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Weightlifting at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics

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Dates
  
17 Aug 2014 – 23 Aug 2014

Weightlifting at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics

Location
  
Nanjing International Expo Center

Venue
  
Nanjing International Expo Center

Weightlifting at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics was held from August 17 to August 23. The events took place at the Nanjing International Expo Center in Nanjing, China.

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Qualification

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.

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.

Schedule

The schedule was released by the Nanjing Youth Olympic Games Organizing Committee.

All times are CST (UTC+8)

References

Weightlifting at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics Wikipedia