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Akbar Djuraev of Uzbekistan competes in the men’s 109 kg weightlifting event at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, . (AP) Sports Latest sports scores at — http://sports.arabtimesonline.com WLODARCZYK CLINCHES 3RD STRAIGHT TITLE, RARE GOLD FOR AMERICAN WRESTLER Biles returns to Olympics, wins bronze; Thompson-Herah ‘sweeps’ again Irie beats Petecio in featherweight fi nal

TOKYO, Aug 3, (AP): switching out a dismount that required her to twist for one with two simpler isn’t going backfl ips instead, a skill she hadn’t home with a fi stful of gold done in competition in 12 years, half a medals. A mental block - lifetime ago. Even with the degree of diffi culty lowered, she earned a 14.000, one brought on by exhaus- good enough for third behind tion or stress or something Biles (14.000) earned her seventh the American gymnastics career - tied with Shannon Miller for the most by an star still can’t quite grasp - American in gymnastics - by drilling that forced her to pull out a slightly watered-down version of her of four Olympic fi nals saw usual routine in front of a crowd that included IOC President Thomas Bach. to that. Chinese gymnasts Guan Chenchen Yet standing on the podium and Tang Xijing swept the gold and Tuesday, a bronze medal hanging silver in . around her neck and tears in her Guan took the gold with a score of eyes, the 24-year-old Biles may 14.633, ahead of Tang (14.233). have claimed something far more Daiki Hashimoto of Japan picked up valuable: a piece of herself back. a third medal in men’s gymnastics. The From the “twisties” that have haunt- Olympic all-around champion added ed her for a week. From the endless gold on high bar by posting a score of speculation about her state of mind. 15.066. From the hype machine - one, admit- Tin Srbic of was second tedly, she fed into at times - that set and Russian gymnast Nikita Nagornyy expectations so high coming to Tokyo took bronze. The medal was the third nothing short of the impossible would for Nagornyy in Tokyo. have been enough. Zou Jingyuan of captured It all became too much. A week ago, gold on parallel bars. Zou’s winning her internal wires got crossed when she score of 16.233 was the highest on hopped on during practice. any event by any gymnast during the Suddenly, she couldn’t spin. She could nine days of competition at the Ariake barely move. She still doesn’t quite Gymnastics Centre. know why. And if she’s being honest, Zou topped qualifying with a score the wires still aren’t reconnected. She’s of 16.166 but went even higher in the not sure when they will be. fi nals, giving him a gold to go with the Biles and coach Cecile Landi ad- bronze he won in the team competition justed her routine to ease her anxiety, last week. Lukas Dauser of grabbed ’s Rudy Gobert (27) drives to the basket over ’s Achille Polonara (left), and Nicolo Melli during a men’s basketball quarterfi nal round game at silver after posting a 15.700, just ahead the 2020 Summer Olympics in Saitama, Japan. France won 84-75. (AP) – See Page 15 of Ferhat Arican of , who took bronze. Anita Wlodarczyk of won The 35-year-old Wlodarczyk added American Sam Mikulak, competing the in women’s hammer the Tokyo title to her victories at Rio in his third Olympics, fi nished sixth in throw at a third consecutive Olympics. de Janeiro and with a mark of the eight-man fi nal. The 28-year-old 78.48 meters. Al-Yoha misses semis Mikulak is retiring following a career Wang Zheng of China took the sil- in which he won six U.S. titles. Medals Table ver medal at 77.03 and Malwina Ko- TOKYO, Aug 3, (KUNA): Ku- Al-Yoha ran his season’s best Elaine Thompson-Herah of pron ensured Poland had two people wait’s Yaqoub Al-Yoha was un- 13.69 seconds in Heat 2 at the completed her second straight Olympic on the podium by winning the bronze able to advance to the semifinals Olympic Stadium. sprint sweep, fi nishing the 200 meters medal at 75.49. in the men’s 110-meter hurdles at The top four runners in each heat TOKYO, Aug 3: med- Karsten Warholm of oblit- in 21.53 seconds, the second-fastest als table on Tuesday. the Tokyo Olympics after finish- and the next four fastest qualified to time in history. China 32 21 16 69 erated his own world record in the ing seventh in his heat on Tuesday. the semifinals on Wednesday. Thompson-Herah topped