athletes.
Web links
- Official website of the organizers ( Memento of August 11, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- IOC website
- Results on Leichtathletik.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e NOC - Official number of participants (Overall Number of Entries by NOC) . Singapore 2010 Youth Olympic Games. Retrieved on August 20, 2010. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b n-tv : Olympia's expensive makeover , August 14, 2010.
- ↑ Spiegel Online : May the youngest win , August 14, 2010.
- ↑ Around the Rings: Lausanne NewsDesk - Kuwait and Youth Olympics; Olympic Day Events , June 23, 2010.
- ^ Introducing Lyo & Merly - Mascots for the 1st YOG. Singapore 2010 Youth Olympic Games, November 21, 2009, archived from the original ; accessed on October 14, 2016 .
- ^ IOC sanctions athlete for doping at Youth Olympics www.usatoday.com November 5, 2014
- ↑ SportsFeatures.com: Inaugural Youth Olympic Games (YOG) Singapore 2010 set to start tomorrow , August 13, 2010.
- ↑ International Olympic Committee : Where and how can you follow the Youth Olympic Games from 14 to 26 August? , August 11, 2010.
- ↑ ShortNews : Youth Olympics: Iranian Taekwondo finalist is not allowed to compete against Israeli , August 16, 2010.
- ^ T-Online : IOC does not believe in boycott: Iranian was injured , August 17, 2010.