Singapore’s Ashton Auw won bronze in the men’s sabre individual at the Dakar 2026 Youth Olympic Games on 13 November, beating Georgia’s Giorgi Urushadze 15-10 in the bronze medal bout at the Dakar Expo Center.

The 17-year-old went through the pool round unbeaten, winning all six of his bouts in Pool 1 and finishing first of the 13 fencers in the pool round standings, with 30 hits scored and 13 received.

He beat Azerbaijan’s Abbas Huseynov 5-4, Iraq’s Hayder Al-Asadi 5-0, Kazakhstan’s Aibar Kaiym 5-3, Iceland’s Ari Jonasson 5-1, Turkey’s Candeniz Berrak 5-1 and Senegal’s Djibril Gueye 5-4.

As the top seed, Auw had a bye through the table of 16 and beat Al-Asadi again, 15-11, in the table of eight. Kaiym then reversed their pool result, winning the semi-final 15-13.

In the bronze medal bout, Auw led 8-6 at the end of the first period before closing it out 15-10.

“I told myself that this competition, there is no one that I cannot win,” Auw said in a video posted by the Singapore National Olympic Council. “I went in with the mentality of going one point at a time, one bout at a time.”

He said earlier competitions had not brought the results he was hoping for. “I have to tell myself that it’s not over, focus on the next competition,” he said.

“I just kept telling myself that I want this so bad, and I just got to focus not on the opponent, but I got to focus on myself on what I want to do. If I want this, I got to go get it, and it’s not going to come easy for me, but I have to try.”

“I really hope that this is just a stepping stone and that future Singaporean fencers can maybe do even better than me in overseas competitions,” he said.

Berrak won gold, with Kaiym taking silver. Berrak beat Germany’s Severin Spielberg 15-14 in the table of eight and Urushadze 15-11 in the semi-final.

The windsurfing events finished on 12 November, after the last of the 15 scheduled opening series races was cancelled. Kate Teo, 15, placed 11th in the women’s event on 103 net points, finishing 12th, ninth, 21st, 15th and 16th in races 10 to 14.

Trevor Ng, 16, finished 12th in the men’s event on 110 net points, after placing ninth, ninth, 12th, 14th and seventh in races 10 to 14.

Italy’s Laura Grasso Castagnetta won the women’s gold ahead of Spain’s Olivia Sanchez, both on 24 net points, with China’s Wu Ziyan taking bronze on 27. Greece’s Evangelos Kyriazakos won the men’s title on 12 net points, ahead of Hong Kong’s Ng Hoi Tik on 28 and Tunisia’s Rayen Briki on 48.