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St. Lucian Swimmer, Mikaili Charlemagne, has set a new national record in the women’s 50m freestyle. Despite failing to advance to the semifinal round, Charlemagne who competed earlier today swimming out of lane 5, in heat 5, finished 2nd with a time of 26.99, lowering the previous national record of 27.27 which she had set in 2019. The heat was won by Cameroon’s Norah Elizabeth Milanesi who was clocked a time of 26.41 and Fiji’s Cheynne Rova rounded out the top three finishers with a time of 27.11. Also competing in the heat was Antigua’s Samantha Roberts, who finished 6 th, touching...

Chen vs Yu Winning this match would guarantee her a silver medal, while losing the match would give her one more chance to win a bronze. Chen won four sets with a score of: 11-6, 11-8 and 11-7, 11-6. In the fourth set, play was stopped for Yu’s knee injury to be attended to. Chen is China's "top-ranked" paddler and is ranked #1 in the world. She is also the first female table tennis player to win four consecutive titles at the ITTF World Tour Grand Finals after winning the 2020 edition in Zhengzhou. On Tuesday (July 27), Yu beat Japan's Kasumi Ishikawa and Taiwan's Cheng I-Ching of Taiwan.

Yu Mengyu falls short in winning Singapore's first medal of Tokyo 2020 9h 8h Singaporean paddler Yu Mengyu's brave charge in the table tennis women's singles at the Olympics Games was ultimately not enough to garner her country's first medal of Tokyo 2020, as she lost 4-1 to Japan's Mima Ito in Thursday evening's third-place playoff. Yu had produced a remarkable charge to reach the semi-finals after seeing off top-10 opponents Cheng I-Ching and Kasumi Ishikawa in previous rounds, but her fairy-tale run ended earlier on Thursday when she lost to top seed Chen Meng of China. Singaporean Yu Meng...

Japan's table tennis star Mima Ito loses in Tokyo Olympics semis Sorry, but your browser needs Javascript to use this site. If you're not sure how to activate it, please refer to this site: https://www.enable-javascript.com/ Mima Ito of Japan serves during her semifinal match against Sun Yingsha of China on Thursday. | REUTERS AFP-JIJI Jul 29, 2021 Japanese table tennis star Mima Ito suffered a semifinal loss at the Tokyo Olympics on Thursday with the women’s title now set to go to China once again. The 20-year-old Ito, who already helped the host nation win their first-ever...

Overseas aces making their mark By SUN XIAOCHEN | China Daily | Updated: 2021-07-27 09:04 Share CLOSE Liu Jia (left), who learned her table tennis skills as a child in Beijing, is representing Austria at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. [Photo/Agencies] Chinese-born talents helping their adopted home countries raise their game at Tokyo Olympic Games Born in China but competing under a different flag, a group of emigrants has navigated through athletic and cultural challenges to realize their Olympic dreams. In the era of globalization, the Ol...