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China’s Chen Meng com- petes against countrywoman Sun Yingsha during the gold medal match of the table tennis women’s singles at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. (AP) Sports Latest sports scores at — http://sports.arabtimesonline.com BIG DAY FOR DRESSEL, CHINESE IN POOL; FOX MAKES OLY HISTORY Lee keeps American streak alive Wolf wins Japan’s 8th gold in judo

TOKYO, July 29, (AP): An American fi nished atop Medals Table the podium in the women’s Olympic gymnastics all- around, just like always. TOKYO, July 29: Olympic Games Sunisa Lee became the fi fth medals table on Thursday. straight American woman to claim G S B T China 15 7 9 31 the Olympic title on Thursday, Japan 15 4 6 25 edging Rebeca Andrade of Brazil United States 14 14 10 38 in an entertaining and hotly con- ROC 8 11 9 28 tested fi nal while defending cham- Australia 8 2 10 20 Great Britain 5 7 6 18 pion Simone Biles watched from South Korea 4 3 5 12 the stands. France 3 5 3 11 Lee’s total of 57.433 points was Germany 3 3 7 13 just enough to top Andrade, who Italy 2 7 10 19 earned the fi rst gymnastics all-around Netherlands 2 7 4 13 medal by a Latin American athlete but Canada 2 3 5 10 Hungary 2 1 2 5 missed out on gold when she stepped Slovenia 2 1 1 4 out of bounds twice during her fl oor Croatia 2 0 1 3 routine. Russian Kosovo 2 0 0 2 gymnast Angelina Brazil 1 3 3 7 Melnikova earned Switzerland 1 3 2 6 bronze two days Romania 1 3 0 4 after leading ROC Chinese Taipei 1 2 3 6 Czech Republic 1 2 1 4 to gold in the team New Zealand 1 2 1 4 fi nal. Georgia 1 2 0 3 Lee and the Serbia 1 1 2 4 Americans earned Austria 1 1 1 3 a silver in that Hong Kong 1 1 0 2 event, one in Tunisia 1 1 0 2 which Biles with- Estonia 1 0 1 2 Dressel drew after one Ireland 1 0 1 2 Uzbekistan 1 0 1 2 rotation when she Bermuda 1 0 0 1 decided she was not mentally prepared Ecuador 1 0 0 1 to compete. Fiji 1 0 0 1 Biles opted to pull out of the all- Iran 1 0 0 1 around fi nal, too, leading to the jarring Latvia 1 0 0 1 sight of the gymnast considered the Norway 1 0 0 1 greatest of all-time watching the big- Philippines 1 0 0 1 Slovakia 1 0 0 1 gest meet in fi ve years from the stands Thailand 1 0 0 1 Spain’s Sergio Rodriguez (6) drives to the basket against Argentina’s Gabriel Deck (14) during a men’s basketball preliminary round game at the 2020 alongside teammates Grace McCal- Spain 0 2 1 3 Summer Olympics in Saitama, Japan. Spain won 81-71. (AP) - See Page 15 lum, Jordan Chiles and MyKayla Skin- South Africa 0 2 0 2 ner. Indonesia 0 1 2 3 The 24-year-old Biles’ absence cre- Mongolia 0 1 2 3 7:40.73, while Australia took the ated an opportunity the 24 women who Belgium 0 1 1 2 bronze in 7:41.29. It was the fi rst took the fl oor at the Ariake Gymnastics Denmark 0 1 1 2 swimming world record of the Tokyo Kuwaiti swimmer misses semis Centre probably didn’t think possible Bulgaria 0 1 0 1 Games -- in fact, all three medalists Colombia 0 1 0 1 broke the previous mark of 7:41.50 TOKYO, July 29, (KUNA): Ku- pic Games in Tokyo for the fi rst when they landed in Tokyo earlier this India 0 1 0 1 waiti swimmer Abbas Qali, com- time, competing in the 50 meters month: a legitimate shot at the top of set by the Aussies at the 2019 world Jordan 0 1 0 1 championships. peting in the men’s 100-meter category. the podium. Biles had captured every North Macedonia 0 1 0 1 butterfl y at the Tokyo Olympics In athletics, runner Madhawi major international competition since Poland 0 1 0 1 Australia’s Jessica Fox made Olym- pic history at the Tokyo Games as the Games, fi nished fourth in his heat Al-Shimmeri will take part in the 2013 except the 2017 world champi- Turkmenistan 0 1 0 1 Thursday and missed the semifi - 100 meters run. Al-Shimmeri had onships, which came during the year Venezuela 0 1 0 1 fi rst gold medalist in women’s canoe Ukraine 0 0 4 4 slalom. Fox made the last run of the nals. achieved two personal records re- she took off after her triumph in Rio de Qali clocked 53.62 seconds, cently in a competition in Qatar Janeiro fi ve years ago. Kazakhstan 0 0 3 3 fi nal and crushed it. Egypt 0 0 2 2 She beat rival and silver-medalist not enough to make the top 16 for and an international tournament in Mexico 0 0 2 2 Mallory Franklin of Britain with a the semifi nals Friday at the Tokyo Bursa, Turkey. OLYMPICS Turkey 0 0 2 2 winning run through the rapids of of Aquatics Centre. In the rowing competition, Ab- Argentina 0 0 1 1 Several Kuwaiti athletes will dulrahman Al-Fadhel will go into Côte d’Ivoire 0 0 1 1 the Kasai