# Ecuador at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics

Ecuador participated at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires, Argentina from 6 October to 18 October 2018.

## Medalists

Medals awarded to participants of mixed-NOC teams are represented in italics. These medals are not counted towards the individual NOC medal tally.
| Medal | Name | Sport | Event | Date |
| Gold | Óscar Patín | Athletics | Boys' 5000 metre walk | 15 October |
| Silver | Juleisy Angulo | Athletics | Girls' Javelin throw | 16 October |
| Silver | Pablo Calvache | Gymnastics | Multidiscipline | 10 October |
| Silver | Jeremy Peralta | Wrestling | Boys' Greco-Roman −45kg | 12 October |
| Bronze | Gabriela Anahí Suárez | Athletics | 100 metres | 15 October |
| Bronze | Edith Ortiz | Judo | Mixed team | 10 October |
| Bronze | Darlyn Padilla | Taekwondo | Boys' −73 kg | 10 October |
Medals by sport :
| Sport | | | | Total |
| Athletics | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Taekwondo | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Wrestling | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Total | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 |

## Athletics
### Track and road events

| Athlete | Event | Stage 1 | Stage 1 | Stage 2 | Stage 2 | Total | Total |
| Athlete | Event | Distance | Rank | Distance | Rank | Distance | Rank |
| Oscar Patin | 5000 metre walk | 20:13.69 | 1 | 20:38.17 | 2 | 20:13.69 | |

### Field events

| Athlete | Event | Stage 1 | Stage 1 | Stage 2 | Stage 2 | Total | Total |
| Athlete | Event | Distance | Rank | Distance | Rank | Distance | Rank |
| Kevin Bueno | Triple jump | 14.88 | 13 | 15.04 | 10 | 29.92 | 10 |
| Justine Herrera | High jump | 1.90 | 16 | 1.93 | 14 | 3.83 | 14 |
| Jean Mairongo | Javelin throw | 74.32 | 4 | 72.22 | 6 | 146.54 | 5 |

### Track and road events

| Athlete | Event | Stage 1 | Stage 1 | Stage 2 | Stage 2 | Total | Total |
| Athlete | Event | Distance | Rank | Distance | Rank | Distance | Rank |
| Gabriela Anahí Suárez | 100 metres | 11.97 | 1 | 11.29 | 3 | 23.26 | |
| Aimara Nazareno | 100 metre hurdles | 14.10 | 10 | 13.73 | 8 | 27.83 | 9 |
| Maria Villalva | 5000 metre walk | 22:48.75 | 4 | 23:26.70 | 3 | 46:15.45 | 4 |

### Field events

| Athlete | Event | Stage 1 | Stage 1 | Stage 2 | Stage 2 | Total | Total |
| Athlete | Event | Distance | Rank | Distance | Rank | Distance | Rank |
| Lorna Zurita | Shot put | 14.73 | 11 | 15.79 | 5 | 30.52 | 7 |
| Juleisy Ángulo | Javelin throw | 59.82 | 2 | 55.21 | 4 | 115.03 | |

## Beach volleyball

Ecuador qualified a boys' team based on their overall ranking from the South American Youth Tour.
| Athletes | Event | Preliminary round | Preliminary round | Round of 24 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final / BM | Final / BM |
| Athletes | Event | Opposition Score | Rank | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Rank |
| Leon–Jurado | Boys' tournament | Guvu–Monjane (MOZ) W 2-0 Santiago–Rivera (PUR) W 2-1 Esther–Namah (MRI) W 2-0 | 1 | Bye | Amieva–Zelayeta (ARG) L 0-2 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| Ariana–Karelys | Girls' tournament | Álvarez M.–Moreno (ESP) L 0-2 Thatsarida–Pawarun (THA) L 0-2 Vargas–Corbacho (URU) L 1-2 | 4 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |

