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Singapore’s Xavier Pang Completes Dakar 2026 All-Around Qualification as Kate Teo Sits Sixth in Windsurfing

Singapore's Xavier Pang in the air above the vault at the Dakar 2026 Youth Olympic Games
Photos: OIS/Will Palmer and OIS/Lillie Yazdi (Xavier Pang), handout images supplied by OIS/IOC

Singapore’s Xavier Pang finished 51st of 56 ranked gymnasts in the artistic gymnastics men’s all-around qualification at the Dakar 2026 Youth Olympic Games on 7 November, with a total of 63.964.

Competing at the Dakar Expo Center, Pang started on vault, his first apparatus, and scored 12.466.

The top 18 gymnasts, with a maximum of two per nation, qualified for the all-around final on 10 November. Great Britain’s Uzair Chowdhury topped qualification with 80.798.

At Saly Beach West, Kate Teo is sixth in the women’s windsurfing after the first three races of the opening series. She finished eighth, fifth and fifth on 8 November. With her worst race discarded, she has 10 net points, level on points with France’s Lilia Six Alloncle in fifth.

China’s Wu Ziyan won all three races to lead the 23-sailor fleet, ahead of Italy’s Laura Grasso Castagnetta and Spain’s Olivia Sanchez. Malaysia’s Angie Tan Ang Yee is 10th after placings of seventh, ninth and 13th.

In the men’s windsurfing, 16-year-old Trevor Ng finished 10th, 11th and 12th in his first three races and is 12th overall. Greece’s Evangelos Kyriazakos won the first race, Hong Kong’s Ng Hoi Tik the second and the Philippines’ Jade Justin Justiniane the third.

Both sailors are back on the water on 9 November, with the opening series running to 15 races and ending on 12 November.

Tabitha Yeo shoots in the archery women’s individual 1/8 elimination round on 9 November at 10.56am Dakar time (6.56pm in Singapore).

Daryen Ko, 17, runs in the first semi-final of the men’s 400m hurdles at Complexe Iba Mar Diop on 9 November at 2.05pm Dakar time (10.05pm in Singapore), in the same semi-final as Malaysia’s Zacharry Lawrence.

Ashton Auw, 17, starts the men’s sabre individual in Pool 1 at the Dakar Expo Center on 13 November at 9am Dakar time (5pm in Singapore).