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Gold medalist Japan poses for photographs on the pitch- ing mound after a medal cer- emony for baseball at the at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Yokohama, Japan. (AP) Sports Latest sports scores at — http://sports.arabtimesonline.com U.S. GOLDEN AGAIN; KENYANS DOMINATE MARATHON, BRAZIL DEFEND TITLE Egypt’s Abdelaziz bags gold, historic win for India as Japanese fulfi l determined mission

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TOKYO, Aug 7, (AP): TOKYO, Aug 7: Olympic Games med- Feryal Abdelaziz of Egypt als table on Saturday. won the fi rst Olympic ka- G S B T China 38 31 18 87 rate gold medal in women’s United States 36 39 33 108 Japan 27 12 17 56 over-61 kilogram kumite, ROC 20 26 23 69 Great Britain 20 21 22 63 beating Azerbaijan’s Iryna Australia 17 7 22 46 Zaretska to win Egypt’s Germany 10 11 16 37 Netherlands 10 11 12 33 second Olympic gold med- Italy 10 10 19 39 France 9 12 11 32 al since 1948. New Zealand 7 6 7 20 The 22-year-old Abdelaziz went Brazil 7 4 8 19 Hungary 6 7 6 19 ahead on a yuko with 28 seconds Canada 6 6 11 23 left in a cagey fi nal bout. She South Korea 6 4 10 20 Cuba 6 3 5 14 scored again three seconds later Poland 4 5 5 14 and hung on for a 2:0 victory cel- Czech Republic 4 4 3 11 Norway 4 2 1 7 ebrated with a primal scream. Jamaica 4 1 4 9 Gong Li of China and Sofya Berult- Spain 3 8 6 17 seva of Kazakhstan won bronze. Sweden 3 6 0 9 Switzerland 3 4 6 13 Iran’s Sajad Ganjzadeh won the Denmark 3 4 4 11 Olympic gold medal in men’s over-75 Kenya 3 4 2 9 kilogram karate Croatia 3 3 2 8 after fi nal oppo- Iran 3 2 2 7 Belgium 3 1 2 6 nent Tareg Ha- Slovenia 3 1 1 5 medi was given Georgia 2 5 1 8 a disqualifi ca- Chinese Taipei 2 4 6 12 Turkey 2 2 9 13 tion penalty for Serbia 2 1 4 7 kicking Ganjza- Bulgaria 2 1 2 5 deh hard in the Uganda 2 1 1 4 Ecuador 2 1 0 3 upper body or Israel 2 0 2 4 head. Uzbekistan 2 0 2 4 Hamedi, who Greece 2 0 1 3 left the mat in Qatar 2 0 1 3 Felix Bahamas 2 0 0 2 tears, still won Kosovo 2 0 0 2 Saudi Arabia’s second-ever silver Ukraine 1 5 12 18 medal, but missed out on their fi rst Belarus 1 3 3 7 Romania 1 3 0 4 gold. Venezuela 1 3 0 4 Hamedi overcame Japan’s Ryu- India 1 2 4 7 taro Araga in the semifi nals. Araga’s Hong Kong 1 2 2 5 Philippines 1 2 1 4 bronze surprisingly was the host na- Slovakia 1 2 1 4 tion’s only kumite medal in Tokyo. South Africa 1 2 0 3 Karate proliferated in Japan and spread Gold medalist Neeraj Chopra of India poses during the medal ceremony for the men’s javelin throw at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. (AP) Austria 1 1 5 7 Egypt 1 1 4 6 throughout the globe during the 20th Indonesia 1 1 3 5 century. 2-0 Saturday night behind Munetaka golf competition. Christian Sorum and Anders Mol Ethiopia 1 1 2 4 Neeraj Chopra won India’s fi rst gold Murakami’s third-inning home run. Korda led by as many as three shots beat Russia in the men’s beach vol- Portugal 1 1 2 4 Masato Morishita and four reliev- on the back nine. In the end, she needed leyball gold medal match, earning Nor- Tunisia 1 1 0 2 medal in Olympic track and fi eld with Ireland 1 0 2 3 a throw of 87.58 meters on Saturday ers combined on a six-hitter, and the two putts from just inside 30 feet on the way’s fi rst medal in the sport. Estonia 1 0 1 2 to clinch the javelin title at the Tokyo Japanese men (5-0) matched the ac- 18th hole for par and a 2-under 69. The top-seeded Norwegians beat Fiji 1 0 1 2 complishment of the women’s softball Mone Inami of Japan made bogey the reigning world champions 21-17, Latvia 1 0 1 2 Games. Thailand 1 0 1 2 Neeraj Chopra held a corner of the team, which upended the Americans from a plugged lie in the bunker on the 21-18 in an intermittent rain at the Sh- Bermuda 1 0 0 1 India fl ag in each hand and raised it for their second straight gold medal. 