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Sri Lanka at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics
IOC code	SRI
NOC	National Olympic Committee of Sri Lanka
in Nanjing
Competitors	9 in 6 sports
Flag bearer	Matthew Abeysinghe
Medals	Gold 0 Silver 0 Bronze 0 Total 0
Summer Youth Olympics appearances
2010 2014 2018

Sri Lanka competed at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics, in Nanjing, China from 16 August to 28 August 2014. The Sri Lankan team consisted of nine athletes in six sports.

Medalists

Medals awarded to participants of mixed-NOC (Combined) teams are represented in italics. These medals are not counted towards the individual NOC medal tally.

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Bronze	Sachin Dias	Badminton	Mixed Doubles	22 Aug

Athletics

Sri Lanka qualified one male athlete in the Youth Olympic Trials held in Bangkok, Thailand from May 21–22, 2014.

Qualification Legend: Q=Final A (medal); qB=Final B (non-medal); qC=Final C (non-medal); qD=Final D (non-medal); qE=Final E (non-medal)

Boys

Track & road events

Badminton

Sri Lanka qualified one maleathlete based on the 2 May 2014 BWF Junior World Rankings. Later Sri Lanka was given a female quota to compete by the tripartite committee.

Singles

Athlete	Event	Group stage				Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM	Rank
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score
Sachin Dias	Boys' Singles	Abdelhakim (EGY) W 21–11, 21–9	Nzoussi (CGO) W 21–5, 21–8	Ginting (INA) L 10–21, 21–23	2	did not advance
Thilini Hendahewa	Girls' Singles	Blichfeldt (DEN) W 21–18, 21–15	Yamaguchi (JPN) L 13–21, 6–21	Cadeau (SEY) W 21–3, 21–6	2	did not advance

Doubles

Athlete	Event	Group stage				Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM	Rank
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score
He Bingjiao (CHN)  Sachin Dias (SRI)	Mixed Doubles	Courtois (FRA)  Sebunnya (UGA) W 2 – 0	Hendahewa (SRI)  Ong (SIN) W 2 – 0	Shivani (IND)  Ayittey (GHA) W w/o	1 Q	Beton (SLO)  Ginting (INA) W 2 – 1	Lee (TPE)  Tsuneyama (JPN) L 1 – 2	Qin (CHN)  Narongrit (THA) W 2 – 0
Thilini Hendahewa (SRI)  Bernard Ong (SIN)	Mixed Doubles	Shivani (IND)  Ayittey (GHA) W w/o	He (CHN)  Dias (SRI) L 0 – 2	Courtois (FRA)  Sebunnya (UGA) W 2 – 0	2	did not advance

Beach Volleyball

Sri Lanka qualified a boys' team by their performance at the AVC Qualification Tournament.

Athletes	Event	Preliminary round	Standing	Round of 24	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM	Rank
		Opposition Score		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score
Isuru Madushan Chamika Sandaruwan	Boys'	Frutos Toewn/Cacares (PAR) W 2 – 1	3 Q	Ashfiya/Licardo (INA) L 0 – 2	did not advance				25
		Ndayishimiye/Pniyongabo (BDI) W 2 – 0
		Alvarez/Flores (GUA) L 1 – 2
		Berntsen/Mol (NOR) L 0 – 2
		Iarzutkin/Stoyanovskiy (RUS) L 0 – 2

Rowing

Sri Lanka was given a boat to compete by the tripartite committee.

Qualification Legend: FA=Final A (medal); FB=Final B (non-medal); FC=Final C (non-medal); FD=Final D (non-medal); SA/B=Semifinals A/B; SC/D=Semifinals C/D; R=Repechage

Swimming

Sri Lanka qualified two swimmers. In the five races the two swimmers competed in, all five produced new national records.

Boys

Girls

Tennis

Sri Lanka was given a quota to compete by the tripartite committee.

Singles

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM	Rank
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score
Sharmal Dissanayake	Boys' Singles	K Khachanov (RUS) L 0 – 6, 0 – 6	did not advance

Doubles

Athletes	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM	Rank
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score
Sharmal Dissanayake (SRI)  Pavle Rogan (MNE)	Boys' Doubles	—	N Álvarez (PER)   JJ Rosas (PER) L 2 – 6, 3 – 6	did not advance
Ojasvinee Singh (IND)  Sharmal Dissanayake (SRI)	Mixed Doubles	S Kenin (USA)   A Rybakov (USA) L 2 – 6, 6 – 4, –	did not advance

References

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7. Madushan, Sandaruwan qualify for Youth Olympics beach volleyball
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9. "Number of Entries by NOC: Swimming". nanjing2014.org. 6 August 2014. Archived from the original on 8 August 2014. Retrieved 9 August 2014.
10. Three top Lankan swimmers for Arena Grand Prix, USA
11. "Matthew, Machiko break records at Youth Olympic Games". Daily News (Sri Lanka). 22 August 2014. Archived from the original on 26 August 2014. Retrieved 23 August 2014.
12. "2014 Youth Olympic Tennis Event – Boys Acceptance List by Country" (PDF). ITF. 1 July 2014. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 July 2014. Retrieved 15 July 2014.
13. "Sharmal To Represent Sri Lanka At Youth Olympic Games | The Sunday Leader". www.thesundayleader.lk. Retrieved 2017-09-14.

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