Athletics at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics
Athletics at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics was held from 20 to 26 August at the Nanjing Olympic Sports Center in Nanjing, China.
Qualification
Each National Olympic Committee can enter a maximum of 36 athletes, 18 per each gender and 1 per each event. As hosts, China is given 2 quotas, 1 per each gender and 136 places, 68 per each gender will be decided by the Tripartite Commission. The remaining 540 places will be divided evenly among the individual events and will be decided among a single continental qualification event for each continent with the exception of the Americas in which they hosted three. The amount of quotas available to each continent for each event was decided on the results from the 2011 World Youth Championships and 2013 World Youth Championships.To be eligible to participate at the Youth Olympics athletes must have been born between 1 January 1997 and 31 December 1998.
Qualification timeline
| Event | Location | Date |
| 2011 World Youth Championships |  Lille Métropole | 6–10 July 2011 |
| 2013 World Youth Championships |  Donetsk | 10–14 July 2013 |
| 2014 Oceania Youth Olympic Qualifying Meet |  Sydney | 12–16 March 2014 |
| 2014 NACAC non-CARIFTA Youth Olympic Qualifying Meet |  Miramar | 4–5 April 2014 |
| 2014 CARIFTA Games |  Fort de France | 19–21 April 2014 |
| 2014 CONSUDATLE Youth Olympic Trials |  Cali | 17–18 May 2014 |
| 2014 Asian Youth Olympic Qualifying Meet |  Bangkok | 21–22 May 2014 |
| 2014 African Youth Games |  Gaborone | 28–31 May 2014 |
| 2014 European Youth Olympic Trials |  Baku | 30 May-1 June 2014 |
Quota distribution
Boys
| Event | Africa | Americas | Asia | Europe | Oceania | Total |
| 100m | 1 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 15 |
| 200m | 1 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 15 |
| 400m | 2 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 15 |
| 800m | 9 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 15 |
| 1500m | 9 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 15 |
| 3000m | 11 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 15 |
| 110m Hurdles | 2 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 15 |
| 400m Hurdles | 2 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 15 |
| 2000m Steeplechase | 10 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 15 |
| High Jump | 1 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 15 |
| Pole Vault | 1 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 15 |
| Long Jump | 1 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 15 |
| Triple Jump | 1 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 15 |
| Shot Put | 1 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 1 | 15 |
| Discus Throw | 2 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 15 |
| Hammer Throw | 2 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 1 | 15 |
| Javelin Throw | 2 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 1 | 15 |
| 10000m Race Walk | 1 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 15 |
| Total | 60 | 67 | 42 | 82 | 19 | 270 |
Girls
Schedule
The schedule was released by the Nanjing Youth Olympic Games Organizing Committee. In the table below, M stands for morning, A for afternoon and E stands for evening.| Q | Qualifiers | H | Heats | F | Final |
Medal summary
Medal table
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Events