India won its eighth medal of the Dakar 2026 Youth Olympic Games on Sunday — and its first in athletics — as 17-year-old Shourya Ambure took bronze in the women's 100 metres hurdles final at the Complexe Iba Mar Diop in Dakar, Senegal, according to the official Dakar 2026 results.

Source: Dakar 2026 official results

Ambure, India's only athletics entrant at these Games, clocked a personal best of 13.59 seconds in the final, improving twice in one day: she had already set a personal best of 13.77 seconds in her semi-final earlier on Sunday to qualify automatically for the medal race.

China's Zhang Keyi won gold in 13.17 seconds, also a personal best, while France's Anna Peeters took silver in 13.57 seconds. Ambure, running in lane six, recorded the fastest reaction time among the three medallists at 0.142 seconds and held her form over the final hurdles to secure the podium finish.

The Maharashtra hurdler arrived in Dakar as one of India's leading medal hopes. She had won silver in the 100m hurdles at the 2025 Asian Youth Games in Bahrain with a then personal best of 13.73 seconds, and was picked as the country's sole track-and-field athlete in a 17-member contingent competing across 11 sports at Dakar.

Her bronze takes India's Dakar tally to eight medals — three silver and five bronze, with the country's first gold still to come. India's silvers have come from Khushbu Darjada in judo, Tanvi Patri in badminton and Taniya in beach wrestling, while swimmer Dhinidhi Desinghu has won two bronzes, with further bronzes from Tirthank Pegu in swimming and Lanchenbi Chanu in wushu.

Source: India at Dakar 2026 — medal record

The athletics programme at Dakar runs until November 10 and the Games close on November 13, leaving India further chances to chase that first gold in the remaining events.