India finish Dakar Youth Olympics with 10 medals, their second-best campaign

India closed their campaign at the Youth Olympic Games in Dakar with 10 medals, their second-best performance in the competition's history. Nine of the 17 Indian athletes came home with a medal, winning two gold, three silver and five bronze across seven disciplines. Both gold medals came in boxing, where Lairenlakpam Ambekar Meetei won the boys' 50kg title and Gunjan took the girls' 48kg crown, India's first boxing golds at the Youth Olympics.

Swimmer Dhinidhi Desinghu made history as the first Indian to win two medals at a single Youth Olympics, taking bronze in the girls' 100m and 200m freestyle. The 10-medal tally sits behind only the 13 medals India won at Buenos Aires in 2018, and five of the Dakar medallists are Khelo India athletes. The three silvers went to Khushbu Rajakbhai Darjada in judo's girls' 63kg, Tanvi Patri in the girls' badminton singles and Taniya in the girls' 75kg beach wrestling. Tanvi, 15, won five matches before losing the final to China's Zhang Yi Xin 21-15, 13-21, 24-26, becoming the first Indian girl to win a badminton medal at the Youth Olympics.

Khushbu, also 15, won three bouts before losing her final to Germany's Reinhold by ippon, becoming India's second Youth Olympic judo medallist after Tababi Devi in 2018. Shourya Ambure took bronze in the girls' 100m hurdles in a personal best of 13.59 seconds, India's first athletics medal at the Youth Olympics. Dhinidhi's bronzes came in 56.27 seconds in the 100m freestyle and 2:02.28 in the 200m, while Tirthank Pegu took his 200m butterfly bronze in 2:01.25 and Rajkumari Lanchenbi Chanu scored 18.039 points for wushu bronze, India's first in the sport at the Games. The 17-strong squad, 11 girls and six boys, competed in 11 sports, and the 10 medals took India's all-time Youth Olympic tally to 33.