Although athletics has begun, China is still in the lead - Olympic News and Updates

 

Although athletics has begun, China is still in the lead

The much awaited athletic events at the Tokyo Olympics began today (30). Here are some of the highlights of the day at the Olympic Stadium and other sports.

 

Athletics

 

Selemon Barega, an Ethiopian athlete in the men's 10,000 meters, won the first gold medal at the Olympics this year. His time to finish the event was 27: 43.22 minutes.

In the men's 10,000m, the world record was won by world record holder Joshua Cheptegei (27: 43.63 minutes) and the bronze medal was won by Uganda's Jacob Kiplimo (27: 43.88 minutes).

 

Swimming

 

South African athlete Tatjana Schoenmaker won the gold medal in the women's 200m breaststroke, setting her first singles world record at the Olympics this year.

She finished the event with a time of 2: 18.95 minutes, breaking the record set by Danish player Rikke Møller Pedersen (2: 19.11 minutes).

The silver and bronze medals in that event were won by American athletes Lilly King (2: 19.92) and Annie Lazor (2: 20.84).

Evgeny Rylov of the Russian Olympic Committee won the gold medal in the men's 200m breaststroke in 1: 53.27 minutes, setting an Olympic record.

 

Ryan Murphy of the United States won the silver medal in 1: 54.15 minutes and Luke Greenbank of Great Britain won the bronze medal in 1: 54.72 minutes.

Emma McKeon of Australia won the gold medal in the women's 100m freestyle. She finished the race in 51.96 seconds, setting an Olympic record.

The silver medal was won by Siobhan Bernadette Haughey of Hong Kong (52.27 seconds) and the bronze medal was won by Cate Campbell of Australia (52.52 seconds).

Wang Shun of China won the men's 200m Individual Medley event in 1: 55.00 minutes, breaking the Asian record.

Great Britain's Scott Duncan (1: 55.28) won the silver and Switzerland's Jérmy Desplanches (1: 56.17) won the bronze.

 

Table Tennis

Ma Long of China won the men's singles table tennis gold medal by defeating another Chinese player Fan Zhendong 4-2.

The bronze medal went to Dimitrij Ovtcharov of Germany, who defeated Chinese Taipei's Lin Yun-ju 4-3 in the bronze medal event.

 A few more final results, briefly,

 

Judo

 

Men's + 100kg weight class

Gold Medal - Lukáš Krpálek (Czech Republic)

Silver Medal - Guram Tushishvili (Georgia)

Bronze Medal - Tamerlan Bashaev (Russia) and Teddy Riner (France))

Men's + 78kg weight class

 

Gold Medal - Akira Sone (Japan)

Silver Medal - Idalys Ortiz (Cuba)

Bronze Medal - Romane Dicko (France) and Iryna Kindzerska (Ukraine)

Fencing

 

Men's team Épée events

 

Gold Medal - Japan

Silver medal - Russian Olympic Committee

Bronze medal - South Korean team

Canoe Slalom

 

Men's Kayak Event

Gold Medal - Jiří Prskavec (Czech Republic)

Silver Medal - Jakub Grigar (Slovakia)

Bronze Medal - Hannes Aigner (Germany)

Archery

 

Women's singles event

Gold Medal - An San (South Korea)

Silver Medal - Elena Osipova (Russian Olympic Committee)

Bronze Medal - Lucilla Boari (Italy)

Gymnastics

 

Women's Trampoline Event

Gold Medal - Zhu Xueying (China)

Silver Medal - Liu Lingling (China)

Bronze Medal - Bryony Page (Great Britain)

Cycling

 

Men's BMX Racing Event

Gold Medal - Niek Kimmann (Netherlands)

Silver Medal - Kye Whyte (Great Britain)

Bronze Medal - Carlos Ramírez (Colombia)

Women's BMX Racing Event

 

Gold Medal - Bethany Shriever (Great Britain)

Silver Medal - Mariana Pajón (Colombia)

Bronze Medal - Merel Smulders (Netherlands)

Tennis

 

Men's doubles match

Gold Medal - Nikola Mektić & Mate Pavić (Croatia)

Silver Medal - Marin Čilić & Ivan Dodig (Croatia)

Bronze Medal - Marcus Daniell & Michael Venus (New Zealand)

By the end of the seventh day (30) of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, China had won the first place in the medal tally with 19 gold, 10 silver and 11 bronze medals.

 

Japan is in second place with 17 gold, 4 silver and 7 bronze medals, followed by the United States with 14 gold, 16 silver and 11 bronze medals.