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Patrick Grzegorzewicz of Po- land celebrates as he crosses the fi nish line to win the 4 x 400-meter mixed relay at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. (AP) Sports Latest sports scores at — http://sports.arabtimesonline.com Dressel wins third gold with world record; France stun Japan Thompson-Herah breaks Jo record as Elbakh earns Qatar first Olympic gold

Medals Table

TOKYO, July 31: Olympic Games medals table on Saturday. G S B T China 21 13 12 46 Japan 17 5 8 30 United States 16 17 13 46 ROC 11 15 11 37 Australia 10 3 14 27 Great Britain 8 9 11 28 South Korea 5 4 7 16 France 4 9 6 19 Netherlands 4 7 5 16 New Zealand 4 3 3 10 Germany 3 4 10 17 Canada 3 4 5 12 Switzerland 3 3 4 10 Czech Republic 3 3 1 7 Croatia 3 1 2 6 Italy 2 8 14 24 Chinese 2 2 3 7 Hungary 2 2 2 6 Slovenia 2 1 1 4 Kosovo 2 0 0 2 Brazil 1 3 4 8 Georgia 1 3 1 5 Romania 1 3 0 4 Spain 1 2 2 5 Hong Kong 1 2 0 3 South Africa 1 2 0 3 Austria 1 1 3 5 Serbia 1 1 2 4 Jamaica 1 1 1 3 Norway 1 1 0 2 Poland 1 1 0 2 Slovakia 1 1 0 2 Sweden 1 1 0 2 Tunisia 1 1 0 2 Turkey 1 0 2 3 Estonia 1 0 1 2 Fiji 1 0 1 2 Ireland 1 0 1 2 Uzbekistan 1 0 1 2 Bermuda 1 0 0 1 Belarus 1 0 0 1 Ecuador 1 0 0 1 Ethiopia 1 0 0 1 Greece 1 0 0 1 Iran 1 0 0 1 Latvia 1 0 0 1 Philippines 1 0 0 1 Qatar 1 0 0 1 Thailand 1 0 0 1 Colombia 0 2 1 3 Dominican Republic 0 2 0 2 Venezuela 0 2 0 2 Indonesia 0 1 2 3 Mongolia 0 1 2 3 Belgium 0 1 1 2 Cuba 0 1 1 2 Denmark 0 1 1 2 San Marino 0 1 1 2 Uganda 0 1 1 2 Bulgaria 0 1 0 1 India 0 1 0 1 Jordan 0 1 0 1 Fares Ibrahim Elbakh of Qatar celebrates on the podium after winning the gold medal in the men’s 81kg weightlifting event, at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. (AP) North Macedonia 0 1 0 1 Turkmenistan 0 1 0 1 Ukraine 0 0 5 5 Kazakhstan 0 0 3 3 NZ beat France in sevens final, Poland surprise winners in 4x400 mixed relay Egypt 0 0 2 2 Israel 0 0 2 2 Mexico 0 0 2 2 TOKYO, July 31, (AP): have Allyson Felix in the lineup. He threw 68.90 meters on his sec- Argentina 0 0 1 1 The Dominican Republic finished with ond attempt at Tokyo’s Olympic Sta- Azerbaijan 0 0 1 1 Elaine Thompson-Herah Côte d’Ivoire 0 0 1 1 the silver medal and the Americans took dium to win after he was installed as Finland 0 0 1 1 broke Florence Griffith bronze. There was some thought Felix the favorite. Kuwait 0 0 1 1 Pettersson registered 67.39 on his Malaysia 0 0 1 1 Joyner’s 33-year-old Olym- might be on the track for the relay with Portugal 0 0 1 1 pic record in the women’s a chance to win her record 10th Olympic second-to-last heave to edge out Weis- Note: Table reads as gold, silver, medal. It will have to wait. shaidinger (67.07) in the battle for silver. bronze and total 100 meters, pointing at the Neither could catch Poland’s team Fares Elbakh of Qatar won the scoreboard even before of Karol Zalewski, Natalia Kacz- gold medal in the men’s 96-kilogram Yu Chen for gold in the men’s doubles crossing the line in 10.61 marek, Justyna Swiety-Ersetic and weightlifting category with a dominant final. Kajetan Duszynski. They finished in performance, earning the country’s The unseeded , after a shaky seconds Saturday to defend a time of 3 minutes, 9.87 seconds at first Olympic title. start, took the first game 21-18, with a her title and lead a Jamai- Olympic Stadium. Elbakh lifted 177 kilograms in the highly aggressive style, and then domi- can sweep of the medals. The Dominican Republic contin- snatch and 225 in the clean and jerk nated China in the second, 21-12. gent of Lidio Andres Feliz, Marileidy for a total of 402kg. He attempted a China had been hoping to re-establish Griffith Joyner set the old record Paulino, Anabel Medina Ventura and world record 232kg clean and jerk but its badminton dominance at Tokyo after of 10.62 at the 1988 Seoul Olym- Alexander Ogando wound up 0.34 sec- couldn’t make the lift. a spotty performance at the Rio Games. pics. onds behind. Keydomar Vallenilla took second China swept all five badminton gold Thompson-Herah beat her top rival, The American squad was made up for Venezuela with a total 387kg de- medals at the 2012 London Games. Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, by .13 sec- of Trevor Stewart, Kendall Ellis, Kay- spite having his last lift ruled out for Earlier Saturday, Malaysia’s Aaron onds. Shericka Jackson, who moved lin Whitney and Vernon Norwood. dropping the bar before he got the sig- Elaine Thompson-Herah of Jamaica wins the women’s 100-meter final at Chia and Wooi to the shorter sprints for the Tokyo They were .01 seconds behind the Do- nal to do so. the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. (AP) Yik Soh won Olympics, won bronze in 10.76. minicans. Vallenilla lifted the same total as tralian, Emily Seebohm, claiming the with a narrow victory over fellow light- bronze in men’s Daniel Stahl gave Sweden their first third-place Anton Pliesnoi of Georgia bronze in 2:06.17. weight Tsukasa Yoshida. The 4:1 margin doubles, beating Olympic gold in men’s discus. Simon but was ranked above Pliesnoi because Indonesian veter- OLYMPICS he made his best clean and jerk lift ear- Katie Ledecky closed out her Tokyo of victory meant pound-for-pound judo Pettersson took silver in a Swedish Olympics with another gold medal, superstar Shohei Ono didn’t even get to ans Mohammad 1-2. Austria’s Lukas Weisshaidinger lier in the competition. Ahsan and Hen- No Olympic champion had bro- Lyu Xiaojun won gold in the men’s becoming the first female swimmer compete in the final, since he was sched- claimed the bronze. to capture six individual gold med- uled for the sixth bout. dra Setiawan, ken 10.7 since Flo Jo back in the day. They were the first two medals Swe- 81-kilogram weightlifting category 2-1. Thompson-Herah wasn’t sure she after Italian rival Antonino Pizzolato als in her career with a victory in the Germany and Israel won the bronze den has won in the men’s Olympic dis- 800-meter freestyle. medals from the 12-team field. The Russian would either as she approached the fin- cus since Ricky Bruch’s bronze at the missed with a shot at the clean and jerk Olympic Com- ish. But “I knew that I won,” she said. world record. Australian rival Ariarne Tit- New Zealand beat France 26-12 to 1972 Munich Games. Stahl adds the mus claimed the silver in 8:13.83. win the women’s rugby sevens title at mittee won the “The pointing, I don’t know what it Olympic title to his world champion- Lyu lifted 170kg in the snatch and women’s team Dressel means. To show that I was clear,” she 204 in the clean and jerk for a total The bronze went to Italy’s Simona the Tokyo Olympics. ships gold from 2019. Quadarella in 8:18.35. It was a gold medal five years in the saber fencing after beating France 45-41 said. 374. That was 7kg more than Zacarias in the final. This was the first Jamaican sweep of Bonnat of the Dominican Republic in Ledecky finished the Tokyo Games making for a New Zealand lineup that with two golds, two silvers and a fifth- lost the 2016 final to Australia when The Russian athletes were 20-14 down the medals since the women did it at the second and 9kg ahead of Pizzolato, after four of the nine bouts in the final be- 2008 Beijing Games - a feat somewhat who won bronze. Lyu celebrated his place finish in the 200 free. She lost rugby sevens made its Olympic debut her first two individual matchups with in Rio de Janeiro. fore Olga Nikitina turned it around by overshadowed that week by the record- second career Olympic gold by hoist- winning the fifth bout 11-3 over Char- setting