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Daiki Hashimoto of Japan fi nishes on the parallel bars during the artistic gymnastics men’s all-around fi nal at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. (AP) Sports Latest sports scores at — http://sports.arabtimesonline.com FIJI CLINCH BACK-TO-BACK OLY TITLES AS SHI BREAKS OWN RECORD Daiki crowned new gymnastics king

Kristof Milak of Hungary swims in a men’s 200-meter butterfl y fi nal at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. (AP) Boucheron and Androdias quickly Milak dominates 200-meter butterfl y Medals Table reeled in the Dutch with a powerful push that was good enough to hold off a late charge at the fi nish line. China TOKYO, July 28, (AP): Zhiyu Liu and Liang Zhang fi nished Japanese teenager Daiki TOKYO, July 28: Olympic Games med- third for bronze. als table on Wednesday. Australia’s women’s four set a new Hashimoto won a gold G S B T Japan 13 4 5 22 Olympic-best time to win the gold medal in men’s all-around China 12 6 9 27 medal in windy conditions at Tokyo’s at Tokyo Olympic Games United States 11 11 9 31 Sea Forest Waterway. ROC 7 10 6 23 The Australian boat led at each on Wednesday. Australia 6 1 9 16 Great Britain 5 6 5 16 marker but had to fi ght off the Nether- The 19-year-old Hashimoto used South Korea 4 2 5 11 lands over the last 50 meters to win in a thrilling high bar routine dur- Germany 3 2 5 10 6 minutes, 15.37 seconds, just .34 sec- France 3 2 3 8 ing the fi nal rotation to edge Xiao Netherlands 2 6 3 11 onds ahead of the Dutch boat. Ireland Ruoteng of China and reigning Canada 2 3 4 9 took bronze more than 5 seconds back. world champion Nikita Nagornyy. Hungary 2 1 2 5 The Australian men’s four charged Slovenia 2 1 1 4 to victory moments after the Aussie Hashimoto’s all-around total of Kosovo 2 0 0 2 88.465 points included a 14.933 on Italy 1 6 8 15 Fiji players and team staff poses with their gold medals and a national women claimed their gold. high bar. That was good enough for Switzerland 1 3 2 6 fl ag, after winning men’s rugby sevens at the 2020 Summer Olympics Australia had bolted to the front by Chinese Taipei 1 2 3 6 the 500-meter mark and never were him to surge past Xiao and into the Brazil 1 2 2 5 in Tokyo, Japan. (AP) top spot. The gold is the third straight Georgia 1 2 0 3 challenged for the lead to reach in the Olympic title for the Japanese gym- Romania 1 2 0 3 fi nish line. Australia’s time of 5 min- nast. Kohei Uchimura won in 2012 and Serbia 1 1 2 4 utes, 42.76 set a new Olympic record. 2016. Primoz Roglic of Slovenia competes Austria 1 1 1 3 Romania fought a late surge by Italy during the men’s cycling individual Hong Kong 1 1 0 2 The win was also a bit of redemption Tunisia 1 1 0 2 Kuwaiti trap shooters to claim the silver medal. Italy won for Hashimoto. He thought his high bar time trial at the 2020 Summer Olym- Croatia 1 0 1 2 bronze. set during the team fi nal lifted Japan to pics in Oyama, Japan. (AP) Estonia 1 0 1 2 The Netherlands set a new world re- Uzbekistan 1 0 1 2 cord in men’s quadruple sculls with a gold but Nagornyy’s rock-solid fl oor but for women this year. Bermuda 1 0 0 1 keep their hopes alive sprint over the fi nal 500 meters to win exercise did just enough to give the About an hour after fi nishing fi fth in Ecuador 1 0 0 1 team representing the Russian Olympic the 200-meter freestyle, Ledecky held Fiji 1 0 0 1 the gold medal. Iran 1 0 0 1 TOKYO, July 28, (KUNA): Ku- Fatima Hayat confirmed. Their time of 5 minutes, 32.03 sec- Committee the title. off teammate Erica Sullivan to win the Latvia 1 0 0 1 Fiji beat New Zealand 27-12 to suc- metric mile in 15 minutes, 37.34 sec- Norway 1 0 0 1 waiti shooters Abdurrahman Al- Meanwhile, Kuwaiti athletes onds beat the previous mark of 5:32.26 cessfully defend the title they won Philippines 1 0 0 1 Faihan finished the first day of the Yaqoub Al-Yoha and Modhawi set by Ukraine at the 2014 world cham- onds. Thailand 1 0 0 1 when rugby sevens made its Olympic Sullivan claimed the silver in Tokyo Olympics men’s trap quali- Al-Shammeri continued their pionships. Spain 0 2 1 3 The Dutch debut at Rio de Janeiro in 2016. 