The third day at the Youth Olympic Games leads Italian team up to third place in the provisional collection of medals with 8 placements on podium (4 G. - 3 S. - 2 B.) behind China and Russia. Shown below all the results achieved on august 19: sticking point for Italian beach volley. Pair Lantignotti/Enzo have surrendered to Ecuadorian Batioja and Molina (2 -0) in the third match at pool A. Riccardo Mager and Riccardo Peretti in Pair -2 (rowing) finished in 4th place at the back of Slovenia and Austria, making do with Final B. In single female, Italian Arianna Mazzoni wins her consolation semi - final and hits the Final C, the one for placements from 13 to 18. Taekwondo - Licia Martigiani gives up to Belgian Laura Roebben (7-8) at quarterfinals (cat 55 lg). Instead, fencer Guillaume Bianchi is out from 8 men's foil surrendering to French Enfuerand Roger (15-13). Swimming - apart from medal in relay race 4x100 Fs, Simone Sabbioni gets the pass to final of 50 m. backstroke with the best time (25.40), just as Alessandro Bori in 50 m. Freestyle (8th with 22.87). Claudia Tarzia stops in 50 butterfly stroke with 28.10. Table tennis - Giorgia Piccolin defeats polish Bajor (3-1) in quarters of consolation match and beats Hungarian Imre (3-2) in semi-final before surrendering to German Wan (3-0). Piccolin gets, in this way, the 18th place in general ranking. Equestrian sports - Europa team by Matias Alvaro reached the first place without penalty in the round 1 in hurdle jumping for continental NOC.
At jinniu Lake Sailing Venue Vittorio Gallinaro (6pt -19pt) and Carolina Albano (12pt -8pt) score two regattas in the Byte, while Ruggero Lo Mauro and Giulia Alagna's sail Dinghy tecno 293 remain dry due to the low level of wind at field B. Golf - in his Olympic debut, Virginia Elena Carta leads the provisional rank with 69 points - 3 from Par, accompanied by Chinese Cheng, Korean Lee and Japanese Shinohara. At the men's field Renato Paratore gets the 17th place with 72 points. In closing the cycling - In the BMX team's competition Chiara Teocchi doesn't go beyond the 6th place in 1 of the 3 women's semi-finals, while Federico Mandelli scores the same placing in men's final.