Triathlon at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics

Each National Olympic Committee (NOC) could enter a maximum of 2 competitors, 1 per each gender. As hosts, Argentina was given the maximum quota and a further 4, 2 in each gender was decided by the Tripartite Commission. The remaining 58 places were to be decided by qualification events, namely five continental qualification tournaments.^[1]

To be eligible to participate at the Youth Olympics athletes must have been born between 1 January 2001 and 31 December 2002.^[1]

Event	Location	Date	Total Places	Qualified Boys	Qualified Girls
Host Nation	-	-	1	Argentina	Argentina
2018 Oceania YOG Qualifier[2]	New Plymouth	25 March 2018	2	Australia  New Zealand	Australia  New Zealand
2018 Africa YOG Qualifier[3]	Rabat	21 April 2018	3	South Africa  Tunisia  Egypt	South Africa  Tunisia  Egypt
2018 Asian YOG Qualifier[4]	Subic Bay	17 June 2018	5	Japan  China  Hong Kong  Malaysia  Syria  Kazakhstan	Singapore  South Korea  China  Japan  Hong Kong
2018 American YOG Qualifier[5]	Salinas	1 July 2018	7/8	Mexico  Canada  United States  Ecuador  Chile  Brazil  Colombia	United States  Mexico  Ecuador  Brazil  Venezuela  Peru  Cuba  Colombia
2018 European YOG Qualifier[6]	Banyoles	7–8 July 2018	12	France  Portugal  Hungary  Italy  Sweden  Israel  Germany  Switzerland  Great Britain  Belgium  Spain  Slovenia	Italy  France  Portugal  Russia  Switzerland  Hungary  Great Britain  Luxembourg  Netherlands  Belgium  Germany  Denmark
Tripartite Invitation	-	-	2/1	Aruba  Virgin Islands	Grenada
TOTAL			32

• The second female tripartite spot was not awarded and thus it was reallocated to the Americas, as per the qualification system.

The schedule is expected to be released by the Buenos Aires Youth Olympic Games Organizing Committee.

All times are ART (UTC-3)