Tokyo Olympics July 25 | Day 3 Live: Indian Men's Hockey team were thrashed 7-1 by World Number 1 Australia. Indian boxing sensation Mary Kom continued her dominance at the Olympics as she punched her way through to the last 16 against an opponent who was fifteen years younger than her. Manika Batra advanced to Round 3 after beating Ukraine's Pesotska in a tightly contested match. India's Gnanasekaran lost in Men's Table Tennis Singles after being 2 games up. India's rowing duo of Arjun Lal and Arvind Singh made it through till the semi-finals of the Men's Lightweight Double Sculls. In women's badminton singles, Sindhu won her opening game. India have an action packed day with athletes contending across ten sports.
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Tokyo Olympics 2020 Day 3 Weightlifting Live Updates
: Five years after being forced to withdraw with leg cramps from Rio 2016, CHEN Lijun of the People's Republic of China has been crowned the Olympic champion in the weightlifting men's 67kg event at Tokyo 2020 with a total lift of 332kg. It came down to the final lift, with Chen lifting 187kg - an Olympic record - in the clean and jerk to beat Colombia's Luis Javier Mosquera Lozano by one kilogram. Mosquera took Dilver with a mammoth total lift of 331kg - an Olympic Record before Chen's final attempt. Bronze went to Italy's Mirko Zanni, who despite missing his attempt at 172kg, went on to lift a personal best of 177kg on his final attempt in the clean and jerk for a total lift of 322kg.
Tokyo Olympics 2020 Day 3 Weightlifting Live Updates
: China'sLI Fabin has set a new Olympic Record on his way to clinching gold in the Olympic Weightlifting Men's 61kg at the Tokyo International Forum. Li lifted a total of 313 Kg, setting a new Olympic record.On his second attempt his clean and jerk lift of 172kg - also an Olympic Record - saw the 28-year-old standing with the bar above his head while standing on one leg.Irawan, a three-time Olympic medallist, settled for silver (302kg) while Igor Son of Kazakhstan (294kg) took bronze.Japan's ITOKAZU Yoichi narrowly missed the podium finishing fourth with a total lift of 292kg.
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Tokyo Olympics 2020 Day 3 Fencing Live Updates
: USA's Lee Kiefer won Gold in the Women's Foil Individual Fencing, beating ROC's Inna Deriglazova.The American mixed attack and defensive work as she came through a tit-for-tat bout with ROC's Inna Deriglazova, the defending Olympic champion, to win gold. Kiefer kept her nose in front of the favourite, finally coming through 15-13, but Deriglazova was mostly only one or two points adrift. There was just one point in it in the women's bronze medal bout with ROC's Larisa Korobeynikova screaming with delight at beating Italy's Alice Volpi. In another tight match, Korobeynikova beat Volpi 15-14.
Tokyo Olympics 2020 Day 3 Fencing Live Updates
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France’s Romain Cannone won Gold in the Men’s Individual Epee by beating world champion Hungary’s Gergeley Siklosi in the final. The 24-year-old rank outsider, who was making his Olympic debut, took command of the contest from the start by going 2-0 up before world ranked number one, Siklósi, scored a point. The final result was 15-10.
In another major upset of the tournament, Siklósi, 23, beat reigning Olympic champion PARK Sangyoung from the Republic of Korea in the quarterfinals. The final score was 15-12.
The bronze medal match was a close contest on Day 2 of the Games with Reizlin defeating Italy’s Andrea Santarelli 15-12. The pair had battled it out for nearly 18 minutes before the Ukrainian, who also came third in the World Championships, won.
Tokyo Olympics 2020 Day 3 Taekwondo Live Updates
:The American Anastasija Zolotic, with a series of impressive performances in the -57kg category on 25 July, made history by becoming the first American woman to win Olympic Taekwondo gold. The 18-year-old, who hails from the state of Florida, followed up from the gold she won at the Pan American Games in 2019 and silver at the Summer Youth Olympics in Argentina, with a 25-17 victory over the ROC athlete Tatiana Minina in the final from the Makuhari Messe Hall A.Another teenage sensation, LO Chia-Ling of Chinese Taipei, twice a junior world champion, picked up bronze by beating Tekiath Ben Yessouf of Niger 10-6. She shares the third place on the podium with Hatice Kubra Ilgun of Turkey who beat Kimia Alizadeh Zonouzi of the Refugee Olympic Team in a tense 8-6 match.
Tokyo Olympics 2020 Day 3 Judo Live Updates
:ABE Hifumi has won Japan’s third judo gold medal at its home Olympics with an ippon victory over Georgia’s Vazha Margvelashvili in the Men's 66Kg category. He joins his younger sibling, Uta, who won gold on the same day, making them the first ever brother and sister to win gold on the same day in any individual sport in Olympic history.
Tokyo Olympics 2020 Day 3 Judo Live Updates
:Two-time world judo champion ABE Uta wept after winning gold for the host nation after defeating France’s Amandine Buchard in the women’s 52kg final at Tokyo 2020.The 21-year-old, who was making her Olympic debut, had a tough battle to claim victory against European champion Buchard at the Nippon Budokan. The Japanese judoka won after the bout went to a golden score as neither had shown dominance until Abe claimed an ippon. The two opponents embraced at the end of the long battle.
Tokyo Olympics 2020 Day 3 Boxing Live Updates
: India's Mary Kom is through to the Last 16. She defeated Miguelina Hernandwz of the Dominican Republic 4-1. The mother of four made her experience count against her opponent who was fifteen years younger. But the age gap had no bearing on the match as Kom ounched her way through. She will next face Ingrit Valencia of Colombia.
