Youth Olympic Summer Games 2018 / inline speed skating

Inline speed skating at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympic Games
information
venue	Buenos Aires Argentina
Athletes	28 (14 , 14 )
date	October 7th to 8th, 2018
decisions	2

At the 2018 Summer Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires , two inline speed skating competitions were held on October 7th and 8th . It was the first time this sport was played at an Olympic tournament.

background

The world championships in roller speed skating, which took place from July 1st to 3rd, 2018 in Heerde in the Netherlands, served as qualification .

The competitions were held in three disciplines: On the first day of the competition there was initially a sprint over 1000 meters, this was held in two runs, the eight fastest athletes in the preliminary round qualified for the final. Then there was an elimination race, similar to the elimination race in cycling. It went over a total of 5000 meters. On the second day of the competition, a sprint over 500 meters was finally held, this consisted of three laps, the fastest four made it to the final.

The performance of the participants was assessed with points: the first place in each discipline received 14 points, the last placed one point. In the end, the points from all disciplines were added up, and the three athletes with the highest total number of points received the medals.

Results

Boys

space	country	athlete	Points
1	Colombia	Jhonny Angulo	39
2	Italy	Vincenzo Maiorca	38
3	Netherlands	Merijn Scheperkamp	30th
4th	Chinese Taipei	Chang Chia-wei	29
5	Argentina	Nahuel Schelling	29
6th	People's Republic of China	Chen Tao	28
7th	South Korea	Cheon Jong-jin	25th
8th	Ecuador	David Sarmiento	20th
9	France	Ewen Foussadier	19th
10	Belgium	Jason Suttels	17th
11	Chile	Ignacio Mardones	13
12	Spain	Ivan Galar	12
13	Venezuela	Gustavo Rodríguez	11
14th	Australia	Alexander Myint	5

girl

space	country	Athlete	Points
1	Colombia	Gabriela Rueda	42
2	France	Honorine Barrault	36
3	Italy	Giorgia Valanzano	36
4th	Spain	Nerea Langa	34
5	Chinese Taipei	Wang Kuan-chih	30th
6th	Ecuador	María Arias	24
7th	Chile	Ashly Marin	23
8th	Portugal	Carolina Ferreira	22nd
9	Germany	Angelina Otto	19th
10	Argentina	Fernanda Illanes	14th
11	Netherlands	Marit van Beijnum	14th
12	Australia	Giselle Stogdale	10
13	Czech Republic	Andrea Lokvencová	9
14th	Thailand	Patjira Srisathitha	3

Medal table

	Medal table
space	country	G	S.	B.	total
1	Colombia	2	-	-	2
2	Italy	-	1	1	2
3	France	-	1	-	1
4th	Netherlands	-	-	1	1
Total		2	2	2	6th

Web links

• Official report (PDF)