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Singapore’s Ng Zhe Nin Takes Taijiquan Combined Gold at Dakar 2026, First in All Four Routines

Ng Zhe Nin of Singapore on the podium with her women's Taijiquan Combined gold medal at the Dakar Expo Center, Dakar 2026 Youth Olympic Games
Photos: OIS/Remi Vallat (Ng Zhe Nin) and OIS/Will Palmer (Zack Ng), handout images supplied by OIS/IOC

Singapore’s Ng Zhe Nin won the women’s Taijiquan Combined gold medal at the Dakar 2026 Youth Olympic Games on 3 November, placing first in all four of her routines, according to the official results.

The 16-year-old led the preliminary round on 18.653 points after scoring 9.300 in the Taijishan on 1 November and 9.353 in the Taijiquan on 2 November. In the final at the Dakar Expo Center, she placed first in both routines, scoring 9.353 in the Taijishan and 9.360 in the Taijiquan for a winning total of 18.713.

Chinese Taipei’s Chu Yu En took silver on 18.499 and Germany’s Zhuo Mia Aurelja Xianglin bronze on 18.482.

All four wushu titles at the Games were decided on 3 November, the first medals awarded in the sport at an official Olympic event, European Wushu reported.

In badminton, Zack Ng, 17, finished joint ninth in men’s singles after losing his second Group E match to Thailand’s Punnatat Prempunpong on 3 November. He had beaten Venezuela’s Fabricio Marx Rodriguez Tovar 21-4, 21-2 a day earlier.

In table tennis, Loy Ming Ying, 16, reached the women’s singles quarter-finals by beating India’s Syndrela Das 11-7, 11-6, 11-4, 11-6 in the Round of 16 on 3 November.

Loy had come through Group 7 with 3-1 wins over Australia’s Daisy Xie and Tunisia’s Ela Saidi, and a 3-2 defeat by South Korea’s Heo Yerim.

She plays her quarter-final on 4 November.