15:41.41, while Germany’s Sarah New Zealand 0 2 1 3 fication in top position with 74 tar- trainings at the Olympic Stadium, The gold in Rio was Fiji’s fi rst Kohler grabbed the bronze in 15:42.91. South Africa 0 2 0 2 gets out of 75 on Wednesday. in preparation for their event on boat was fourth Olympic medal in any sport. Now the Indonesia 0 1 2 3 Meanwhile, Talal Al-Rashidi July 30th, she indicated. after the fi rst Britain won the men’s 4x200-meter Mongolia 0 1 2 3 Pacifi c island nation have two. freestyle relay at the Olympics for the was 18th, hitting 72 targets. Hayat stressed the keenness of 500 meters but Belgium 0 1 1 2 had closed to The silver medal was a vast im- fi rst time since 1908, but just missed a Czech Republic 0 1 1 2 At Asaka Shooting Range, Al- the Committee to help the atletes second by the provement for New Zealand, which world record. Bulgaria 0 1 0 1 Faihan posted scores of 24, 25 and achieve their desired goals. Colombia 0 1 0 1 next marker. A missed the podium in 2016. Argentina With a powerhouse group that in- 25, and Al-Rashidi marked 24, 24 Head of the Kuwaiti Olympic beat 2016 fi nalists Britain 17-12 for the Denmark 0 1 0 1 late push over- cluded the 1-2 fi nishers in the 200 free- India 0 1 0 1 and 24 in the three rounds of Day 1 Committee Sheikh Fahad Nasser took Great Brit- bronze. style, Britain blew away the fi eld in 6 Jordan 0 1 0 1 qualification , in which 29 shooters Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, and ain for the lead. Shi Zhiyong of China set a world re- minutes, 58.58 seconds. That was just North Macedonia 0 1 0 1 competed. members of the Board of Directors cord and won his second gold medal in Poland 0 1 0 1 Great Britain off the world record set by the Ameri- Meanwhile ,Kuwaiti swim- visited the players Yaqoub Al- weightlifting in the men’s 73-kilogram Turkmenistan 0 1 0 1 then held off cans at the 2009 world championships. Venezuela 0 1 0 1 mer Abbas Qali will compete in Yoha and Madhawi Al-Shammari Shi category. a late charge The 200-meter gold medalist, Tom Kazakhstan 0 0 3 3 100m Butterfly race on Thursday during their training session. Shi lifted 166 kilograms in the Ukraine 0 0 3 3 ,member of the Board of Directors Sheikh Fahad urged them to in- by Australia to win silver. Australia’s snatch and 198 in the clean and jerk for Dean, led off for the British. James Egypt 0 0 2 2 bronze was the country’s third medal of Guy and Matthew Richards took the Mexico 0 0 2 2 at Kuwait Olympics Committee tensify their training for best results. a total 364kg. That was one kilogram Turkey 0 0 2 2 the day after winning gold in men’s and more than his previous record. middle legs before 200-meter silver women’s four. medalist Duncan Scott swam the an- Argentina 0 0 1 1 Côte d’Ivoire 0 0 1 1 China smashed the world record in chor leg. It was the fi rst British gold in Cuba 0 0 1 1 Jessica von Bredow-Werndl of Ger- archery. women’s quadruple sculls to win gold. OLYMPICS the event since it made its debut at the Ireland 0 0 1 1 many unseated Charlotte Dujardin of No. 1-ranked sabre fencer Oh San- The Chinese boat fi nished in 6 min- fi rst London Games. Israel 0 0 1 1 Britain for gold in the individual dres- Kuwait 0 0 1 1 guk carved out a big lead for South utes, 0.13 seconds and shaved nearly Julio Mayora of Venezuela took Russia claimed the silver in 7:01.81, Note: Table reads as gold, silver, bronze sage competition. Korea with a 5-0 win over Italy’s Aldo two seconds off the previous mark set silver and Rahmat Erwin Abdullah of while Australia took the bronze in and total German teammate Isabell Werth fi n- Montano in the second bout. His team- by the Netherlands in 2014. The race Indonesia took bronze. 