New Zealand at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics

Websitehttp://www.olympic.org.nz/

Competitors61 in 22 sports

New Zealand at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics

IOC code	NZL
NOC	New Zealand Olympic Committee
Website	http://www.olympic.org.nz/
in Buenos Aires, Argentina 6 – 18 October 2018
Competitors	61 in 22 sports
Flag bearer	Kanah Andrews-Nahu^[1]
Medals Ranked 25th	Gold 3 Silver 1 Bronze 1 Total 5
Summer Youth Olympics appearances
2010 2014 2018

New Zealand participated at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from 6 October to 18 October 2018.^[2]

Individual

Athlete	Event	Ranking round		Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM	Rank
Athlete	Event	Score	Seed	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Rebecca Jones	Girls' Individual	587	31	Uehara (JPN) W 6–5	Reddig (NAM) W 7–3	Vázquez Cadena (MEX) L 0–6	did not advance		7

Team

Athletes	Event	Ranking round		Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM	Rank
Athletes	Event	Score	Seed	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Rebecca Jones (NZL) Tang Chih-chun (TPE)	Mixed team	1276	28	Reisenweber (GER) Fabrizzi (ITA) W 6–2	Hnin (MYA) Ak (TUR) W 5–1	Tagle (PHI) Õun (EST) W 5–1	Giannasio (ARG) Soithong (THA) L 0–6	Reddig (NAM) Cowles (USA) L 3–5	4

Athletics

Badminton

New Zealand qualified one player based on the Badminton Junior World Rankings.^[3]

Singles

Athlete	Event	Group stage				Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM	Rank
Athlete	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Oscar Guo	Boys' Singles	Grimley (GBR) L 0–2	Papai (HUN) W 2–0	Chen (TPE) L 0–2	3	did not advance			9

Team

Athlete	Event	Group stage				Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM	Rank
Athlete	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Team Omega Oscar Guo (NZL) Markus Barth (NOR) Chang Ho Kim (FIJ) Kunlavut Vitidsarn (THA) Huang Yin-hsuan (TPE) Léonice Huet (FRA) Anastasiya Prozorova (UKR) Vũ Thị Anh Thư (VIE)	Mixed Teams	Gamma (MIX) W (110–99)	Theta (MIX) W (110–100)	Sigma (MIX) W (110–98)	1Q	Epsilon (MIX) W (110–102)	Zeta (MIX) W (110–109)	Alpha (MIX) L (106–110)

Basketball

New Zealand qualified a boys' team based on the U18 3x3 National Federation Ranking.^[4]

Boys' tournament – 1 team of 4 athletes

Event	Group stage					Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Boys' tournament	Andorra W 11–16	Ukraine L 13–21	Venezuela W 21–16	Brazil L 17–20	3	did not advance

Beach volleyball

New Zealand qualified a boys' and girls' team based on their performance at the 2018 Oceania U19 Championship.^[5]

Boys' tournament – 1 team of 2 athletes
Girls' tournament – 1 team of 2 athletes

Athletes	Event	Preliminary round		Round of 24	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
Athletes	Event	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
David Jeffrey–Keegan Joe	Boys'	Veretiuk–Shekunov (RUS) L0–2 Poznański–Miszczuk (POL) L0–2 Lammel–Droguett (CHI) L0–2	4	did not advance
Maya Dickson–Tamara Otene	Girls'	Nicole–Canedo (BOL) L 1–2 van Driel–Schoon (NED) L 1–2 Dorcas–Kutekenenyi (COD) W 2–0	3	Thatsarida–Pawarun (THA) L 0–2	did not advance

Boxing

Boys

Athlete	Event	Preliminary R1	Preliminary R2	Semifinals	Final / RM	Rank
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Kasib Hunter Murdoch-McKeich	-60 kg	Bondarchuk (UKR) L 0–5	Mamdouh (EGY) L 0–5	Did not advance	Wilcox (CAN) L 0–5	6

Girls

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries	Semifinals	Final / RM	Rank
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Te Mania Rzeka Tai Shelford-Edmonds	-57 kg	Bye	Carrillo Carrillo (MEX) L RSC R2 0:48	Rooney (IRL) L 0–5	4

Canoeing

New Zealand qualified three boats based on its performance at the 2018 World Qualification Event.^[6]

