Colombia first participated at the Youth Olympic Games at the inaugural 2010 Games in Singapore. Colombia has sent a team to each Summer Youth Olympics and participated for the first time at the Winter Youth Olympics in the 2016 edition in Lillehammer. The Colombian city of Medellín submitted a bid to host the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics, but in a voting process in 2013, lost the games to the Argentine capital, Buenos Aires.
Medal tables
Competing at the Youth Olympic Games, Colombian athletes have won a total of 18 medals in 9 different sports. Weightlifter José Gavino Mena won the country's first medal at this competition at the inaugural edition held in Singapore in 2010. As in the senior Olympics, weightlifting is the most successful sport for the country with five medals won, although none of them is gold. Cycling is also a successful sport, contributing with two gold, and one bronze medals. Roller speed skating is a very popular sport in Colombia, hence the country's domination in that sport at international competitions. The sport was introduced to the Olympic program for the Buenos Aires Games in 2018, and Colombian skaters won the two events held at those games. The medals won in tennis and equestrian in 2010 were the first for the country at Olympic competitions. Indeed, in tennis, the Colombians have won a complete set of medals as of 2018. Taekwondo practitioner Debbie Yopasa Gómez was the first female medalist for Colombia at the Youth Olympics, winning a bronze medal in Nanjing 2014. Despite being a tropical country, Colombia made its debut at the Winter Youth Olympics in Lillehammer 2016. Michael Poettoz was the sole representative of the country at those games (he later went on to become the first person born in Colombia to qualify to compete at the senior Winter Olympics in PyeongChang 2018). Tennis player Camila Osorio is the only Colombian athlete to have won two medals for the country at the youth games and the only one (including senior Olympic Games) to have won two medals at a single edition of the Olympics. Diver Daniel Restrepo won Colombia's first medal in diving at Olympic competitions.
Medals by Summer Youth Games
GamesAthletesGoldSilverBronzeTotalRank 2010 Singapore 23 2 3 0 5 22 2014 Nanjing 34 1 0 2 3 46 2018 Buenos Aires 53 4 3 3 10 14 2026 Dakar future event Total 7 6 5 18 22
Medals by Winter Youth Games
GamesAthletesGoldSilverBronzeTotalRank 2012 Innsbruck Did not participate 2016 Lillehammer 1 0 0 0 0 – 2020 Lausanne 2 0 1 0 1 27 2024 Gangwon 5 0 0 0 0 – Total 0 1 0 1 35
Medals by summer sport
Medals by winter sport
Medalists by Summer Games Medal Name Games Sport Event Singapore 2010 Tennis Boys' singles Mixed Cycling Team Jessica LergadaJhonnatan Botero VillegasBrayan RamírezDavid Oquendo Singapore 2010 Cycling Combined mixed team Singapore 2010 Weightlifting Boys' 62 kg Singapore 2010 Equestrian Individual Jumping Singapore 2010 Boxing Men's Middle 75 kg Boys' Cycling Team Brandon RiveraJhon Anderson Rodríguez Nanjing 2014 Cycling Boys' team Nanjing 2014 Taekwondo Girls' 63 kg Nanjing 2014 Weightlifting Boys' 69 kg Buenos Aires 2018 Roller speed skating Girls' combined Buenos Aires 2018 Roller speed skating Boys' combined Buenos Aires 2018 Diving Boys' 3m springboard Buenos Aires 2018 Athletics Girls' 400 m hurdles Buenos Aires 2018 Weightlifting Girls' 48 kg Buenos Aires 2018 Weightlifting Girls' 53 kg Mixed Double Team Camila OsorioNicolás Mejía Buenos Aires 2018 Tennis Mixed doubles Mixed BMX Cycling Team Gabriela BolleJuan Ramírez Buenos Aires 2018 Cycling Mixed BMX racing Buenos Aires 2018 Weightlifting Boys' 62 kg Buenos Aires 2018 Tennis Girls' singles
Medalists by Winter Games Medal Name Games Sport Event Lausanne 2020 Speed skating Boys' Mass Start
See also Colombia at the Olympics Colombia at the Paralympics Colombia at the Pan American Games
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