Mexico Fernanda Garcia bronze medal Dakar 2026 swimming, Digi Mart USA News (Dakar, Senegal): The Mexican delegation returned to the podium at Dakar 2026, once again in swimming, after Fernanda Victoria García won the bronze medal. It is the third medal for the national team at the Youth Olympic Games in Senegal.
The Mexican swimmer delivered the team’s third medal of the competition, and the third bronze, following her standout performance in the final of the women’s 50-meter butterfly.
García Caldera competed from lane 3 and posted a time of 27.49 seconds, finishing 0.21 seconds behind Russia’s Serafima Fokina, who won gold with 27.28 seconds. Croatia’s Ana Bobanovic took silver with a time of 27.33 seconds, just five hundredths of a second behind the champion.
The achievement by the Jalisco-born swimmer was Mexico’s second medal in swimming, following the bronze won by flag bearer Daniel Saborío Grillo in the men’s 400-meter freestyle.
García will continue competing on November 5, when she contests the women’s 50-meter backstroke heats.
