Tokyo Olympics Today, China Harvests 4 Gold Following New Zealand And Czech

Illustration (Photo: Antara)

JAKARTA - The Chinese contingent harvested four gold medals from a total of 21 pieces contested in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics competition series on Friday, July 30.

Swimmer Wang Shun won China's first gold by winning the men's 200m individual medley at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre. Then Zhu Xueying, quoted from Antara, won the gold medal in the women's individual trampoline beautiful gymnastics, when compatriot Liu Lingling ended up winning silver.

The two golds were later followed by the gold in mixed doubles badminton and men's singles table tennis, whose final party was both colored by the All-China Final.

In mixed doubles badminton, the pair Wang Yi Lyu/Huang Dong Ping beat Zheng Si Wei/Huang Ya Qiong 21-17, 17-21, 21-19, while the bronze went to Japanese pair Yuta Watanabe/Arisa Higashino who defeated Hong Kong representative Tang. Chun Man/Tse Ying Suet two straight games 21-17, 23-21.

While the men's singles table tennis was won by Ma Long who beat Fan Zhendong 4-2 (11-4, 10-12, 11-8, 11-9, 3-11, 11-7), while the bronze went to Germany's Dimitrij Ovtcharov who defeated Taiwan table tennis player Lin Yun Ju 4-3.

Host contingent Japan won two gold medals today through their fencing team which won the men's team epee and judoka Akira Sone who beat China's Xu Shiyan in the women's +78k final.

Three other countries also won two gold today namely New Zealand, Czech Republic and ROC/Russia.

The following is the distribution of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic medals in a series of competitions on Friday according to the official Olympic website:

Fencing (1)

Men's Team Epee

Gold: Japan (Masaru Yamada, Koki Kano, Satoru Uyama, Kazuyasu Minobe)

Silver: ROC/Russia (Sergey Bida, Sergey Khodos, Pavel Sukhov, Nikita Glazkov)

Bronze: South Korea (Park Sang-young, Ma Se-geon, Song Jae-ho, Kweon Young-jun)

ATHLETIC (1)

10,000m Boys

Gold: Ethiopia (Selemon Barega)

Silver: Uganda (Joshua Cheptegei)

Bronze: Uganda (Jacob Kiplimo)

BICYCLE RACING (2)

Men's BMX Racing

Gold: Netherlands (Niek Kimman)

Silver: United Kingdom (Kye Whyte)

Bronze: Colombia (Carlos Alberto Ramirez Yepes)

Girls BMX Racing

Gold: Great Britain (Bethany Shriever)

Silver: Colombia (Mariana Pajon)

Bronze: Netherlands (Merel Smulders)

Badminton (1)

Mixed Doubles

Gold: China (Wang Yi Lyu/Huang Dong Ping)

Silver: China (Zheng Si Wei/Huang Ya Qiong)

Bronze: Japan (Yuta Watanabe/Arisa Higashino)

Oars (4)

Girls Single Scull

Gold: New Zealand (Emma Twigg)

Silver: ROC/Russia (Hanna Prakatsen)

Bronze: Austria (Magdalena Lobnig)

Men's Singles Scull

Gold: Greece (Stefanos Ntouskos)

Silver: Norway (Kjetil Borch)

Bronze: Croatia (Damir Martin)

Eight Princess

Gold: Canada (Lisa Roman, Kasia Gruchalla-Wesierski, Christine Roper, Andrea Proske, Susanne Grainger, Madison Mailey, Sydney Payne, Avalon Wasteneys, Kristen Kit)

Silver: New Zealand (Ella Greenslade, Emma Dyke, Lucy Spoors, Kelsey Bevan, Grace Prendergast, Kerri Gowler, Beth Ross, Jackie Gowler, Caleb Shepherd)

Bronze: China (Wang Zifeng, Wang Yuwei, Xu Fei, Miao Tian, Zhang Min, Ju Rui, Li Jingjing, Guo Linlin, Zhang Dechang)

Eight Sons

Gold: New Zealand (Thomas Mackintosh, Hamis Bond, Tom Murray, Michael Brake, Daniel Williamson, Phillip Wilson, Shaun Kirkham, Matt Macdonald, Sam Bosworth)

Silver: Germany (Johannes Weissenfeld, Laurits Follert, Olaf Roggensack, Torben Johannesen, Jakob Schneider, Malte Jakschik, Richard Schmidt, Hannes Ocik, Martin Sauer)

Bronze: Great Britain (Josh Bugajski, Jacob Dawson, Tom George, Mohamed Sbihi, Charles Elwes, Oliver Wynne-Griffith, James Rudkin, Tom Ford, Henry Fieldman)

SLALOM CANO (1)

Kayaking Boy

Gold: Czech Republic (Jiri Prskavec)

Silver: Slovakia (Jakub Grigar)

Bronze: Germany (Hannes Aigner)

JUDO (2)

+78kg Princess

Gold: Japan (Akira Sone)

Silver: China (Xu Shiyan)

Bronze: Uzbekistan (Iryna Kindzerska) & France (Romane Dicko)

+100kg Boys

Gold: Czech Republic (Luke Krpalek)

Silver: Georgian (Tushushvili Guram)

Bronze: France (Teddy Riner) & ROC/Russia (Tamerlan Bashaev)

SHOOT (1)

Princess 25m Pistol

Gold: ROC/Russia (Vitalina Batsarashkina)

Silver: South Korea (Kim Min-jung)

Bronze: China (Xiao Jiaruixuan)

ARROW (1)

Individual Princess

Gold: South Korea (An San)

Silver: ROC/Russia (Elena Osipova)

Bronze: Italy (Lucilla Boari)

SWIMMING (4)

Women's 200m Breaststroke

Gold: South Africa (Tatjana Shoenmaker)

Silver: United States (Lilly King)

Bronze: United States (Annie Lazor)

Men's 200m Backstroke

Gold: ROC/Russia (Evgeny Rylov)

Silver: United States (Ryan Murphy)

Bronze: Great Britain (Luke Greenbank)

Women's 100m Freestyle

Gold: Australia (Emma McKeon)

Silver: Hong Kong (Siobhan Bernadette Haughey)

Bronze: Australia (Cate Campbell)

Men's 200m Individual medley

Gold: China (Wang Shun)

Silver: United Kingdom (Scott Duncan)

Bronze: Switzerland (Jeremy Desplanches)

TRAMPOLINES (1)

Individual Princess

Gold: China (Zhu Xueying)

Silver: China (Liu Lingling)

Bronze: Great Britain (Bryony Page)

TENNIS (1)

Men's Doubles

Gold: Croatia (Nikola Mektic/Mate Pavic)

Silver: Croatia (Marin Cilic/Ivan Dodig)

Bronze: New Zealand (Marcus Daniel/Michael Venus)

TABLE TENNIS (1)

Men's Singles

Gold: China (Ma Long)

Silver: China (Fan Zhendong)

Bronze: Germany (Dimitrij Ovtcharov)