Olympic Latest: India's Chopra wins Olympic gold in javelin

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TOKYO (AP) — The Newest on the Tokyo Olympics, that are going down below heavy restrictions after a 12 months’s delay due to the coronavirus pandemic:

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Neeraj Chopra has received India’s first gold medal in Olympic observe and area with a throw of 87.58 meters to clinch the javelin title on the Tokyo Video games.

India’s solely earlier medals in Olympic observe and area have been two silver medals received by Norman Pritchard within the 200-meters and the 200-meter hurdles on the Paris Video games in 1900.

Chopra was the primary athlete from India to win gold in javelin on the Asian Video games and the Commonwealth Video games and he has set a brand new benchmark in Tokyo. He held off athletes from the Czech Republic to complete atop the rostrum.

Jakub Vadlejch took silver and former world champion Vitezslav Vesely bronze.

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Feryal Abdelaziz of Egypt has received the primary Olympic karate gold medal in girls’s over-61 kilogram kumite, beating Azerbaijan’s Iryna Zaretska to win Egypt’s second Olympic gold medal since 1948.

The 22-year-old Abdelaziz went forward on a yuko with 28 seconds left in a cagey remaining bout. She scored once more three seconds later and held on for a 2:0 victory celebrated with a primal scream.

Egypt has been competing on the Olympics since 1912, however Greco-Roman wrestler Karem Gaber’s gold in Athens in 2004 was the nation’s solely different gold up to now 73 years.

Gong Li of China and Sofya Berultseva of Kazakhstan received bronze.

Japan’s Ayumi Uekusa was eradicated earlier than the finals, ending a tough Olympic 12 months for the karate champion. Uekusa spoke out earlier this 12 months towards Japanese karate official Masao Kagawa, saying he had bullied her and injured her with a bamboo sword. Kagawa resigned.

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Sweden has defeated Jessica Springsteen and the U.S. leaping crew in a soar off for the gold medal.

Springsteen and teammates Laura Kraut and McLain Ward every moved cleanly by means of the shortened jump-off course and did so with a mixed time of 124.2 seconds.

Peder Fredricson, the ultimate Swedish rider, wanted to circle the observe in 40.30 seconds or higher with out error and cruised to a time of 39.01 for the nation’s document fourth gold medal however first since 1924. The Individuals additionally entered this week with three golds.

France had a transparent line to a second straight gold when its remaining rider, Penelope Leprevost, took the course. Needing to complete with fewer than 5 factors to win with out a soar off, Leprevost’s horse refused twice, disqualifying her and the remainder of the French crew.

That left the Individuals and Swedes tied for the lead with eight penalties apiece, necessitating the soar off.

Springsteen, the daughter of rockers Bruce Springsteen and Patti Scialfia, will get a silver in her Olympic debut.

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Jakob Ingebrigtsen of Norway surged forward as he rounded the final curve and set an Olympic document to win the 1,500-meters on the Tokyo Video games.

Ingebrigtsen ran behind world champion Timothy Cheruiyot for many of the race earlier than kicking late to win the gold medal in 3 minutes, 28.32 seconds, beating the document of three:31.65 set by Abel Kipsang of Kenya two days earlier within the heats.

Cheruiyot, who missed preliminary choice for the Olympics and was a late addition as a result of one other runner was reduce from Kenya’s crew, took silver in 3:29.01.

Josh Kerr of Britain received bronze. Kipsang positioned fourth.

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The Russian Olympic Committee’s Abdulrashid Sadulaev defeated American Kyle Snyder 6-3 within the males’s freestyle 97-kilogram remaining.

Snyder was the Olympic gold medalist at 97kg in 2016 and is a two-time world champion. Sadulaev was the Olympic gold medalist at 86kg in 2016 and is a four-time world champion.

Sadulaev led 6-0 within the remaining minute. Snyder scored two on a takedown and one on a step-out to make it 6-3 earlier than Sadulaev held on.

Cuba’s Reineris Salas defeated Azerbaijan’s Sharif Sharifov for bronze. Salas, 34, had by no means received a world title or an Olympic medal. Sharifov, 32, received Olympic gold within the 84kg class on the 2012 London Olympics and earned bronze at 86kg in 2016.

Within the different bronze medal match, Italy’s Abraham Canyedo Ruano defeated Turkey’s Suleyman Karadeniz 6-2.

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Russian Svetlana Romashina has received the seventh gold medal of her Olympic profession, main her crew to gold within the creative swimming crew occasion.