surprise 24 28 21 73 Olympic 400-meter hurdles, fi nishing Japan 19 6 11 36 in 45.94 to crack the old mark by .76. second-place fi nisher Christine Mbo- 14 4 15 33 ma of Namibia by .48, while American ROC 13 21 18 52 One of the most anticipated races on Britain had won the gold medal the and overtake Martirosyan for the gold Gabby Thomas took bronze. Great Britain 13 17 13 43 the program more than lived up to the previous three Summer Olympics. medal spot with a total of 430kg. This was a star-studded fi nal, de- Germany 8 8 14 30 hype. Second-place fi nisher Rai Ben- The world champion Americans led Martirosyan had two attempts for France 6 10 8 24 Netherlands 6 7 7 20 jamin of the United States fi nished in the whole way in beating Canada for the gold but didn’t lock his arms out 6 4 9 19 46.17, a mark that also beat the record the bronze medal. on the fi rst lift. OLYMPICS New Zealand 6 4 5 15 Warholm set last month. The Netherlands romped past Brit- Arturs Plesnieks of Latvia took the Italy 5 9 15 29 This time, it was good for only sec- Armand Duplantis of Sweden re- Hungary 4 4 3 11 ain in Olympic-record time to win the bronze with a total of 410kg. acts during the fi nal of the men’s fi ned as much by who didn’t fi nish on Cuba 4 3 4 11 ond. Warholm fl ashed that trademark men’s team sprint at the Izu Velodrome. Tamyra Mensah-Stock of the United pole at the 2020 Summer the podium as who did. 4 3 1 8 look of amazement when he crossed The team of Jeffrey Hoogland, Roy States defeated Blessing Oborududu of Canada 3 4 7 14 the line fi rst. Alison dos Santos of Bra- Olympics in Tokyo. (AP) Thompson’s Jamaican teammate, Switzerland 3 4 5 12 van den Berg and Harrie Lavreysen Nigeria 4-1 in the women’s 68-kilo- Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, fi nished Brazil 3 3 8 14 zil fi nished third and six of the eight stopped the clock in 41.369 seconds gram freestyle wrestling fi nal to claim fourth and Shaune Miller-Uibo, who Croatia 3 3 2 8 runners broke either a world, continen- to easily beat the British, who had the second Olympic gold medal ever Chinese Taipei 2 4 4 10 tal or national record. for an American female wrestler. focused on the 200 instead of defend- Sweden 2 3 0 5 claimed the last three gold medals in ing her title in the 400, came in last. Poland 2 2 2 6 Armand Duplantis of Sweden won the three-lap Mensah-Stock defeated 2016 the Olympic gold medal in the pole Miller-Uibo is still in the mix for the Denmark 2 1 3 6 race. Olympic gold medalist Sara Dosho 400, after fi nishing fi rst in a prelimi- Jamaica 2 1 2 5 vault. The 21-year-old Duplantis 10-0 in the fi rst round and beat Feng Norway 2 1 1 4 clinched victory at the Tokyo Games The British nary heat earlier Tuesday. Slovenia 2 1 1 4 team of Ryan Zhao of China 10-0 by technical su- Thompson-Herah joins another Ja- Ecuador 2 1 0 3 with a height of 6.02 meters and then periority in the quarterfi nals. She de- 2 0 1 3 raised the bar to 6.19 meters in a bid to Owens, Jack maican, Veronica Campbell-Brown, Carlin and Ja- feated former world champion Alla and Barbel Wookel of the former East Uzbekistan 2 0 1 3 break his own world record. Kosovo 2 0 0 2 son Kenny led Cherkasova of Ukraine 10-4 in the Germany as the third back-to-back 2 0 0 2 Duplantis missed all three times semifi nals. by the slimmest champion in the 200. Spain 1 4 4 9 when he tried to improve on the world Mensah-Stock joins Helen Maroulis Thompson-Herah’s time is topped 1 4 1 6 record mark of 6.18 meters he set in margins after as American women to win gold. Ma- Romania 1 3 0 4 the fi rst lap but only by Florence Griffi th Joyner’s run Venezuela 1 3 0 4 Glasgow last year. roulis won the 53kg class in 2016. of 21.34 at the Seoul Olympics in 1988. Hong Kong 1 2 0 3 Christopher Nilsen of the United was unable to Cherkasova defeated Dosho in a Athing Mu won the 800-meter gold South Africa 1 2 0 3 States took silver with a personal best Thompson-Herah keep up the bronze medal match. The other bronze Slovakia 1 2 0 3 pace. The Dutch medal for the United States in her fi rst Austria 1 1 3 5 of 5.97 meters. Thiago Braz of Brazil went to Meerim Zhumanazarova of Olympics after leading almost from 1 1 3 5 won bronze at 5.87 meters. pulled after the second lap and wound Kyrgyzstan. start to fi nish. Serbia 1 1 3 5 Germany became the fi rst wom- up easing up across the fi nish line. Russian wrestler Musa Evloev de- Belgium 1 1 1 3 The British fi nished in a time of Mu was never seriously challenged Ethiopia 1 1 1 3 en’s pursuit team to beat Britain in feated Artur Aleksanyan of Armenia down the home straight as she strode Philippines 1 1 0 2 an Olympic fi nal, breaking theirown 44.589 seconds. 