Two German male gymnasts completed their apparatus rotations at the Youth Olympic Games in Dakar on Tuesday, November 10, 2026, with Zénó Csuka securing 13th place with 72.099 points and Andrei Mihai finishing 18th with 68.298 points in the all-around final, dtb.de reported.
Gold went to Russian athlete Daniil Smirnov with 81.298 points, followed by Uzair Chowdhury from Great Britain with 79.132 points and Japanese competitor Ikki Nishihara with 79.065 points.
Zénó Csuka entered the final lineup as the first reserve athlete following a late withdrawal, starting his campaign on the rings with an 11.300-point routine, according to dtb.de. Andrei Mihai qualified cleanly in ninth position and opened his apparatus rotation on the pommel horse, where he was joined by Csuka who finished his competition on that same apparatus with 11.933 points.
Mihai scored 13.066 on the pommel horse, better than his 11.933 in qualifications. Csuka executed a clean Kasamatsu vault with a single twist, yielding a strong execution score of 9.0 and a total of 13.300 despite a large step back upon landing, dtb.de noted. Meanwhile, his teammate performed his rings routine well, particularly in the handstands, and landed his dismounting movement securely for 11.700 points.
Csuka corrected an over-rotated dismount from his qualification round by landing a forward double salto cleanly in the final, earning a stick bonus and raising his parallel bars score by 1.4 points to 12.700. This left him in eighth position at the halfway mark with 37.300 points, while Mihai sat in 18th with 35.066 points, dtb.de stated, after Mihai incurred a three-tenths deduction on his vault for a score of 11.633.
In the second half of the competition, Csuka posted 11.400 on the horizontal bar, 11.466 on the floor, and 11.933 on the pommel horse. Mihai added 12.300 on the parallel bars and 12.066 on the horizontal bar before faltering completely on his floor exercise, where an 8.866 score dropped his final tally, according to dtb.de.
| Athlete | Apparatus Focus | Final Rank | Total Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zénó Csuka (GER) | All-Around | 13 | 72.099 |
| Andrei Mihai (GER) | All-Around | 18 | 68.298 |
The male duo competed alongside Kimi Köhnlein and female gymnast Luna Zimmermann across multiple competition days at the Youth Olympic Games, representing the German Gymnastics Federation on African soil for the first time, dtb.de confirmed.
Meanwhile, Austrian participant Samuel Wachter also competed in the international field, finishing ninth with 74.231 points after a mistake on his final pommel horse dismount dropped him from a higher standing, olympia.at reported, improving upon his 15th-place qualification finish of 73.665 points.
Trainer Michael Fussenegger evaluated Wachter’s performance by noting that the competitor executed his target strategy successfully despite the late mistake, olympia.at reported. The comprehensive results across all apparatus finals remain documented on the official World Gymnastics portal, following the 17-year-old Austrian’s earlier international silver medals at the 2025 European Youth Olympic Festival and the 2026 Junior European Championships.
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