Wushu exponent Ng Zhe Nin wins S’pore’s first gold at Youth Olympic Games since 2014

Published Nov 04, 2026, 06:01 AM

Updated Nov 04, 2026, 11:05 AM

Ng Zhe Nin won Singapore’s first gold at the 2026 Youth Olympic Games, taking the women’s taijiquan combined final with 18.713 points in Dakar.

The 16-year-old led after taijishan and taijiquan, and her win is Singapore’s 12th YOG medal and fourth gold across four editions.

Wushu made its Olympic medal debut at the Games, with only taolu contested; Singapore has 14 athletes in Dakar after the event was delayed from 2022 by Covid-19.

SINGAPORE – Singaporean wushu exponent Ng Zhe Nin won a historic medal at the 2026 Youth Olympic Games (YOG) as she claimed gold in the women’s taijiquan combined final on Nov 3.

At the Dakar Expo Center in Senegal, where the Chinese martial art featured as a medal sport at the YOG for the first time, the 16-year-old finished with a combined score of 18.713 points.

Chinese Taipei’s Chu Yu-en was second with 18.499 points, while Germany’s Mia Zhou (18.482) took bronze.

Zhe Nin had placed first in the morning’s taijishan after registering 9.353 points, before topping the taijiquan later in the day with 9.360 points to secure her spot on the podium.

This caps an impressive maiden YOG campaign for the teenager, who earned herself one of the eight berths in the final by topping the women’s taijiquan combined standings with a score of 18.653 after both preliminary routines.

While this was her YOG debut, Zhe Nin, who picked up the sport at the age of 10, is no stranger to the international stage, having competed and won medals at events such as the World Junior Wushu Championships.

At 2026’s edition of the world championships in Tianjin, China, she bagged golds in the girls’ youth taijiquan and taijijian, as well as the girls’ youth taijishan silver, adding to the gold and silver she won two years before that in Brunei.

This marks the first time that wushu has been included in an Olympic programme as a medal sport, after previously appearing as a demonstration sport at the 2014 Nanjing YOG.

Only the taolu discipline in which athletes perform choreographed routines that a team of judges score was contested this time.

The other main discipline is sanda, a full-contact combat sport where competitors fight against each other.

Zhe Nin’s gold in Senegal is the 13th medal – and fourth gold – won by a Singaporean athlete across four editions of the quadrennial event.

Sailors Bernie Chin and Samantha Yom, who won the boys’ and girls’ one person dinghy, respectively, at the 2014 Games in Nanjing, and artistic gymnast Tamara Ong are the Republic’s other YOG champions.

Ong’s multi-discipline team event gold at the 2018 YOG in Buenos Aires, Argentina, which she won as part of a 13-athlete, multinational squad, did not count towards Singapore’s medal tally at the quadrennial event.

Any medals won by combined teams made up from athletes from different countries are credited to the mixed national Olympic committee in the medal table.

At the inaugural YOG held in Singapore in 2010, the nation’s athletes won two silvers (swimming, table tennis) and five bronzes (taekwondo, archery, sailing, football), before the two golds (sailing) and two silvers (shooting) at the next edition in 2014.

These include the mixed team bronze won by archer Abdul Dayyan Jaffar and Turkey’s Begunhan Unsal in 2010 and shooter Teh Xiu Yi’s mixed team 10m air pistol silver with Egypt’s Ahmed Mohamed four years later.

The Oct 31-Nov 13 Dakar Games were initially supposed to take place in 2022, but was postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

At the ongoing Games, Singapore are represented by 14 athletes competing in archery, athletics, badminton, 3x3 basketball, fencing, artistic gymnastics, sailing, table tennis and wushu.

Kimberly Kwek joined The Straits Times in 2019 as a sports journalist and has since covered a wide array of sports, including golf and sailing.