7:01.84. ished second with a score of 89.657%. mates Gu Bongil, Kim Junghwan and was never close. Poland won silver The U.S. team of Stefanie Dolson, She trailed Von Bredow-Werndl’s Kim Junho went on to extend the ad- Shi won gold at the 2016 Rio de Ja- earn the silver medal and van Vleu- more than 6 seconds behind the Chi- neiro Games in what was then the 69kg Allisha Gray, Kelsey Plum and Jackie 91.732% in her Olympic debut. Dujar- vantage. nese. Australia won bronze for that Young won the fi rst women’s gold ten’s teammate Anna van der Breggen din came in third at 88.543% after win- South Korea retained the title it won category before the classes were reor- earned bronze. country’s fourth medal of the day. ganized. medal in the new Olympic sport of ning the title in 2012 and 2016. in 2012. Team saber was off the Olym- Primoz Roglic capped an incredible Chizuru Arai won Japan’s sixth gold Kristof Milak of Hungary romped 3-on-3 basketball. Von Bredow-Werndl also helped pic program for the last Games in Rio medal in judo at the Tokyo Olympics. to a dominating victory in the men’s Plum scored all fi ve of her points month for Slovenian cycling by win- Germany win the team competition de Janeiro in 2016. ning the Olympic time trial. He added a She beat Austria’s Michaela Polleres in 200-meter butterfl y at the Tokyo early to help the Americans take the Tuesday for the country’s ninth title in It was South Korea’s fourth gold the fi nal of the women’s 70-kilogram Aquatics Centre. lead and they held on for an 18-15 win gold medal to the bronze won by Tour 10 Olympics. She beat Werth for the medal in Tokyo. The other three were de France champion Tadej Pogecar in middleweight division. Arai reached her Milak won the the gold by about over the team representing the Russian best individual score then as well. won in the team archery competitions. fi rst Olympic fi nal with three ippon vic- two body lengths, backing up his sta- Olympic Committee. the road race. Werth earned her equestrian-record Hungary took its third fencing medal Roglic’s closest rival was Dutch tories. She survived a semifi nal bout that tus as one of the biggest favorites at Plum led all scorers in this tourna- 12th medal but again came up short of in Tokyo with a 45-40 win over Ger- lasted nearly 17 minutes against Russian the Olympic pool. He touched in 1 ment. She fi nished with 55 points over time trial specialist Tom Dumoulin, the podium’s top spot. The longtime many for the bronze medal. who fi nished more than a minute be- athlete Madina Taimazova. The two- minute, 51.25 seconds -- some 2 1/2 the course of the fi ve-day event in German rider has fi ve silver medals in Romania’s Ancuta Bodnar and Si- time world champion then claimed gold hind to win his second consecutive seconds ahead of the silver medalist, which the U.S. played nine games and the individual competition but only one mona Radis won the fi rst rowing gold over Polleres with an early waza ari at Japan’s Tomoru Honda, who fi nished only lost one. Olympic silver medal. Rohan Dennis gold from the the 1996 Atlanta Games. medal of the Tokyo Games, in wom- the Budokan. Taimazova and the Neth- in 1:53.73. China beat France 16-14 for the of Australia claimed the bronze medal. South Korea beat Italy 45-26 to win en’s double sculls. They bolted from erlands’ Sanne van Dijke won bronze. The bronze