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Venezuela at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics
IOC code	VEN
NOC	Venezuelan Olympic Committee
Website	covoficial.com.ve
in Buenos Aires
Competitors	53 in 17 sports
Flag bearer	Katherin Echandia
Medals Ranked 39th	Gold 2 Silver 0 Bronze 0 Total 2
Summer Youth Olympics appearances (overview)
2010 2014 2018

Venezuela competed at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from 6 to 18 October 2018.

Basketball 3×3

Venezuela qualified both teams (8 athletes) via World Ranking as of April 1, 2018 (1st in Boys; 4th in Girls). This is a 2nd qualification in a row for a Venezuelan 3x3 (also qualified in Nanjing 2014 both teams). This is not consider as Team Sport (all athletes have individual World Ranking).

Beach handball

Venezuela qualified Boys' Team and Girls' Team (18 athletes) to the tournament.

Beach volleyball

Venezuela qualified girls' and boys' from their performance at the 2018 CSV Youth Beach volleyball Tour.

Athletes	Event	Preliminary round		Round of 24	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
		Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Richard Brizuela Gabriel González	Boys'	Bintang–Danang (INA) L 0-2  Brewster–Schwengel (USA) L 0-2  Railbiently–Brian (ARU) W 2-0	3	A Lezcano–C Lobo (CRC) L 0-2	Did not advance
Urimar Narváez Diana Ramírez	Girls'	Romero–Gutiérrez (MEX) W 2-1  Mali–Kayla (ARU) W 2-0  Valentine–Penelope (RWA) W 2-0	1	Bye	Thatsarida–Pawarun (THA) L 1-2	Did not advance

Boxing

Boys

Athlete	Event	Preliminary R1	Preliminary R2	Semifinals	Final / RM	Rank
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Giodanny Jiménez	-75 kg	Poutoa (SAM) L 0–5	Douibi (ALG) L 0–5	Did not advance	Millas (ITA) W WO	5

Cycling

Venezuela qualified one athlete in BMX freestyle based on its performance at the 2018 Urban Cycling World Championship.

• Mixed BMX freestyle - 1 girl

Equestrian

Venezuela qualified a rider based on its ranking in the FEI World Jumping Challenge Rankings.

Athlete	Horse	Event	Round 1		Round 2			Total		Jump-Off		Rank
			Penalties	Rank	Penalties	Total	Rank	Penalties	Rank	Penalties	Time
Bernardo Lander	Roi Quake Z	Individual Jumping	EL		Did not advance							29
South America  Philip Mattos Botelho (BRA)  Bernardo Lander (VEN)  Gonzalo Bedoya (BOL)  Agostina Llano Zuccolillo (PAR)  Richard Kierkegaard (ARG)	Denise Z Roi Quake Z Ankara I Red Sugar Z Legolas I	Team Jumping	12 # 4 4 # 0 0	4	0 4 # 0 0 0	0	4	Did not advance				4

Fencing

Venezuela qualified one athlete based on its performance at the 2018 Cadet World Championship.

• Girls' Foil - Anabella Acurero Gonzalez

Gymnastics

Artistic

Venezuela qualified one gymnast based on its performance at the 2018 American Junior Championship.

• Boys' artistic individual all-around - 1 quota

Multidiscipline

Team	Athlete	Acrobatic	Artistic	Rhythmic	Trampoline	Total points	Rank
Yevgeny Marchenko (Brown)	Daniela González (PUR)  Adriel González (PUR)	36	—			430	10
	Byun Seong-won (KOR)	—	45	—
	Lay Giannini (ITA)		55
	Víctor Betancourt (VEN)		54
	Kate Sayer (AUS)		36
	Elvira Katsali (GRE)		89
	Valeriia Sotskova (ISR)	—		26	—
	Anastasia Pingou (CYP)			20
	Ekaterina Fetisova (UZB)			39
	Fu Fantao (CHN)	—			8
	Alyssa Oh (USA)				12

Judo

Modern pentathlon

Venezuela qualified one pentathlete based on its performance at the Pan American Youth Olympic Games Qualifier.

Athlete	Event	Fencing Ranking Round (épée one touch)		Swimming (200 m freestyle)			Fencing Final round (épée one touch)			Combined: Shooting/Running (10 m air pistol)/(3000 m)			Total Points	Final Rank
		Results	Rank	Time	Rank	Points	Results	Rank	Points	Time	Rank	Points
Angel Hernandez (VEN)	Boys' Individual
Angel Hernandez (VEN)  Elžbieta Adomaitytė (LTU)	Mixed Relay

Sailing

Venezuela qualified one boat based on its performance at the Central and South American IKA Twin Tip Qualifiers.

• Girls' IKA Twin Tip Racing - 1 boat

Triathlon

Venezuela qualified one athlete based on its performance at the 2018 American Youth Olympic Games Qualifier.

Individual

Relay

Athlete	Event	Total Times per Athlete (Swim 250m, Bike 6.6 km, Run 1.8 km)	Total Group Time	Rank
Americas 2  Karina Clemant (VEN)  Cristian Andres Triana Peña (COL)  Giovanna Lacerda (BRA)  Javier Antonio de la Peña Schott (MEX)	Mixed Relay	23:23 (11) 21:26 (6) 23:49 (6) 22:01 (7)	1:30:39 1P	6

Weightlifting

Venezuela qualified one quota in the boys' events and one quota in the girls' events based on the team ranking after the 2017 Weightlifting Youth World Championships.

Boy

Girl

Athlete	Event	Snatch		Clean & jerk		Total	Rank
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Katherin Oriana Echandia Zarate	−44 kg	72	1	90	1	162

Wrestling

• VFA – Victory by Fall
• VSU – Without any points scored by the opponent
• VSU1 – With point(s) scored by the opponent
• VPO – Without any points scored by the opponent
• VPO1 – With point(s) scored by the opponent

Athlete	Event	Group stage					Final / RM	Rank
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score
María Jose Mosquera Rojas	Girls' freestyle −49kg	Varakina (BLR) L 3 – 8	Ikei (USA) L 2 – 12	Akhmedova (UZB) L 1 – 12	Raimova (KAZ) W 14 – 8	4 Q	Duenas (GUM) W 10 – 0	7
Mayra Alejandra Parra Alvarez	Girls' freestyle −57kg	Ringaci (MDA) L 2 – 11	Szél (HUN) L 0 – 10	Mansi (IND) W 9 – 8	Toida (CMR) W 10 – 0	3 Q	López (MEX) L 0 – 7	6

References

1. "Katherin Echandia elevará el tricolor patrio en los JJOO Buenos Aires 2018" [Katherin Echandia will carry the flag of Venezuela in 2018 Summer Youth Olympics]. Ministry of Popular Power for Communication and Information. 15 September 2018. Archived from the original on 18 September 2018.
2. "Bolivia Logra El Oro Historico y Divide El Podio Con Paraguay En El Clasificatorio YOG De Cochabmaba". South American Volleyball Confederation. 17 June 2018. Retrieved 25 June 2018.
3. "Countries that will participate in the 2018 Youth Olympics" (PDF). UCI. 1 June 2018. Retrieved 1 June 2018.
4. "Qualified NOC's to the 3rd Youth Olympic Games – Buenos Aires - 2018" (PDF). FEI. 17 January 2018. Retrieved 17 January 2018.
5. "2018 Youth Olympic Games - Buenos Aires FIE Qualifications" (PDF). FIE. 10 April 2018. Retrieved 14 May 2018.
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