Fifteen-year-old gymnast turns on the style after battling her nerves to secure a third straight Youth Olympic Games title for Russia.

Japan’s Takeru Kitazono lit up the artistic gymnastics competitions at the Youth Olympic Games Buenos Aires 2018, becoming the first athlete in his sport to win five gold medals at a single YOG and one of the few athletes in Olympic history to achieve such a haul. His sport also opened up new horizons with the successful staging of an innovative and exciting multidiscipline team event.

There were familiar faces on the podium at the Natatorium on day five of the Youth Olympic Games Buenos Aires 2018, as Russian duo Andrei Minakov and Daniil Markov celebrated a fifth medal each, and Australia’s Kaylee McKeown grabbed a gold, her fourth medal.

Inexperienced South African blown away to be a member of gold medal-winning team led by Daria Trubnikova (RUS) and Xinyi Fan (CHN)

Fifteen-year-old gymnast turns on the style after battling her nerves to secure a third straight Youth Olympic Games title for Russia.

Russia’s Kliment Kolesnikov and Hungary’s Kristof Milak made the headlines in the Natatorium on Monday 8 October, as they claimed their second swimming golds of the Youth Olympic Games Buenos Aires 2018.

YOG pits gymnasts from multiple disciplines and nations together in innovative team competition, before they vie for individual medals

On view in Buenos Aires October 5-18, the participatory art installation celebrates the notion of coming together in the spirit of Olympism.

We pick out more starring performances from former Youth Olympic Games (YOG) athletes on sport’s biggest stages.

Relive the day of Friday 12 August in Rio on olympic.org. The start of the athletics events saw Ethiopia’s Almaz Ayana shatter the world 10,000m record, while Michael Phelps won his 27th Olympic swimming medal, German rider Isabell Werth scaled the heights of Olympic equestrianism and French judoka Teddy Riner added another title to his list of wins.