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From Group Defeat to Gold Medal Match: Singapore’s Loy Ming Ying Claims Youth Olympic Table Tennis Silver

Loy Ming Ying of Singapore in action in the women's table tennis singles at the Dakar 2026 Youth Olympic Games
Photos: OIS/Nic Bothma and OIS/Hassan Wamwayi, handout images supplied by OIS/IOC

Singapore’s Loy Ming Ying won silver in the women’s table tennis singles at the Dakar 2026 Youth Olympic Games, losing 4-2 to Chinese Taipei’s Chen Minhsin in the gold medal match on 5 November, according to the official results.

Chen won 5-11, 12-10, 11-8, 11-13, 11-7, 12-10.

Earlier that day, the 16-year-old beat Hong Kong’s Su Tsz Tung 5-11, 11-6, 11-9, 7-11, 11-8, 11-9 in the semi-finals. Su went on to take bronze.

On 4 November, Loy beat France’s Nina Guo Zheng 13-11, 11-8, 6-11, 11-4, 13-11 in the quarter-finals.

She came 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. In the Round of 16 on 3 November, she beat India’s Syndrela Das 11-7, 11-6, 11-4, 11-6.

Singapore have two medals at the Games, according to the official count. Ng Zhe Nin won the women’s Taijiquan Combined gold on 3 November.

Three more Singapore entries compete on 7 November, according to Team Singapore’s schedule.

The men’s 3×3 basketball team of Matthew Cheng, Fred Leow, Mason Lim and Jaden Ng play Puerto Rico in the pool round at 8.15pm Singapore time.

Xavier Pang competes in the men’s artistic gymnastics qualification at 10pm, and archer Tabitha Yeo meets New Zealand’s Ella Yang in the women’s individual elimination round at 10.14pm.