## Cycling

Ecuador qualified a mixed BMX racing team based on its ranking in the Youth Olympic Games BMX Junior Nation Rankings.
* Mixed BMX racing team - 1 team of 2 athletes

### BMX racing

| Athlete | Event | Semifinal | Semifinal | Final | Final | Final | Total points | Rank |
| Athlete | Event | Points | Rank | Result | Rank | Points | Total points | Rank |
| Efrain Chamorro | Mixed BMX racing | 7 | 2 | 35.729 | 3 | 8 | 73 | 6 |
| Sylvia Ochoa | Mixed BMX racing | 18 | 6 | did not advance | did not advance | 65 | 73 | 6 |

## Gymnastics
### Artistic

Ecuador qualified one gymnast based on its performance at the 2018 European Junior Championship.
* Boys' artistic individual all-around - 1 quota

#### Boys

| Athlete | Event | Apparatus | Apparatus | Apparatus | Apparatus | Apparatus | Apparatus | Total | Rank |
| Athlete | Event | F | PH | R | V | PB | HB | Total | Rank |
| Pablo Calvache | Qualification | 12.266 | 9.658 | 12.566 | 14.000 | 11.800 | 12.566 | 72.856 | 23 |
| Pablo Calvache | Horizontal bar | — | — | — | — | — | 12.566 | 12.566 | 11 |

### Multidiscipline

| Team | Athlete | Acrobatic | Artistic | Rhythmic | Trampoline | Total points | Rank |
| Team Max Whitlock (Green) | Madalena Cavilhas (POR) Manuel Candeias (POR) | 20 | — | — | — | 349 | |
| Team Max Whitlock (Green) | Fernando Espíndola (ARG) | — | 43 | — | — | | 349 |
| Team Max Whitlock (Green) | Takeru Kitazono (JPN) | — | 17 | — | — | 349 | |
| Team Max Whitlock (Green) | Pablo Calvache (ECU) | — | 59 | — | — | 349 | |
| Team Max Whitlock (Green) | Camila Montoya (CRC) | — | 69 | — | — | 349 | |
| Team Max Whitlock (Green) | Ksenia Klimenko (RUS) | — | 11 | — | — | 349 | |
| Team Max Whitlock (Green) | Zeina Ibrahim (EGY) | — | 15 | — | — | 349 | |
| Team Max Whitlock (Green) | Rayna Khai Ling Hoh (MAS) | — | — | 18 | — | 349 | |
| Team Max Whitlock (Green) | Roza Abitova (KAZ) | — | — | 26 | — | 349 | |
| Team Max Whitlock (Green) | Adelina Beljajeva (EST) | — | — | 47 | — | 349 | |
| Team Max Whitlock (Green) | Robert Vilarasau (ESP) | — | — | — | 11 | 349 | |
| Team Max Whitlock (Green) | Jessica Clarke (GBR) | — | — | — | 13 | 349 | |

## Judo
### Individual

| Athlete | Event | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Rep 1 | Rep 2 | Rep 3 | Final / BM | Final / BM |
| Athlete | Event | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Rank |
| Bryan Garboa | Boys' 55 kg | Bye | Oleh Veredyba (UKR) L 00s1-10 | did not advance | — | Yuri Israelyan (ARM) W 10s2-00s3 | Ariel Shulman [he] (ISR) L 00-10 | did not advance | 5 |
| Edith Ortiz | Girls' 78 kg | Tiguidanke Camara (GUI) W 10-00 | Margarita Gritsenko (KAZ) L 00-10 | did not advance | Bye | Christi-Rose Pretorius (ZIM) W 11-00 | Liu Li-ling (TPE) W 10-00s2 | Eduarda Rosa (BRA) L 00H-10s2 | 4 |

