The events took place at Parque Polideportivo Roca in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Each National Olympic Committee (NOC) can enter a maximum of 4 competitors, 2 per each gender.

As hosts, Argentina was guaranteed two quotas, 1 athlete per gender and a further 10 boys and 10 girls was to be decided by the Tripartite Commission.

[1] To be eligible to participate at the Youth Olympics athletes must have been born between 1 January 2001 and 31 December 2003.

[1] a Armenia, Azerbaijan, China, Kazakhstan, Russia, Turkey and Ukraine handed one-year ban from IWF for doping violations.