Romashina has received or been on the successful crew of each single occasion she’s participated in at 4 Olympics.

The one different athletes who’ve received at the very least seven Olympic golds with out ever claiming silver or bronze are Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt and American jumper Ray Ewry, who each received eighth golds in observe and area.

The remainder of the ROC crew included: Vlada Chigireva, Aleksandra Patskevich, Marina Goliadkina, Svetlana Kolesnichenko, Alla Shishkina, Polina Komar and Maria Shurochkina.

Romashina teamed with Kolesnichenko to win the duet on Wednesday.

The Russians have been heavy favorites in a sport they’ve dominated for greater than 20 years. Their final Olympic loss in what was then generally known as synchronized swimming got here on the 1996 Atlanta Video games.

Performing to “Parade of Planets” by Denis Gornizov, with planet designs on their swimsuits, ROC was awarded 98.8000 factors for the free routine and completed with a complete of 196.0979 factors after additionally main the technical routine.

China completed 2.5669 factors behind to take the silver medal and Ukraine was 5.7961 behind for bronze.

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Sifan Hassan received the ten,000 meters for her second gold and third medal of the Tokyo Olympics after getting into three long-distance races.

Hassan burst previous world-record holder Letesenbet Gidey on the ultimate flip and received in a time of 29 minutes, 55.32 seconds.

It accomplished an astonishing 5,000 and 10,000 double for the Ethiopian-born runner, who now competes for the Netherlands. She additionally received a bronze within the 1,500 meters. Her victory within the 10,000 was her sixth race in eight days in Tokyo.

Kalkidan Gezahegne of Bahrain took silver in 29:56.18 and Gidey, having led for many of the race, light for the bronze as she had no reply to Hassan’s end.

4 runners didn’t end race on one other humid night time on the Olympic Stadium.

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Japan’s Takuto Otoguro defeated Azerbaijan’s Haji Aliyev 5-4 to win the boys’s freestyle wrestling 65-kilogram remaining.

Otoguro’s finest consequence had been a world title in 2018.

Aliyev was a 2016 Olympic bronze medalist at 57kg and a three-time world champion.

Bronze medalists have been the Russian Olympic Committee’s Gadzhimurad Rashidov and India’s Bajrang Punia.

Jessica Springsteen’s remaining trip at her first Olympics has put the American crew in medal rivalry on the Equestrian Park.

Springsteen’s horse, Don Juan van de Donkhoeve, front-hoofed a rail for a four-point penalty however was in any other case lightning fast and clear across the course.

Springsteen’s trip adopted an ideal circuit from Olympic veteran Laura Kraut for the Individuals, and the U.S. entered the ultimate spherical tied with Sweden and Belgium for second with 4 factors. France leads with two.

The 29-year-old Springsteen — daughter of rockers Bruce Springsteen and Patti Scialfa — didn’t qualify for the finals within the particular person occasion earlier this week. She’s picked up 4 penalty factors in every of her three runs spanning the person and crew competitions.

German world champion Jonathan Horne has left the Budokan tatami on a stretcher after getting harm in his elimination-round kumite bout in males’s 75-kilogram Olympic karate.

Horne withdrew from the Olympic match about half-hour later.

Horne appeared to injure his arm throughout a sparring trade with Georgia’s Gogita Arkania. The 32-year-old karateka collapsed to the mat in ache and was finally taken away for medical consideration.

Horne was the world champion at 84 kilograms in 2018, and he received the European title on the identical weight earlier this 12 months. He was among the many favorites on this decrease division within the Olympic debut of karate, which concludes its three-day run Saturday night time.

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Israel’s Linoy Ashram received the gold medal within the rhythmic gymnastics particular person competitors, ending Russia’s decades-long dominance within the sport.

Ashram, 22, edged out a pair of Russian similar twin sisters who have been the favorites heading into Tokyo. Dina Averina, 22, positioned second and her sister, Arina, fell to fourth place. Alina Harnasko of Belarus received the bronze medal.

Russia has swept the rhythmic gymnastics gold medals in each Olympics since 2000.

However Ashram’s victory Saturday, her nation’s first ever in rhythmic gymnastics, breaks their streak. Her practically flawless efficiency included a membership routine set to Beyonce’s “Loopy in Love” and dancing with a ribbon to a techno remix of the Jewish people music “Hava Nagila” whereas wearing a blue and white feathered leotard.