18th hole and faced a playoff against iokaze Park venue overlooking Tokyo Morocco 1 0 0 1 over his head. America, the nation that introduced Lydia Ko of New Zealand for the silver Bay. With Qatar’s victory over Latvia Puerto Rico 1 0 0 1 baseball to Japan in 1872, fi nished 4-2. medal. Colombia 0 4 1 5 for the bronze earlier Saturday, all three Azerbaijan 0 3 4 7 Teams were denied access to all 40- Britain’s Joseph Chong set an Olym- countries on the podium - and all six Dominican Rep 0 3 2 5 OLYMPICS man roster players and many eligible pic record to win the men’s pentath- players - were fi rst-time medalists. Armenia 0 2 2 4 top prospects by Major League Base- lon, matching the gold medal won by Galal Yafai won Britain’s fi rst box- Kyrgyzstan 0 2 1 3 Mongolia 0 1 3 4 A half-hour later, the tri-color was ball and its clubs, hindering the U.S. Britain’s Kate French in the women’s ing gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics, Argentina 0 1 2 3 fl ying at the top of the mast at Tokyo’s and other countries whose top players event. beating Carlo Paalam of the Philippines San Marino 0 1 2 3 are in MLB. Chong fi nished third in the event’s 4:1 in the fl yweight fi nal. Jordan 0 1 1 2 Olympic Stadium and Chopra was Nigeria 0 1 1 2 standing atop the podium. The Dominican Republic beat South swimming, fi rst in fencing, 14th in rid- Yafai, the 28-year-old younger Bahrain 0 1 0 1 A fi rst gold medal in Olympic track Korea to win bronze. ing and 15th in laser-run to set a new brother of two professional boxers from Saudi Arabia 0 1 0 1 and fi eld for a nation of 1.3 billion had The U.S. won their fourth straight Olympic mark of 1,482 points. Birmingham, is a two-time Olympian Lithuania 0 1 0 1 Olympic men’s basketball gold medal, Egypt’s Ahmed Elgendy won silver North Macedonia 0 1 0 1 to be cause for celebration. who had an impressive run in Tokyo. Namibia 0 1 0 1 “It feels unbelievable,” he said. holding off France 87-82. and Wonngtae Jun of South Korea won He fi nished by knocking down Paalam Turkmenistan 0 1 0 1 “This is our fi rst Olympic medal for a Brazil’s Bruno Guimaraes and Spain’s Kevin Durant scored 29 points for bronze. in the fi rst round of the gold medal bout Kazakhstan 0 0 8 8 Mikel Merino battle for the ball in the Mexico 0 0 4 4 very long time, and in athletics it is the the Americans and joined Carmelo An- Britain is the fi rst country to win the and going on for a comfortable win. men’s soccer final match at the 2020 thony as the only three-time gold me- men’s and women’s individual modern Finland 0 0 2 2 fi rst time we have gold, so it’s a proud Summer Olympics in Yokohama, Ja- Ryomei Tanaka of Japan and Saken Botswana 0 0 1 1 moment for me and my country.” dalists in men’s basketball. pentathlon at the same Olympic Games. Bibossinov of Kazakhstan won bronze Burkina Faso 0 0 1 1 pan. (AP) France defeated the U.S in the teams’ Svetlana Côte d’Ivoire 0 0 1 1 India’s only previous medals in medals. Yafai beat Bibossinov in a Ghana 0 0 1 1 Olympic track and fi eld were two sil- opening game in the tournament. The Romashina thrilling semifi nal. Grenada 0 0 1 1 surged ahead as he rounded the last French almost beat them again Satur- clinched the vers won by Norman Pritchard in the curve and set an Olympic record to win Stoyka Krasteva of Bulgaria capped Kuwait 0 0 1 1 day while attempting to win their fi rst seventh gold her impressive run through the Tokyo Malaysia 0 0 1 1 200 meters and the 200-meter hurdles the 1,500 meters at the Tokyo Games. Moldova 0 0 1 1 at Paris in 1900. gold in men’s basketball. They had to medal of her Olympics with the women’s fl yweight Ingebrigtsen ran behind world cham- settle for a third silver. Olympic career Syria 0 0 1 1 Jakub Vadlejch took silver with a pion Timothy Cheruiyot for most of the boxing