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Benjamin Savsek of Slovenia celebrates as he crosses the fi nish line to win gold medal in the Men’s C1 of the Canoe Slalom at the 2020 Summer Olympics in , . (AP) Sports Latest sports scores at — http://sports.arabtimesonline.com EDGE JAPAN, IN MEN’S GYMNASTICS FINAL Philippines’ Diaz wins historic gold as Titmus ends Ledecky golden run

Egypt’s Seif Eissa reacts after defeating Unit- ed States’ Paige McPherson, to win a bronze medal for the taekwondo women’s 67kg match at the 2020 Summer Olympics in To- kyo, Japan. (AP)

Silver medalist Jordan’s Julyana Al-Sadeq Hidilyn Diaz of Philippines competes in the women’s 55kg weightlifting event, at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. (AP) holds his medal. (AP) English sets record; Daley, Lee claim diving title Oly Medals Table TOKYO, July 26, (AP): Hidilyn Yufei (55.64) for the top spot. Australia’s en’s skeet champion Diana Bacosi of . Diaz became the fi rst Olympic Emma McKeon took the bronze in 55.72, beat- English, ranked No. 1 in the world, hit 56 of TOKYO, July 26, (AP): medals ing American teenager Torri Huske by one- 60 targets to bounce back from just missing the table on Monday. gold medalist from the Philip- hundredth of a second. U.S. Olympic team for the 2012 and 2016 G S B T Japan 8 2 3 13 pines after winning the women’s Huske went out fast, as is her style, and Games. United States 7 3 4 14 55-kilogram weightlifting catego- appeared to be close to the front with about 10 Bacosi matched English by hitting 47 of 50 China 6 5 7 18 meters to go. But she faded on her final strokes shots to reach the final, but missed on her third Russia 4 5 3 12 ry at the Tokyo Olympic Games Britain 3 3 1 7 and just missed a spot on the podium. attempt and a chance to repeat as Olympic 3 0 4 7 on Monday . The U.S. team was denied a medal for the champion. Australia 2 1 3 6 first time in the swimming competition. China’s Wei Meng took bronze after tying a Kosovo 2 0 0 2 Diaz overtook Liao Qiuyun of China on Italy 1 4 4 9 her last lift in the clean and jerk to win with Defending champion and world-record world record in qualifying. 1 2 2 5 a total 224 kilograms. That was one more holder Sarah Sjöström of Sweden was seventh. Japan ended China’s overwhelming domi- Canada 1 2 1 4 Britain’s Adam Peaty repeated as Olympic nance in table tennis by winning Olympic gold 1 1 0 2 than Liao. champion in the men’s 100-meter breast- Tunisia 1 1 0 2 China had won all three events so far and in mixed doubles in a major upset. Croatia 1 0 1 2 stroke. was hoping to sweep the gold medals in the Jun Mizutani and Mima Ito beat a Chinese Slovenia 1 0 1 2 Peaty was perhaps the surest best at the Austria 1 0 0 1 eight competitions its athletes have entered. team that has often seemed unbeatable. China Olympic pool, being the first man to break won all four gold medals at the 2016 Rio de Ecuador 1 0 0 1 Liao came into the competition as the world both 58 and 57 seconds in his signature event. Hong Kong 1 0 0 1 record holder with a total 227kg. Janeiro Games and the team of Xu Xin and Liu Iran 1 0 0 1 He posted the fifth-fastest time in history Norway 1 0 0 1 Zulfiya Chinshanlo of took Shiwen was a heavy favorite this time. (57.37 seconds) to blow away the field. Mizutani won bronze in singles in Rio and Philippines 1 0 0 1 bronze with 213kg. Chinshanlo won what was Arno Kamminga of the Netherlands claimed 1 0 0 1 then the 53-kilogram class at the 2012 Ito is considered by some to be China’s biggest Ariarne Titmus, of Australia holds up her Uzbekistan 1 0 0 1 the silver in 58.00, while the bronze went to threat in the female ranks. Taiwan 0 2 2 4 Olympics, but was stripped of her gold medal Italy’s Nicolo Martinenghi in 58.33. American medal after winning the fi nal of the wom- Netherlands 0 3 0 3 after a positive test for two banned steroids. en’s 400-meters freestyle at the 2020 Sum- 0 2 1 3 Michael Andrew was next in 58.84 - the sec- 0 0 3 3 Katie Ledecky strolled onto the deck first, ond straight final in which a U.S. swimmer OLYMPICS mer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. (AP) which meant she was headed to the second Kazakhstan 0 0 3 3 finished fourth and was denied a medal. was gold for Lee Lai Shan in women’s wind- 0 2 0 2 spot on the medal podi- Czech Republic 0 1 1 2 Caeleb Dressel led off an American victory China won the first two games 11-5 and surfing in 1996. um. in the men’s 4x100-meter freestyle relay. Indonesia 0 1 1 2 What a strange place 11-7 but Japan took the next three 11-8, 11-9 Alexander Choupenitch won bronze for the 0 1 1 2 Dressel gave the U.S. a lead it never relin- and 11-9. China then won the sixth game 11-6 Czech Republic after beating Takahiro Shikine Spain 0 1 1 2 for her to be. 0 1 1 2 quished, swimming the first leg in a blistering to set up a deciding seventh game which Japan of Japan 15-8. For the first time in a 47.26 seconds. 