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Malaysia’s Shannon Tan and Loo Cheng Feng Back in the Pool as Lim Kai Shen Finishes Fourth in Dakar

Shannon Tan Yan Qing swims in the women's 100m freestyle heats at the Complexe Tour de l'Oeuf, Dakar 2026 Youth Olympic Games
Photos: OIS/Joel Marklund (Shannon Tan Yan Qing) and OIS/Will Palmer (Lucas Lee), handout images supplied by OIS/IOC

Malaysian swimmers Shannon Tan Yan Qing and Loo Cheng Feng return to the pool at the Dakar 2026 Youth Olympic Games on 4 November, a day after Lim Kai Shen finished fourth in the men’s Taijiquan Combined wushu final.

Tan, 15, swims the women’s 200m individual medley heats and Loo, 16, races the men’s 50m freestyle heats at the Complexe Tour de l’Oeuf, according to the official schedule.

In wushu, Lim, 17, scored 18.583 points in the final on 3 November, with 9.263 in the Taijiquan and 9.320 in the Taijishan.

Hong Kong’s Poon Hao Ran won gold on 18.720, ahead of Vietnam’s Nguyen Khac le Hoang on 18.692 and Japan’s Shiki Kawamura on 18.663. Preliminary-round leader Marshall Brayton of the United States finished fifth.

In badminton, Lucas Lee, 17, lost his last men’s singles Group F match 21-15, 21-11 to the United Arab Emirates’ Riyan Malhan on 3 November. Only the group winner goes through to the quarter-finals, and Lee is ranked joint ninth.

Lee had beaten Greece’s Ioannis Sarougiannidis 21-7, 21-6 and Sweden’s Felus Ding 21-11, 15-21, 21-13.

Beach volleyball pair Ong Jing Yi and Goh Yu Heng also finished joint ninth. They lost 18-21, 22-20, 16-18 to the Dominican Republic’s Zoe Paniagua Portorreal and Yerelin Reyes Montero on 31 October, then beat Cabo Verde and Senegal 2-0 on 1 November.

Their campaign ended in the Round of 16 on 2 November with a 21-8, 21-16 defeat by China’s Qi Siyu and Zhuang Ming.

In the pool, Tan finished eighth in the women’s 100m butterfly final on 1 November in 1:04.29, after clocking 1:03.47 in the heats. She was 22nd in the 100m freestyle heats.

Loo was ranked ninth in the men’s 100m freestyle heats on 2 November in 51.65, with only the eight fastest reaching the final.

Tan’s schedule also includes the women’s 200m butterfly final on 6 November, the same day Loo swims the men’s 200m freestyle heats.