Burundi at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics

Burundi competed at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics, in Nanjing, China from 16 August to 28 August 2014.

Burundi at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics
IOC code	BDI
NOC	Comité National Olympique du Burundi
in Nanjing
Competitors	8 in 3 sports
Medals Ranked 70th	Gold 0 Silver 1 Bronze 0 Total 1
Summer Youth Olympics appearances
2010 2014 2018

Medalists

Medals awarded to participants of mixed-NOC (Combined) teams are represented in italics. These medals are not counted towards the individual NOC medal tally.

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Silver	Thierry Ndikumwenayo	Athletics	Boys' 3000 m	24 August
Silver	Amedee Manirakiza	Athletics	Mixed 8x100m Relay	26 August

Athletics

Main article: Athletics at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics

Burundi qualified five athletes.^[1]

Qualification Legend: Q=Final A (medal); qB=Final B (non-medal); qC=Final C (non-medal); qD=Final D (non-medal); qE=Final E (non-medal)

Boys

Track & road events

Athlete	Event	Heats		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Rodrigue Biziyaremye	1500 m	3:49.79	6 Q	3:48.20 PB	7
Thierry Ndikumwenayo	3000 m	8:16.11 PB	5 Q	8:06.05 PB
Amedee Manirakiza	2000 m steeplechase	5:45.54	7 Q	5:47.52	4

Girls

Track & road events

Athlete	Event	Heats		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Francine Niyomwungere	1500 m	4:29.27	10 Q	4:30.54	9
Cavaline Nahimana	3000 m	9:07.23	3 Q	9:14.45	5

Beach Volleyball

Main article: Beach volleyball at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics

Burundi qualified a boys' team by their performance at the CAVB Qualification Tournament.^[2]

Athletes	Event	Preliminary round	Standing	Round of 24	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM	Rank
		Opposition Score		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score
Bosco Ndayishimye Fiston Niyongabo	Boys'	Stoyanovskiy/Iarzutkin (RUS) L 0 – 2	6	did not advance
		Siddihaluge/Mallawa (SRI) L 0 – 2
		Mol/Berntsen (NOR) L 0 – 2
		Bogarin/Frutos (PAR) L 0 – 2
		Flores/Alvarez (GUA) L 0 – 2

Tennis

Main article: Tennis at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics

Burundi qualified one athlete based on the 9 June 2014 ITF World Junior Rankings.^[3]

Singles

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM	Rank
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score
Guy Orly Iradukunda	Boys' Singles	M Blaško (SVK) L 3 – 6, 3 – 6	did not advance

Doubles

Athletes	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM	Rank
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score
Guy Orly Iradukunda (BDI)  Lloyd Harris (RSA)	Boys' Doubles	—	K Majchrzak (POL)   J Zieliński (POL) L 1 – 6, 4 – 6	did not advance
Lesedi Sheya Jacobs (NAM)  Guy Orly Iradukunda (BDI)	Mixed Doubles	I Ducu (ROU)   M Zukas (ARG) L 3 – 6, 1 – 6	did not advance