Boys' C1 – Finn Anderson
Boys' K1 – George Snook
Girls' C1 – Kahlia Cullwick

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Repechage		Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM	Rank
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Finn Anderson	Boys' C1 sprint	2:34.80	16	2:30.15	12	N/a	did not advance
Finn Anderson	Boys' C1 slalom	1:20.26	2	Bye			Bechtold (GER) W 1:24.44	Kuzyk (UKR) W 1:20.57	Saramandif (MRI) L 1:23.26
George Snook	Boys' K1 sprint	1:59.00	13	2:00.50	8		did not advance
George Snook	Boys' K1 slalom	1:14.33	3	Bye			Kiss (HUN) W 1:13.35	Changheng (CHN) L 1:16.27	Bouchardon (FRA) L 1:16.81	4
Kahlia Cullwick	Girls' C1 sprint	2:56.39	14	3:37.85	5	Nurlanova (KAZ) L 3:10.30	did not advance
Kahlia Cullwick	Girls' C1 slalom	1:34.17	7	Bye		Rodríguez (MEX) W 1:39.06	Asadbeki (IRI) L 1:37.84	did not advance

Cycling

New Zealand qualified a boys' and girls' combined team based on its ranking in the Youth Olympic Games Junior Nation Rankings. The also qualified a mixed BMX racing team based on its ranking in the Youth Olympic Games BMX Junior Nation Rankings.^[7]^[8]^[9]

Boys' combined team – 1 team of 2 athletes
Girls' combined team – 1 team of 2 athletes: Sammie Maxwell and Phoebe Young^[10]
Mixed BMX racing team – 1 team of 2 athletes

Equestrian

New Zealand qualified a rider based on its ranking in the FEI World Jumping Challenge Rankings.^[11]

Individual Jumping – Briar Burnett-Grant

Summary

Athlete	Horse	Event	Qualification					Final					Total
			Round 1		Round 2			Round A		Round B			Total
			Penalties	Rank	Penalties	Total	Rank	Penalties	Rank	Penalties	Total	Rank	Penalties	Rank
Briar Burnett-Grant	Milagro Maximo	Individual	N/a					0	=1 Q	4	4	6	4	6
Mix Australasia Almarzooqi (UAE) Najafinia (IRI) Burnett-Grant (NZL) Alqashouti (QAT) Sinderberry (AUS)	La Corina Lala La Trinidad Milagro Maximo Pietro Zambo	Team	24	=1 Q	36	60	5	N/a					60	4

Golf

Individual

Athlete	Event	Round 1		Round 2			Round 3			Total
Athlete	Event	Score	Rank	Score	Total	Rank	Score	Total	Rank	Score	Par	Rank
Juliana Hung	Girls' Individual	77 (+7)	15	77 (+7)	154	19	77 (+7)	231	24	231	+21	20
Jimmy Zheng	Boys' Individual	73 (+3)	12	75 (+5)	148	17	81 (+11)	229	26	229	+19	24

Team

Athletes	Event	Round 1 (Fourball)		Round 2 (Foursome)		Round 3 (Individual Stroke)				Total
Athletes	Event	Score	Rank	Score	Rank	Girl	Boy	Total	Rank	Score	Par	Rank
Juliana Hung Jimmy Zheng	Mixed team	69 (−1)	27	79 (+9)	25	77	73	150 (+10)	22	298	+18	26

Gymnastics

Artistic

New Zealand qualified one gymnast based on its performance at the 2018 Oceania Junior Championship.^[12]

Boys' artistic individual all-around – 1 quota

Judo

Individual

Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage		Final / BM	Rank
		Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Rihari Iki	Boys' −81 kg	Adrian Sulca (ROU) L 00–10	did not advance		Alexis Harrison (PAN) W 10–00	Mark van Dijk (NED) L 00–10	did not advance	5

Team

Athletes	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final	Rank
Athletes	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Team Nanjing Hasret Bozkurt (TUR) Joaquín Burgos (ARG) Nilufar Ermaganbetova (UZB) Rihari Iki (NZL) Alaa Mousaad Mohamed (EGY) Eva Pérez Soler (ESP) Vugar Talibov (AZE) Romain Valadier-Picard (FRA)	Mixed Team	N/a	Team Beijing (MIX) L 3–4	did not advance

Karate

Boys' +68 kg – Raukawa Jefferies

Athlete	Event	Group Stage				Semifinal	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Raukawa Jefferies	Boys' +68 kg	Robert Avakimov (RUS) L (1–4)	Enes Bulut (TUR) L (0–1)	Nabil Ech-Chaabi (MAR) D (0–0)	4	did not advance

Rugby sevens

New Zealand qualified a girls' team based on its performance at the Oceania Rugby U18s Sevens Championship.^[13]^[14]

Girls' tournament

Roster

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
1	New Zealand	5	5	0	169	27	+142	15
2	France	5	4	1	178	45	+133	13
3	Canada	5	3	2	125	85	+40	11
4	Colombia	5	2	3	66	119	−53	9
5	Kazakhstan	5	1	4	44	142	−98	7
6	Tunisia	5	0	5	19	183	−164	5

Source: Buenos Aires 2018
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head result; 3) Point difference; 4) Points scored.

