Sunday saw 26 gold medals awarded at the Tokyo Olympics

Italy took dwelling two gold medals in a thrilling day of track and field, with Gianmarco Tamberi a success in men’s high soar and Lamont Marcell Jacobs edging out the rivals to earn the country’s first ever men’s 100m crown.
Right here is a full list of the gold medal winners from Sunday:
Artistic Gymnastics
- Men’s Floor Exercise: Artem Dolgopyat, Israel
- Ladies folk’s Vault: Rebeca Andrade, Brazil
- Men’s Pommel Horse: Max Whitlock, Great Britain
- Ladies folk’s Uneven Bars: Nina Derwael, Belgium
Athletics
- Ladies folk’s Shot Attach: Gong Lijiao, China
- Men’s High Soar: Mutaz Essa Barshim, Qatar and Gianmarco Tamberi, Italy
- Ladies folk’s Triple Soar: Yulimar Rojas, Venezuela
- Men’s 100m: Lamont Marcell Jacobs, Italy
Badminton
- Ladies folk’s Singles: Chen Yufei, China
Cycling BMX Freestyle
- Ladies folk’s Park: Charlotte Worthington, Great Britain
- Men’s Park: Logan Martin, Australia
Diving
- Ladies folk’s 3m Springboard: Shi Tingmao, China
Fencing
Golf
- Men’s Individual Stroke Play: Xander Schauffele, United States
Sailing
- Men’s One Person Dinghy-Laser: Matt Wearn, Australia
- Ladies folk’s One Person Dinghy-Laser Radial: Anne-Marie Rindom, Denmark
Swimming
- Men’s 50m Freestyle: Caeleb Dressel, United States
- Ladies folk’s 50m Freestyle: Emma McKeon, Australia
- Men’s 1500m Freestyle: Robert Finke, United States
- Ladies folk’s 4 X 100m Medley Relay: Australia
- Men’s 4 X 100m Medley Relay: United States
Tennis
- Ladies folk’s Doubles: Barbora Krejcikova/Katerina Siniakova, Czech Republic
- Men’s Singles: Alexander Zverev, Germany
- Blended Doubles: Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova/Andrey Rublev, Russian Olympic Committee
Weightlifting
- Ladies folk’s 76kg: Neisi Patricia Dajomes Barrera, Ecuador
A hit 100m gold medal a “dream” for Lamont Marcell Jacobs
From CNN’s Ben Morse in London

“It’s a dream, a dream, it is fantastic. Maybe, the next day, I can imagine what they are saying, but today it is implausible.”
Those are the phrases Lamont Marcell Jacobs damaged-all the way down to narrate his thoughts within the aftermath of his lovely 100m gold medal victory.
Jacobs fearful the athletics team to claim the Olympic 100m crown, becoming the primary Italian man in history to acquire so.
Speaking to the media afterwards, he thanked his family who he says have “always supported him.”
Then again, within the seconds after he crossed the line and became Olympic champion, it was Italian high jumper Gianmarco Tamberi who was the primary there to congratulate him.
Tamberi had accurate received his contain gold medal minutes ahead of and was within the excellent area to celebrate along with his compatriot.
And Jacobs believes it was the excellent way for the pair to celebrate their moments on the excellent stage.
“When I purchased to Gianmarco, we attend each varied. We all know his narrative — he may have received in Rio (2016) but he had an damage but being here together is one thing spectacular. I deem in him and believed in myself.”
Dual gold medal winners in men’s high soar assume on their victory, injuries
From CNN’s Fernando Alfonso in Atlanta

Following a thrilling cessation to the lads’s high soar, joint gold medal winners Gianmarco Tamberi of Italy and Mutaz Essa Barshim of Qatar shared their mutual appreciation for one another and the obstacles they overcame to compete in Tokyo.
“It is unreal, it is crazy. I am so happy, man. It was the handiest factor lacking (from his high soar career). Now, I am full, I am so happy,” Barshim said. “It is amazing, man. To share it with Marco is an amazing feeling. It is a great feeling. I’m really happy.”
Barshim battled back from an ankle damage while Tamberi suffered career-threatening injuries.
“After my injuries, I accurate wanted to near back back, but now I have this gold, it be implausible. I dreamed of this so many instances,” Tamberi said. “I was told in 2016 accurate ahead of Rio, there was a danger I would not be able to compete anymore. It is been a lengthy scuttle.”
Both Tamberi and Barshim had tried, and failed, to clear 2.39m in Tokyo.
They both had identical information after clearing 2.37m, so both agreed to share the gold medal and the title of Olympic champion.
Both scrape season-simplest information as they pushed each varied to the gold.
Maksim Nedasekau of Belarus received bronze on countback having also cleared 2.37m.
Belarus Olympian asks IOC for wait on against “forcible” return to Minsk
From CNN’s Seb Shukla, Krystina Shveda & Taylor Barnes