gold medal. She beat top-seed- Note: Table reads as gold, silver, best mark of 86.67 meters and former Patty Mills scored 42 points to carry by leading the ed Buse Naz Cakiroglu of Turkey 5:0. bronze and total race before kicking late to win the gold Australia to their fi rst Olympic medal Russian Olym- world champion Vitezslav Vesely won medal in 3 minutes, 28.32 seconds, The 36-year-old Krasteva, a 2012 bronze with 85.44. in men’s basketball with a 107-93 vic- pic Committee Olympian who returned to boxing in beating the record of 3:31.65 set by tory over Slovenia in the third-place to gold in the ar- dalist in India’s Olympic history. Peres Jepchirchir led a 1-2 Kenyan Abel Kipsang of Kenya two days ear- 2019 after a break, dominated her fi nal China’s Mengya Sun and Shixiao fi nish in the women’s marathon, with- game on Saturday. tistic swimming four opponents to win Bulgaria’s fi fth- lier in the heats. Malcom scored in the 108th minute team event. Xu won the country’s fi rst medal in standing the heat and humidity while Cheruiyot took silver in 3:29.01. ever boxing gold and its fi rst since Dan- and Brazil won their second consecu- The rest of Jepchirchir women’s canoe sprint by winning the running through the streets of Sapporo. Josh Kerr of Britain won bronze and iel Petrov in 1996. Bulgaria had won gold in the canoe double 500 at the Sea Jepchirchir fi nished in a time of tive gold medal in men’s soccer with a the ROC team just one bronze in boxing since 2004. Kipsang placed fourth. 2-1 victory over Spain. included: Vlada Chigireva, Aleksandra Forest Waterway. 2 hours, 27 minutes, 20 seconds in a Allyson Felix won her 11th Olympic Huang Hsiao-wen of Taiwan, the The 2019 world champions fi nished race moved up an hour to avoid the Brazil also won gold on home soil Patskevich, Marina Goliadkina, Svet- 2019 world champion, and Tsukimi medal, combining with her American fi ve years ago at the iconic Maracana lana Kolesnichenko, Alla Shishkina, 2 seconds clear of Ukraine’s Anastasi- heat. Her teammate Brigid Kosgei was teammates to fi nish the 4x400-meter Namiki of Japan won bronze in the ia Chetverikova and Liudmyla Luzan. second and American Molly Seidel, Stadium. Neymar struck the winner in Polina Komar and Maria Shurochkina. lightest women’s weight class. relay in 3 minutes, 16.85 seconds for a a 5-4 shootout after a 1-1 draw with Romashina teamed with Kolesnichen- It was the second medal for Luzan, a relative newcomer to the marathon runaway victory. Brazil’s Hebert Sousa won the men’s who took bronze in the single 200. stage, took home the bronze. Germany. ko to win the duet on Wednesday. middleweight boxing gold medal at the The team of Felix, Sydney Mexico downed Japan 3-1 in the ROC was awarded 98.8000 points Canada’s Laurence Vincente A race that was moved to Sapporo McLaughlin, Dalilah Muhammad and Tokyo Olympics in shocking fashion Lapointe and Katie Vincent took the to avoid the extreme heat in Tokyo bronze medal match in Saitama on Fri- for the free routine and fi nished with a when his bout with Ukraine’s Oleksan- Athing Mu was never in jeopardy. day. total of 196.0979 points after also lead- bronze medal in third. Vincent won the found little relief on a winding course Poland fi nished second, 3.68 seconds dr Khyzhniak was stopped by a third- silver medal in the 200. through the city. The starter’s gun Nelly Korda gave the Americans a ing the technical routine. round knockdown. behind, and Jamaica fi nished third. sweep of gold medals in golf, holding China fi nished 2.5669 points behind Brazil’s Isaquias Queiroz dos San- went off a minute after 6 a.m. local Felix, who became the most-deco- Sousa, who beat second-seeded tos won the men’s 1,000 meters canoe time under sunny skies and with a tem- on for a one-shot victory in a thrill-a- to take the silver medal and Ukraine