Lim Kai Shen qualified third for the men’s Taijiquan Combined final at the Dakar 2026 Youth Olympic Games, where the first wushu medals at an official Olympic event are awarded on 3 November.

Lim scored 18.623 points over the two preliminary routines, according to the official results. He was second in the Taijiquan on 1 November with 9.323 points and scored 9.300 in the Taijishan on 2 November.

Marshall Brayton of the United States led the eight qualifiers on 18.693, ahead of Hong Kong’s Poon Hao Ran on 18.676. The final, also made up of a Taijiquan and a Taijishan routine, is held at the Dakar Expo Center in Diamniadio.

Malaysia are targeting at least one medal at the Games in Senegal, which run until 13 November, with badminton and wushu seen as their main hopes, Bernama reported in October.

In badminton, Lucas Lee plays the United Arab Emirates’ Riyan Malhan in men’s singles Group F on 3 November.

Only the group winner goes through to the quarter-finals, and that place is between Lee and Malhan, the Swedish Olympic Committee reported.

Lee beat Greece’s Ioannis Sarougiannidis 21-7, 21-6 on 1 November and Sweden’s Felus Ding 21-11, 15-21, 21-13 on 2 November.

Beach volleyball pair Ong Jing Yi and Goh Yu Heng went out in the women’s Round of 16 on 2 November, losing 21-8, 21-16 to China’s Qi Siyu and Zhuang Ming.

The Malaysians had reached the knockout round after topping Pool F, with 2-0 wins over Cabo Verde’s Gabriela Santos dos Reis and Yenda Sofia Wahnon Neves Mendes and Senegal’s Aminata Tine and Nafi Segnane, the Olympic Council of Malaysia said.

In swimming, Shannon Tan Yan Qing, 15, finished eighth in the women’s 100m butterfly final in 1:04.29, after clocking 1:03.47 in the heats. She was 22nd in the 100m freestyle heats in 59.98 and did not reach that final.

Loo Cheng Feng, 16, clocked 51.65 in the men’s 100m freestyle heats and was ranked ninth, with only the eight fastest going through to the final.

Tan swims the 200m individual medley heats on 4 November and the 200m butterfly final on 6 November, while Loo races the 50m freestyle heats on 4 November and the 200m freestyle heats on 6 November.