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Jacobs storms to shock Olympic 100m Olympics medals won yesterday Artistic Gymnastics - Menʼs Floor Exercise GOLD - DOLGOPYAT Artem - Zionist entity SILVER - ZAPATA Rayderley - Spain crown as Italy celebrates golden double BRONZE - XIAO Ruoteng - Artistic Gymnastics - Womenʼs Vault GOLD - ANDRADE Rebeca - Brazil TOKYO: Lamont Marcell Jacobs stormed to a shock SILVER - SKINNER Mykayla - United States of America BRONZE - YEO Seojeong - Republic of Korea victory in the Olympics 100m final yesterday to cap a golden double for Italy on a dramatic day of athletics Artistic Gymnastics - Womenʼs Vault action at the Tokyo Games. Jacobs became the first GOLD - WHITLOCK Max - Great Britain Italian in history to be crowned Olympic 100m cham- SILVER - LEE Chih Kai - Chinese Taipei pion after powering home in a blistering 9.80sec, with BRONZE - KAYA Kazuma - Japan Fred Kerley of the United States taking silver in Artistic Gymnastics - Womenʼs Uneven Bars 9.84sec and Canada’s Andre de Grasse bronze in GOLD - DERWAEL Nina - Belgium 9.89sec. SILVER - ILIANKOVA Anastasiia - Russian Olympic Committee The 26-year-old Jacobs erupted as he crossed the BRONZE - LEE Sunisa - United States of America finish line and leapt into the arms of compatriot Athletics - Womenʼs , who only moments earlier had GOLD - GONG Lijiao - China clinched a rare shared gold medal for Italy in the high SILVER - SAUNDERS Raven - United States of America jump after a duel with Qatari world champion Mutaz BRONZE - ADAMS Valerie - New Zealand Essa Barshim. Athletics - Menʼs It was the final act of a pulsating day three of track GOLD - BARSHIM Mutaz Essa - Qatar and field at the Olympic Stadium which also saw a bril- GOLD - TAMBERI Gianmarco - Italy liant world record-breaking gold medal victory in the BRONZE - NEDASEKAU Maksim - Belarus for ’s two-time world champion Yulimar Rojas. But the undisputed headline-grabbing Athletics - Womenʼs Triple Jump GOLD - ROJAS Yulimar - Venezuela performance of the night belonged to Italy’s Jacobs, SILVER - MAMONA Patricia - Portugal who had never previously gone under 10 seconds BRONZE - PELETEIRO Ana - Spain before the 2021 season. The muscular El Paso, Texas-born sprinter had only Athletics - Menʼs 100m finished third in his semi-final earlier on Sunday, clock- GOLD - JACOBS Lamont Marcell - Italy SILVER - KERLEY Fred - United States of America ing 9.84sec behind China’s Bingtian and Ronnie BRONZE - de GRASSE Andre - Canada Baker of the US to qualify for the final as one of the two fastest losers. TOKYO: Italy’s Lamont Marcell Jacobs celebrates as he crosses the finish line to win the men’s 100m final Badminton - Womenʼs Singles during the Tokyo 2020 at the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo yesterday. —AFP GOLD - CHEN Yu Fei - China Golden dream SILVER - TAI Tzu-Ying - Chinese Taipe But in the final he roared from the blocks, hit the BRONZE - P V Sindhu - India front at around the 50-metre mark and then held on to Cycling BMX Freestyle - Womenʼs Park become the first Olympic 100m gold medalist of the GOLD - WORTHINGTON Charlotte - Grain Britain post- era. He was greeted by high jumper SILVER - ROBERTS Hannah - United States of America Tamberi, who had clinched a share of the gold medal BRONZE - DUCARROZ Nikita - Switzerland with Barshim minutes earlier. Cycling BMX Freestyle - Menʼs Park Both men hugged after settling for gold having both GOLD - MARTIN Logan - Australia recorded a best clearance of 2.37 meters. “This is a SILVER - DHERS Daniel - Venezuela dream I don’t want to wake up from,” said Barshim. BRONZE - BROOKS Declan - Grain Britain “But we are here today sharing this moment and all the Diving - Womenʼs 3m Springboard sacrifices. It’s really worth it now in this moment.” GOLD - SHI Tingmao - China In the triple jump meanwhile, Rojas did her best to SILVER - WANG Han - China electrify a largely empty stadium with a scintillating BRONZE - PALMER Krysta - United States of America world record with her last leap of 15.67m, smashing the previous best of 15.50m set by Ukraine’s Inessa Fencing - Menʼs Foil Team GOLD - France Kravets in 1995. “I am lost for words, I can’t describe SILVER - Russian Olympic Committee this feeling and this moment,” Rojas said. “Gold medal BRONZE - United States of America winner, with an Olympic record, and a world record ... Wow. It is a fantastic night.” It was the first world Golf - Menʼs Individual Stroke Play record of the Tokyo Olympics athletics program. GOLD - SCHAUFFELE Xander - United States of America SILVER - SABBATINI Rory - Slovakia BRONZE - PAN C T - Chinese Taipe Golden Gong Portugal’s Patricia Mamona won silver with a Sailing - Womenʼs One Person Dinghy - Laser Radial national best of 15.01m, while Spain’s Ana Peleteiro GOLD - RINDOM Anne-Marie - Denmark SILVER - OLSSON Josefin - jumped 14.87m. Earlier yesterday, China’s Gong Lijao BRONZE - BOUWMEESTER Marit - Netherlands claimed gold in the women’s shot put after leading the competition from start to finish. Gong sealed her Swimming - Menʼs 50m Freestyle win with a personal best of 20.58 meters on her sixth GOLD - DRESSEL Caeleb - United States of America and final attempt having led from her opening effort