Italy beat China 23-21 to win the bronze. The last time Estonia won an Olympic event was in 2008 when Gerd Kanter took the men’s discus throw. 2-ranked Choi Injeong in the last bout with scores tied and won 10-6 to take the gold. Individual bronze medalist Lehis was up against No. USA Gymnastics did not specify the nature of Biles’ medical issue, saying in a statement she “will be assessed daily to determine medical clearance for future competitions.”Įstonia has its first Olympic gold medal in 13 years after Katrina Lehis sealed a tense 36-32 victory over South Korea in the final of women’s team épée fencing. The Russian athletes are up by eight-tenths of a point as both teams head to floor exercise. is without star Simone Biles, who withdrew with what USA Gymnastics called a “medical issue” following vault earlier in the competition. The Russian Olympic Committee has a narrow lead over the United States heading into the last rotation of the women’s gymnastics team final. The gold is the first for the Russians since the Unified Team triumphed in Barcelona in 1992 and came a day after the men’s team edged Japan for the top spot in the men’s final.
The Russian gymnasts posted a team score of 169.528, ahead of the U.S. star Simone Biles exited with a medical issue. The Russian Olympic Committee has won the gold medal in women’s gymnastics after U.S. offense sputtered as it did throughout the Olympics, totalling just nine runs.Įarlier in the day, Canada beat Mexico 3-2 for softball bronze. Japan snuffed out an American rally attempt with an acrobatic double play in the sixth inning that will long be replayed.īefore 34,046 mostly empty seats Yokohama Stadium, second-ranked Japan pushed across the first earned runs off the top-ranked Americans in the six-game tournament. Yukiko Ueno took a one-hitter into the sixth inning five days after her 39th birthday. Japan has won its second straight Olympic softball gold medal, beating the United States 2-0 in an emotional repeat of their 2008 victory in Beijing that again left the Americans in tears. The competition was left wide open without world record holder Deng Wei of China and the usually strong North Korean team.Ĭharron’s winning total was the same as Taiwanese lifter Kuo Hsing-Chun one weight class lower. Chen Wen-Huei earned Taiwan’s second weightlifting medal of the day with 230kg for bronze. Maude Charron of Canada won the weightlifting gold medal in the women’s 64-kilogram category.Ĭharron lifted a total 236 kilograms in the snatch and clean and jerk to beat Giorgia Bordignon of Italy by 4 kilograms. Tijana Bogdanovic won silver in Rio and bronze earlier in Tokyo.Īlthea Laurin of France and Bianca Walkden of Britain claimed bronze. She hung on to become Serbia’s second woman to win two taekwondo medals.
The fighters were tied 6-6 in a tactical bout with 35 seconds left but Mandić took the lead with a body punch and went up 9-6 on a body kick with 12 seconds left.
Mandić also won Olympic gold in London but was eliminated in the quarterfinals in Rio de Janeiro. Milica Mandić of Serbia won her second gold medal in women’s 67-kilogram heavyweight taekwondo, beating Lee Dabin of South Korea 10-7 with a last-minute rally. Rafael Alba Castillo of Cuba and In Kyo-don of South Korea won bronze. Magomed Ibragimov’s bronze medal in wrestling from the 2000 Sydney Games was the only previous Olympic medal for the country that began competition in 1996. The 22-year-old Georgievski fell short of gold but still earned North Macedonia’s second-ever Olympic medal and its first silver.
The top-seeded Larin maintained a lead throughout the second half to earn his first Olympic medal in the final bout of the four-day taekwondo tournament in Tokyo. Russian athlete Vladislav Larin won the gold medal in men’s 80-kilogram taekwondo with a 15-9 victory over Dejan Georgievski of North Macedonia in the final. The United States edged Britain for silver five years after finishing third behind the Brits. They have won medalsd in 16 straight Olympic team competitions. The Germans have 13 Olympic titles in team dressage since the event was introduced at the 1928 Amsterdam Games. She trailed only teammate Jessica von Bredow-Werndl.ĭorothee Schneider of Germany also rode well three months after a horse she was riding collapsed and died. She had the second-best individual score in the competition. Isabell Werth earned her seventh gold and equestrian-record 11th medal overall. The German dressage team won its ninth gold medal in the past 10 Olympics by beating the United States and Britain for the second straight time. TOKYO (AP) - The Latest on the Tokyo Olympics, which are taking place under heavy restrictions after a year’s delay because of the coronavirus pandemic:
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