Tokyo Olympics 2020 Day 3 Table Tennis Live Updates
: Manika Batraovercame a tough opponent in Margaryta Pesotska to advance to Round 3. The Indian lost the first two games without much fight but regrouped to take the match to a seventh set decider where she raced to victory 4-11, 4-11, 11-7, 12-10, 8-11, 11-5, 11-7.
Tokyo Olympics 2020 Day 3 Swimming Live Updates
:Tunisia's Ahmed Hafnaoui storms to gold in men's 400m freestyle final.The 18-year-old won by 0.16 seconds, with Australia's Jack McLoughlin taking silver and the USA's Kieran Smith bronze.
Tokyo Olympics 2020 Swimming Live Updates
:USA’s Chase Kalisz claims first gold medal in the pool followed by team-mate Jay Litherland in men's 400m individual medley final at Tokyo Aquatics Centre.Kalisz, who trained with the legendary Michael Phelps, led after the halfway stage to win the USA’s first gold medal of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 and the first one in the pool.Kalisz finished in a time of 4:09.42, followed home by his team-mate Litherland, who touched the wall 0.86 seconds behind.This one-two gave the United States two swimmers on the same Olympic podium for the first time since Beijing 2008.Australia’s Brendon Smith finished 0.10 adrift of Litherland to claim the bronze.
Tokyo Olympics 2020 Swimming Live Updates
: Women's 4x100 Freestyle Relay - Australia win gold, set World Record. The team of Bronte Campbell, her sister Cate, Emma McKeon and Meg Harris finished in a time of 3:29.69 to set a new world record. Canada claimed the silver medal, with USA winning bronze.The Australian quartet’s time at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre shaved 0.36 seconds off the previous world record, which was set by the Australian team at the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games.The first swimming relay gold of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 was also Australia's third consecutive one in the event.
Tokyo Olympics 2020 July 25 Live Updates
:Women's 10m Air Pistol:Vitalina Batsarashkina takes gold in the women's 10m air pistol with an Olympic record of 240.3. She beat Antoaneta Kostadinova (239.4) into second despite the Bulgarian leading until the very last shot.Batsarashkina upgraded her Rio 2016 silver with ROC's first gold medal of Tokyo 2020. JIANG Ranxin of the People's Republic of China who qualified top with an Olympic record, won bronze (218.0). She had matched Greece's Anna Korakaki's three-year-old record of 587 points to lead qualifying.Nina Salukvadze of Georgia made history by becoming the first athlete to compete in nine Olympics and announced her retirement to Russian media after failing to qualify for the finals.The 52-year-old Salukvadze first competed at the 1988 Seoul Olympics for the Soviet Union, winning a gold and a silver. She added a bronze at the Beijing 2008 Games and became the first mother/son duo to compete at the same games with Tsotne Machavariani in 2016.
Tokyo Olympics 2020 July 25 Live Updates
: Japan's Horigome Yuto wins Gold in Skateboarding (Street).After a grueling seven rounds, the Japanese skateboarder took the title in style with a score of 37.18.Brazil’s Kelvin Hoefler and Jagger Eaton of the USA scored 36.15 and 35.35 respectively to secure the silver and bronze medals and complete the podium for the first set of Olympic medals in men's street skateboarding history.One of skateboarding’s biggest stars, Nyjah Huston from the US, fell repeatedly trying to land tricks and placed 7th in the eight-man final.
Tokyo Olympics 2020 July 25 Live Updates
: India's Sathiyan Gnanasekaran lost in Round 2 on the Men's Table Tennis Singles event to Hong Kong's Lam Siu Hang. Hang was won the opening game, but Sathiyan came back strongly to take the next three games and was close to taking the fifth game as well, but Hang fought back valiantly to sneak past in the fifth. The sixth game went into a tie-breaker which Hang won. Hang completely dominated the seventh and deciding game to win 11-7. 7-11, 4-11, 5-11, 11-9, 12-10, 11-6 to advance into Round 3.
Tokyo Olympics 2020 July 25 Live Updates
:Olympics organisers reported on Sunday 10 new Olympics-related COVID-19 cases, bringing the disclosed total to 132.Latest among those who tested positive includeDutch rowing coach Josy Verdonkschot, the Netherlands Olympic Committee (NOCNSF) said on Sunday. He has gone into a 10-day quarantine. Read the full report here.
Tokyo Olympics July 25 Live Updates
:Indian shooters buckled under pressure for a second successive day as Manu Bhaker and Yashaswini Singh Deswal failed to make the finals of the women's 10m air pistol event in the Tokyo Olympics here on Sunday.Both were appearing in the maiden Olympics and the pressure got the better of them in the crunch moments.The 19-year-old Manu, ranked number two in the world, was pegged back by a technical glitch involving her gun after an impressive start saw her take one of the places in the top eight. Read the full report here.
Tokyo Olympics July 25 Live Updates
: India at rowing
India put their best performance in rowing at an Olympics, when the duo of Arjun Lal and Arvind Singh reached the semi-finals of rowing in the Men's Lightweight Double Sculls category. The win came in the repechage round as India finished third behind Poland and Spain. This is the first time India has finished in the Top 12 at rowing. Although a long shot, India now have another shot at a podium finish.
Tokyo Olympics July 25 Live Updates
: India's PV Sindhu won her opening fixture inWomen's Badminton Singles. She made light work of Israel's KseniaPolikarpovaas she won her Group J opening fixture 21-7, 21-10.
Tokyo Olympics July 25 Live Updates
: Swimming 400M Individual Medley
Japan's Yuhi Ohashi won Gold to register Japan's first medal in swimming at the Tokyo Olympic Games. Ohashi won with a time of 4:32:08. closely followed by USA's Emma Weyant at 4:32:76 and Hali Flickinger at 4:34:90.
