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Nigeria Wins Both 100m Titles at Dakar Youth Olympics as Nwankwo and Bright Take Gold

Rosemary Nwankwo won the girls 100 metres in 11.16 seconds and Gift Bright won the boys race in a personal best 10.28 seconds in Dakar on Sunday, giving Nigeria its first two medals of the Youth Olympic Games on the opening day of athletics.

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Nigeria Wins Both 100m Titles at Dakar Youth Olympics as Nwankwo and Bright Take Gold

Key points

  • Nigeria won both 100 metres titles at the Dakar 2026 Youth Olympic Games on Sunday, November 8.
  • Nwankwo, 17, won the girls 100 metres in 11.16 seconds.
  • Arwa Ali of the United Arab Emirates finished second in 11.41 seconds.

Nigeria won both 100 metres titles at the Dakar 2026 Youth Olympic Games on Sunday, November 8. Rosemary Nwankwo won the girls final and Gift Bright won the boys final at the Complexe Iba Mar Diop in Dakar, Senegal, on the opening day of the athletics competition.

Nwankwo leads the girls final

Nwankwo, 17, won the girls 100 metres in 11.16 seconds. The following wind was measured at 2.4 metres per second, above the 2.0 limit for record purposes. The reading does not change her gold medal, but the time cannot count as a record.

Arwa Ali of the United Arab Emirates finished second in 11.41 seconds. Dana Salem of Qatar finished third in 11.48 seconds.

Nwankwo is the athletics captain of Team Nigeria at these Games. She is the third Nigerian girl to win the Youth Olympic 100 metres title, after Josephine Omaka at Singapore 2010 and Rosemary Chukwuma at Buenos Aires 2018.

Bright sets a personal best in the boys final

Bright, 15, won the boys 100 metres in 10.28 seconds, a personal best. His following wind was 1.7 metres per second, inside the legal limit.

Zhang Hangyu of China finished second in 10.57 seconds. Szymon Dolega of Poland finished third in 10.61 seconds.

Bright is the first Nigerian boy to win the Youth Olympic 100 metres title.

First medals of the Games for Nigeria

The two gold medals were the first medals Nigeria has won at the Dakar Games. Both victories are confirmed in the World Athletics results for the meeting, as reported by Okay News, with Brila and SportsNow reporting the same finals.

The athletics programme in Dakar runs from November 8 to 10. Nigeria's sprint double came on the first of the three days, in the two shortest races on the track programme, and it put the country at the top of the sprint results for the meeting.

For Nwankwo, the win adds a Youth Olympic title to her role as team captain. For Bright, at 15, the win came with the fastest time of his career so far. The two finals were held on Sunday at the Complexe Iba Mar Diop, the Dakar stadium hosting the athletics competition.

Timeline

  1. Nov 8, 2026Rosemary Nwankwo wins the girls 100 metres final in 11.16 seconds at the Complexe Iba Mar Diop in Dakar, ahead of Arwa Ali of the United Arab Emirates (11.41) and Dana Salem of Qatar (11.48).
  2. Nov 8, 2026Gift Bright wins the boys 100 metres final in a personal best 10.28 seconds, ahead of Zhang Hangyu of China (10.57) and Szymon Dolega of Poland (10.61). The athletics programme runs to November 10.

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