Engleder captures gold in Rio, her final Games
Uchimura racked up a massive bill for playing Pokemon Go in the Olympic village and fell from the high bar in preliminary qualifying on Saturday on what has so far been an eventful Games for the 27-year-old.
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The United States have topped the medal standings after day four of the 2016 Olympic Games.
Engleder, who finished sixth in the event in the London 2012 Games, nearly coughed up the gold medal on the final shot, only scoring a 9.0 as China’s silver medalist Binbin Zhang fired a 10.4.
China had three golds (two in weightlifting) while France won their first gold medals of the Rio Olympics. Her teammate Maya DiRado added a gold to her silver and bronze performances earlier in the week.
Judo, men’s 81 kilograms: Khasan Khalmurzaev of Russian Federation beat Travis Stevens of the United States to take the gold medal, while Sergiu Toma of UAE (previously Moldova) and Takanori Nagase of Japan took bronze. She fell to the bronze medal on Thursday after hitting an 8.6 on her final shot.
In the men’s 100m freestyle, American Nathan Adrian took bronze, finishing five hundredths of a second behind Belgium’s Pieter Timmers.
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Swimming, women’s 200 meters individual medley: More Katinka Hosszu of Hungary, taking her third gold of the Olympics, setting a new Olympic record with 2:06.58.
The United States entered Tuesday’s prime time swimming events leading the total medal count but trailing China in gold.