DAKAR, Nov. 9 (Xinhua) — China claimed titles in each males’s and ladies’s workforce gymnastics on the Dakar 2026 Youth Olympic Games on Monday, and added two silver medals and a bronze in athletics.
China’s ladies’s 3×3 basketball workforce additionally took silver after a slim ultimate defeat.
At the Dakar Exhibition Center, China’s males’s gymnastics workforce, comprising Yang Lanbin, Li Lezheng and Zhao Ruiyang, delivered robust performances in ground train, horizontal bar and parallel bars to attain 158.463 factors and end forward of Japan and Britain.
In the ladies’s ultimate, Chen Ziyan, Zhong Qi and Xie Guying mixed stable performances on the uneven bars and steadiness beam to safe gold with 107.798 factors, edging Japan by 0.234 factors.
Yang stated the gold medal had not come simply, noting that the workforce had undertaken intensive routine coaching each week throughout preparations whereas working to handle fatigue and keep away from accidents.
“The competition went very smoothly today, and everyone was able to perform with confidence,” he added.
Xie stated the workforce had delivered as anticipated in its historically robust occasions, the uneven bars and steadiness beam. She added that unity and cooperation amongst teammates had been key to their success.
“In a team event, the most important thing is for everyone to work together and support one another,” she stated.
At Iba Mar Diop Stadium, China collected two silver medals and a bronze in athletics.
Chen Shijie clocked a private better of 13.40 seconds to take silver within the males’s 110m hurdles, whereas Jamaica’s Marquies Page gained the gold in 12.95 seconds.
Chen stated he had been overly excited and a bit nervous, which affected his rhythm through the race.
Noting that he had bruised his foot whereas practising the hurdles, he stated: “I still lack experience in major competitions.”
In the boys’s excessive leap, Liu Sen cleared 2.14 meters, setting a private greatest and incomes silver. South Africa’s Matao Le Roux took gold with 2.16 meters. Liu Han claimed bronze within the males’s 400m in 47.16 seconds, whereas the United Arab Emirates’ Saeed Omar gained gold in 46.40 seconds.
Among different occasions that includes Chinese athletes, Italy’s Poko Silvia Canape gained the ladies’s lengthy leap, with Liu Lixuan ending sixth. Colombia’s Ilsa Mayerlin Cordoba claimed the ladies’s javelin title, whereas Wang Changle additionally positioned sixth. Wang Tengfei completed fourth in his males’s 400m hurdles semifinal warmth to qualify for Tuesday’s ultimate.
Ethiopia was probably the most profitable nation on the athletics observe, successful three gold medals. Junedin Abdo triumphed within the males’s 2,000m steeplechase, Wabi Seblega gained the boys’s 1,500m, and Netsanet Selemon claimed the ladies’s 800m title.
Egypt’s Yahya Sawaby gained the boys’s discus, Brazil’s Pyetro Henrico Souza took the boys’s shot put, Nigeria’s Praise Ugoh claimed the ladies’s 400m, and Kenya’s Faith Rono gained the ladies’s 3,000m.
In 3×3 basketball, China’s ladies’s workforce edged host Senegal 21-19 within the semifinals to achieve the ultimate, the place it narrowly misplaced 12-11 to Poland to take silver.
China’s coach Liu Shengbin stated the workforce had confronted quite a few challenges throughout preparations, with the younger gamers missing expertise in worldwide competitions.
Despite overcoming difficulties associated to climate, time variations and meals, the gamers felt appreciable psychological strain within the ultimate and made some errors, Liu stated, including, “They gave everything they had. I don’t think there is anything to regret.”
In the boys’s ultimate, Senegal edged Lithuania 14-13 to assert the gold medal.
In Saly, China’s ladies’s seashore handball workforce misplaced 2-1 to Spain earlier than beating Croatia by the identical rating within the group stage. The workforce will face Mexico in its ultimate group match on Tuesday.
In the ladies’s windsurfing, Wu Ziyan slipped to 3rd total after ending sixth and seventh in races 4 and 5, respectively, and recording a DNC in race six. Races seven to 9 are scheduled for Tuesday.
In fencing, Hong Kong, China’s Ho Shing Him Harris defeated Japan’s Maeda Masashi 15-8 to win the boys’s particular person foil title. In taekwondo, Chinese Taipei’s Cheng Po-Yu gained the boys’s 55kg gold, whereas South Korea’s Lee Si-woo claimed the ladies’s 49kg title.
Trkiye’s Dunya Yenihayat defeated Whang Ye-Eun from the United States to win the ladies’s particular person archery title.
On Tuesday, China’s Yang and Li will compete within the males’s all-around gymnastics ultimate, whereas Xie and Zhong will contest the ladies’s ultimate. In boxing, Wang Jia’en and Zhang Zhengkun will face Egypt’s Menatalla Ibrahim and Seychelles’ Franco Zialor, respectively, within the ladies’s and males’s 60kg quarterfinals.
Athletics will attain its ultimate day on Tuesday, with 14 gold medals up for grabs. China’s Sheng Xuefeng will compete within the males’s triple leap, Yang Xingyue within the ladies’s hammer throw, and Wang Yaru and Chen Xinxuan within the ladies’s 5,000m race stroll and 200m, respectively.