Canoe Slalom Center. The Cuba 0 0 1 1 women’s canoe slalom is one of 18 participate, Friday, in a number of his last performance in the Olym- events at held at the Tokyo 2020 pics. He already lost his chance of Yet if Lee, Andrade and the rest of Finland 0 0 1 1 new events introduced to the Olym- Israel 0 0 1 1 pics this year in a push for gender eq- Olympic Games. winning since July 23, as he will the contenders were nervous, it hard- Kuwaiti swimmer Lara Dashti, only compete to improve his rank- ly showed. Andrade’s near-perfect Kuwait 0 0 1 1 uity. Andrea Herzog of Germany took Aaron Wolf of Japan, (left) and Cho Portugal 0 0 1 1 bronze. aged 17, will take part in the Olym- ing and points now. Gu-ham of South Korea compete in Cheng vault gave her an early lead, San Marino 0 0 1 1 but Lee used her spectacular uneven Note: Table reads as gold, silver, Aaron Wolf won Japan’s eighth the men’s -100kg fi nal judo match bars set - the hardest one currently gold medal in judo at the Tokyo Olym- of the 2020 Summer Olympics in bronze and total and Ciprian Tudosas won silver. Den- medal in men’s lightweight double being done in competition - to pull pics, defeating South Korea’s Cho Gu- Tokyo, Japan. (AP) mark’s Frederic Vystavel and Joachim sculls. closer. ham 5:35 into golden score for his fi rst Sutton won bronze. The Irish boat looked secure through Lee, an 18-year-old Hmong-Amer- Olympic title in the men’s 100-kilo- kyo Olympics. New Zealand’s Grace Pendergrast the fi rst 1,000 meters before the Ger- ican from Minnesota, gutted her way gram division. Rehak Stefecekova hit 43 of 50 tar- and Kerri Gowler won gold in the mans closed the gap with 500 to go and through a nervy beam routine. She Wolf, whose father is American, gets on a breezy day at Asaka Shoot- women’s pair. threatened to pull even. A late surge nearly came off while executing a wolf won the draining fi nal bout by ippon ing Range, beating American Kayle The Kiwi duo over the fi nal 200 meters sent the Irish turn - basically a seated spin - and ba- with an o-uchi-gari throw. Wolf beat Browning. Georgian veteran Varlam Liparteli- won the world to the win by 0.86 seconds. Alessandro Perilli took bronze to sically needed to suction cup her toes championship in Italy’s Stefano Oppo and Pietro to the 4-inch slab of wood to stay on. ani in the semifi nals to reach his fi rst earn the fi rst medal in San Marino’s Olympic fi nal. 2019 and were Ruta won bronze. 61-year Olympic history. Her score of 13.833 moved her in front favored to grab Italy’s Valentina Rodini and Fed- of Andrade heading into the fl oor ex- Portugal’s two-time world champi- A 37-year-old police offi cer, Rehak on Jorge Fonseca and Russian athlete victory in Tokyo. erica Cesarini surged over the fi nal Stefecekova took silver at the 2008 ercise. They are just the 50 meters to win gold in the women’s Bobby Finke of the United States Niiaz Iliasov won bronze. Cho upset Beijing and 2012 London Games, and Fonseca in the semifi nals. third non-Europe- lightweight double sculls. missed Rio in 2016 due to the birth of captured gold in the debut of the men’s an team to win the The Dutch team of Marieke Keiser 800-meter swimming freestyle event at Shori Hamada won gold medal her son. in judo at the Tokyo Olympics, beat- Olympic event and Ilse Paulis had led nearly the entire Czech shooter Jiri Liptak has out- the Tokyo Aquatics Centre. and the fi rst since race but collapsed to the bronze medal Italy’s Gregorio Paltrinieri grabbed ing French former world champion lasted teammate David Kostelecky in a Madeleine Malonga by ippon just 1:08 1996. Stefecekova in the fi nal 20 meters as the French shoot-off to win men’s trap gold at the the silver after leading most of the Russia’s team of Laura Tarantola and Claire race, while the bronze went to Mykhai- into the women’s 78-kilogram fi nal. Tokyo Olympics. Hamada, who won the 2018 world Vasilisia Stepanova and Elena Ori- Bove won silver. Liptak and Kostelecky tied after lo Romachuk of Ukraine. abinskaia surged past Canada’s The Dutch team nearly slipped out It was a thrilling fi nish. Germany’s title, was the third Japanese woman to 50 shots, hitting 43 targets to set an win gold in the past week. Caileigh Filmer and Hillary Janssens of the medals entirely, and only took Olympic record. Both shooters hit the Florian Wellbrock grabbed the lead over the fi nal 300 meters to take the the podium by 0.01 seconds ahead of from Paltrinieri on the fi nal fl ip, with Germany’s Anna-Maria Wagner fi rst six targets in the shoot-off before silver medal. Canada won