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Brazil’s Abner Teixeira Wins Bronze in Men’s Heavyweight Boxing at Tokyo Games

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Abner Teixeira is bringing a bronze medal home to Brazil…

The 24-year-old Brazilian boxer has claimed the bronze medal in the men’s heavyweight boxing competition.

Abner Teixeira

Teixeira lost in the semifinals to Cuba’s Julio César La Cruz by a three-round decision, with a score of 4-1, to settle for the bronze.

Teixeira—one of three Brazilian boxers to medal so far—won 30-27 on one card, overruled by more sensible scores of 30-27, 30-27, 30-27 and 29-28 in favor of La Cruz who is one of five Cubans to medal and one of three to compete for Gold.

Lázaro Álvarez Claims Third Straight Boxing Bronze Medal at the Tokyo Games

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Make that three in a row for Lázaro Álvarez…

The 30-year-old Cuban amateur boxer lost his semifinal men’s featherweight boxing match to the Russian Olympic Committee’s Albert Batyrgaziev by a score of 3-2, leaving him settling for a bronze medal at the 2020 Tokyo Games.

Lázaro Álvarez

It’s Alvarez’s third consecutive Olympic bronze.

The southpaw previously won the bronze medal at the 2012 London Games and 2016 Rio Games.

Alison Dos Santos Claims Brazil’s First-Ever Olympic Medal in 400 Meter Hurdles at Tokyo Games

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Alison Dos Santos has officially put Brazil on the hurdles map…

The 21-year-old Brazilian athlete claimed the bronze medal in the 400 meter hurdles at the 2020 Tokyo Games, giving Brazil its first medal in the event.

Alison Dos Santos

Dos Santos also gave Brazil its first track and field medal at these Olympics.

A phenomenon on the rise of world athletics, Dos Santos consolidated the strength shown in the semifinals, in which he broke the South American record with a time of 47.31 seconds, improving by three hundredths his own continental mark. A brand that would drop again in the final.

Alison Dos Santos

He finished the race with a time of 46.72, right behind Team USA’s Rai Benjamin, who claimed the silver with a time of 46.17.

Norway’s Karsten Warholm claimed the gold with a world record-setting time of 45.94.

Yaime Perez Claims Bronze in Women’s Discus Throw at Tokyo Games

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The third time’s the charm for Yaime Perez…

Competing in her third Olympics, the 30-year-old Cuban athlete was able to finally take the medal stand after claiming the bronze medal in the women’s discus throw competition at the 2020 Tokyo Games.

Yaime Perez

Perez completed the competition with a best-throw of 65.72 meters.

Team USA’s Valarie Allman took home the gold with a throw of 68.98 meters.

German’s Kristin Pudenz won the silver with a throw of 66.86 meters.

Pérez won the gold medal at the 2019 World Championships and the 2019 Pan American Games.

Perez previously competed in the 2012 London Games, where she finished in 29th place in the qualifying round; and 2016 Rio Games, where she reached the final but did not advance after three throws.

Sarah Robles Repeats as Weightlifting Bronze Medalist at Tokyo Games

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It’s a déjà vu of sorts for Sarah Robles…

The 33-year-old Mexican American weightlifter has claimed the bronze medal in the women’s +87kg weightlifting competition at the 2020 Tokyo Games, becoming the first U.S. woman to win two Olympic medals in weightlifting.

Sarah Robles

Robles, known as “the strongest woman in America,” previously won the bronze medal at the 2016 Rio Games, ending a 16-year medal drought in weightlifting at that Olympics.

Robles began the competition in the over-87 kilograms class at the Tokyo International Forum by successfully making all three of her lifts in the clean and jerk. Her final lift of 128 kilograms tied the American record set in 2003 by Olympic medalist Cheryl Haworth.

Sarah Robles

Robles lifted 154 kilograms on her second attempt in the clean and jerk to give her at total of 282 kilograms. She was unsuccessful in her final attempt at 157 kilograms.

Li Wenwen of China won the gold medal with an Olympic-record total of 320 kilograms. Emily Campbell of Great Britain won the silver medal with a total of 283 kilograms, one more than Robles.

Sarah Robles

Robles’ medal came one day after her 33rd birthday. She is the oldest U.S. women’s weightlifter to medal at the Olympic Games and the second-oldest U.S. woman to compete in weightlifting at the Olympics.

Leuris Pupo Claims Silver in Men’s 25 Meter Rapid Fire Pistol Competition at Tokyo Games

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Leuris Pupo has found his way back to the medal podium…

The 44-year-old Cuban shooter earned a silver in the men’s 25 meter rapid fire pistol competition at the 2020 Tokyo Games.

Leuris Pupo

Competing in his fifth Olympics, Pupo finished the competition with a final score of 29.

France’s Jean Quiquampoix claimed the gold with a score of 34, a new Olympic record.

China’s Li Yuehong took home the bronze with a final score of 26 points.

Pupo has previously won the gold in the men’s 25 meter rapid fire pistol competition at the 2012 London Games. It was Cuba’s first-ever Olympic gold in the sport.

Crismery Santana Earns First Individual Medal by a Dominican Woman at Tokyo Games

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Crismery Santana is carrying her weight at this year’s Olympics…

The 26-year-old Dominican weightlifter claimed the bronze medal in the women’s 87kg weightlifting competition at the 2020 Tokyo Games, becoming the first Dominican woman to get on the podium in an individual sport.

Crismery Santana 

Santana finished the competition with a Snatch total of 116 kg and a Clean & Jerk total of 140 kg, for a grand total weight of 256 kg.

China’s Wang Zhouyu, who notched a total weight of 270 kg, claimed the gold.

Tamara Salazar won the silver with a weight of 263 kg.

