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Athletics at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics

Athletics
at the II Summer Youth Olympic Games
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Venue Nanjing Olympic Sports Center
Dates August 20–26
2010
2018
Athletics at the
2014 Summer Youth Olympics
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Track events
100 m Boys Girls
200 m Boys Girls
400 m Boys Girls
800 m Boys Girls
1,500 m Boys Girls
3,000 m Boys Girls
100 m hurdles Girls
110 m hurdles Boys
400 m hurdles Boys Girls
2,000 m
steeplechase
Boys Girls
8×100 m relay Mixed
Road events
5 km walk Girls
10 km walk Boys
Field events
Long jump Boys Girls
Triple jump Boys Girls
High jump Boys Girls
Pole vault Boys Girls
Shot put Boys Girls
Discus throw Boys Girls
Javelin throw Boys Girls
Hammer throw Boys Girls

Athletics at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics was held from August 20 to August 26. The events will take place at the Nanjing Olympic Sports Center in Nanjing, China.

Each National Olympic Committee (NOC) can enter a maximum of 36 athletes, 18 per each gender and 1 per each event. As hosts, China is given 2 quotas, 1 per each gender and 136 places, 68 per each gender will be decided by the Tripartite Commission. The remaining 540 places will be divided evenly among the individual events and will be decided among a single continental qualification event for each continent with the exception of the Americas in which they hosted three. The amount of quotas available to each continent for each event was decided on the results from the 2011 World Youth Championships and 2013 World Youth Championships.

To be eligible to participate at the Youth Olympics athletes must have been born between 1 January 1997 and 31 December 1998.

The schedule was released by the Nanjing Youth Olympic Games Organizing Committee. In the table below, M stands for morning (begins 09:00), A for afternoon (begins 16:00) and E stands for evening (begins 18:30).

169 nations participated in athletics.


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