10 champions have been crowned as the boxing competition at the Dakar 2026 Youth Olympic Games concluded yesterday.
India and Uzbekistan both leave Dakar with two Youth Olympic champions. For India, Ambekar Meetei Lairenlakpam (M50kg) got the better of a close-call 3:2 split decision against Ireland’s Kristian Jubani. Gunjan Gunjan then followed that up in the women’s 48kg with a confident 5:0 victory over Algeria’s Bouthaina Bensalah.
Sabrina Chakomanova (W54kg) and Rushanabonu Isoeva (W60kg) topped the podium for Uzbekistan in their respective categories. They fought back-to-back in the 101st and 102nd bouts of the Youth Olympic Games, with Chakomanova securing a 5:0 win against Colombia’s Evelin Trejos Salas while Isoeva won 4:1 in her bout against Slovakia’s Karolina Kollarova.
Finals day began with the women’s 51kg final, which saw Venezuela’s Grenyelis Garcia unanimously defeat Azerbaijan’s Gular Huseynova 5:0 to claim gold. Garcia is an Olympic Solidarity-funded athlete and was one of the first women to represent her nation on this stage, alongside teammate Yenireé Castillo.
Jesfred Joel Torres Santiago, from Puerto Rico, earned a third-round RSC victory in his men’s 60kg final against Thailand’s Siwa Chainarong.
Brazil’s Sara Campos secured a third gold medal for the Americas courtesy of a 4:1 split decision victory against Aknur Tursyngali from Kazakhstan.
Great Britain’s Michael Maughan won gold in the men’s 70kg by defeating Kazakhstan’s Bibarys Ashirbay via a 4:1 split decision.
The men’s 55kg final was fought between Australia’s Marley Dodd and Georgia’s Emil Ismailov, with the Georgian delivering a dominant performance to win 5:0 and be named Youth Olympic champion.
The boxing competition came to a close with the 104th bout between Japan’s Kenshin Sakuno and Israel’s Artur Eytan Prohnevsky. The two were evenly matched but Sakuno did enough to win with a 4:1 split decision from the judges.
The boxing competition at the Youth Olympic Games took place from 7-12 November with bouts contested at the Dakar Expo Center in Diamniadio.
Organised by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), they aim to inspire young people through sport while providing athletes with invaluable experience of competing in an Olympic environment. Dakar 2026 was the first Olympic sporting event to be held on African soil.
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