performance by Usain Bolt. ing his coach into the air. Titmus, but finally beat her in the 800. The French, unbeaten in five games to Britain claimed swimming gold in reach the final, had to settle for silver. lotte Lembach. But really, there is no overlooking the American Caeleb Dressel won Sofya Velikaya won her fifth career Jamaican women, who actually have a his third gold medal of the Tokyo the new 4x100m mixed medley re- Fiji beat Britain 21-12 to win bronze, lay with a world record of 3 minutes, with Alowesi Nakoci scoring two tries Olympic medal by retaining the title she longer history of sprint success than the Olympics with a world record in the won with the Russian team in 2016. men in the island country. Fraser-Pryce 100-meter butterfly. 37.58 seconds. and making two try-saving tackles. It The silver went to China in 3:38.86, was the first Olympic medals ever for South Korea beat Italy 45-42 for the finished on top in that 2008 race, and Dressel led right from the start and bronze. held off Hungary’s Kristof Milak to while Australia took the bronze in Fijian women. completed her Olympic set in the 100, China won their 20th gold medal win in 49.45 seconds, breaking the 3:38.95. The relay is a new event Mete Gazoz of Turkey won the where she now has two golds (2008, of the Tokyo Olympics as Lu Yunx- mark of 49.50 that he set two years ago where teams of two women and two men’s individual archery title at the 2012), a silver and a bronze (2016). iu edged Charlie Picon of France in Fraser-Pryce and Thompson-Herah at the 2019 world championships. men compete. Tokyo Games. Milak, winner of the 200-meter but- The American swimmers were fifth, It was the first gold medal won by a women’s windsurfing. Lu finished the are headed for a possible rematch in competition with 36 points to Picon’s the 200, where Thompson-Herah is terfly, earned the silver with a blister- ending Caeleb Dressel’s bid to win six country other than South Korea, which 38. Emma Wilson of Britain took the also the defending champion. ing 49.68. The bronze went to Switzer- gold medals at the Tokyo Olympics. went 4 for 5 in archery over the Olym- This had been shaping up as a fast land’s Noe Ponti. France beat Japan to win gold in the pics. Gazoz beat Mauro Nespoli of Italy bronze in sailing. Kiran Badloe won the Netherlands’ race for days, if not months. In June, Taiwan’s Wang Chi-Lin and Lee Kaylee McKeown of Australia first-ever Olympic judo mixed team in the final by a 6-4 score. He earned Tur- Fraser-Pryce ran the fourth-fastest completed a sweep of the backstroke event, surprising the powerhouse host key its first Olympic medal in archery. third straight gold medal in windsurf- Yang compete against China’s Li ing RS:X. Thomas Goyard of France time in history at 10.63 seconds. Jun Hui and Liu Yu Chen during events with a victory in the 200-meter nation with four wins in the final five Takaharu Furukawa of Japan won the Poland were a surprise winners in butterfly. Her winning time was 2 min- bouts. bronze medal. Furukawa also earned a earned silver and Bi Kun of China was their men’s doubles gold medal third, becoming the first male athlete the Olympic debut of the 4x400 mixed Badminton match at the 2020 Sum- utes, 4.68 seconds. Clarisse Agbegnenou, Alex Clerget bronze in the men’s team event. relay event, holding off a late charge mer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. The silver went to Canada’s Kylie and Teddy Riner all won their bouts be- Taiwan’s Lee Yang and Wang Chi- from China to medal in sailing. from an American team that didn’t (AP) Masse in 2:05.42, with another Aus- fore Sarah Leonie Cysique clinched it Lin swept China’s Li Jun Hui and Liu Medalists — See Page 15

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