FIRST GOLD MEDAL WINNER: Yang Qian of China celebrates on the podium after winning the women’s 10m Air Rifle final at the Asaka Shooting Range on Saturday. Reuters
TOKYO: China claimed three gold medals on the first day of competition at the Tokyo Olympics on Saturday and cyclist Richard Carapaz became just the second competitor in Ecuador’s history to top the podium, with victory in the road race.
As the troubled build-up to the pandemic-postponed Games gave way to the first full day of competition, China secured victories in shooting and weightlifting.
Yang Qian sparked the mini gold rush in the 10-metre air rifle competition, pipping Russia’s Anastasiia Galashina with a dramatic last-shot victory to take the very first title of the Games.
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USA wins first Tokyo Olympics medals with gold, silver finish in men s 400-meter individual medley
From CNN’s Seamus Fagan and Kevin Dotson
Chase Kalisz of Team United States celebrates after winning the Men s 400m Individual Medley Final on July 25. (Clive Rose/Getty Images)
The United States has won its first medals of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics as Chase Kalisz and Jay Litherland finished first and second in the Men’s 400-meter Individual Medley.
Chase Kalisz won gold with a time of 4:09.42, while Litherland finished just behind him with a time of 4:10:28. Brendon Smith of Australia won bronze with a time of 4:10.38.
China claim early Olympic golds on day one
July 25, 2021
TOKYO: China claimed three gold medals on the first day of the Tokyo Olympics on Saturday and cyclist Richard Carapaz became just the second competitor in Ecuador’s history to top the podium, with victory in the road race.
As the troubled build-up to the pandemic-postponed Games gave way to the first full day of competition, China secured victories in shooting and weightlifting.
Yang Qian sparked the mini gold rush in the 10-metre air rifle competition, pipping Russia’s Anastasiia Galashina with a dramatic last-shot victory to take the very first title of the Games.
Iranian defector playing under Olympic Refugee team to face off against athlete from Iran
From CNN s Artemis Moshtaghian and Sugam Pokharel; previous reporting by Vasco Cotovio
Kimia Alizadeh Zenoorin of the Islamic Republic of Iran celebrates during the Women s -57kg Bronze Medal Taekwondo contest in the 2016 Rio Olympic Games on August 18, 2016, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Laurence Griffiths/Getty Images)
An Iranian athlete playing under the Olympic Refugee team is competing against an Iranian player representing Iran in the taekwondo qualifying round in Tokyo on Sunday.
Kimia Alizadeh, who left Iran in 2020, will face off against Nahid Kiyani Chandeh in the 57kg category of taekwondo in the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
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