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The Danish crew of Lasse Norman Hansen and Michael Morkov received the return of the boys’s Madison to the Olympics for the primary time since 2008.

Hansen and Morkov received simply three of the 20 sprints however have been constant sufficient by means of the 200-lap race to complete with 43 factors. That was three greater than Britain, which earned silver on a tiebreaker, and France, which took the bronze.

The much-loved Madison, as soon as a staple of observe biking, returned to the Olympics for the primary time for the reason that 2008 Beijing Video games. In reality, three riders who took half within the final Madison have been nonetheless round 13 years later for its return: Morkov of Denmark, Kenny de Ketele of Belgium and Germany’s Roger Kluge.

The race includes groups of two whipping one another round in a relay. One rider is taken into account within the race at a time, although they’ll swap at any juncture, and factors are awarded to the highest 4 finishers in every 10-lap phase.

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The U.S. has received its third consecutive gold medal in girls’s water polo, pounding Spain 14-5 within the remaining on the Tokyo Olympics.

Maddie Musselman scored thrice and Ashleigh Johnson made 11 saves because the U.S. improved to 134-4 because it received gold on the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Video games. After falling 10-9 to Hungary in group play in its first loss on the Olympics for the reason that 2008 remaining, the U.S. ripped off 4 straight wins by a mixed rating of 63-26.

The U.S. joins the boys’s groups from Britain (1908-1920) and Hungary (2000-2008) as the one international locations to win at the very least three straight water polo titles on the Olympics. The U.S. is the one crew to medal in every of the six editions of the ladies’s match on the Video games.

Maica Garcia had two targets for Spain, which additionally misplaced to the U.S. within the 2012 remaining. The silver medal matches the nation’s finest end within the girls’s competitors.

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Cao Yuan grew to become the primary diver to win gold medals in three completely different Olympic occasions with an exhilarating duel off the 10-meter platform on the Tokyo Aquatics Centre.

Cao accomplished one other dominating efficiency by the mighty Chinese language crew, which was practically good at these video games. Yang Jian took the silver, simply 1.95 factors behind his teammate in a scintillating capper.

Yang nailed his remaining dive, receiving a string of 9.0s and 9.5s for a ahead 4 1/2 somersaults with a 4.1-degree of issue — the toughest dive that anybody tried.

Yang got here up out of the water, pumping his fists.

However Cao was the ultimate diver to go off the tower. Whereas his dive wasn’t as tough, his marks have been even higher — two good 10s, each different rating a 9.5. That was sufficient to present him the gold with 582.35 factors, with Yang taking the silver with 580.40.

Britain’s Tom Daley was the one diver who gave the Chinese language an actual problem earlier than ending with 548.25 for the bronze. He now had 4 Olympics medals in his profession — one gold and three bronze.

China’s solely slip-up in Tokyo got here within the 10-meter synchronized, the place Cao and Chen Aisen settled for silver behind Daley and Matty Lee by a mere 1.23 factors. That miniscule margin was the one factor stopping an ideal run on the Tokyo pool by the world’s biggest diving nation..

The Chinese language have been 1-2 in all 4 particular person occasions, to go together with three golds and a silver in synchronized.

The 26-year-old Cao added to the golds he received on the 3-meter springboard on the 2016 Rio Video games and in 10-meter synchro on the 2012 London Olympics. He additionally grew to become solely the second man to win medals in all 4 Olympic diving occasions after Russia’s Dmitry Sautin.

Individuals Jordan Windle and Brandon Loschiavo completed ninth and eleventh, respectively.

A German coach has been suspended after she was filmed hitting an uncooperative horse throughout the Olympic girls’s trendy pentathlon competitors.

TV footage confirmed Kim Raisner leaning over a fence to strike the horse Saint Boy, which refused to leap the fences within the showjumping spherical. That price German athlete Annika Schleu an opportunity at successful the gold medal.

The Worldwide Fashionable Pentathlon Union says it reviewed footage exhibiting Raisner “showing to strike the horse … together with her fist” and that “her actions have been deemed to be in violation of (the principles).”

Raisner’s suspension solely applies for the remainder of the Tokyo Olympics, which finish Sunday. It wasn’t instantly clear if she had been speculated to have any function in Saturday’s males’s competitors in trendy pentathlon.

Argentina received its second Olympic medal ever in males’s volleyball, rallying to beat in 5 units within the bronze medal recreation on Saturday.

The one different medal the Argentinians received within the sport got here in Seoul in 1988 when in addition they beat Brazil for the bronze.