发布于 2026 年 11 月 4 日上午 6:01

更新于2026年11月4日上午11:05

吴哲宁在2026年达喀尔青年奥运会女子太极拳全能决赛中以18.713分的成绩为新加坡赢得了第一枚金牌。

这位 16 岁的选手在太极山和太极拳项目中领先，她的胜利是新加坡在青奥会上获得的第 12 枚奖牌，也是四届青奥会以来获得的第四枚金牌。

武术在本次奥运会上首次获得奖牌，但只有套路项目参加了比赛；由于新冠疫情，该赛事从2022年推迟到2022年，新加坡派出了14名运动员参加达喀尔奥运会。

新加坡——新加坡武术选手吴哲宁在2026年青年奥林匹克运动会（青奥会）上赢得了一枚历史性的奖牌，她在11月3日举行的女子太极拳全能决赛中夺得金牌。

在塞内加尔达喀尔展览中心，中国武术首次成为青奥会的正式比赛项目，这位 16 岁的选手最终以 18.713 分的总成绩完赛。

中华台北选手朱宇恩以18.499分获得第二名，德国选手周米（18.482分）获得铜牌。

哲宁在上午的太极山比赛中获得第一名，得分为 9.353 分；随后在当天的太极拳比赛中，她又以 9.360 分的成绩夺冠，从而确保了自己登上领奖台的位置。

这为这位青少年令人印象深刻的首次青奥会征程画上了圆满的句号。她在两套预赛后以 18.653 分的成绩位列女子太极拳综合排名榜首，从而获得了八个决赛名额之一。

虽然这是哲宁首次参加青奥会，但她从 10 岁开始接触这项运动，对国际舞台并不陌生，曾在世界青少年武术锦标赛等赛事中参赛并获得奖牌。

在 2026 年于中国天津举行的世界锦标赛上，她获得了女子青年太极拳和太极剑的金牌，以及女子青年太极山的银牌，加上两年前在文莱获得的金牌和银牌，她又获得了女子青年太极拳和太极剑的金牌。

这是武术首次作为正式比赛项目被列入奥运会比赛项目，此前它曾在2014年南京青奥会上作为表演项目亮相。

本次比赛仅设鲁项目，运动员需表演编排好的动作，由裁判组进行评分。

另一项主要项目是散打，这是一项全接触式格斗运动，参赛者之间互相搏斗。

哲宁在塞内加尔获得的金牌是新加坡运动员在四年一度的奥运会四届比赛中获得的第 13 枚奖牌，也是第四枚金牌。

在2014年南京青奥会上分别获得男子单人艇和女子单人艇冠军的帆船运动员伯尼·陈和萨曼莎·约姆，以及艺术体操运动员塔玛拉·翁，是新加坡的其他青奥会冠军。

翁在2018年阿根廷布宜诺斯艾利斯举行的青奥会上，作为一支由13名运动员组成的多国代表队的一员，赢得了多项目团体赛金牌，但这枚金牌并未计入新加坡在该四年一度的赛事中的奖牌总数。

由不同国家运动员组成的联合队伍所获得的奖牌，在奖牌榜上都计入该联合国家奥委会的名下。

在 2010 年新加坡举行的首届青奥会上，该国运动员获得了两枚银牌（游泳、乒乓球）和五枚铜牌（跆拳道、射箭、帆船、足球）；而在 2014 年的下一届青奥会上，他们又获得了两枚金牌（帆船）和两枚银牌（射击）。

其中包括射箭运动员阿卜杜勒·达扬·贾法尔和土耳其选手贝贡汉·乌萨尔在 2010 年赢得的混合团体铜牌，以及四年后射击运动员郑秀仪与埃及选手艾哈迈德·穆罕默德一起获得的 10 米气手枪混合团体银牌。

原定于 2022 年 10 月 31 日至 11 月 13 日举行的达喀尔运动会，因新冠疫情而被推迟。

在正在进行的运动会上，新加坡派出 14 名运动员参加射箭、田径、羽毛球、三人制篮球、击剑、竞技体操、帆船、乒乓球和武术等项目的比赛。

金伯利·郭于 2019 年加入《海峡时报》担任体育记者，此后报道了包括高尔夫和帆船在内的各种体育项目。