Singapore Youth Olympic Games medals Dakar 2026, Digi Mart USA News (Dakar, Senegal): Singapore’s athletes have concluded their Youth Olympic Games campaign in Dakar, Senegal, with three medals, including a historic wushu gold and the country’s first-ever fencing medal at the Games. The 14-strong contingent won a gold, a silver and a bronze at the Games, which ran from Oct 31 to Nov 13.
The gold came from 16-year-old wushu exponent Ng Zhe Nin, who won the women’s taijiquan combined event on Nov 3 with a score of 18.713 points. It was Singapore’s first gold medal at the Summer Youth Olympics since 2014 and the first time wushu has been a medal sport in an Olympic programme.
Two days later, 16-year-old table tennis player Loy Ming Ying took silver in the women’s singles after losing 2-4 to Chinese Taipei’s Chen Min-hsin in the final. Her result was Singapore’s second Youth Olympic medal in table tennis, 16 years after Isabelle Li won silver at the inaugural Games in Singapore in 2010.
On the final day of competition, 17-year-old sabre fencer Ashton Auw won bronze in the men’s individual event, beating Georgia’s Giorgi Urushadze 15-10 in the bronze-medal match. Seeded fifth, he topped his pool before advancing, making him Singapore’s first-ever fencing medallist at the Youth Olympics.
Singapore’s athletes competed in nine sports: archery, athletics, badminton, 3×3 basketball, fencing, artistic gymnastics, sailing, table tennis and wushu. Archer Tabitha Yeo finished fourth after losing the women’s individual bronze-medal match 4-6 to Spain’s Sandra Perez Cumbreras, while Daryen Ko set a new national under-18 record of 52.16s in the men’s 400m hurdles final, finishing sixth.
Singapore National Olympic Council secretary-general Mark Chay praised the young athletes for their determination and hunger to compete against some of the world’s best, saying the lessons from handling pressure and setbacks would benefit them as they progress in their sporting careers.