The Russians play France for the gold medal.

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Busenaz Sürmeneli of Turkey has received the ladies’s welterweight gold medal in Tokyo, persevering by means of a tough remaining towards China’s Gu Hong to win Turkey’s first-ever boxing gold.

Sürmeneli received the ultimate 3:0 with two even scorecards after a bout full of holding and awkward exchanges. They have been brought about virtually utterly by Gu, whose awkward, hold-heavy fashion confounded opponents on her approach to silver. Gu was docked some extent early within the second spherical for holding, however would have received the struggle on two judges’ scorecards with out the deduction.

Sürmeneli battered Gu late within the second spherical with the facility and athleticism that made her arguably essentially the most spectacular fighter within the 100-woman Tokyo area. Turkey had received solely two silvers and two bronzes in gold in its Olympic historical past earlier than Sürmeneli’s run to the primary Olympic title at girls’s welterweight, certainly one of two girls’s divisions added to the Olympics in Tokyo.

Oshae Jones of the USA and Lovlina Borgohain of India received bronze. Jones is certainly one of 4 medalists for essentially the most profitable U.S. boxing crew since 2000, whereas Borgohain is the third boxing medalist in India’s Olympic historical past.

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Brazil’s Hebert Sousa received the boys’s middleweight boxing gold medal on the Tokyo Olympics in stunning vogue when his bout with Ukraine’s Oleksandr Khyzhniak was stopped by a third-round knockdown.

The highest-seeded Khyzhniak completely dominated Sousa for the primary two rounds and seemed to be cruising to Ukraine’s fifth-ever boxing gold. However Sousa caught Khyzhniak with a counter left hook throughout an trade within the third, and Khyzhniak went to the canvas arduous.

The referee waved off the bout whereas Khyzhniak acquired up begged to proceed, including one other occasion to a collection of Tokyo stoppages that will be thought of far too early in skilled bouts.

Sousa, who beat second-seeded Gleb Bakshi of Russia within the semifinal, joins light-weight Robson Conceição as the one boxing gold medalists in Brazil’s Olympic historical past. Conceição received his historic gold at dwelling in Rio de Janeiro.

Bakshi and Eumir Marcial of the Philippines received bronze medals in probably essentially the most talent-stacked division in Tokyo.

Hungary has earned the nation’s first medal in girls’s water polo, beating the Russian crew 11-9 for bronze on the Tokyo Olympics.

Vanda Valyi scored thrice for Hungary, which completed fourth in every of the final three Video games. Rita Kesthelyi had two targets.

Hungary was clinging to a 10-9 lead within the remaining seconds when Alda Magyari stopped an extended shot by the Russian Olympic Committee’s Nadezhda Glyzina. Magyari then threw the ball into the open web for the clinching objective.

Hungary beat the U.S. in group play, handing the Individuals their first loss on the Olympics for the reason that 2008 remaining. It outlasted the Netherlands within the quarterfinals earlier than shedding to Spain.

Spain performs the U.S. for gold later Saturday.

Hungary’s males’s crew — the winningest nation within the the Olympics’ oldest crew sport with 9 gold medals — additionally performs for bronze Sunday towards Spain.

Glyzina, Anastasia Simanovich and Ekaterina Prokofyeva every scored two targets for the Russian crew, which received bronze in 2016. Anna Karnaukh made six saves.

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The Worldwide Olympic Committee has closed a possible disciplinary case towards two Chinese language gold medalists who wore pin badges of Mao Zedong on the Olympic podium.

Worldwide Olympic Committee spokesman Christian Klaue says Chinese language crew officers gave assurances the athletes have been warned and the incident won’t be repeated.

On the medal ceremony Monday for the ladies’s observe biking dash, Bao Shanju and Zhong Tianshi wore pin badges of Mao, the founding chief of communist China.

The gesture examined the boundaries of Olympic Constitution Rule 50, which prohibits political statements on the rostrum on the Tokyo Video games. The rule may even apply on the 2022 Beijing Winter Video games.

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Stoyka Krasteva of Bulgaria has capped her spectacular run by means of the Tokyo Olympics with the ladies’s flyweight boxing gold medal. She beat top-seeded Buse Naz Cakiroglu of Turkey 5:0.

The 36-year-old Krasteva, a 2012 Olympian who returned to boxing in 2019 after a break, dominated her remaining 4 opponents to win Bulgaria’s fifth-ever boxing gold and its first since Daniel Petrov in 1996. Bulgaria had received only one bronze in boxing since 2004.

