Tokyo Olympics 2020 Day 9 Live: After a disappointing Day 8 at the Tokyo Olympics, India finally win another medal at the Tokyo Olympics. PV Sindhu beat China's He Bingjiao in straight sets to win bronze in Tokyo. She becomes the fourth female player to win a medal at consecutive Olympic Games. India's Men's hockey team too won their quarter-final match against Great Britain to reach the semi-finals.
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India's men's team beat Great Britain 3-1 to advance to the semis in hockey.
Tokyo Olympics 2020 Day 9 Live
: Yulimar Rojas of Venezuela made a world record breaking jump at 15.67m to win gold for Venezuela in the Women's Triple Jump. With her first jump, she had broken the Olympic record and with her last, she broke the world record. Mamona of Portugal came second with a 15.01 jump and Ana Peleteiro of Spain won bronze with a 14.87 jump.
Tokyo Olympics 2020 Day 9 Live
: India gets its second medal at the Tokyo Olympics 2020. P.V. Sindhu beat He Bingjiao in straight sets in the bronze medal match. Sindhu was clinical in her smashes as she outplayed her Chinese opponent 21-13, 21-15. With the bronze, Sindhu became the fourth female player in history to win two consecutive medals at the Olympics.
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:Alexander Zverev the man who beat a shell-shocked Novak Djokovic in the semi-final of the men's singles tennis event to progress to the final, has gone one better in claiming the Olympic gold medal. The German dropped to his knees after beating ROC's Karen Khachanov 6-3 6-1 in little more than 79 minutes. Pablo Carreni Busta of Spain won bronze.
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:India's Satish Kumar is out of the Tokyo Olympics. He was beaten by Bakhodir Jalolov of Uzbekistan. The big man from Uzbekistan was too much for Satish who never looked like he was a threat throughout the match. Jalalov won 5-0 by unanimous decision.
Tokyo Olympics 2020 Day 9 Live
:The United States finished the meet by winning the men’s 4x100 medley relay in world-record time, giving Dressel his fifth gold medal of the Games and extending an American unbeaten streak in the event. The Americans were led by Caeleeb Dressel who finished his remarkable Tokyo Games with a fifth gold medal, swimming butterfly in the final relay of the meet. The U.S. men finished in 3:26.78, beating the previous world record by .50 seconds. The U.S. has never lost the men's medley relay at the Olympics. The only time it has not won gold was in 1980 when the entire team boycotted the Moscow Games. Great Britain came second in 3:27:51 and Italy won bronze in 3:29:17.
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:China's GongLijiao lit up the Olympic Stadium with a mammoth throw of 20.58m to win the Tokyo 2020 women's shot put competition.The 32-year-old Gong dug deep to throw a personal best that saw her breeze to gold. The USA's Raven Saunderswon an impressive silver medal (19.79m) with New Zealand's throwing legend Valerie Adams (19.62) winning bronze.
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:Australian Emma McKeon stormed to victory in the 50m freestyle event today at Tokyo Aquatics Centre clocking in a blistering time of 23:81 which broke her own Olympic record of 24:00 she set on the previous day.It was a close call in the early part of the race as there were no runaway leaders, but by mid-race McKeown broke a slender lead and was swimming at world record time until she touched the wall first to win her third gold. Right after competing in the 50m freestyle, McKeon also won the 4x100m medley relay today together with Australian teammates Kaylee McKeon, Chelsea Hodges and Cate Campbell, bringing McKeon's gold medal tally to four.McKeown now holds seven Olympic medals at Tokyo 2020 - four golds and three bronze - making her the first female swimmer in Olympic history to win seven medals in one Olympic Games.Meanwhile, Sweden's Sarah Sjoestroem - who returned from injury to compete at the Olympic Games - picked up silver after clocking in 24.07 in the 50m freestyle.Denmark's Pernille Blume claimed bronze.
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:Australia wins women’s 4x100m medley relay in a new Olympic record.In a close race, the team of Kaylee McKeown, Chelsea Hodges, Emma McKeon, Cate Campbell wins the race in a time of 3:51.60, pushing the USA into second place.The USA quartet finished in a time of 3:51.73. Canada claimed the bronze in 3:52.60.
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:Caeleb Dressel smashed the Olympic record to win 50m freestyle.The American swimmer touched the wall in a time of 21.07, shaving 0.23 off the previous mark set by Brazil’s Cesar Cielo in 2008.The win gave Dressel his fourth gold medal of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 and the USA’s 27th in the pool.The 24-year-old two-time world champion joins fellow Americans Michael Phelps, Mark Spitz and Matt Biondi as well as East German Kristin Otto as the only swimmers to win at least five golds in a single Olympic Games. (He will go for a fifth gold in the 4x100m medley relay.)And in a race that is usually decided by hundredths of a second, Dressel stormed to finish 0.48 seconds ahead of Florent Manaudou of France, who gets the silver medal, with a time of 21.55.Brazil’s Bruno Fratus was close behind, claiming the bronze in 21.57.
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: Charlotte Wothingtoncompleted abackflip360 for the first time ever in women’s competition, which blew away theAriakeSports Park, and was enough to beat a near-perfect first run from three-time world champion Hannah Roberts, who finished in second. Switzerland's NikitaDucarrozjust pipped Roberts' American team-matePerrisBenegasto the bronze medal.
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:USA's Robert Finke - the cream of men's longer-distance swimming at this year's Games - turned things up a gear to win the 1500m freestyle gold at Tokyo Aquatics Centre.The 10th gold for USA swimmers at this year's Olympics was - fittingly - one of the most exciting races, as Finke finished first in 14:39.65, followed home by silver medallist, Mykhailo Romanchuk in 14:40.66. Special mention must go to Florian Wellbrock of Germany, who led until the final 50m when Finke showed his class to take the win that makes him a double Olympic gold medallist.
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: India's only medal so far in Tokyo has been Mirabai Chanu’s silverthat was won on Day 1. Lovlina Borgohainis guaranteed a medal, but we will have to wait till to know what colour it would be.
Tokyo Olympics 2020 Day 9 Live
:India have to events to look forward to. First up will be boxing where Satish Kumar will be in action in the Men's Super Heavy-weight category in the quarter-finals. Later in the day, we have P.V. Sindhu's bronze medal match. India's Men's hockey team will also be in action against Great Britain in the quarter-finals.
Tokyo Olympics 2020 Day 9 Live
: Hello and welcome to Day 9 at the Tokyo Olympics 2021. Athletics is well under way and the new 100m champion will be crowned today in the Men's category. Elaine Thompson had won gold in the Women's 100m dash yesterday in what was san all-Jamaican show with Shelly-Ann Fayser-Pryce coming second and Shericka Jackson claiming the bronze.