5-1 in the Greco-Roman 97-kilogram away to win in 1 minute, 55.21 sec- Tunisia 1 1 0 2 world record with a time of 4:04.259 France easily beat Australia in the fi nal. Simone Biles of the United States Turkey 1 0 5 6 matchup for the bronze medal. onds. Ireland 1 0 2 3 in track cycling at the Izu Velodrome. Tadeusz Michalik of Poland and reacts after performing on the bal- Britain’s Keely Hodgkinson won The team of Franziska Brausse, Akbar Djuraev of Uzbekistan ance beam during the artistic gym- Israel 1 0 2 3 Mohammadhadi Saravi if Iran took the in 1:55.88 and Raevyn Belarus 1 0 1 2 Lisa Brennauer, Lisa Klein and Mieke won gold in the men’s 109-kilogram bronze nastics women’s apparatus fi nal at Estonia 1 0 1 2 Rogers came from nowhere to clinch Fiji 1 0 1 2 Kroege led the British by nearly 2 weightlifting class after world-record Tamas Lorincz of Hungary defeated the 2020 Summer Olympics Tokyo, holder Simon Martirosyan failed two Japan. (AP) the bronze on the fi nish line and give Iran 1 0 1 2 seconds by the midway point of the Akzhol Makhmudov of Kyrgyzstan the Americans a double celebration at Latvia 1 0 1 2 4,000-meter race and never looked lifts for the gold medal. 2-1 in the Greco-Roman 77-kilogram Bermuda 1 0 0 1 the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo. Morocco 1 0 0 1 back. The British wound up fi nishing Djuraev failed a clean and jerk at 234 men’s wrestling fi nal. The result confi rms the 19-year-old Puerto Rico 1 0 0 1 in 4:10.607. kilograms but returned to lift 237kg Lorincz was a silver medalist in the Mu as the new star of the women’s 800. 1 0 0 1 66kg event at the 2012 London Olym- Malaika Mihambo of Germany took Armenia 0 2 1 3 Colombia 0 2 1 3 pics. Makhmudov was competing in the top spot in the women’s long jump Dominican Rep. 0 2 1 3 his fi rst Olympics. with a 7-meter leap on her fi nal attempt Ukraine 0 1 6 7 Shohei Yabiku of Japan and Rafi g and edged U.S. veteran Brittney Reese Mongolia 0 1 2 3 Portugal 0 1 2 3 Huseynov of Azerbaijan won bronze. for the Olympic gold medal. India 0 1 1 2 Sena Irie of Japan claimed the fi rst- Mihambo won the world champion- Kenya 0 1 1 2 ever women’s featherweight boxing ship title in 2019 and fi nished just off Kyrgyzstan 0 1 1 2 Nigeria 0 1 1 2 gold medal with a unanimous decision the podium in fourth place at the 2016 San Marino 0 1 1 2 over the Philippines’ Nesthy Petecio. Olympics. Uganda 0 1 1 2 Irie became the fi rst female boxer The 34-year-old Reese now has Bulgaria 0 1 0 1 Jordan 0 1 0 1 to win a medal for Japan when she back-to-back Olympic silver medals at North Macedonia 0 1 0 1 secured the fi rst gold of the Tokyo the Tokyo Games and from Rio de Ja- Namibia 0 1 0 1 boxing tournament by sweeping the neiro after winning the title at London 0 1 0 1 third round on all fi ve judges’ cards in 2012. Azerbaijan 0 0 3 3 0 0 3 3 at the Kokugikan Arena. Irie’s crisper The four-time world champion had Mexico 0 0 3 3 punches won over the judges in a bout the chance to win with the fi nal jump of Egypt 0 0 2 2 with plenty of clinching. the competition but couldn’t improve 0 0 1 1 Côte d’Ivoire 0 0 1 1 Petecio settled for the Philippines’ on her best mark of 6.97 meters. 0 0 1 1 fi rst boxing medal of any kind since Akbar Djuraev of Uzbekistan holds Ese Brume of Nigeria, who led af- Ghana 0 0 1 1 1996, but Manny Pacquiao’s home up his gold medal in men’s 109kg ter the fi rst round and was in top spot Kuwait 0 0 1 1 nation is in contention for at least two Malaysia 0 0 1 1 Philippines’s Nesthy Petecio, (right), exchanges punches with Japan’s weightlifting, during the event med- again after the fourth, also fi nished Note: Table reads as gold, silver, more medals in Tokyo. als ceremony at the 2020 Summer on 6.97-meters and took bronze on a bronze and total Sena Irie during their women’s featherweight 60-kg fi nal boxing match at Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. (AP) countback. the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. (AP) Medalists – See Page 15

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