13 October 2018
12:00

New Zealand	53–0	Tunisia
Try: Davison 0'c Pouri-Lane 3'm Maaka 5'm Tairakena 7'm Hohaia (2) 7'c, 10'c Paul 9'm Takitimu-Cook 12'c Tauranga 13'm Con: Pouri-Lane (2/6) 1', 8' Takitimu-Cook (2/4) 11', 12'	Report

Club Atlético San Isidro, Buenos Aires
Referee: Maddy Putz (Australia)

13 October 2018
15:05

New Zealand	38–5	Colombia
Try: Hohaia 0'c Dallinger 2'c Pouri-Lane 5'c Takitimu-Cook 8'c Tairakena 10'm Fitzgerald 14'm Con: Pouri-Lane (4/5) 1', 3', 6', 9' Dallinger (0/1)	Report	Try: Mejia 12'm Con: Ibarra (0/1)

Club Atlético San Isidro, Buenos Aires
Referee: Katherine Ritchie (Great Britain)

14 October 2018
12:00

New Zealand	26–12	France
Try: Watene 4'c Tairakena (2) 6'm, 8'c Pouri-Lane 11'c Con: Pouri-Lane (3/4) 4', 9', 11'	Report	Try: Berthoumieu 2'm Muller 13'c Con: Christiaens (1/1) 13' Maran (0/1)

Club Atlético San Isidro, Buenos Aires
Referee: Ashleigh Murray (South Africa)

14 October 2018
15:05

New Zealand	20–5	Canada
Try: Maaka 7'm Tairakena (2) 10'm, 12'm Risaleaana Pouri-Lane 13'm Con: Risaleaana Pouri-Lane (0/4)	Report	Try: Wardley 4'm Con: Black (0/1)

Club Atlético San Isidro, Buenos Aires
Referee: Katherine Ritchie (Great Britain)

15 October 2018
9:50

New Zealand	32–5	Kazakhstan
Try: Takitimu-Cook 6'm Tairakena 8'm Watene 10'c Dallinger 11'm Tahere (2) 12'm, 14'm Con: Pouri-Lane (1/6) 10'	Report	Try: Odnoletok 0'm Con: Mikhailenko (0/1)

Club Atlético San Isidro, Buenos Aires
Referee: Katherine Ritchie (Great Britain)

Gold Medal Game

15 October 2018
15:35

New Zealand	15–12	France
Try: Tairakena 0'm Hohaia 4'm Mahina 11'm Con: Pouri-Lane (0/3)	Report	Try: Christiaens 6'c Hapulat 9'm Con: Christiaens (1/2) 7'

Club Atlético San Isidro, Buenos Aires
Referee: Ashleigh Murray (South Africa)

Sailing

New Zealand qualified two boats based on its performance at the Oceania Techno 293+ Youth Olympic Games Qualifier.^[15] They also qualified one boat based on its performance at the Asian and Oceania IKA Twin Tip Racing Qualifiers.^[16]^[17]

Boys' Techno 293+ – 1 boat
Girls' Techno 293+ – 1 boat
Girls' IKA Twin Tip Racing – 1 boat

Sport climbing

New Zealand qualified one sport climber based on its performance at the 2017 Oceania Youth Sport Climbing Championships.^[18]

Girls' combined – 1 quota (Sarah Tetzlaff)

Swimming

Table tennis

New Zealand qualified two table tennis players based on its performance at the Oceania Continental Qualifier.^[19]

Boys' singles – Nathan Xu
Girls' singles – Hui Ling Vong

Tennis

Singles

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM	Rank
Athlete	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Valentina Ivanov	Girls' Singles	G Drummy (IRL) L (0–6, 7–5, 3–6)	did not advance

Doubles

Athletes	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM	Rank
Athletes	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Thasaporn Naklo (THA) Valentina Ivanov (NZL)	Girls' Doubles	Bilokin (UKR) Dema (UKR) L (1–6, 3–6)	did not advance				9

Triathlon

New Zealand qualified two athletes based on its performance at the 2018 Oceania Youth Olympic Games Qualifier.^[20]

