India, Nov. 3 -- Rajkumari Lanchenbi Chanu won a historic bronze medal for India in wushu at the Youth Olympic Games 2026 in Dakar, Senegal on Tuesday, taking the country's medal tally to three.

Rajkumari won bronze in the women's changquan combined wushu event. She scored 8.723 in gunshu and 9.316 in changquan for a combined total of 18.039, finishing third. Egypt's Sondos Sonbol claimed the gold medal with a total score of 18.660 while Venezuela's Valeria Frannerys Dudamel Alvarado took silver (18.199).

This is the first time that wushu is part of Youth Olympics programme as a medal sport. The changquan combined event is a routine-based (taolu) wushu discipline that combines a bare-handed routine and a weapon routine. The scores of bo...