Russian gymnast Daniil Smirnov won the first individual gold medal at the Youth Olympic Games in Dakar.
He competed in six events and scored 81.298 points, ahead of Britain's Ozair Choudhury (79.132) and Japan's Ikki Nishihara (79.065). In August, Smirnov also won the individual all-around at the European Youth Championship in Zagreb.
Russia's Angelina Novolodskaya won bronze in the road cycling time trial. The Belarusian fencer Denis Maslov took the fifth place, when he lost in the quarter-finals to the British Muhammad Balboav with a score of 7:15, and in the group stage he won four out of six fights.
Belarusian athletes showed the following results: swimmer Maxim Mashlikevich and Polina Blyavskaya (50-meter breaststroke) received bronze, judoka Alexandra Kneizeva took seventh place in the category up to 44 kg, and Gleb Akunevich took ninth place in archery.