VANCOUVER: Nanjing of China won the hosting right 47-42 for the second Summer Youth Olympic Games in 2014 here on Wednesday.

The result was announced by International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Jacques Rogge at the 122nd IOC session in Vancouver, two days ahead of the opening of the Winter Olympics.

The Chinese bidders hugged each other with big smiles.

Nanjing, the capital of eastern China's Jiangsu province and the ninth largest city in China, joined Mexico's Guadalajara and Poland's Poznan to be in the running, before Guadalajara dropped out in January.