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Singapore’s Daryen Ko Reaches Dakar 2026 400m Hurdles Final as Tabitha Yeo Finishes Fourth in Archery

Singapore's Daryen Ko before the men's 400m hurdles semi-final at the Dakar 2026 Youth Olympic Games
Photos: OIS/Joel Marklund (Daryen Ko) and OIS/Felix Diemer (Trevor Ng), handout images supplied by OIS/IOC

Singapore’s Daryen Ko will run in the men’s 400m hurdles final at the Dakar 2026 Youth Olympic Games on 10 November, while archer Tabitha Yeo finished fourth in the women’s individual event.

Ko, 17, clocked 52.87 to finish fourth in the first semi-final at Complexe Iba Mar Diop on 9 November, taking the last of the four automatic places in his race.

Jamaica’s Jaeden Campbell won the semi-final in 51.73, ahead of Japan’s Noriyuki Takano (52.49) and Austria’s Zsombor Klucsik (52.64). Malaysia’s Zacharry Lawrence was seventh in a personal best of 53.74. Italy’s Davide Crisci won the second semi-final in 52.65.

Ko is one of nine finalists and runs from lane nine. The final starts at 2pm Dakar time (10pm in Singapore).

Yeo, 17, reached the semi-finals of the archery women’s individual on 9 November, where she lost 6-5 to the United States’ Whang Ye-Eun.

In the bronze medal match at Abdoulaye Wade Stadium, Yeo and Spain’s Sandra Perez Cumbreras were level at 4-4 after four sets. Perez Cumbreras shot 29 to Yeo’s 28 in the fifth set to win 6-4 and take bronze.

Turkey’s Dunya Yenihayat won gold, with Whang taking silver.

At Saly Beach West, Kate Teo placed 14th, 13th and fourth in races four to six of the women’s windsurfing opening series on 9 November. With her worst race discarded, she is seventh overall on 35 net points. Italy’s Laura Grasso Castagnetta leads on 10 net points.

Trevor Ng, 16, finished 14th, eighth and 12th in races four to six of the men’s windsurfing opening series and is 12th overall after six races.

Both sailors’ next three races are listed for 10 November, from 2.03pm Dakar time (10.03pm in Singapore) for Teo and from 2.13pm (10.13pm) for Ng. The opening series has 15 races and ends on 12 November.

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).