
Singapore’s Tabitha Yeo reached the 1/8 elimination round of the women’s individual archery at the Dakar 2026 Youth Olympic Games on Saturday (7 November), beating New Zealand’s Ella Yang 6-0.
The 17-year-old took all three sets of the 1/16 elimination round match at Abdoulaye Wade Stadium, 29-25, 27-21 and 30-27, shooting three 10s in the final set.
Yeo went into the match ranked seventh after Friday’s ranking round, where she scored 668 among 32 archers. Yang was ranked 26th with 606.
Turkey’s Dunya Yenihayat topped the ranking round with 688, ahead of South Korea’s Kim Sumin, who also scored 688.
Yeo’s 1/8 elimination round match is on Monday (9 November) at 10.56am Dakar time, or 6.56pm in Singapore.
In 3×3 basketball, Singapore’s men finished third in Pool C and missed the quarter-finals after losing to Puerto Rico 18-10 and to Latvia 21-13 on Saturday at the Complexe Tour de l’Oeuf. Only the top two teams in each pool advanced.
Latvia topped the pool after also beating Puerto Rico 19-13, and both teams play in the quarter-finals on Sunday: Latvia against Côte d’Ivoire and Puerto Rico against Germany.
Mason Lim scored five points against Latvia, while Matthew Cheng and Fred Leow added four each. Cheng also scored four against Puerto Rico, whose Jorge Echeandia Febus scored nine. Jaden Ng completed the four-man squad.
Xavier Pang competed in the men’s all-around qualification in artistic gymnastics on Saturday.
Emmanuelle Tan Hui En, 14, competes in the women’s all-around qualification on Sunday (8 November) at 3.15pm Dakar time, or 11.15pm in Singapore.
Windsurfers Kate Teo and Trevor Ng also start their 15-race opening series at Saly Beach West on Sunday, with racing running until 12 November.
Singapore have two medals at the Games: Ng Zhe Nin’s gold in the women’s Taijiquan Combined and Loy Ming Ying’s silver in the women’s table tennis singles.
Fencer Ashton Auw competes in the men’s sabre individual on 13 November.




