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Rowers win first Tokyo 2020 gold medals for New Zealand, Ireland Xinhua 30 Jul 2021, 04:18 GMT+10 TOKYO, July 29 (Xinhua) -- The first gold medals for New Zealand and Ireland at the Tokyo Olympics both came in the rowing regatta here on Thursday. Two-time world champions Kerri Gowler and Grace Prendergast of New Zealand came from behind to win their first Olympic gold in the women's pair competition. The duo were part of the New Zealand team that finished fourth in women's eight at Rio 2016, and this time they bagged home a gold medal in six minutes and 50.19 seconds. Vasilisa Stepanova an...

Gold medallists Martin Sinkovic of Croatia and Valent Sinkovic of Croatia celebrate with their medals. — Reuters AUSTRALIA’S Jessica Fox competes in the women’s C1 at the Kasai Canoe Slalom Centre on Thursday. For years, Fox — regarded as perhaps the greatest paddler of all time with 10 world titles — was among those pushing to get women’s canoe slalom accepted as an Olympic sport. With a history-making gold medal within her reach, she was not going to miss her chance. Starting last with an eye on the time she had to beat, Fox shot out of the gate on Thursday and ripped through th...

___ MEDAL ALERT Slovakia’s Zuzana Rehak Stefecekova has set an Olympic record in women’s trap to deny the United States a third-straight shotgun gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics. Rehak Stefecekova hit 43 of 50 targets on a breezy day at Asaka Shooting Range, beating American Kayle Browning. Alessandro Perilli took bronze to earn the first medal in San Marino’s 61-year Olympic history. Americans Vincent Hancock and Amber English opened the shotgun events by sweeping skeet on Tuesday. A 37-year-old police officer, Rehak Stefecekova took silver at the 2008 Beijing and 2012 London Games, an...

Jonathan Rommelmann und Jason Osborne haben als erste deutsche Leichtgewichts-Ruderer eine olympische Medaille gewonnen. Das Duo aus Krefeld und Mainz musste sich auf dem Sea Forest Waterway von Tokio nur knapp Irland geschlagen geben und holte die Silbermedaille. Bronze ging an das italienische Boot. „Ich kann das noch nicht so richtig fassen. Die Iren hatten ganz schön mit uns zu kämpfen. Wir können uns nichts vorwerfen mit einer Silbermedaille bei Olympia”, sagte Rommelmann in der ARD. Osborne ergänzte: „Bis auf die letzten 300 Meter waren wir sehr gut dabei. Wir...

——— MEDAL ALERT Australia’s Jessica Fox has made Olympic history at the Tokyo Games as the first gold medalist in women’s 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 women’s canoe slalom is one of 18 new events introduced to the Olym...