Shourya Ambure, 17, won bronze in the women’s 100m hurdles at the Dakar Youth Olympics in a personal-best 13.59 seconds, 0.02 behind France’s Anna Peeters. China’s Zhang Keyi won gold in 13.17. Reports describe Ambure as the first Indian woman to win a Youth Olympic athletics medal.
Dakar, Senegal: Shourya Ambure kept finding time. The 17-year-old from Thane ran a personal-best 13.77 seconds in the semi-final of the women’s 100m hurdles, then cut it to 13.59 in Sunday’s final to take bronze at the Youth Olympic Games.
A podium decided by 0.02
The nine-woman final was won by China’s Zhang Keyi in 13.17. France’s Anna Peeters took silver in 13.57, and Ambure finished 0.02 seconds behind her in third. Indian news agency UNI reports that Ambure is the first Indian woman to win a Youth Olympic medal in athletics.
Three medals in 18 months
The Maharashtra hurdler had already shown she belonged on age-group podiums. She won bronze in the 100m hurdles at the Asian U18 Championships in 2025 and silver at the Asian Youth Games later that year, and the Dakar bronze completes a run of three medals in about 18 months.
It also adds an athletics medal to India’s Dakar haul, which had until now come from the pool, the tatami, the badminton court, the wushu floor and the sand. Tanvi Patri’s badminton silver, Tirthank Pegu’s 200m butterfly bronze and Taniya’s beach wrestling silver came before it.
Dakar 2026 Youth Olympic Games, women’s 100m hurdles final, Sunday 8 November 2026: 1 Zhang Keyi (China) 13.17; 2 Anna Peeters (France) 13.57; 3 Shourya Ambure (India) 13.59, a personal best.