Cakiroglu misplaced the ultimate decisively, however nonetheless received Turkey’s third-ever silver medal in boxing and sixth medal general. Teammate Busenaz Surmeneli has one other shot at Turkey’s first boxing gold within the welterweight remaining later Saturday.

Huang Hsiao-wen of Taiwan, the 2019 world champion, and Tsukimi Namiki of Japan received bronze within the lightest girls’s weight class.

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Galal Yafai has received Britain’s first boxing gold medal on the Tokyo Olympics, beating Carlo Paalam of the Philippines 4:1 within the flyweight remaining.

Yafai, the 28-year-old youthful brother of two skilled boxers from Birmingham, is a two-time Olympian who had a formidable run in Tokyo. He completed by pulling down Paalam within the first spherical of the gold medal bout and happening for a snug win.

Britain’s powerhouse crew has received two silvers and two bronzes to go together with Yafai’s gold in Tokyo. Middleweight Lauren Value fights Sunday for an additional gold.

Paalam fell simply wanting successful the primary Olympic boxing gold medal within the historical past of the Philippines after knocking off defending gold medalist Shakhoibidin Zoirov on his approach to the ultimate. The Filipino crew remains to be heading dwelling from Tokyo with two silver medals and a bronze after successful simply 5 boxing medals of their total earlier Olympic historical past.

Ryomei Tanaka of Japan and Saken Bibossinov of Kazakhstan received bronze medals. Yafai beat Bibossinov in an exhilarating semifinal.

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Nelly Korda has given the Individuals a sweep of gold medals in golf, holding on for a one-shot victory in a thrill-a-minute end to the Olympic women’s golf competition.

Korda led by as many as three pictures on the again 9. In the long run, she wanted two putts from simply inside 30 ft on the 18th gap for par and a 2-under 69.

Mone Inami of Japan made bogey from a plugged lie within the bunker on the 18th gap and confronted a playoff towards Lydia Ko of New Zealand for the silver medal.

For the 23-year-old Korda, it was one other glittering second in her dream season. She received her first main championship six weeks in the past and rose to No. 1 on the earth for the primary time. Now she has an Olympic gold medal and leaves little doubt who’s the very best in girls’s golf.

Xander Schauffele received the gold for the boys final Sunday.

Aditi Ashok of India delivered one of many nice placing performances to remain in attain. She had a 25-foot birdie putt on the 18th that slid by the outlet and saved her off the rostrum by one shot.

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The U.S. has received its fourth straight Olympic men’s basketball gold medal, holding off France 87-82.

Kevin Durant scored 29 factors for the Individuals and joined Carmelo Anthony as the one three-time gold medalists in males’s basketball.

Durant already grew to become the main scorer in U.S. males’s historical past on this match. He scored 30 factors within the gold-medal video games in 2012 and 2016, and practically acquired there once more this time.

France defeated the united statesin the groups’ opening recreation on this match, snapping the Individuals’ 25-game successful streak within the Olympics.

The French virtually beat them once more Saturday whereas trying to win their first gold in males’s basketball. They needed to accept a 3rd silver, having additionally completed second to the U.S. in 1948 and 2000.

Slovenia and Australia will play later Saturday for the bronze medal.

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Germany has received the boys’s kayak 4 500 meters to make Ronald Rauhe the first man to medal in canoe dash in 5 Olympic Video games.

The 39-year-old Rauhe can be the second-oldest gold medal winner in males’s canoe dash. Solely Sweden’s Gert Fredriksson was older at 40 in 1960.

The German kayak was trailing Spain on the 250-meter mark earlier than rallying to win by 0.226 seconds. Spain received silver and Slovakia received bronze.

The boys’s kayak 4 500 on the Tokyo Video games changed the kayak 4 1,000, which was held from 1964 to 2016.

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Hungary has received the gold medal in the women’s kayak 4 500 meters. New Zealand’s Lisa Carrington missed a fourth medal of the Tokyo Video games when the Kiwi boat completed fourth.

Hungary completed 0.61 seconds away from silver medalists Belarus and Poland received the bronze. The New Zealand kayak was in medal place midway by means of the race earlier than fading late.

Carrington had already received three gold medals, within the single 200 and 500 and 500 pairs. She has 5 gold medals in her Olympic profession and 6 general.

