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Six medals were added to the side’s tally, which now stands at 24, with six golds, nine silvers and nine bronze.
Here’s how it unfolded.
Swimming
At the pool, Duncan Scott claimed Team GB’s sixth swimming medal of the meet as he fell tantalisingly short of gold, coming second in the men’s 200m individual medley final.
Scott, who claimed gold in the 4x200m freestyle relay and silver in the individual version earlier this week, powered home after turning in fifth place heading into the final freestyle leg but finished just 0.28 seconds behind China’s Wang Shun.
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Olympics Latest: An San of South Korea wins 3rd archery gold
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An San of South Korea has won her third straight archery gold medal at the Tokyo Games.
She won during a shoot-off in the final of the women’s individual event.
An beat Elena Osipova of ROC, the acronym for the Russian Olympic Committee, by a 6-5 score Friday. She scored a 10 in the shoot-off Osipova recorded a 8 to help her nation remain perfect in archery in Tokyo. An had a part in the mixed and women’s team gold medals as well, with the men’s team also winning. The last archery event will be the men’s individual competition Saturday.
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Chinaâs Wang Shun has captured gold in the menâs 200-meter individual medley at the Tokyo Olympics.
Wang edged Britainâs Duncan Scott with a time of 1 minute, 55.00 seconds. Scott took the silver in 1:55.28, while the bronze went to Switzerlandâs Jeremy Desplanches in 1:56.17.
It was another disappointment for hometown star Daiya Seto, who didnât even qualify for the final of his first two events. He finally got through in the 200 IM but missed out on a medal with a fourth-place finish â a mere five-hundredths of a second behind the Swiss bronze medalist.
American Michael Andrew led after the third leg, powering to the top spot on the breaststroke. He faded badly on the freestyle to wind up in fifth, more than two seconds behind the winner.
Scott, who claimed gold in the 4x200m freestyle relay and silver in the individual version earlier this week, powered home after turning in fifth place heading into the final freestyle leg but finished just 0.28 seconds behind China’s Wang Shun.
Agonisingly, it was Scott’s fourth Olympic silver medal, following two claimed in relays in Rio in 2016, and the frustration appeared to show on the 24-year-old Scot as he turned away from the scoreboard after learning his fate.
Earlier, Luke Greenbank took bronze in the 200m backstroke behind the Russian Olympic Committee’s Evgeny Rylov and Ryan Murphy of the US, adding to Britain’s Friday medal haul alongside Kye White, who took silver in men’s BMX racing.
Chinese swimmer Wang wins China its first men s IM title at Tokyo Olympics
Xinhua
30 Jul 2021, 14:44 GMT+10
TOKYO, July 30 (Xinhua) Rio bronze medalist Wang Shun of China clocked a PB and an Asian record time of one minute and 55.00 seconds to win men s 200m individual medley at the Tokyo Olympics here on Friday. Wang had a slow start but came first after the backstroke split, and held his nerve to deny a comeback effort by 200m freestyle silver medalist Scott in the final sprint. The gold was China s first gold in men s swimming at Tokyo, and also the first men s individual medley title for China at Olympics. Wang became the second Chinese male swimmer to win gold medal at Olympic Games.