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Emmanuel Korir, of Kenya, races to win the gold medal ahead of Ferguson Rotich, of Kenya, silver, and Patryk Do- bek, of , bronze, in the fi nal of the men’s 800-meter at the 2020 Summer Olym- pics in , Japan. (AP) Sports Latest sports scores at — http://sports.arabtimesonline.com DE GRASSE FINALLY GETS HIS GOLD, KORIR LEADS KENYAN ONE-TWO FINISH Syrian weightlifter wins bronze

Talakhadze breaks records; Yosozumi solidifies Japan dominance as Romashina claims record title

TOKYO, Aug 4, (AP): Man Asaad of Syria took the bronze with a total 424kg for his country’s first med- al since its civil war began a decade ago. Syria’s last Olympic medal in any sport was a boxing bronze in 2004. “The medal means a lot to me and a lot to my country, Syria,” Asaad said through an interpreter. Lasha Talakhadze pumped every- one up with three world records on the final day of Olympic competition in weightlifting. The defending champion from lifted 223 kilograms in the snatch and 265kg in the clean and jerk for a total 488kg on Wednesday. All three figures broke his own world re- cords in the over-109kg men’s super- heavyweight category. Ali Davoudi of was left in sec- ond place by the vast margin of 47kg. Even Talakhadze’s starting lifts were more than anyone else attempt- ed, which meant he had to lift three times back-to-back in each half of the competition. Talakhadze immediately pledged to return for a third Olympic gold in 2024, and his feat in Tokyo raised the question of whether he could be- come the first man to lift the once undreamed-of total of 500kg.

