Youth Olympic Summer Games 2014 / Participant (Austria)

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The Austrian Youth Olympic Team consisted of 33 athletes (15 girls / 18 boys) and 31 supervisors for the II. Summer Youth Olympic Games from August 16 to 28 in Nanjing ( People's Republic of China ).

Austria achieved a gold and a bronze medal.

Team facts

  • Most of the athletes had four participants each in the areas of beach volleyball, cycling and swimming.
  • Seven athletes each came from the federal states of Styria and Vienna , followed by Upper Austria , Lower Austria (5 each), Tyrol (4), Vorarlberg (3), Salzburg and Carinthia (1 each).
  • Gymnast Ceyda Sirbu and athlete Ina Huemer (200 m) were the youngest at the age of 15, the oldest athlete was judoka Marko Bubanja, 18.
  • With Michaela Polleres (judo), Ina Huemer, Dominik Hufnag (athletics), Sebastian Steffan (swimming) and Ceyda Sirbu (gymnastics) there were a total of five young athletes in "Team Austria", who had already participated in the European Youth Olympic Festival (EYOF) in the Netherlands Utrecht were there.

Athletes by sport

badminton badminton

Wolfgang Gnedt
Janine Lais

beach volleyball beach volleyball

Mona Geßlbauer / Julia Radl
Johannes Kratz / Moritz Pristauz-Telsnigg

golf golf

Johannes Schwab
Lea Zeitler

Judo Judo

Marko Bubanja
Michaela Polleres

Canoe racing canoe

Nadine Weratschnig

athletics athletics

Ina Huemer
Dominik Hufnagl
Philipp Kronsteiner

Modern pentathlon Modern pentathlon

Gustav Gustenau

Road cycling Cycling

Melanie Amann
Tobias Franek
Nadja Heigl
Felix Ritzinger

rowing rowing

Ferdinand Querfeld / Christoph Seifriedsberger

shoot shoot

Rebecca Koeck

swim swim

Claudia Hufnagl
Lena Kreundl
Sebastian Steffan
Sascha Subarsky

Taekwondo Taekwondo

Eduard Frankford

Table tennis Table tennis

Andreas Levenko
Karoline Mischek

Triathlon Triathlon

Philip Horwarth
Sara Anna Skardelly

do gymnastics do gymnastics

Johannes Mairoser
Ceyda Sirbu

Web links

Commons : 2014 Youth Olympic Summer Games  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. This is Austria's YOG team , Nanjing 2014, on: olympia.at, July 2, 2014, accessed May 24, 2017