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Youth Olympic Games 2026
🇸🇳 Dakar, Senegal · 31 Oct 2026 – 13 Nov 2026
The fourth Summer Youth Olympic Games, postponed from 2022, will be the first IOC event ever held in Africa, with roughly 2,700 young athletes from over 170 NOCs contesting 153 events in 25 sports.
🇮🇳 India watch: India is expected to field a young contingent as qualification continues; its best Youth Olympics performance was 13 medals at Buenos Aires 2018.
25Sports
2,700Athletes
170Nations
Medal tally
Medal table will appear here once the event begins (auto-updates).
Highlights
- First Olympic event on African soil
- Full gender parity on the program with 73 men's and 73 women's events and no mixed-NOC team events
- Breaking and skateboarding on the sports program, with wushu making its Youth Olympic debut
- Action starts 30 October with baseball5 qualifiers, a day before the opening ceremony
- First Youth Olympic Games under IOC President Kirsty Coventry