Monday, August 8, 2016

Rio 2016 Highlights - Day 3


August 7, 2016 - DAY 3

For Day 3 of the Rio 2016 Olympics, Archery, Cycling Road, Diving, Fencing, Judo, Shooting, Swimming, and Weightlifting are the medal events for the day.

In the Women's Team Archery match, South Korea wins the Gold Medal while Russia wins the Silver Medal and Cn Taipei wins the Bronze medal. At the Women's Road Race, Anna Van Der Breggen of Holland placed 1st while Emma Johansson from Sweden is in 2nd place and Elisa Longo Borghini of Italy placed 3rd.

At the Women's Sync. 3m Springboard competition, Tingmao Shi and Minxia Wu from China won the gold medal while Tania Cagnotto and Francesca Dallape from Italy snagged the silver medal and Australia's Maddison Keeney and Anabelle Smith took home the bronze.

Daniele Garozzo from Italy is the victor of the Men's Foil Individual, defeating the likes of USA's Alexander Massialas and Russia's Timur Safin.

Majlinda Kelmendi from Kosovo wins the Women's 52kg judo against the likes of Odette Giuffrida from Italy and Natalia Kuziuttina from Russia while Fabio Basile from Italy wins the Men's 66kg judo against the likes of Baul An from S. Korea and Masashi Ebinuma from Japan.

Mengxue Zhang from China wins the 10m Air Pistol Women's Finals against Vitalina Batsarashkina from Russia and Anna Korakaki from Greece while Catherine Skinner from Australia wins the Trap Shooting match against Natalie Rodney from New Zealand and Corey Cogdell from the USA.

In the Women's 53kg Group A match, Shu-Ching Hsu from Cn Taipei wins the Gold Medal while the Philippines' very own Hidilyn Diaz wins silver while South Korea's Jin Hee Yoon wins bronze.

And finally, in the Women's 100m Butterfly Final, Sarah Sjostrom wins the match while Penny Oleksiak from Canada placed 2nd and Dana Vollmer from the USA placed 3rd.

For full schedule and results: https://www.rio2016.com/en/schedule-and-results

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