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K. hoefler olympic games tokyo 20205/2/2023 ![]() Nine freestyle wrestling medals - including three golds - is a US best tally in that sport since 1904. Once again, swimming and athletics were the core of the US Olympic performance, providing 56 medals including 18 golds (50% of their total medals, 46% of total golds). Swimming Cycling - Track Sailing Boxing AthleticsĬycling - Track Athletics Rowing Gymnastics - Artistic SwimmingĬycling - Track Rowing Athletics Boxing SailingĬycling - Track Sailing Athletics Rowing Track cycling and athletics are the only sports in which Team GB have won at least four medals in at each of the last four Olympic Games. Neither China nor USA won medals in as many sports as Great Britain. Great Britain won medals in just 12 sport-discipline combinations as recently as Sydney 2000. Medals were won by Team GB in 25 different sport-discipline combinations, breaking the record of 23 set at Rio 2016. Great Britain's strength is in the number of sport-discipline combinations the country medals in. This was Britain's best ever swimming performance. We've grouped some sports together for this chart In weightlifting only four world records went - three to the same person Georgian super-heavyweight Lasha Talakhadze - compared to eight in Rio." British strength in breadth Team GB won medals in 25 different sport-disciplines in Tokyo - more than any other country. Simon Gleave, head of sports analysis at Nielsen Gracenote, said: "The 22 world records broken in Tokyo is down on the 27 in Rio five years ago despite the addition of another sport, sport climbing, in which records can be broken. And Britain's history-making swimming team set a new world record time in the 4x100m mixed medley relay.īut despite some pre-Games concern over shoe technology having too much sway in athletics especially, there were fewer records set in Japan. Norway's Karsten Warholm ran an astonishing 45.94 second men's 400m hurdles race to obliterate his previous world record and take gold at Tokyo 2020, in one of the moments of the Games. Tokyo Olympics: Are super shoes & springy track helping break athletics records?.The last time there was no German team in the top six of the medal table was at the 1956 Olympics in Melbourne. Germany did not finish in the top six of the medal table for the first time since re-unification of East and West Germany in 1990. The Brazilians repeated Great Britain's feat of improving on their medal total at the Olympics immediately after hosting. Outside the top six countries, Italy had their best ever Summer Games with 40 medals, as did the Netherlands (36 medals), New Zealand (20 medals) and Brazil (21 medals). The Sports Desk podcast: Has Biles changed the game on mental health?Īustralia return to the top six of the medal table for the first time since Beijing 2008.An alternative medals table - with the US 15th.However, this is Team GB's second best performance at an overseas Olympics, after Rio (67 medals). Great Britain finished second in Rio 2016 and third in London 2012. Japan's third place in the medal table - with 58 medals including 27 gold - is the country's joint best with Tokyo 1964 when hosting and Mexico 1968. At all seven, they have won the most medals. The United States top the medal table for the sixth time in seven Olympic Games. 21 striking photographs from Tokyo 2020.The two met up earlier this week at the Olympic venue, with Leal posting an Instagram video of the two fist-bumping on the side of the street course.So what are the stats to savour from this Olympic Games? BBC Sport and Nielsen Gracenote take a look. ![]() Brazil's Kelvin Hoefler won silver in the contest.īrazil's Leal has said her skateboarding career began in earnest six years ago after Tony Hawk shared a video of her skating in a fairy costume. Japan's Yuto Horigome made history on Sunday by winning the first gold medal of skateboarding at the Olympics, landing a series of technical tricks while braving Tokyo's relentless heat. ![]() Skaters from Brazil and Japan have dominated street skateboarding since the sport debuted at the Olympics on Sunday. Nishimura said she hurt herself practicing on Sunday, but put that out of her mind during the tense heats. "I'm relieved," the 19-year-old told reporters on the sidelines of the preliminaries, wearing an all-white cap over her platinum blonde hair. Japan's Aori Nishimura, who came in fifth to advance to the finals, struggled to land her first three tricks, but regained her form by nailing a backside K grind and a half cab noseslide on her final attempts. Also making the cut were Roos Zwetsloot from the Netherlands and Margielyn Didal of the Philippines. ![]()
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