France has actually defeated Japan to win gold in the first-ever Olympic judo combined group occasion, unexpected the giant host country with 4 victories in the last 5 rounds.
Clarisse Agbegnenou, Alex Clerget, and also Teddy Riner all won their rounds prior to Sarah Leonie Cysique secured it with a slim success over fellow light-weight Tsukasa Yoshida. The 4:1 margin of success implied pound-for-pound judo super star Shohei Ono really did not also reach contend in the last, because he was set up for the 6th spell.
Agbegnenou won France’s only specific gold medal in the 14 weight courses, while Japan won 9 specific golds in one of the most effective judo competition for any type of group in Olympic background. However when the group competitors reached its ending, France’s judokas showed up huge at the Budokan.
Tennis
Novak Djokovic is leaving the Olympics without a medal in songs.
The top-ranked Serb shed 6-4, 6-7 (6 ), 6-3 to Pablo Carreño Busta of Spain in the bronze-medal suit of the tennis competition. It was his 3rd loss in 2 days.
The loss comes much less than 24-hour after Djokovic was defeated by Alexander Zverev of Germany in the semifinals to finish his proposal for a Golden Bang.
Djokovic likewise shed in the combined increases semifinals on Friday with companion Nina Stojanovic.
Djokovic scheduled back on the court later on for one more bronze-medal suit in combined increases. He and also Stojanovic will certainly deal with the Australian set of Ash Barty and also John Peers.
Archery
On The Other Hand, Mete Gazoz of Turkey has actually won the guys’s specific archery title at the Tokyo Gamings.
It was the very first gold medal won by a nation besides South Korea, which went 4 for 5 in archery over these Olympics.
Gazoz defeated Mauro Nespoli of Italy in the last by a 6-4 rating. He made Turkey its very first Olympic medal in archery.
Takaharu Furukawa of Japan won the bronze medal. Furukawa likewise made a bronze in the guys’s group occasion.
Weight Training
Lyu Xiaojun has actually won gold in the guys’s 81-kilogram weight-lifting classification after Italian competing Antonino Pizzolato missed out on with a chance at the tidy and also jerk globe document.
Lyu raised 170kg in the take and also 204 in the tidy and also jerk for an overall 374. That was 7kg greater than Zacarias Bonnat of the Dominican Republic in 2nd and also 9kg in advance of Pizzolato, that won bronze.
Lyu commemorated his 2nd profession Olympic gold by raising his trainer right into the air.
Pizzolato tried a 210kg tidy and also jerk for gold yet could not finish the lift. Lyu failed his very own globe document effort.
Harrison Maurus directly missed what would certainly have been the very first UNITED STATE guys’s weightlifting medal because 1984, positioning 4th on 361kg. Maurus attempted to defeat Pizzolato for bronze with a 205kg tidy and also jerk yet stumbled.
Windsurfing
China won its 20th gold medal of the Tokyo Summertime Olympics when Lu Yunxiu bordered Charline Picon of France in females’s windsurfing RS: X. Lu completed the competitors with 36 indicate Picon’s 38. Emma Wilson of Britain took the bronze in cruising’s very first medal of these Gamings.
China leads all nations with 20 golds, complied with by Japan with 17 and also the USA with 16. The USA has one of the most medals with 45. China has 42 and also ROC, 34.