Kristina Timanovskaya, a Belarusian sprinter competing in Tokyo, released a video Sunday calling for the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to wait on her avoid being returned to her native country.
“I was assign underneath strain and they are attempting to forcibly take me out of the country with out my consent. I ask the IOC to intervene,” she says within the fast video released on social media.
It appeared online after Timanovskaya was told she must not able to compete for Belarus and must return to Minsk immediately, according to Anatol Kotau of the Belarus Sports Solidarity Foundation.
The team represents Belarusian athletes repressed by Belarusian authorities.
Kotau, who’s in relate contact with Timanovskaya, said that at around 3 p.m. Tokyo time on Sunday, representatives of the Belarus national team came to the Olympic village and asked her to “pack her assets as a decision had been made for her to return to Minsk.”
Speaking to CNN by mobile phone, Kotau said that Timanovskaya is at demonstrate at Haneda International Airport police station.
According to Kotau, Timanovskaya was scheduled to be on TK0199 to Istanbul, departing at 10: 50 p.m. local time.
Kotau added, as soon as Timanovskaya arrived at the airport, she approached a Japanese police officer and said she would care for to apply for political asylum.
In an Instagram put up on July 30, she said that she had been incorporated on a list to compete within the 4x400m relay with out her consent. “I would by no means in my life initiate to react so harshly within the event that they may near up to me in advance, explain the situation and uncover if I can flee 400m and I am ready? Nonetheless they made up our minds to acquire every part at the back of my back regardless of the fact that I attempted to uncover this information but was handiest disregarded.”
The International Olympic Committee told CNN in a statement: “The IOC has viewed the experiences within the media, is wanting into the situation and has asked the NOC (National Olympic Committee of Belarus) for clarification.”
CNN has reached out to the Belarus Olympic Committee for comment. CNN has also tried to reach Timanovskaya herself. CNN has got no comment from either party.
World epic breaker Rojas knew she “had that distance in her legs” beforehand
From CNN’s Ben Morse in London

As she landed within the sand and realized what she’d achieved, Yulimar Rojas raised her hands aloft in celebration and the tears came not lengthy afterwards.
The Venezuelan triple jumper had accurate smashed a world epic which had stood for 26 years as she flew an astonishing 15.67m.
She’d already damaged the Olympic epic on her first soar but was able to pass one step additional accurate minutes later.
And afterwards, she told the media that she knew she “had that distance in her legs” beforehand.
“I am misplaced for phrases, I can’t narrate this sense and this 2nd,” she said. “Gold medal winner, with an Olympic epic, and a world epic … Wow. It is a fantastic evening.
“I was searching for it, I knew we had that distance in my legs to accumulate it today. I was failing a bit within the technical aspect, however the last soar was one to offer every part, and it was care for that.
“I thinking about giving my simplest, taking part in and it came out.
“It makes me happy. I have to revel in it now and stay the expertise.”
Rojas broke a epic that had stood since 1995 scrape by Ukrainian Inessa Kravets.
Italy’s Lamont Marcell Jacobs wins gold within the lads’s 100 meter final
From CNN’s Fernando Alfonso in Atlanta

Italy’s Lamont Marcell Jacobs has received gold within the lads’s 100 meter finals with a time of 9.80.
American Fred Kerley received silver with 9.84 and Canadian Andre De Grasse took dwelling the bronze with 9.89.
Mammoth evening for Italy: Moral minutes ahead of the 100m final, Italy’s Gianmarco Tamberi and Qatar’s Mutaz Essa Barshim were joint Olympic champions within the lads’s high soar after both failed to clear 2.39 meters.
They both had identical information after clearing 2.37m, so both agreed to share the gold medal and the title of Olympic champion.
Joint Olympic champions in men’s high soar
From CNN’s Ben Morse in London

In what was a heartwarming scene, there have been joint Olympic gold medal winners within the lads’s high soar.
Both Italy’s Gianmarco Tamberi and Qatar’s Mutaz Essa Barshim tried, and failed, to clear 2.39m.
They both had identical information after clearing 2.37m, so both agreed to share the gold medal and the title of Olympic champion.
Both scrape season-simplest information as they pushed each varied to the gold.
Maksim Nedasekau of Belarus received bronze on countback having also cleared 2.37m.
Yulimar Rojas smashes world epic on the way to triple soar gold
From CNN’s Ben Morse in London

The anticipation for the females’s triple soar constructed up all via the evening, but Yulimar Rojas had one hand on the gold medal from her very first soar.
On her opening attempt, the Venezuelan jumper leapt 15.41m to break the Olympic epic.
On her last soar of the evening, she smashed the realm epic, leaping 15.67m to claim her first Olympic gold medal.
Rojas broke a epic that had stood since 1995 scrape by Ukrainian Inessa Kravets.
Patricia Mamona of Portugal and Spain’s Ana Peleteiro accomplished the rostrum, both setting national information on their way to the silver and bronze medals respectively
“Easiest number of of us I have viewed watching any tournament so far”: Athletics atmosphere heating up
From CNN’s Ben Morse and Bex Wright

Although fans aren’t allowed to attend athletics occasions in Tokyo, that hasn’t stopped the athletes from attempting to invent an atmosphere.
All via the lads’s high soar final, some of the participants — in particular, Gianmarco Tamberi of Italy — attempted to hype up the gang and accumulate them to clap while the rivals jumped.
As nicely as the wait on from the athletes, there have been even some small pockets of varied staff viewed within the stands.
“The Olympic Stadium has the excellent number of of us I have viewed watching any tournament so far,” CNN producer Bex Wright reported from Tokyo.
“The high jumpers in particular have been encouraging the gang attend. The Italian [Tamberi] within the lads’s high soar was leading a crowd clap, and the realm champion from Qatar [Mutaz Essa Barshim] and the NZ guy [Hamish Kerr] were getting a lot of cheers.”
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Right here’s a full list of gold medal winners from Sunday