Gleb Bakshi of Russia in the semifi nal, rated woman in Olympic track history minute fi nish to the Olympic women’s was 5.7961 behind for bronze. sprint and Moldova’s Serghei Tar- perature reading of 77 degrees Fahren- when she won bronze in the 400 on Fri- joins lightweight Robson Conceição novschi took the bronze medal fi ve heit (25 Celsius). It climbed to nearly day night, now passes Carl Lewis with as the only boxing gold medalists in years after his similar result in Rio de 86 degrees (30) near the fi nish, with a the most track medals of any U.S. ath- Brazil’s Olympic history. Conceição Janeiro was stripped because of a per- humidity of around 65%. lete. Of the 11 medals, seven are gold. won his historic gold at home in Rio formance-enhancing drug violation. Sifan Hassan won the 10,000 meters There were no bad exchanges this de Janeiro. China’s Liu Hao, the 2019 world for her second gold and third medal time as the U.S. men won their fi rst Bakshi and Eumir Marcial of the champion, won the silver medal. of the Tokyo Olympics after entering gold medal in a track race at the Tokyo Philippines won bronze medals in Queiroz dos Santos was the Olym- three long-distance races. Games with a victory in the 4x400- likely the most talent-stacked division pic silver medalist in 2016. Hassan burst past world-record meter relay. in Tokyo. Tarnovschi was suspended for four holder Letesenbet Gidey on the fi nal The U.S. men didn’t reach the fi nal Busenaz Sürmeneli of Turkey won years after his doping violation. He turn and won in a time of 29 minutes, of the 4x100-meter relay, but the 4x400 the women’s welterweight gold medal was able to return to the Olympics in 55.32 seconds. team of Michael Cherry, Michael Nor- in Tokyo. She persevered through a Tokyo because of the one-year delay It completed an astonishing 5,000 man, Bryce Deadmon and Rai Benja- diffi cult fi nal against China’s Gu Hong caused by the coronavirus pandemic. and 10,000 double for the Ethiopian- min was never really in trouble as they to win Turkey’s fi rst-ever boxing gold. Hungary won the gold medal in the born runner, who now competes for completed four laps of the Olympic Gu’s awkward, hold-heavy style women’s kayak four 500 meters. New the Netherlands. She also won a bronze oval in 2 minutes, 55.70 seconds. confounded opponents on her way to Zealand’s Lisa Carrington missed a in the 1,500 meters. Her victory in the It was the fi fth gold for the U.S. men silver. Gu was docked a point early fourth medal of the Tokyo Games 10,000 was her sixth race in eight days in the 4x400 since 1996. in the second round for holding, but when the Kiwi boat fi nished fourth. in Tokyo. The Netherlands took silver in a would have won the fi ght on two judg- Hungary fi nished 0.61 seconds clear Kalkidan Gezahegne of Bahrain national record 2:57.18 and Botswana es’ scorecards without the deduction. of silver medalists Belarus and Poland took silver in 29:56.18 and Gidey, won bronze in 2:57.27. Oshae Jones of the United States and won the bronze. The New Zealand having led for most of the race, faded A Japanese team of all-stars fulfi lled Lovlina Borgohain of India won bronze. kayak was in medal position halfway for the bronze as she had no answer to a determined national mission to win Feryal Abdelaziz of Egypt, (left), and Iryna Zaretska of Azerbaijan compete Jones is one of four medalists for the through the race before fading late. Hassan’s fi nish. the Olympic baseball gold medal for in their women’s kumite +61kg gold medal bout for karate at the 2020 Sum- most successful U.S. boxing team since Jakob Ingebrigtsen of Norway the fi rst time, beating the United States mer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. (AP) 2000. Borgohain is the third boxing me- Medalists — See Page 15

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