### Team

| Athletes | Event | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final | Final |
| Athletes | Event | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Rank |
| Team London Yangchen Wangmo (BHU) Daniel Leutgeb (AUT) Noemi Huayhuameza Orneta (PER) Joao Santos (BRA) Rachel Krapman (CAN) Ahmed Rebahi (ALG) Edith Ortiz (ECU) Bekarys Saduakas (KAZ) | Mixed team | Bye | Team Moscow (MIX) W 4–3 | Team Beijing (MIX) L 0–7 | did not advance | |
| Team Singapore Ahad Al-Sagheer (YEM) Anastasia Balaban (UKR) Bryan Garboa (ECU) Sarah Kafufula (COD) Mariem Khlifi (TUN) Ahmed Mohamed Fahmy (EGY) Eduarda Rosa (BRA) Ilia Sulamanidze (GEO) | Mixed team | Team Moscow (MIX) L 3–4 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |

## Sport climbing

Ecuador qualified one sport climber based on its performance at the 2017 Pan American Youth Sport Climbing Championships.
* Boys' combined - 1 quota (Galo Hernandez)

## Taekwondo

| Athlete | Event | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final / BM | Final / BM |
| Athlete | Event | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Rank |
| Darlyn Padilla | Boys' −73 kg | Bye | Dušan Božanić (SRB) W 23-20 | Ali Eshkevarian (IRI) L 5-29 | did not advance | |

## Triathlon

Ecuador qualified two athletes based on its performance at the 2018 American Youth Olympic Games Qualifier.

### Individual

| Athlete | Event | Swim (750m) | Trans 1 | Bike (20 km) | Trans 2 | Run (5 km) | Total Time | Rank |
| Gabriel Terán Carvajal | Boys | 9:44 | 0:28 | 28:39 | 0:29 | 17:38 | 56:58 | 17 |
| Paula Vega | Girls | 10:11 | 0:40 | 30:09 | 0:30 | 18:19 | 59:49 | 5 |

### Relay

| Athlete | Event | Total Times per Athlete (Swim 250m, Bike 6.6 km, Run 1.8 km) | Total Group Time | Rank |
| Americas 1 Paula Vega (ECU) Cristobal Baeza Muñoz (CHI) Sofia Rodríguez Moreno (MEX) Andrew Shellenberger (USA) | Mixed Relay | 22:11 (3) - - - | DNF | DNF |
| Americas 3 Delfina Orlandini (ARG) Gabriel Terán Carvajal (ECU) Maria Fernanda Barbosa Sánchez (COL) Solen Wood (CAN) | Mixed Relay | 22:49 (7) 21:27 (7) 24:52 (9) 22:35 (8) | 1:31:43 | 7 |

## Weightlifting

Ecuador qualified one athlete based on its performance at the 2017 World Youth Championships.

### Boy

| Athlete | Event | Snatch | Snatch | Clean & Jerk | Clean & Jerk | Total | Rank |
| Athlete | Event | Result | Rank | Result | Rank | Total | Rank |
| Carlos Emilio Escudero Nájera | +85 kg | 150 | 4 | 175 | 4 | 325 | 4 |

### Girl

| Athlete | Event | Snatch | Snatch | Clean & jerk | Clean & jerk | Total | Rank |
| Athlete | Event | Result | Rank | Result | Rank | Total | Rank |
| Bella Paredes | +63 kg | 90 | 5 | 113 | 5 | 203 | 5 |

## Wrestling

* VFA – Victory by Fall
* VSU – Without any points scored by the opponent
* VSU1 – With point(s) scored by the opponent
* VPO – Without any points scored by the opponent
* VPO1 – With point(s) scored by the opponent
| Athlete | Event | Group stage | Group stage | Group stage | Final / RM | Rank |
| Athlete | Event | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Rank | Opposition Score | Rank |
| Jeremy Peralta | Boys' Greco-Roman −45kg | de Jesús (HON) W 7 – 0 $^{VFA}$ | Zakirbayev (TKM) W 7 – 4 $^{VPO1}$ | 1 Q | Dehbozorgi (IRI) L 0 – 8 $^{VSU}$ | |