0 0 2 2 brilliant career, Ledecky dominated. The host country took an 8-0 lead Slovenia’s Benjamin Savsek won gold in Mongolia 0 0 2 2 Blake Pieroni and Bowe Becker kept the and held on for an 11-6 victory. Turkey 0 0 2 2 wasn’t the first swimmer the men’s canoe slalom ahead of the Czech 0 0 2 2 Americans out front before Zach Apple turned China’s table tennis team is so strong that Republic’s Lukas Rohan and Germany’s to touch the wall in an in an anchor leg of 46.69 to leave no doubt at Belgium 0 1 0 1 individual event at the world champion Liu didn’t even make the Sideris Tasiadis. Bulgaria 0 1 0 1 the end. Colombia 0 1 0 1 Olympics. women’s singles’ team and is only playing Savsek is ranked No. 7 in the world. He The U.S. won gold in 3 minutes, 08.97 sec- team events. Denmark 0 1 0 1 She had nothing to be onds, the third-fastest relay in history. Italy knew he had the time to beat after a clean run India 0 1 0 1 ashamed of. She swam Cheung Ka Long won Hong Kong’s second with no time penalties, and pumped his first as Jordan 0 1 0 1 Daley took the silver in 3:10.11, with the bronze 0 1 0 1 one of the best races of Olympic gold medal in its history by beating he crossed the finish line. He didn’t have long going to Australia in 3:10.22. defending champion Daniele Garozzo 15-11 in Ivory Coast 0 0 1 1 her career on the biggest stage. She was simply The team representing the Russian Olympic to wait to see his time of 98.25 seconds hold up Estonia 0 0 1 1 the men’s foil final. Israel 0 0 1 1 beaten in the 400-meter freestyle by someone Committee rode remarkable performances by as the winner. who was a bit better on this day. Cheung secured the win with a video review Rohan’s run included a gate touch and Kuwait 0 0 1 1 and to edge for the last point and then ran to celebrate with Mexico 0 0 1 1 Still, it was a bit jarring. Japan and China in a taut men’s team gymnas- 2-second penalty and he finished 3.71 seconds New Zealand 0 0 1 1 It wasn’t quite good enough to beat his coach. Garozzo earlier needed medical off the lead. Tasiadis, who came in ranked No. Note: Table reads as gold, silver, bronze and tics final. treatment after straining a thigh muscle when total. (AP) Australia’s Ariarne Titmus, who chased down The victory marked the first Olympic title 1 in the world and won silver in 2012, was a Ledecky over the final two laps to win in 3 for the Russians since the 1996 Atlanta Cheung led 6-5. distant 5.45 seconds slower than Savsek. minutes, 56.69 seconds. Games. Hong Kong’s only previous Olympic win Tom Pidcock won the Olympic men’s mountain bike race, extending Britain’s domi- It was the second-fastest time ever recorded, Russia’s total of 262.500 points was just nance from the road and track to the dirt. surpassed only by Ledecky’s world record of good enough to hold off the sport’s other two Leaving reigning champion Nino Schurter 3:56.46 at the 2016 Rio Games. superpowers. Japan used a brilliant high bar and his Swiss teammate Mathias Flueckiger Ledecky touched in 3:57.36, her fastest time routine by Daiki Hashimoto in the final rota- behind on the fourth of seven laps, the 21-year- in three years and fourth-fastest in the history tion to surge past China for second with a old multidiscipline prodigy proceeded to dom- of the eight-lap event. score of 262.397. inate the toughest course in Olympic history. Of course, most people will focus on where The Chinese were undone by a fall from Lin Flueckiger gave chase in vain and was left she finished. Chaopan on exercise during the first rota- with a silver medal. David Valero Serrano of Ledecky has been second before - in relays tion. Spain won a surprise bronze. and at big-time meets such as the world cham- Britain’s Tom Daley and Matty Lee won Sofia Pozdniakova won an all-Russian fenc- pionships. gold in men’s 10-meter synchronized diving, ing final 15-11 to take goal in women’s saber But this was a first at the Olympics. ending any chance of a sweep by China at the and consign teammate to a Ledecky won her only individual event at Tokyo Aquatics Centre. third consecutive silver medal in the event. the 2012 London Games, stunningly taking Daley and Lee sealed their victory with a Pozdniakova is the daughter of Russian gold in the 800 free as a relatively unknown brilliant final dive and received one perfect 10 Olympic Committee president and four-time 15-year-old. She was a big star by Rio, where from the judges. Every other mark but one was gold medalist Stanislav Pozdnyakov. He was she backed up the hype by sweeping the 200, a 9.0 or 9.5. watching in the arena. Russia is competing 400 and 800 free. Daley and Lee finished with a total score of under the guise of the ROC at the Tokyo That streak ended at the Tokyo Aquatics 471.81 points, edging China’s Cao Yuan and Games in the latest doping-related sanctions Centre, but Ledecky was more focused on the Chen Aisen by a mere 1.23. It was the first from the Court of Arbitration for Sport. time beside her name, not the number in front Olympic gold for Daley, long the star of Velikaya was the individual saber runner- of it. British diving. He had previously claimed a up at the 2012 and 2016 Olympics. She also Maggie MacNeil captured Canada’s first pair of bronze medals. has a team gold from 2016. gold medal at the pool with a victory in the The bronze went to Russia’s Aleksandr Manon Brunet of France won the bronze women’s 100-meter butterfly. Bondar and Viktor Minibaev with 439.92. medal after beating Anna Marton of Hungary The reigning world champion touched first American shooter Amber English set an Nikita Nagornyy, of the Russian Olympic Committee, performs on the during 15-6. in 55.59 seconds, edging out China’s Zhang Olympic record to knock off reigning wom- the artistic gymnastic men’s team fi nal at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. (AP) Medalists – See Page 15

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