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2021.08.08 00:11 GMT+8

Indian javelin history, new track stars, China's diving gold: Olympics News

Updated 2021.08.08 00:11 GMT+8
Patrick Rhys Atack

The moment the Netherlands clinched the silver medal in the men's 4x400m relay. /Reuters/Aleksandra Szmigiel

India's Neeraj Chopra won the country's first ever athletics gold medal with an historic throw in the Men's Javelin. His 87.68m effort beat two athletes from Czechia into silver and bronze positions on the podium.

In diving's Men's 10m Platform Final, China's Cao Yuan put in a stunning performance to pip compatriot Yang Jian to the gold medal. Team GB's Tom Daley - one of the UK's most recognizable Olympians after he won his first gold at his fourth games - picked up the bronze (the third of his career).

• On the athletics track there was a new middle distance star as Norway's 20-year-old Jakob Ingebrigtsen beat world champion Timothy Cheruiyot to win the gold medal in the Men's 1500m. Ingebrigtsen, who comes from a family of runners, is the fastest in the world at 5,000m this year but his decision to focus on the shorter distance was rewarded.

• The Russian Olympic Committee team is having a successful Games, despite an official ban on Russian athletes at the Olympics. The ROC's team won the Artistic Swimming team gold (the event formerly known as synchronized swimming). 

Dutch long-distance runner Sifan Hassan has doubled up with gold in the women's 10,000m. Earlier she won the 5,000m gold medal. It has been a busy few days - she also got a bronze in the 1,500m.

• Hosts Japan won the Men's baseball gold for the first time, beating the U.S. team in the final 2-0. It is quite a double for the country, whose women won the softball gold. 

• The penultimate day in Tokyo saw the five-event Modern Pentathlon, which tests competitors in Fencing, Swimming, Show Jumping, Running, and Shooting. GB's Joseph Choong beat Egypt's Ahmed El-Gendy and Republic of Korea's Woong-tae Jun to the top step of the podium. 

• Out on the basketball court, the U.S. Men's team made it four in a row by beating France in the final. The score was tighter than many predicted, with the French side putting up more resistance to the NBA stars on the U.S. squad. The final score was U.S. 87 - 82 France. Australia beat Slovenia in the Bronze medal play-off. 

• There was even more success for the U.S. team on the track, as they took gold in the final track final: the 4x400m relay. Botswana and Trinidad & Tobago looked to challenge the U.S. sprinters, but couldn't hold them off around the final bend in the Tokyo Olympic Stadium. 

Most Olympic coverage -rightly- focuses on the winners, but the Slovenian men's basketball team showed exactly how fourth place feels after losing to Australia / Reuters / Molly Darlington

GOLD MEDAL WINNERS 

 

Artistic Swimming

Team Free Routine - Russian Olympic Committee 

 

Athletics 

Women's Marathon - Peres Jepchirchir (Kenya)

Women's High Jump - Mariya Lasitkene (ROC) 

Women's 10,000m - Sifan Hassan (Netherlands)

Men's Javelin - Neeraj Chopra (India) 

Men's 1,500m - Jakob Ingebrigtsen (Norway)

Women's 4x400m Relay - U.S.

Men's 4x400m Relay - U.S.

 

Baseball 

Final - Japan 

 

Basketball 

Men's Final - U.S.

 

Beach Volleyball

Men's Final - Mol/Sorum (Norway)

 

Boxing 

Men's Flyweight - Galal Yafai (GB)

Women's Flyweight - Stoyka Zhelyazkova Krasteva (Bulgaria) 

Men's Middleweight - Herbert Sousa (Brazil) 

Women's Welterweight - Busenaz Surmeneli (Turkey)

 

Canoe Sprint 

Women's Double Canoe - China

Men's Single Canoe - Isaquias Queiroz dos Santos (Brazil) 

Women's Kayak Four - Hungary 

Men's Kayak Four - Germany 

 

Cycling track 

Men's Madison - Denmark 

 

Diving 

Men's 10m Platform - Yuan Cao (China)

 

Equestrian 

Jumping Team - Sweden 

 

Football 

Men's Final - Brazil 

 

Golf 

Women's Individual Stroke Play - Nelly Korda (U.S.) 

 

Handball 

Men's - France

 

Karate 

Women's Kumite +61kg - Feryal Abdelaziz (Egypt) 

Men's Kumite +75 - Sajad Ganjzadeh (Iran) 

 

Modern Pentathalon 

Men's - Joseph Choong (GB)

 

Rhythmic Gymnastics 

All-around Final - Israel 

 

Volleyball 

Men's - France 

 

Water Polo 

Women's Final - U.S.

 

Wrestling 

Men's Freestyle 65kg - Takuto Otoguro (Japan)

Men's Freestyle 97kg - Abdulrashid Sadulaev (ROC) 

Women's Freestyle 50kg - Yui Susaki (Japan) 

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