Athletics at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics

Athletics at the II Summer Youth Olympic Games
Venue	Nanjing Olympic Sports Center
Dates	August 20–26
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Athletics at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics
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.