OLYMPICS

Perhaps the world’s next sprint star wasn’t so hard to find after all. He’s Andre De Grasse, the Cana- dian who ran his first sprint in baggy basketball shorts and borrowed spikes, Man Asaad of Syria competes in the men’s +109kg weightlifting event, at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Aug 4, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. Inset: From (left), silver medalist Alii Davoudi of Iran, gold and now has an Olympic gold medal medalist Lasha Talakhadze of Georgia and bronze medalist Man Asaad of Syria celebrate on the podium. (AP) in the 200 meters. De Grasse powered past a pair of Italy broke their own world record to all in the event. the gold medal. Americans - Kenny Bednarek and the Medals Table win the gold medal in men’s team pur- Just six of the 30 finalists completed Anton Dahlberg and Fredrik Berg- favorite, Noah Lyles - to finish in in suit cycling at the Tokyo Olympics. their runs without penalty, and Ma- strom of Sweden won the silver a national record time of 19.62 sec- The team of Simone Consonni, her, riding Explosion, had the fastest medal and ’s Nicolas Rodriguez onds and take one of the titles that Us- TOKYO, Aug 4: medals table on Filippo Ganna, Francesco Lamon and time out of all of them in the jump-off Garcia-Paz and Jordi Xammar took ain Bolt had owned for the last three Wednesday. Jonathan Milan stopped the clock in round at 37.85. bronze. Olympics. G S B T 3:42.032 to edge world champion Peder Fredricson of Sweden earned Britain won gold in the two-person It ends a string of close calls for the 32 22 16 70 United States 25 31 23 79 Denmark in a dramatic final at the silver for the second straight games dinghy sailing event. 26-year-old and fills out a medal col- Japan 21 7 12 40 Izu Velodrome. Denmark finished in with a jump-off time of 38.02 seconds. Hannah Mills became the first Brit- lection that was only missing a gold. Great Britain 15 18 15 48 Australia 15 4 17 36 3:42.203. Maikel van der Vleuten of the Nether- ish woman to win at least three Olym- De Grasse won bronze four nights ROC 14 21 18 53 The Italians led through the first half lands won bronze at 38.90. pic medals in sailing. She and Eilidh earlier in the 100 to go with the third- Germany 8 8 16 32 of the 4,000-meter race, then watched Ana Marcela Cunha of won McIntyre won at Enoshima Yacht place medal he took in , 6 10 9 25 Italy 6 9 15 30 as the Danish team of Lasse Nor- the women’s 10-kilometer marathon Harbor. Britain also won in Rio in as well. Netherlands 6 8 9 23 man Hansen, Niklas Larsen, Frederik 2016. Bednarek ran a personal best 19.68 6 4 9 19 New Zealand 6 4 5 15 Madsen and Rasmus Pedersen pulled event. Agnieszka Skrzypulec and Jolanta seconds and 2019 world champion Cuba 5 3 4 12 ahead. Cunha Ogar of Poland won silver. Ogar, 39, Noah Lyles took bronze in 19.74. 4 5 3 12 Canada 4 4 7 15 Over the last five laps, the Italians touched first becomes the oldest woman to win an American Sydney McLaughlin Brazil 4 3 8 15 wiped out a deficit of nearly a half- in 1 hour, 59 Olympic medal in sailing. broke her own world record to win the Andre De Grasse, of Canada, cel- ebrates after winning the final of the Czech Republic 4 3 1 8 second to win the gold medal. minutes, 30.8 Camille Lecointre and Aloise Re- women’s 400-meter hurdles in 51.46 Switzerland 3 4 5 12 men’s 200-meters at the 2020 Sum- Poland 3 3 4 10 Australia, the silver medalist in Rio, seconds on tornaz of France won bronze. seconds. She edged out Dalilah Mu- mer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. (AP) 3 3 2 8 took the bronze. Wednesday Japan’s Yukako Kawai held on to hammad, who won silver to make it a Sweden 2 5 0 7 Chinese Taipei 2 4 5 11 Arlen López won his second morning, finish- defeat Kyrgyzstan’s Aisuluu Tyny- U.S. 1-2 finish. ning mark. Georgia 2 4 1 7 Olympic boxing gold medal for Cuba, ing nine-tenths bekova 4-3 in the women’s freestyle McLaughlin set the previous world He was a bronze medalist at the Denmark 2 2 3 7 62-kilogram final. 2 2 1 5 beating Britain’s Benjamin Whittaker of a second record of 51.90 seconds in June. Mu- 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro and in the light heavyweight final at the ahead of de- Tynybekova, the No. 1 seed, had hammad, who set the world record Jamaica 2 1 2 5 won bronze medals at three world Iran 2 1 1 4 Kokugikan Arena. Romashina fending cham- won her first three matches by a com- twice in 2019 and won the world Slovenia 2 1 1 4 championships. Ecuador 2 1 0 3 López outclassed the defense-mind- pion Sharon van bined score of 24-0. championship gold medal that year, Eivind Henriksen of Norway set a Greece 2 0 1 3 ed Whittaker to win the fight on four of Rouwendaal of the Netherlands. It was Japan’s first gold finished in 51.58. national record with a 81.58 throw in 2 0 1 3 Kosovo 2 0 0 2 the five judges’ scorecards. Cuba had Van Rouwendaal took silver in medal at these Olympics. Femke Bol of the Netherlands took the fifth round and finished with the Qatar 2 0 0 2 never won gold at light heavyweight 1:59.31.7. Kawai’s sister, Risako Kawai, will bronze in 52.03. silver medal. Spain 1 4 5 10 in its decorated Olympic boxing his- Kareena Lee of Australia earned wrestle for the second Olympic gold Emmanuel Korir led a Kenyan one- 1 3 0 4 Four-time world champion Pawel Venezuela 1 3 0 4 tory until Julio Cesar La Cruz claimed