Team Canada won medals in fencing and boxing on Wednesday at the 2026 Summer Youth Olympic Games in Dakar, Senegal. Simon Shan of West Vancouver, British Columbia won the gold medal in the boys’s epee fencing event. Mehreen Khakh of Peterborough, Ontario won the bronze medal in the girls’s 51 kilogram boxing division, and Lisandro Garcia Rebelo of Mississauga, Ontario won the bronze medal in the boys’s 55 kilogram boxing division.
Shan defeated silver medalist Vukan Radenovic of Serbia 15-9 in the gold medal fencing bout. Wout Van Leacke of Belgium won the bronze medal. Shan also beat Juan Esteben Plazas of Colombia 15-6 in the quarterfinals and Van Laecke 15-10 in the semifinals.
In the girls’s 51 kilogram boxing, Grenyelis Garcia of Venezuela won gold, Gular Huseynova of Azerbaijan won silver and Cerine Kessal of Algeria won the other bronze medal. Mehreen defeated Precious Masaba of Botswana in the quarterfinals when the referee stopped the bout. Kahk then lost to Huseynova in the semifinals.
In the boys’s 55 kilogram boxing, Emil Ismailov of Georgia won gold, Marley Dodd of Australia won silver and Zaheer Changazi of Sweden won bronze. Garcia Rebelo defeated Mike Parhiala of Finland by points in the preliminaries and Alieu Sanyang of Gambia by points in the quarterfinals before losing to Ismailov in the semifinals.
Canada has now won five medals at the 2026 Summer Youth Olympic Gamers. They have won one gold medal, one silver medal, and three bronze medals. They are tied for 36th place with Slovakia in the overall medal standings. China leads with 32 medals (17 gold medals, eight silver medals and seven bronze medals).
