The British Olympic Association has today announced the 42 athletes selected to represent Team GB at the Buenos Aires 2018 Youth Olympic Games.

The Games, which run from the 6^th – 18^th October, will see Team GB compete in 17 of the 32 sports on the programme across 12 days of competition. The GB team consists of athletes aged between 14 and 18 years old, with the Youth Olympic Games (YOG) playing a crucial role in the development of young athletes from the United Kingdom and across the world.

Calum Young, from Glasgow, Scotland and Libby Coleman, from Kirkby-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire have been selected as the games triathlon representatives with both having featured in the silver medal winning mixed relay team at the 2018 Banyoles ETU Triathlon European YOG Qualifier, with Libby more recently also taking individual gold at the Loutraki ETU Triathlon Youth European Championships Festival.

The Youth Olympic Games provides crucial multi-sport experience for aspiring Olympians and Team GB’s class of 2018 will be hoping to follow in the footsteps of the likes of Tom Daley, Jade Jones and Duncan Scott who all went on to win medals at an Olympic Games having first competed at a YOG.

Buenos Aires 2018 is expected to welcome just under 4,000 of the world’s best young athletes from 206 nations for the third edition of the Games following Singapore 2010 and Nanjing 2014.

The Games will also make history through its commitment to gender equality by becoming the first Olympic event to host the same number of male and female athletes with 1,999 of each set to compete in Argentina.

On the programme for Buenos Aires 2018 are two of the new sports destined for Tokyo 2020, in sport climbing and karate, as well as a host of other new sports in hockey fives, beach handball, breakdancing, futsal and roller speed skating.

Joining the athletes in Argentina will be 62 Athlete Role Models (ARMs) whose presence as Olympians at the Games will be to support, advise and inspire the young athletes.

Double Olympic taekwondo champion and Singapore 2010 Youth Olympic champion Jade Jones will feature as one of two ARMs from the UK with four-time Olympian and Rio 2016 gold medallist Helen Richardson-Walsh joining Jade in Argentina.

Mahdi Choudhury, Team GB’s Chef de Mission for Buenos Aires 2018 said: “Being selected to Team GB for a Youth Olympic Games is a fantastic achievement and our 42 young athletes should be hugely proud to be heading out to Argentina next month.

“Buenos Aires 2018 will offer a fantastic opportunity for our team to experience a multi-sport event for the first time and I’m sure it will act as a great springboard for their own senior Olympic dreams. 

 “Youth Olympic Games such as Buenos Aires offer the chance for young athletes to experience life in an Olympic Village, mix with competitors from different sports and nationalities, and are given the chance to grow as individuals as well as athletes.

 “These events have helped shape the careers of Team GB Olympic stars such as Jade Jones and Tom Daley and we hope the same will be said for this group of young stars.”

Team GB at Buenos Aires 2018: Selected Athletes

Triathlon

• Calum Young, aged 17, from Glasgow, Scotland
• Libby Coleman, aged 17, from Kirkby-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire

All sports

Archery

• Alyssia Tromans-Ansell, aged 17, from Cannock, Staffordshire
• Daniel Thompson, aged 16, from Wrexham, Wales

Badminton

• Chris Grimley, aged 18, from Glasgow, Scotland
• Grace King, aged 18, from Derby, Derbyshire

Beach Volleyball

• Javier Bello, aged 18, from Isleworth, Middlesex
• Joaquin Bello, aged 18, from Isleworth, Middlesex

Boxing

• Ivan Hope-Price, aged 18, from Leeds, Yorkshire
• Hassan Azim, aged 17, from Slough, Berkshire
• Karol Itauma, aged 17, from Chatham, Kent
• Caroline Dubois, aged 17, from Chelsea London

Cycling: BMX

• Ross Cullen, aged 17, from Preston, Lancashire
• Elissa Bradford, aged 17, from Nottingham, Nottinghamshire

Cycling: Combined (Road and Mountain Bike)

• Sean Flynn, aged 18, from Edinburgh, Scotland
• Harry Birchill, aged 17, from Newton Abbot, Devon
• Harriet Harnden, aged 17, from Malvern, Worcestershire
• Anna McGorum, aged 17, from Peebles, Scotland

Diving

• Antony Harding, aged 18, from Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire
• Maria Papworth, aged 16, from Coulsdon, Surrey

Equestrian

• Jack Whitaker, aged 16, from Whatton, Nottinghamshire

Golf

• Joe Pagdin, aged 16, from Sheffield, Yorkshire
• Lily Humphreys, aged 16, from Sudbury, Suffolk

Gymnastics: Acrobatic

• Clyde Gembickas, aged 18, from Bromley, Kent
• Sophia Imrie-Gale, aged 14, from Petts Wood, Kent

Gymnastics: Artistic

• Adam Tobin, aged 17, from Bideford, Devon
• Amelie Morgan, aged 15, from Portishead, Somerset

Gymnastics: Trampoline

• Andrew Stamp, aged 16, from Market Harborough, Leicestershire
• Jessica Clarke, aged 16, from Birmingham, West Midlands

Karate

• Charlotte Hope, aged 17, from Holland-on-sea, Essex
• Lauren Salisbury, aged 16, from Romford, Essex

Modern Pentathlon

• Toby Price, aged 17, from York, Yorkshire
• Annabel Denton, aged 15, from Plymouth, Devon

Rowing

• Michael Dalton, aged 18, from Teddington, Middlesex
• Theo Darlow, aged 18, from Thames Ditton, Surrey
• Georgina Robinson Ranger, aged 18, Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire

Sailing

• Islay Watson, aged 17, from Aviemore, Scotland
• Finn Hawkins, aged 15, from St Austell, Cornwall

Shooting

• James Miller, aged 18, from Epsom, Surrey

Taekwondo

• Sharissa Gannaway, aged 15, from Southampton, Hampshire
• Aaliyah Powell, aged 15, from Huddersfield, Yorkshire

Weightlifting

• Ellie Pryor, aged 16, from Aberdare, Wales