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Kerri Gowler and Grace Prendergast win New Zealand s fourth medal at Tokyo Olympics
Publish Date Thursday, 29 July 2021, 12:39PM
Kerri Gowler and Grace Prendergast have won New Zealand s fourth medal of the Tokyo Olympics after claiming gold in the women s coxless pair today.
Gowler and Prendergast won gold after sprinting away to claim victory in 6.50.19, with ROC s Vasilisa Stepanova and Elena Oriabinskaia winning silver at 6.51.45 and Canada s Caileigh Filmer and Hillary Janssens in third at 6.52.10.
The Kiwis, who set a world-best time in their semifinal on Wednesday, were trailing Canada and ROC early but gradually and calmly worked their way up the field.
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Living up to the hype, American swimmer Caeleb Dressel has claimed the first individual Olympic gold medal of his career.
Dressel held off the defending Olympic champion, Australiaâs Kyle Chalmers, with a furious sprint to the wall. The winning time was an Olympic record of 47.02 seconds.
Dressel beat Chalmers by a mere six-hundredths of a second, leaving the 2016 winner with a silver medal this time. The bronze was claimed by Russiaâs Kliment Kolesenikov.
The first three gold medals of Dresselâs career were all in the relays.
Now, heâs got one earned all by himself.
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Australiaâs Jessica Fox has made Olympic history at the Tokyo Games as the first gold medalist in womenâs canoe slalom.
Fox made the last run of the final and crushed it, beating rival and silver-medalist Mallory Franklin of Britain with a winning run of 105.04 seconds through the rapids of of the Kasai Canoe Slalom Center.
It was a clean run without the mistakes and penalty seconds that prevented her from winning gold in the kayak slalom two days earlier, when she won bronze.
The womenâs canoe slalom is one of 18 new events introduced to the Olympics this year in a push for gender equity. It replaced the menâs double canoe slalom.