Botswana at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics

Botswana at the
2014 Summer Youth Olympics
Botswana at the; 2014 Summer Youth Olympics
IOC code	BOT
NOC	Botswana National Olympic Committee
in Nanjing
Competitors	8 in 4 sports
Medals; Ranked 61st	Gold 0 Silver 2 Bronze 0 Total 2
Summer Youth Olympics appearances
	2010; 2014; 2018;

Botswana competed at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics, in Nanjing, China from 16 August to 28 August 2014.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Silver	Karabo Sibanda	Athletics	Boys' 400 m	23 August
Silver	Baboloki Thebe	Athletics	Boys' 200 m	24 August

Botswana qualified five athletes.^[1]

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)

Athlete	Event	Heats		Final
Athlete	Event	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Baboloki Thebe	200 m	20.99	2 Q	21.20
Karabo Sibanda	400 m	47.43	4 Q	46.76
Gorata Gabankitse	800 m	1:54.66	14 qB	1:58.30	13
Kagiso Kebatshwaretse	3000 m	8:45.33 PB	13 qB	8:39.38 PB	13

Athlete	Event	Heats		Final
Athlete	Event	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Thandi Uerimuna	800 m	2:11.97	14 qB	2:12.13	13

Botswana was given a quota to compete by the tripartite committee.^[2]

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
Tessa Kabelo	Girls' Singles	Liang XY (SIN) L 0 – 2	A Demirbag (TUR) L 0 – 2	G Kim (KOR) L 0 – 2	4	Did not advance

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
Tessa Kabelo (BOT) Aditya Joshi (IND)	Mixed Doubles	A Yamaguchi (JPN) R Sarsiekienov (UKR) L 0 – 2	A Chen (NED) A Krapez (SLO) L 1 – 2	M Mitsova (BUL) A Hussein (EGY) W 2 – 1	3	Did not advance

Botswana was given a quota to compete by the tripartite committee.^[3]

Athlete	Event	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM	Rank
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Gavin Mogopa	Boys' -55 kg	O Karaca (TUR) L 0000 – 1000	Did not advance	J Verstraeten (BEL) L 0000 – 1000	5

Athletes	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final	Rank
Athletes	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Team Kano Melisa Çakmaklı (TUR) Salim Darukhi (TJK) Mariam Janashvili (GEO) Arso Milic (MNE) Gavin Mogopa (BOT) Elvismar Rodriguez (VEN) Stoyan Tarapanov (BUL) Tea Tintor (SRB)	Mixed Team	Team Rouge (MIX) L 2 – 5	Did not advance			9

Botswana qualified one swimmer.^[4]

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Naomi Ruele	50 m backstroke	29.86	17	Did not advance
Naomi Ruele	100 m backstroke	1:05.98	29	Did not advance

^ "Number of Entries by NOC: Athletics". nanjing2014.org. 6 August 2014. Archived from the original on 8 August 2014. Retrieved 8 August 2014.
^ "BWF Junior World Rankings: Girls' Singles". BWF. 8 July 2014. Archived from the original on 2014-07-14. Retrieved 8 July 2014.
^ "2014 YOG IJF Athlete List" (PDF). International Judo Federation. 18 July 2014. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 August 2014. Retrieved 4 August 2014.
^ "Number of Entries by NOC: Swimming". nanjing2014.org. 6 August 2014. Archived from the original on 8 August 2014. Retrieved 9 August 2014.