SILVER - MANAUDOU Florent - France TOKYO: Gold medalist (left) of Team Qatar and silver medalist Gianmarco Tamberi of BRONZE - FRATUS Bruno - Brazil of 19.95m. Team Italy celebrate on the track following the Men’s High Jump Final during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic American Raven Saunders took silver with 19.79m, Games at the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo yesterday Swimming - Womenʼs 50m Freestyle while New Zealand veteran , in her fifth GOLD - McKEON Emma - Australia Olympics, was left delighted as she claimed bronze SILVER - SJOESTROEM Sarah - Sweden BRONZE - BLUME Pernille - Denmark with 19.62 to go with golds in 2008 and 2012, and sil- superb display of technique and power. Anderson (12.40sec). ver in 2016. Camacho-Quinn surged home in 12.26sec, smash- In the opening rounds of the men’s 400m, world Swimming - Menʼs 1500m Freestyle It marked the end of a long journey to gold for the ing ’s previous Olympic record set in champion Stephen Gardiner of the Bahamas and GOLD - FINKE Robert - United States of America 32-year-old Gong, a bronze medalist at the 2008 SILVER - ROMANCHUK Mykhailo - Ukraine 2012 of 12.35sec. The 24-year-old’s performance American Michael Cherry led a host of contenders into BRONZE - WELLBROCK Florian - Germany Olympics in and a silver medalist four years suggested that world record holder Keni Harrison Monday’s semi-finals of what promises to be an ultra- later in . In the women’s 100m hurdles semi- may once again be kept waiting for her first major competitive race. In the 400m hurdles semi-final, Swimming - Womenʼs 4 x 100m Medley Relay finals, Puerto Rico’s Jasmine Camacho-Quinn set an outdoor title. The American favorite finished second world champion Karsten Warholm qualified safely for GOLD - Australia Olympic record to qualify for Monday’s final with a SILVER - United States of America in her heat in 12.51sec, trailing ’s Britany the final along with US rival Rai Benjamin. —AFP BRONZE - Canada

Swimming - Menʼs 4 x 100m Medley Relay more records might be within reach. Thompson-Herah that time.” Thompson-Herah admitted that she had sur- GOLD - United States of America Thompson-Herah would almost certainly have clocked a faster time on prised even herself with her performances in Tokyo so far. SILVER - Great Britain Saturday had she not started celebrating well before BRONZE - Italy the finish line, potentially edging her closer to Griffith- Lurking threats Tennis - Womenʼs Doubles eyes Olympic Joyner’s 100m world record of 10.49sec, long regarded Earlier this year she was still struggling for form and GOLD - Czech Republic as untouchable. fitness, troubled by a sore Achilles. She finished third in SILVER - Switzerland Now Thompson-Herah is training her sights on both the 100m and 200m at the Jamaican Olympic tri- BRONZE - Brazil ‘double-double’ Monday’s opening heats in the 200m, where the als in June, where Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce — who she Tennis - Menʼs Singles TOKYO: Elaine Thompson-Herah sets out to follow up Olympic and world record remains Griffith Joyner’s beat for gold on Saturday — won both races. GOLD - ZVEREV Alexander - Germany her Olympic 100 meters gold medal in the 200m today 21.34sec, set at the drug-tainted 1988 Seoul Games. To “I never expected to run this fast,” Thompson- SILVER - KHACHANOV Karen - Russian Olympic Committee BRONZE - CARRENO BUSTA Pablo - Spain with the athletics world wondering how much faster threaten that, Thompson-Herah would need to signifi- Herah said. “Even though I felt great during the rounds, she can run. The 29-year-old Jamaican queen cantly improve her 200m personal best of 21.66sec, set sometimes in the finals you get nerves. Behind this 10.6 in Beijing in 2015. Yet after her 100m win on Saturday, was a lot of nerves. But I said ‘You can do this, you’ve Tennis - Menʼs Doubles stormed to victory in the 100m on Saturday, eclipsing GOLD - Russian Olympic Committee Griffith-Joyner’s 33-year-old Olympic record Thompson-Herah says as as far as her future is con- been here before, just execute.’” The 200m is likely to SILVER - Russian Olympic Committee by 0.01sec with a time of 10.61sec. The win left cerned, “anything is possible”. Asked if she believed pose a stiffer challenge for Thompson-Herah, however. BRONZE - Australia Thompson-Herah firmly on course to repeat her 2016 Griffith Joyner’s 100m world record was attainable, she Although one obstacle has been removed, with the replied: “Most definitely.” injury to Britain’s Dina Asher-Smith that forced the Weightlifting - Womenʼs 76kg Rio Olympics 100m-200m sprint double, for what GOLD - DAJOMES BARRERA Neisi Patricia - Ecuador would be an unprecedented women’s “double-double”. “I think I could have gone faster if I wasn’t pointing reigning 200m world champion to withdraw from SILVER - NYE Katherine Elizabeth - United States of America The victory also left hanging the question of how much and celebrating early,” she told AFP. “I wanted to show Monday’s opening rounds, there are pitfalls lurking BRONZE - FUENTES ZAVALA Aremi - Mexico Thompson-Herah has left in the tank — and whether there was more in store. Hopefully one day I can unleash throughout the field. —AFP