TOKYO (AP) — A roundup of gold medals from Thursday, August 5, at the Tokyo Games:
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BOXING
MEN’S FEATHERWEIGHT
Albert Batyrgaziev of the Russian team won the gold medal in men’s featherweight boxing, beating American Duke Ragan in a meeting of two professional fighters chasing Olympic glory.
Batyrgaziev won the bout 3:2, cruising to victory after winning the first two rounds on three of the five judges’ cards.
Lázaro Álvarez of Cuba and Samuel Takyi of Ghana won bronze medals. Takyi’s medal is the fifth won by Ghana in all sports in its Olympic history, and its first since 1992.
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CANOE SPRINT
MEN’S KAYAK SINGLE 200
Hungary’s Sandor Totka won the gold medal in the men’s kayak 200-meter, becoming the first non-British paddler to win the event since it started in 2012.
Rizza Manfredi of Italy took silver and defending Olympic champion Liam Heath of Britain won bronze.
Totka beat Heath for the European championship earlier this year and bolted off the start line before claiming victory in a photo finish that saw 0.045 seconds separate gold from silver.
WOMEN’S CANOE SINGLE 200
The United State’s Nevin Harrison won the women’s canoe sprint 200 in the event’s Olympic debut, overtaking Canada’s Laurence Vincent Lapointe at the halfway mark and powering across the finish line.
The Olympics were the first time Harrison and Vincent Lapointe faced each other on the water. Harrison won the world championship in 2019 when she was just 17 and Vincent Lapointe was serving a provisional drug suspension that was later overturned on appeal. The Canadian had won the previous six world titles.
-Associated Press
