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Ghana at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics

sporting event delegation

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ16733548 ↗
Source-derived summary

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

Medalists

Athletics

Ghana qualified two athletes.

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

Field Events

Girls

Track & road events

Badminton

Ghana was given a quota to compete by the tripartite committee.

Singles

Doubles

Beach Volleyball

Ghana qualified a boys' and girls' team by their performance at the CAVB Qualification Tournament.

Swimming

Ghana qualified two swimmers.

Boys

Girls

Weightlifting

Ghana was given a quota to compete in a girls' event by the tripartite committee.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Ghana at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics” as sporting event delegation. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful synthesis for locating the documentary relationships between formal authority, participants and affected communities. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2014—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Ghana, Summer and Youth can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the history & society register because the source frames it as sporting event delegation. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Contemporary correspondence, administrative files and participant testimony can test how later narratives organized the event or institution. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 27, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16733548. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2014.

Critical limits

Official terminology may obscure informal participation, dissent or communities documented only indirectly. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Compare institutional narratives with records created by participants and affected communities. Dates and formal titles are useful anchors, but not substitutes for context.

Best used for
  • Event chronology
  • Institutional context
  • Locating named record creators
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Contemporary correspondence, government or organizational records, oral histories and cited historical scholarship.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Ghana at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Ghana at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics primary sources, Ghana at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics archive and Ghana research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Ghana at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics”?
  2. Who created the surviving record, and for what administrative purpose?
  3. Which voices are present, absent or mediated by the institution?
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This entry incorporates text from “Ghana at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.