bronze. Britain. Kostelecky missed on the seventh. Finke lurking back in fourth. But the -- the current world champion -- and Brazil’s Mayra Aguiar won bronze. Irish duo Fintan McCarthy and Paul Slovakia’s Zuzana Rehak Stefecek- Britain’s Matthew Coward-Holley American turned on a dazzling burst O’Donovan held off a late charge from ova set an Olympic record in women’s took bronze. of speed at the end of the 16-lap race, Alvaro Morais Filho of Brazil reacts Russian fencers won gold in the to a play during a men’s beach vol- women’s team foil by beating France Germany’s Jonathan Rommelmann trap to deny the United States a third- Liptak fi nished 18th at the 2012 passing all three swimmers ahead of and Jason Osborne to win the gold straight shotgun gold medal at the To- London Games, but did not compete in him to take the gold. leyball match against the Nether- 45-34 in the fi nal. lands at the 2020 Summer Olym- The Russians stayed on course for Rio fi ve years ago. Kostelecky earned Izaac Stubblety-Cook of Australia pics, Thursday, July 29, 2021, in his second medal in his sixth Olympics won the 200-meter breaststroke at the gold despite an early medical timeout Tokyo, Japan. Brazil (Alison Cerut- when Marta Martyanova rolled her an- with the gold he won at the 2008 Bei- Olympic pool in Tokyo. ti; Alvaro Morais Filho), def. Nether- jing Games. Stubblety-Cook rallied on the fi nal lands (Alexander Brouwer; Robert kle. She stayed in the game and con- tributed 14 of the team’s points. For the ninth straight Olympics, a lap to pass Arno Kamminga of the Meeuwsen), 21-14, 24-22. (AP) Chinese woman won the gold medal in Netherlands, who went out fast and The Russian Olympic Committee team has won fi ve fencing medals in table tennis. tried to hold on. The winning time was Chen Meng beat teammate Sun an Olympic record of 2 minutes, 6.38 American swimmer Caeleb Dressel Tokyo in women’s events. France was claimed the fi rst individual Olympic Yingsha 9-11, 11-6, 11-4, 5-11, 11- seconds. on the podium in the women’s team gold medal of his career. foil for the fi rst time since 1984. 4, 11-9 in the women’s singles fi nal, Kamminga was under world-record Dressel held off the defending keeping China perfect in the event pace through the fi rst 150 meters, but Italy beat the United States 45-23 Olympic champion, Australia’s Kyle for the bronze medal to make the po- since its debut at the 1988 Seoul he faded to the silver in 2:07.01. The Chalmers, with a furious sprint to the Games. bronze went to Finland’s Matti Matts- dium in the event for a record seventh Despite its predictability, the win wall. The winning time was an Olym- consecutive Olympics. son in 2:07.24. pic record of 47.02 seconds. marked a return to form after China Zhang Yufei of China turned in a Croatian brothers Martin and Valent surprisingly lost to Japan in the mixed Dressel beat Chalmers by a mere Sinkovic dominated the men’s pair in dominating performance to win the six-hundredths of a second, leaving the doubles fi nal. women’s 200-meter butterfl y with 2016 winner with a silver medal this Olympic rowing, cruising to gold in a In the fi nal game, the players traded an Olympic-record time of 2 min- time. The bronze was claimed by Rus- race they led from the start. the lead before Chen ended up on top. utes, 3.86 seconds. She was more sia’s Kliment Kolesenikov. The Croatians were the heavy fa- She then went to hug her coach before than a body length ahead of the pair China surprised the U.S. and Aus- vorites. They won double sculls in she and Sun posed together holding the of Americans, Regan Smith and Hali tralia with a world-record performance 2016, then switched boat disciplines Chinese fl ag and their paddles. Flickinger. to win gold in the women’s 4x200- and won two world championships In the bronze medal match, Mima The U.S. swimmers dueled back meter freestyle relay. before claiming another Olympic gold Ito, part of Japan’s gold-medal win- and forth for the silver, with Smith China won in 7 minutes, 40.33 sec- medal. They are the fi rst men to win ning mixed doubles team, beat Yu pulling ahead at the end to touch in Olympic gold in both double sculls Gold medallist Sunisa Lee of the United States displays her medal for the onds. artistic gymnastics women’s all-around at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Mengyu of Singapore. 2:05.30. Flickinger earned the bronze The Americans claimed silver in and the sweep pairs. in 2:05.65. Romania’s duo of Marius Cozmiuc Tokyo. (AP) Medalists — See Page 15

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