Individual

Athlete	Event	Swim (750m)	Trans 1	Bike (20 km)	Trans 2	Run (5 km)	Total Time	Rank
Dylan McCullough	Boys	9:29	0:28	26:52	0:28	16:10	53:27
Brea Roderick	Girls	10:12	0:39	30:10	0:28	19:26	1:00:55	9

Relay

Athlete	Event	Total Times per Athlete (Swim 250m, Bike 6.6 km, Run 1.8 km)	Total Group Time	Rank
Oceania 1 Charlotte Derbyshire (AUS) Dylan McCullough (NZL) Brea Roderick (NZL) Joshua Ferris (AUS)	Mixed Relay	22:26 (5) 19:51 (1) 23:00 (2) 21:15 (2)	1:26:32

Athlete	Event	Group stage					Final / RM	Rank
Athlete	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Rank
Arapo Kellner	Boys' Greco-Roman −60kg	Sadyrov (KGZ) L 0 – 9 ^VSU	Ugalde (MEX) L 0 – 8 ^VSU	N/a		3 Q	Merikhi (ALG) L 2 – 10 ^VSU1	6
Westerly Ainsley	Boys' freestyle −65kg	Ullah (PAK) L 2 – 13 ^VSU1	Bayramov (AZE) L 0 – 10 ^VSU	N/a		3 Q	Ismail (EGY) L 0 – 7 ^VPO	6
Ryan Marshall	Boys' freestyle −80kg	Tembotov (RUS) L 0 – 10 ^VSU	Rakhimov (UZB) L 0 – 10 ^VSU	N/a		3 Q	Yairegpie (FSM) W 4 – 0 ^VFA	5
Ella Derry	Girls' freestyle −43kg	Leorda (MDA) L WO	Simran (IND) L WO	Mahmoud (EGY) L WO	Batbaatar (MGL) L WO	5 Q	Ogunsanya (NGR) L WO	10

v t e Nations at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Africa	Algeria Angola Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Burundi Cameroon Cape Verde Central African Republic Chad Comoros Democratic Republic of the Congo Republic of the Congo Djibouti Egypt Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Eswatini Ethiopia Gabon The Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea‑Bissau Ivory Coast Kenya Lesotho Liberia Libya Madagascar Malawi Mali Mauritania Mauritius Morocco Mozambique Namibia Niger Nigeria Rwanda São Tomé and Príncipe Senegal Seychelles Sierra Leone Somalia South Africa South Sudan Sudan Tanzania Togo Tunisia Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe
Americas	Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Aruba Bahamas Barbados Belize Bermuda Bolivia Brazil British Virgin Islands Canada Cayman Islands Chile Colombia Costa Rica Cuba Dominica Dominican Republic Ecuador El Salvador Grenada Guatemala Guyana Haiti Honduras Jamaica Mexico Nicaragua Panama Paraguay Peru Puerto Rico Saint Kitts‑Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent‑Grenadines Suriname Trinidad‑Tobago United States Uruguay Venezuela Virgin Islands
Asia	Afghanistan Bahrain Bangladesh Bhutan Brunei Cambodia China Hong Kong India Indonesia Iran Iraq Japan Jordan Kazakhstan North Korea South Korea Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Laos Lebanon Malaysia Maldives Mongolia Myanmar Nepal Oman Pakistan Palestine Philippines Qatar Saudi Arabia Singapore Sri Lanka Syria Chinese Taipei Tajikistan Thailand Turkmenistan United Arab Emirates Uzbekistan Vietnam Yemen
Europe	Albania Andorra Armenia Austria Azerbaijan Belarus Belgium Bosnia‑Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Finland France Georgia Germany Great Britain Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland Israel Italy Kosovo Latvia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Macedonia Malta Moldova Monaco Montenegro Netherlands Norway Poland Portugal Romania Russia San Marino Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey Ukraine
Oceania	American Samoa Australia Cook Islands Federated States of Micronesia Fiji Guam Kiribati Marshall Islands Nauru New Zealand Palau Papua New Guinea Samoa Solomon Islands Tonga Tuvalu Vanuatu
Related	Teams of athletes from more than one NOC

New Zealand at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics

Athletics

Badminton

Basketball

Beach volleyball

Boxing

Canoeing

Cycling

Equestrian

Golf

Gymnastics

Artistic

Judo

Karate

Rugby sevens

Girls' tournament

Sailing

Sport climbing

Swimming

Table tennis

Tennis

Triathlon

Weightlifting

Wrestling

References

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