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| IOC code | COL |
| NOC | Colombian Olympic Committee |
| Website | www |
| Medals Ranked 33rd |
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Colombia first participated at theYouth Olympic Games at the inaugural2010 Games in Singapore. Colombia has sent a team to eachSummer Youth Olympics[1] and participated for the first time at theWinter Youth Olympics in the2016 edition in Lillehammer.[2][3] The Colombian city ofMedellín submitted abid to host the2018 Summer Youth Olympics, but in a voting process in 2013, lost the games to the Argentine capital,Buenos Aires.[4]
Competing at theYouth 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 inSingapore 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 twogold,[5][6] and onebronze medals.Roller speed skating is a very popularsport in Colombia, hence the country's domination in that sport at international competitions. The sport was introduced to the Olympic program for theBuenos Aires Games in 2018, and Colombian skaters won thetwo events held at those games.[7] The medals won intennis[8] andequestrian 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[9] inNanjing 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 seniorWinter Olympics inPyeongChang 2018). Tennis playerCamila Osorio is the only Colombian athlete to have won two medals for the country at the youth games and the only one (including seniorOlympic Games) to have won two medals at a single edition of the Olympics. DiverDaniel Restrepo won Colombia's first medal indiving at Olympic competitions.
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| Medal | Name | Games | Sport | Event |
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 Silver | Diego Amaya |  Lausanne 2020 |  Speed skating | Boys' Mass Start |
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