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Christian Sorum and Anders Mol beat Russia within the men’s beach volleyball gold medal match, incomes Norway’s first medal within the sport.

The highest-seeded Norwegians beat the reigning world champions 21-17, 21-18 in an intermittent rain on the Shiokaze Park venue overlooking Tokyo Bay. With Qatar’s victory over Latvia for the bronze earlier Saturday, all three international locations on the rostrum — and all six gamers — are first-time medalists.

In reality, the one repeat medalist in both the boys’s or girls’s divisions was American April Ross, who received gold with Alix Klineman on Friday. Ross had additionally received silver in London and bronze in Brazil.

Viacheslav Krasilnikov and Oleg Stoyanovskiy led 8-4 earlier than giving up six straight factors, together with one when Mol landed on Krasilnikov’s foot. The Russians referred to as timeout and limped to their bench for therapy, however the match resumed and Norway prolonged the result in 15-11.

The second set was tied 12-12 earlier than Norway scored 4 factors in a row and by no means trailed once more.

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Brazil’s Isaquias Queiroz dos Santos won the men’s 1,000 meters canoe sprint and Moldova’s Serghei Tarnovschi took the bronze medal 5 years after his related end in Rio de Janeiro was stripped due to a performance-enhancing drug violation.

China’s Liu Hao, the 2019 world champion, received the silver medal.

Queiroz dos Santos was the Olympic silver medalist in 2016.

Tarnovschi was suspended for 4 years after his doping violation. He was capable of return to the Olympics in Tokyo due to the one-year delay attributable to the coronavirus pandemic.

China’s Cao Yuan is on observe to develop into the second man to win Olympic medals in all 4 diving occasions.

Cao and his teammate, Yang Jian, led 12 males into the ultimate of males’s 10-meter platform diving on Saturday.

Cao totaled 513.70 factors for six dives. Yang was second at 480.85. The Chinese language had a number of the highest diploma of issue within the semifinals.

Cao already owns Olympic medals in 10-meter platform synchro, particular person 3-meter springboard, and 3-meter springboard synchro.

Russia’s Dimitriy Sautin was the primary man to win medals in all 4 Olympic diving occasions.

Britain’s Tom Daley, the 2012 bronze medalist, superior to the ultimate later Saturday in fourth.

American Jordan Windle completed ninth and his teammate, Brandon Loschiavo, was tenth to achieve the 12-man remaining.

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China’s Mengya Solar and Shixiao Xu have received the nation’s first medal in girls’s canoe dash by winning the gold in the canoe double 500 on the Sea Forest Waterway.

The 2019 world champions completed 2 seconds away from Ukraine’s Anastasiia Chetverikova and Liudmyla Luzan. It was the second medal for Luzan, who took bronze within the single 200.

Canada’s Laurence Vincente Lapointe and Katie Vincent took the bronze medal in third. Vincent received the silver medal within the 200.

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Qatar has received the bronze medal in males’s seaside volleyball, the primary medal within the sport for the nation — or any nation within the Center East.

Cherif Younousse Samba and Ahmed Tijan beat Latvia 21-12, 21-18 within the third-place match on Saturday morning on the Shiokaze Park venue. Younousse knuckled the successful level over Edgar Tocs’ block try, then ran towards the stands pointing on the few followers who have been there to cheer him on.

Then he dropped to his knees and planted his brow within the sand.

Martins Plavins was attempting to earn his second bronze medal, to go together with the one he received in London. As an alternative, he and Tocs end fourth — simply because the Latvian girls did a day earlier.

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Peres Jepchirchir led a 1-2 Kenyan finish within the girls’s marathon, withstanding the warmth and humidity whereas operating by means of the streets of Sapporo.

Jepchirchir completed in a time of two hours, 27 minutes, 20 seconds in a race moved up an hour to keep away from the warmth. A smattering of followers lining the course applauded because the Tokyo Video games moved north for the marathons and race walks. Her teammate Brigid Kosgei was second and American Molly Seidel, a relative newcomer to the marathon stage, took dwelling the bronze.

A race that was moved to Sapporo to keep away from the acute warmth in Tokyo discovered little aid on a winding course by means of town. The starter’s gun went off a minute after 6 a.m. native time below sunny skies and with a temperature studying of 77 levels Fahrenheit (25 Celsius). It climbed to just about 86 levels (30) close to the end, with a humidity of round 65%.

There have been 88 runners entered within the area, with greater than a dozen recording a didn’t end. That included world champion Ruth Chepngetich of Kenya.

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