By secure a medal, Santana has earned a RD$6 million prize announced by the Dominican government.

Santana joins Zacarías Bonnat (silver in weightlifting) and the 4 x 400 mixed relay (silver in track and field) as this Games’ Dominican medalists to date.

Tamara Salazar Claims Silver in Women’s 87kg Weightlifting Competition at Tokyo Games

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2020 Tokyo GamesTamara Salazar has helped lift Ecuador to its strongest showing at an Olympic Games…

The 23-year-old Ecuadorian weightlifter claimed the silver medal in the women’s 87kg weightlifting competition at the 2020 Tokyo Games, raising her country’s medal count to three at this year’s Olympics.

Tamara Salazar

Salazar finished second behind China’s Wang Zhouyu, who notched a total weight of 270 kg to Salazar’s 263 kg. The Dominican Republic’s Crismery Santana claimed the bronze with a total weight of 256 kg.

Salazar lifted a total of 263 kg (113 + 150) and Santana lifted 256 (116 + 140), a considerable distance from the 270 kg of Wang (120 + 150), champion of the 2018 and 2019 World Cups.

Tamara Salazar

Salazar was solid in the test by not failing in any of the attempts in both modalities, being the only athlete in the competition to achieve it. And, she credits her mom for helping motivate her onto the medal stand.

“Before competing I received a video call from my mother, who told me ‘mija, you can’. She is my greatest motivation and now I am here, with an Olympic medal, still without believing it. I dreamed it so much, I always asked God to give me the necessary strength and now I live this reality,“ said the weightlifter.

So far, Ecuador has won two gold medals (Richard Carapaz and Neisi Dajomes) and one silver (Tamara Salazar).

Cuba’s Juan Miguel Echevarría Settles for Silver After Dramatic Long Jump Finish at Tokyo Games

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Juan Miguel Echevarría has jumped his way onto the Olympics medal podium… 

The 22-year-old Cuban athlete claimed the silver medal in the men’s long jump competition at the 2020 Tokyo Games.

Juan Miguel Echevarría 

Echevarría finished the competition with a best jump of 8.41 meters, losing the gold to Miltiadis Tentoglou of Greece, who won in the most dramatic fashion as he leapt 8.41 meters in his final attempt to snatch the top prize.

Tentoglou was the world leader coming into Tokyo with an 8.60m leap at a domestic competition in May, but struggled to find his form and was outside the medals positions as he hit the runway for the final time.

Tentoglou hit the board perfectly to match the leading mark, with his second-best jump of 8.15m assuring him the gold by edging out Echevarría ‘s 8.09m.

A limping Echevarria had one more chance to improve on his second-best effort but pulled up, sinking to his knees at the board.

Maykel Masso

He was comforted by compatriot Maykel Masso, who won the bronze.

The 22-year-old Cuban long jumper finished the competition with a jump of 8.21 meters.

Juan Miguel Echevarría, Miltiadis Tentoglou, Maykel Masso

Jasmine Camacho-Quinn Claims Gold in Women’s 100-Meter Hurdles at Tokyo Games

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Jasmine Camacho-Quinn has passed a major hurdle and earned a place in Puerto Rican sports history.

The 24-year-old Puerto Rican track and field athlete raced to gold in the women’s 100-meter hurdles race on Monday morning at the 2020 Tokyo Games, giving Puerto Rico its first medal of this Olympics.

Jasmine Camacho-Quinn

Camacho-Quinn won coveted medal, just the second gold medal in Puerto Rican history, clocking in at 12.37 seconds. In a photo finish for the second and third place spots, American Keni Harrison claimed silver in 12.52 seconds and Jamaica’s Megan Tapper took home the bronze in 12.55.

“It really means a lot. This year I trained really hard; I don’t have a training partner, I’m by myself, so every time I stepped out there I gave it all I had,” Camacho-Quinn said. “This was what I wanted for this year, I wanted to be a gold medalist, and I manifested that. I spoke it into existence.”

Jasmine Camacho-Quinn

 

In 2016, Camacho-Quinn was a 19-year-old University of Kentucky student coming off an NCAA championship when she came to her first Olympics.

She fell in her semifinal, her trail leg clipping the top of the eighth of the 10 hurdles, and she couldn’t regain her form before the ninth, stumbling and falling to the track.

Jasmine Camacho-Quinn

The daughter of a father born in South Carolina and a mother born in Puerto Rico, Camacho-Quinn chose to represent her mother’s island; even though Puerto Ricans are U.S. citizens, the IOC recognizes it as its own country for the purposes of Olympic competition and laws. Tennis player Monica Puig won Puerto Rico’s first gold medal in 2016.

Asked how long that Rio stumble stayed with her, Camacho-Quinn said it’s basically been inescapable over the last five years.

Jasmine Camacho-Quinn

“I’m constantly reminded; somebody’s always messaging me and like, ‘Oh I’m sorry for what happened’ and I’m like I need y’all to let that go, please,” she said, laughing. “I need y’all to let it go.

“But yesterday before semis I kind of had a breakdown because I don’t want the same thing to happen again, but I knew how I’d been racing all season, just do that and I’ll be OK.”

She may have allowed that memory to cause her momentary pause, but clearly it didn’t linger: Camacho-Quinn set an Olympic record in the semis on Sunday, running 12.26. It ties her for the fourth-fastest performance of all time.

Camacho-Quinn, whose older brother Robert currently plays for the Chicago Bears, had the three fastest times in the world this season coming into Tokyo, which gave her confidence for the Games.

“This year, when I opened up and seeing where I was” — she ran 12.47 seconds in her opener on April 10 and 12.32 a week later — “I was like, wow, I might have a really fast year this year. From that moment I’m like, ‘OK I know what I can do, and let’s work towards that’,” she said.