bronze in 1:59.32.5. of her career on Thursday in the 57- two finish in the 800 meters. Fajdek of Poland took bronze with a 1 2 8 11 the title in Rio de Janeiro. Cunha won her first medal in her kg class. Korir pushed his way past Aus- mark of 81.53. Kenya 1 2 2 5 Hong Kong 1 2 0 3 Russian athlete Imam Khataev and third Olympics. She was 10th five In the bronze medal matches, tralia’s Peter Bol on the last turn Sakura Yosozumi of Japan won South Africa 1 2 0 3 Cuban-born Loren Alfonso of Azer- years ago in Rio de Janeiro and fifth in Ukraine’s Iryna Koliadenko defeated and surged home to win in 1 min- the inaugural Olympic women’s park Slovakia 1 2 0 3 baijan won light heavyweight bronze the 2008 Beijing Games. ’s Anastasija Grigorjeva 3-1 ute, 45.06 seconds. It was Kenya’s 1 1 4 6 event in skateboarding, solidifying Ja- Austria 1 1 3 5 medals. Mat Belcher and Will Ryan of Aus- and ’s Taybe Mustafa Yu- fourth straight victory in the 800 at pan’s dominance of the sport making Indonesia 1 1 3 5 Ben Maher earned Britain their sec- tralia have won the two-person dinghy sein beat the Russian Olympic Com- the Olympics. its Olympic debut. Belgium 1 1 1 3 Ethiopia 1 1 1 3 ond straight gold in equestrian indi- event at the Tokyo Olympics. mittee’s Liubov Ovcharova 10-0 in a Teammate Ferguson Rotich took The silver went to Kokona Hiraki, Uganda 1 1 1 3 vidual jumping by besting five riders Belcher won gold at the London match that lasted 56 seconds silver with a late kick to overtake Po- who at 12 became Japan’s youngest Philippines 1 1 0 2 in a jump off. Olympics in 2012 in the 470 class and Iran’s Mohammadreza Geraei land’s Patryk Dobek, who held on for Tunisia 1 1 0 2 Olympic medalist. 1 0 5 6 Maher follows Nick Skelton, who combined with Ryan to win the sil- beat Ukraine’s Parviz Nasibov 9-1 to bronze ahead of Bol. Britain’s Sky Brown prevented a Ireland 1 0 2 3 retired shortly after winning gold at ver medal at Rio de Janeiro in 2016. win gold in the men’s Greco-Roman Kenya has claimed this title at every 1 0 2 3 Japanese medal sweep, taking the 1 0 1 2 the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games, to Belcher and Ryan only had to finish 67-kilogram class. Olympics since Beijing 2008. bronze. 1 0 1 2 give the country its second gold over- the last race without penalty to clinch Germany’s Frank Staebler defeated Peruth Chemutai of Uganda made Yosozumi won with a trick-filled Fiji 1 0 1 2 Latvia 1 0 1 2 Georgia’s Ramaz Zoidze 5-4 in one of her move on the last lap and pulled first run that scored 60.09, the only Bermuda 1 0 0 1 the bronze medal matches. Staebler away for the win in the women’s score to break 60 points in the event at Morocco 1 0 0 1 had previously announced he would 3,000-meter steeplechase final. Puerto Rico 1 0 0 1 the Ariake Urban Sports Park. 1 0 0 1 retire after the Olympics. The 32-year- Chemutai set a new national record ’s Armenia 0 2 1 3 old is a three-time world champion with her time of 9 minutes, 1.45 sec- claimed her record sixth Olympic gold Colombia 0 2 1 3 Dominican Rep 0 2 1 3 who ended his career by winning his onds. American Courtney Frerichs medal in artistic swimming, teaming Kyrgyzstan 0 2 1 3 first Olympic medal. took off from the pack with around 2 with to win India 0 1 2 3 Egypt’s Mohamed Ibrahim Elsayed Mongolia 0 1 2 3 1/2 laps to go. She was chased down the duet. Portugal 0 1 2 3 defeated Russian Olympic Commit- by Chemutai but held on down the The Russians were heavy favor- Bulgaria 0 1 1 2 tee’s Artem Surkov in the other bronze stretch for silver. Hyvin Kiyeng of ites in a sport they have dominated Nigeria 0 1 1 2 San Marino 0 1 1 2 medal match. Kenya was third. for more than two decades. Their last Jordan 0 1 0 1 Ukraine’s Zhan Beleniuk beat Hun- Emma Coburn of the United States Olympic loss in the sport formerly North Macedonia 0 1 0 1 Namibia 0 1 0 1 gary’s Viktor Lorincz 5-1 in the men’s was disqualified for what was listed as known as 0 1 0 1 Greco-Roman 87 kilogram final. a lane infringement after finishing be- came at the 1996 Atlanta Games. 0 0 4 4 Beleniuk, the No. 2 seed, was an hind the field. She earned bronze at the 0 0 3 3 The Russian pair received marks Egypt 0 0 3 3 Olympic silver medalist in 2016. 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games. of 98.8000 for their free routine for a Mexico 0 0 3 3 Lorincz was the No. 1 seed. Wojciech Nowicki of Poland finally combined score of 195.9079. Argentina 0 0 1 1 Côte d’Ivoire 0 0 1 1 In bronze medal matches, Germany’s has a gold medal after winning the The silver went to China’s 0 0 1 1 Denis Kudla defeated Egypt’s Mo- men’s hammer throw. Huang Xuechen and Sun Wenyan Ghana 0 0 1 1 hamed Metwally and Serbia’s Zurabi Kuwait 0 0 1 1 The 32-year-old Nowicki led from at 192.4499, while Ukraine’s Marta 0 0 1 1 Datunashvili beat Croatia’s Ivan Huk- the first round and improved with each Fiedina and Anastasiya Savchuk Syria 0 0 1 1 Ahmed Tijan, of Qatar, dives for the ball during a men’s beach volleyball lek. of his first three attempts to reach a beat out Japan for the bronze with Note: Table reads as gold, silver, bronze and total quarterfinal match against Italy at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, personal best 82.52 meters, the win- 189.4620. Japan. Qatar beat Italy 21-17, 23-21. (AP) Medalists — See Page 15

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