Dhinidhi Desinghu, India’s very first swimmer to medal at the YOG, supported her ladies’s 100m freestyle bronze previously today with another bronze in the 200m freestyle on Friday. Minutes later on at the 2026 YOG in Dakar, Tirthank Pegu likewise won bronze in the guys’s 200m butterfly.
Dhinidhi clocked 2:02.28 in her last, completing behind Croatia’s silver medallist Ana Bobanovic (2:01.17) and China’s gold medallist Mohan Chang (1:59.59), who won the 200m butterfly silver at the Asian Games.
Tirthank ended up third at 2:01.25, behind Vietnam’s Duong Van Hoang Quy (silver, 2:00.32) and Egypt’s Zain Ali (gold, 1:57.88).
The 16-year-old from Bengaluru and the 17-year-old from Assam integrated to provide a medal-laced multi-sport occasion for Indian swimming after a below-par Commonwealth Games and Asian Games.
“It’s a very good performance by both. More than anything, it’s a good thing for Indian swimming,” Nihar Ameen, India’s Dronacharya recipient swimming coach and Dhinidhi’s coach, informed HT. “It gives some light at the end of the tunnel, after a dismal Asian Games for Indian swimming. The women were not cleared to participate in it. This is a good response to that, and a shot in the arm especially for the women.”
Dhinidhi, at 16, is amongst the leading Indian females swimmers presently. An Olympian at 14 in Paris, she showed up as a Youth Olympian in Dakar with a little an indicate show. Her 100m bronze, with a timing of 56.27 s, improved her own nationwide record. Her effort of 2:02.28 on Friday was a bit far from her 200m NR of 02:01.81. Ameen thinks contending in the 200m specific collection a number of days ago played a part in the under-par timing in her more powerful occasion.
“She is not used to racing in that at all. They are allowed to compete in three events, so she competed in that. I think that cost her. She should have been better in the 200m,” he stated.
Pegu, who missed out on the 100m butterfly medal in a fourth-place surface previously today, is forming up to be amongst the most appealing young swimmers in the nation. The Assam teenager, who had a brief training stint in Europe this year, clocked 02:00.96 in the 200m butterfly at the Singapore National Age Group fulfill in March this year. His timing in Dakar likewise wasn’t his finest, however the medal ought to do him a world of excellent.
“He’s one for the future. He has to be watched carefully,” stated Ameen. “Both these young swimmers have to be taken care of, and taken care of well, going forward.”
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