Weightlifting at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics

Each National Olympic Committee (NOC) can enter a maximum of 4 competitors, 2 per each gender. As hosts, China was given the maximum quota, but only selected 1 athlete per gender and a further 11 boys and 9 girls was to be decided by the Tripartite Commission, but only 9 boys and 6 girls were selected, the remaining places were reallocated. The remaining 86 places shall be decided by team classification results from qualification events, namely the 2013 World Youth Championships and five continental qualification tournaments.^[1]

To be eligible to participate at the Youth Olympics athletes must have been born between 1 January 1997 and 31 December 1999. Furthermore, NOCs will only be allowed to enter a single athlete in an event.^[1]

Event	Location	Date	Quotas	Qualified
Host Nation	-	-	1	China
2013 World Youth Championships[2]	Tashkent	6–13 April 2013	2	Russia  Egypt  India  Iran  Romania  Mexico  Kazakhstan  Armenia  Uzbekistan
			1	Thailand  Ukraine  Poland  Vietnam  Colombia  Venezuela  North Korea
2014 Asian Youth Championships[3]	Bang Saen	4–12 March 2014	1	South Korea  Indonesia  Kyrgyzstan  Chinese Taipei  Syria
2014 African Youth Championships[4]	Tunis	15–22 April 2014	1	Tunisia  Libya  Algeria  Morocco
2014 European Youth Championships[5]	Ciechanow	28 Apr–3 May 2014	1	Bulgaria  Turkey  Germany  Italy  France
2014 Pan-American Youth Championships[6]	Chiclayo	7–11 May 2014	1	Peru  United States  Ecuador  Dominican Republic
2014 Oceania Youth Championship[7]	Mont Dore	25–31 May 2014	1	New Zealand  Australia  Papua New Guinea  Fiji
Tripartite Invitation[8]	-	-	1	Federated States of Micronesia  Iraq  Kiribati  Nauru  Nicaragua  Pakistan  Sierra Leone  Tonga  Turkmenistan
Reallocation[8]	-	-	1	Kenya  Saudi Arabia  Serbia
TOTAL			60

Event	Location	Date	Quotas	Qualified
Host Nation	-	-	1	China
2013 World Youth Championships[9]	Tashkent	6–13 April 2013	2	Mexico  North Korea  Russia  Thailand  Kazakhstan  Vietnam  Romania
			1	Ecuador  Venezuela  Indonesia  Colombia  Myanmar  Poland  Ukraine  Egypt
2014 Asian Youth Championships[10]	Bang Saen	4–12 March 2014	1	Chinese Taipei  India  Mongolia  Uzbekistan
2014 African Youth Championships[11]	Tunis	15–22 April 2014	1	Tunisia  Algeria  Morocco
2014 European Youth Championships[12]	Ciechanow	28 Apr–3 May 2014	1	Turkey  Bulgaria  Armenia  Italy
2014 Pan-American Youth Championships[13]	Chiclayo	7–11 May 2014	1	Peru  Brazil  United States
2014 Oceania Youth Championship[14]	Mont Dore	25–31 May 2014	1	Australia  Papua New Guinea  Fiji
Tripartite Invitation[8]	-	-	1	Bangladesh  Ghana  Madagascar  Malta  Seychelles  Solomon Islands
Reallocation[8]	-	-	1	Argentina  Chile  Hungary  Latvia
TOTAL			50

The schedule was released by the Nanjing Youth Olympic Games Organizing Committee.^[15]

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