Day 6 of the Tokyo Olympics has dawned and it”s another action-packed day in the water.
Swimming, sailing, rowing and canoeing are some of the events taking place.
But there’s plenty to appreciate away from the water, with the golf competition starting. Cycling, tennis, badminton and team sports including women’s Rugby Sevens, hockey, handball and basketball are also taking place. The world’s best female gymnasts will meanwhile vie for the gold at the all-around final.
Here’s a recap of who won what today:
Rowing
Croatian brothers Martin and Valent Sinkovic dominated the men’s pair, cruising to victory in a race they led from the start. They are the first men to win Olympic gold in both double sculls and the sweep pairs.
Romania’s duo of Marius Cozmiuc and Ciprian Tudosas won silver. Denmark’s Frederic Vystavel and Joachim Sutton won bronze.
The woman’s pair gold medal was won by New Zealand’s Grace Pendergrast and Kerri Gowler and they are just the third non-European team to win the Olympic event and the first since 1996.
Russia’s Vasilisia Stepanova and Elena Oriabinskaia surged past Canada’s Caileigh Filmer and Hillary Janssens over the final 300 meters to take the silver medal.
Ireland’s duo of Fintan McCarthy and Paul O’Donovan held off a late charge from Germany’s Jonathan Rommelmann and Jason Osborne to win the gold medal in men’s lightweight double sculls. It’s Ireland’s first-ever Olympic gold medal in rowing.
Italy’s Stefano Oppo and Pietro Ruta won bronze.
But Italy gold a gold medal shortly after thanks to Valentina Rodini and Federica Cesarini who won the women’s lightweight double sculls event.
The Dutch team of Marieke Keiser and Ilse Paulis had led nearly the entire race but collapsed to the bronze medal in the final 20 meters as the French team of Laura Tarantola and Claire Bove won silver.
Swimming
The men’s 800m swimming freestyle made its debut at the Olympics and the gold medal was captured by Team USA’s Bobby Finke.
Italy’s Gregorio Paltrinieri grabbed the silver after leading most of the race, while the bronze went to Mykhailo Romachuk of Ukraine.
Izaac Stubblety-Cook of Australia claimed victory in the men’s200m breaststroke, giving Australia its fifth gold medal of the swimming competition.
China, meanwhile, secured its first gold medal at the Olympic pool thanks to Zhang Yufei who turned in a dominating performance to win the women’s 200-meter butterfly with an Olympic-record time of 2 minutes, 3.86 seconds.
American swimmer Caeleb Dressel takes home the men’s 100m freestyle gold medal and set a new Olympic record of47.02 seconds.
China didn’t wait have long wait for a second swimming gold medal thanks to a world-record performance in the women’s 4×200-meter freestyle relay which they completed in 7 minutes, 40.33 seconds.
Team USA claimed silver and Australia took bronze.
Shooting
Slovakia’s Zuzana Rehak Stefecekova has set an Olympic record in women’s trap to deny the United States a third-straight shotgun gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics.
Alessandro Perilli took bronze to earn the first medal in San Marino’s 61-year Olympic history.
Czech shooter Jiri Liptak outlasted teammate David Kostelecky in a shoot-off to win men’s trap gold at the Tokyo Olympics.
Liptak and Kostelecky were tied after 50 shots, hitting 43 targets to set an Olympic record. Both shooters hit the first six targets in the shoot-off before Kostelecky missed on the seventh.
Great Britain’s Matthew Coward-Holley took bronze.
Canoe Slalom
Australia’s Jessica Fox made Olympic history as the first gold medalist in women’s canoe slalom at the Tokyo Games.
Fox made the last run of the final, beating rival and silver medalist Mallory Franklin of Britain with a winning run of 105.04 seconds through the rapids of the Kasai Canoe Slalom Center.
Andrea Herzog of Germany won the bronze medal.
Judo
Shori Hamada has won Japan’s seventh gold medal in judo of the games, beating French former world champion Madeleine Malonga by ippon just 1:08 into the women’s 78-kilogram final.
The result was a reversal of the two players’ bout in the 2019 world championship final.
Germany’s Anna-Maria Wagner and Brazil’s Mayra Aguiar won bronze.
Aaron Wolf then won Japan’s eighth gold medal in judo, defeating South Korea’s Cho Gu-ham 5:35 into golden score for his first Olympic title in the men’s 100-kilogram division.
Wolf, whose father is American, won the draining final bout by ippon with an o-uchi-gari throw.
Portugal’s two-time world champion Jorge Fonseca and Russian athlete Niiaz Iliasov won bronze.
Fencing
Russian fencers won gold in the women’s team foil by beating France 45-34 in the final.
The Russian Olympic Committee team has won five fencing medals in Tokyo in women’s events. France was on the podium in the women’s team foil for the first time since 1984.
Italy beat the United States 45-23 for the bronze medal.
Source: Euro News
