Tirthank Pegu Wins 200 m Butterfly Bronze for India at Youth Olympics

India has won another swimming medal at the Youth Olympic Games Dakar 2026. Tirthank Pegu took bronze in the men's 200 m butterfly on 6 November. He finished in 2:01.25. Egypt's Zain Hesham won gold in 1:57.88. Vietnam's Dương Văn Hoàng Quy took silver in 2:00.32.

Here is the podium for the event.

Pegu finished 0.93 seconds behind the silver medallist. He was 3.37 seconds off the winning time. Hesham won the race by 2.44 seconds, so the gold was never in doubt over the final lengths. The fight for silver and bronze was much closer. The swimming programme ran from 1 to 6 November, so this final came on its closing day.

The win completed a butterfly sweep for Hesham. He has now won all three men's butterfly events at Dakar 2026. His first gold came in the 100 m butterfly on day one. That win opened Egypt's medal account at the Games. The table below shows all three of his golds.

Pegu's bronze is a good result for Indian swimming. Dhinidhi Desinghu also won bronze in the women's 200 m freestyle on the same day. It was her second medal of the Games. The two bronzes lift India's swimming count to three medals at Dakar.

Here is every India medal at the Games so far.

India now has 2 silver and 4 bronze medals, six in total. Follow every country on the Youth Olympic Games medal tally.