A dominating performance in the final saw Germany being crowned Youth Olympic champions at Dakar 2026, with their 2:0 win against Brazil seeing the European side finish with six wins in six matches.

Senegal doubled down on their bronze medal in the women's competition, taking a 2:1 win over Hungary and sealing the bronze.

Gold medal
Germany vs Brazil 2:0 (29:20; 15:14)

• Germany produced an almost flawless first set, converting 15 of their 16 shots for a 94% attacking efficiency, scoring their first points via a spinshot after only three seconds
• Luuk Seibert scored 12 points for Germany in the first set, while Brazil relied heavily on three players – Giovani Brandao, Luiz Ferreira and Raphael Martins – who combined for 18 of their 20 points
• The 49 points scored in the first set of the final were the third highest in the competition, after Brazil v Cook Islands (56) and Tunisia v Cook Islands (50)
• Luuk Seibert was responsible for four of the eight points scored by Germany in an 8:2 run in the second set, which cancelled a four-point deficit and provided the European side with their maiden lead in the second part
• Tiago Azevedo saved five shots in the second set, including a crucial save at 14:14 with two seconds left, to prevent Germany to secure the title
• But Germany had Luuk Seibert convert the final shot, which was the golden goal that helped Germany clinch the 2:0 win and the title
• Seibert was Germany's top scorer of the final, with 17 points, while Tim Perse added 10, as Brazil's Giovani Brandao finished the match with 18 points
• Germany, silver medallists at the 2025 IHF Men's Beach Handball Youth World Championship and at the M17 EHF EURO 2026, are now crowned Olympic champions
• Three continents were represented on the final podium, with Europe taking gold, South America silver and Africa bronze
• Germany were the only side to finish with six wins in six matches in the competition

Bronze-Medal Match
Senegal v Hungary 2:1 (20:18; 16:22; 9:6 SO)

• This was the first medal won by an African team in the men’s competition at the Youth Olympic Games beach handball tournament
• Senegal completed the bronze-medal double at Dakar 2026, after the women’s team beat France to finish on the podium earlier
• The African side used the same scenario as in the women’s bronze-medal match, winning the first set, conceding the second and then taking out their opponents in the shootout
• With a pair of converted in-flights, Senegal’s Saliou Diop was his team’s top scorer, with 10 points, in the first set, scoring half of Senegal’s total points
• The second saw its scenario completely flipped from the first one, as Hungary led by 12 points, 18:6, after six minutes, with a better defensive effort from the European side, with Hungary eventually taking a 22:16 win
• In the shootout, Hungary’s captain, Zeteny Zaray, missed a six-metre shot, awarded after a foul, while Senegal converted their first four, plus the decider via a one-point shot to take a 9:6 win
• Moussa Balla Sall was Senegal’s top scorer, with 14 points, followed by Saliou Diop, with 10 points
• This was Senegal’s 12th medal at the Dakar 2026 Youth Olympic Games, their seventh bronze one throughout the Youth Olympics and the second one in the handball competition, with the African country having five gold medals