went to Italy’s Federico bronze medal and Serbia defeated Bel- The prerace favorite, Italian time the men’s team saber fencing fi nal. It’s the start and never let up in a dominat- Lasha Bekauri of Georgia won an Burdisso in 1:54.45. gium 21-10 in the men’s third-place trial champ Filippo Ganna, faded over the South Koreans’ fi rst gold of the ing performance. The rowing medal Olympic gold medal in judo in the Ariarne Titmus gave the Australian game. the fi nal kilometers and fi nished fi fth. Tokyo Olympics in a sport other than events had been delayed for a day be- 90-kilogram middleweight division by women their third individual swim- Latvia’s Karlis Lasmanis drained a cause of bad weather forecasts amid a beating Eduard Trippel of Germany in ming gold with a victory in the 200-me- shot from behind the arc to close the tropical storm. the fi nal. ter freestyle. Titmus set an Olympic re- game and seal a gold-medal-winning Once back on the water, the Roma- The 21-year-old Bekauri capped his cord of 1 minute, 53.50 seconds. 21-18 victory over the Russians in the nians were never challenged and led by impressive rise to judo’s elite levels Siobhan Bernadette Haughey of debut of 3-on-3 basketball at the Olym- two boat lengths with just 500 meters with a waza ari on Trippel early in the Hong Kong won silver and Penny pics. to go. Bodnar and Radis are both just fi nal bout at the Budokan. He held on to Oleksiak of Canada won bronze. Lasmanis spotted up and swished the 22. New Zealand’s Brooke Donohue win the fourth-ever gold medal in judo American Katie Ledecky fi nished fi fth. shot and then was dogpiled by his three and Hannah Osborne won silver and for Georgia. Japanese swimmer Yui Ohashi Latvian teammates. They will bring the Dutch boat of Roos de Jong and Japan failed to win a gold medal in swept the women’s individual medley home the country’s fi rst medal of the Lisa Scheenaard won bronze. a men’s weight category for the fi rst at the Tokyo Olympics. Tokyo Games. The French team of Hugo Boucheron time in Tokyo when Krisztián Tóth of She rallied to win the 200-me- Annemiek van Vleuten roared to an and Matthieu Androdias held off a late Hungary knocked off Shoichiro Mukai ter medley, beating Americans Alex emphatic victory in the women’s time charge from the Netherlands over the by ippon 2:55 into golden score during Walsh and Kate Douglass. Ohashi had trial at the Tokyo Olympics. fi nal 50 meters to win the men’s dou- their round of 16 bout. The powerhouse previously won the 400-meter individ- The Dutch rider led by more than ble sculls by 0.2 seconds in Olympic Japanese team had won the fi rst four ual medley. six seconds at the fi rst time check, then record time of 6 minutes, 33 seconds. men’s gold medals in Tokyo. The winning time was 2 minutes, pushed it to an astonishing 28 seconds China made a strong move out of Trippel beat Tóth in the quarterfi nals 8.52 seconds. Walsh took the silver in before she put the hammer down to fi n- the start before falling back even with and went on to secure his fi rst Olympic 2:08.65, while the bronze went to Dou- ish in 30 minutes, 13.49 seconds at Fuji the French and the Netherlands. The medal. Tóth and Davlat Bobonov of glass in 2:09.04. International Speedway. Ziad Elsissy of Egypt, (left), celebrates after defeating Kaito Streets of Ja- Dutch boat of Melvin Twellarr and Stef Uzbekistan won bronze. Katie Ledecky won the 1,500-meter Marlen Reusser of Switzerland fi n- pan in the men’s Sabre team fi nal at the 2020 Summer Olympics, in Chiba, Broenink briefl y held the lead at 1,500 freestyle, which made its Olympic de- ished more than 56 seconds back to Japan. (AP) meters. Medalists: — See Page 15

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