Jepchirchir
finally
broke
from
her
countrywoman
with
a
little
over
two
kilometres
to
go
and
pulled
away
to
win
by
16
seconds.
Kosgei’s
second-place
finish
made
Kenya
the
first
nation
to
claim
gold
and
silver
in
the
event
at
the
same
Olympic
Games.
Tokyo
2020:
Games
Diary;
History
made
at
every
turn
in
track
and
field
“I
pushed
on
the
pace
[and
when
I
opened
the
gap]
it
was
like,
‘Wow,
I’m
going
to
make
it.
I’m
going
to
win,'”
Jepchirchir
said.
“It
feels
good.
I’m
so,
so
happy
because
we
win
as
Kenya.
First
and
second.
I
thank
my
god
so
much.
I’m
happy
for
my
family.
I’m
happy
for
my
country,
Kenya.”
Ten
seconds
behind
Kosgei,
Molly
Seidel
of
the
USA
shouted
“Yes!
Yes!”
as
she
crossed
the
line
for
a
stunning
bronze
medal
in
only
her
third
competitive
marathon.
Seidel
is
the
third
US
woman
to
medal
in
the
marathon,
following
Joan
Benoit
Samuelson’s
gold
at
the
inaugural
women’s
race
in
Los
Angeles
in
1984
and
Deena
Kastor’s
bronze
at
Athens
2004.
She
said
she
took
inspiration
from
her
friend
Courtney
Frerichs’ aggressive
approach
that
led
to
a
silver
medal
in
the
3,000m
steeplechase
this
week.
“Seeing
her
do
that
and
race
aggressively
was
truthfully
what
gave
me
the
strength
to
not
be
afraid
to
stick
my
nose
in
it,”
Seidel
said.
“It
is
just
to
go
out,
stick
your
nose
where
it
doesn’t
belong
and
try
and
make
some
people
angry.
My
goal
today
was
just
to
go
in
and
for
people
to
think,
‘Who
the
hell
is
this
girl?’.”
ANOTHER
GOLD
FOR
MCGEE
FAMILY
JaVale
McGee
was
a
late
addition
to
the
USA
basketball
squad,
but
Saturday’s
victory
over
France
made
him
a
part
of
history.
McGee’s
mother
Pam
won
gold
with
the
USA
in
basketball
at
the
1984
Los
Angeles
Games,
and
she
and
JaVale
are
now
the
first
American
mother-son
combo
to
win
gold
in
any
sport.
“It’s
an
amazing
feeling
man,”
McGee
said.
“I
got
a
gold
medal,
my
mother’s
got
a
gold
medal.
You
can’t
really
explain
it,
just
knowing
you’re
the
best
in
the
world.
“If
that
don’t
add
to
the
resume,
I
don’t
know
what
will.
It’s
a
family
resume.
That’s
what
it’s
all
about,
in
the
end,
is
family.”
YAFAI
WINS
BOXING
GOLD
FOR
BRITAIN
Galal
Yafai
became
the
first
British
man
to
win
boxing
gold
since
London
2012,
defeating
Carlo
Paalam
of
the
Philippines
for
the
flyweight
title
Saturday.
Yafai
knocked
down
Paalam
in
the
opening
round
and
never
looked
back,
winning
4-1.
The
28-year-old
Birmingham
native
competed
in
Rio
as
a
light
flyweight
but
lost
in
the
second
round.
He
is
the
first
Brit
to
medal
in
the
men’s
fly
since
1956.
Paalam
is
the
first
man
from
the
Philippines
to
medal
in
any
sport
since
boxer
Mansueto
Velasco
took
silver
in
the
light
fly
at
Atlanta
1996.
BEACH
VOLLEYBALL
NEWCOMERS
TAKE
MEDALS
A
sport
traditionally
dominated
by
Brazil
and
the
USA
saw
three
newcomers
on
the
podium
on
Saturday.
The
Norway
duo
of
Anders
Mol
and
Christian
Sorum
defeated
Viacheslav
Krasilnikov
and
Oleg
Stoyanovskiy,
representing
the
Russian
Olympic
Committee,
to
take
home
the
gold
medal.
In
the
bronze-medal
match,
Ahmed
Tijan
and
Cherif
Younousse
of
Qatar
downed
Edgar
Tocs
and
2012
bronze
medallist
Martins
Plavins
of
Latvia.
None
of
the
podium
nations
had
won
a
medal
of
any
kind
in
men’s
or
women’s
beach
volleyball
before,
though
the
winners
do
have
an
Olympic
legacy
of
sorts.
Mol’s
mother,
Merita
Berntsen,
placed
ninth
with
partner
Ragni
Hestad
in
the
first
beach
volleyball
competition
at
the
1996
Atlanta
Games,
then
retired
when
Anders
was
born
the
next
year.
“My
mum
thought
it
was
going
to
be
really
hard
to
travel
around
with
two
kids,
because
my
brother
was
born
in
1994.
She
had
me
and
then
quit,” Mol
said.
“I
always
dreamed
of
beating
my
mum
in
the
Olympics.
She
got
a
ninth
[place[.
I
was
actually
really
happy
when
we
made
it
to
the
quarter-finals
because
we
became
historical
by
achieving
[at
least]
a
fifth
place.
“It
has
been
a
journey
for
a
long
time
and
our
parents
and
families
are
very
proud
of
us
right
now.”
SIXTH
KAYAK
GOLD
FOR
HUNGARY’S
KOZAK
Danuta
Kozak
claimed
her
sixth
Olympic
gold
medal
as
Hungary
won
the
women’s
sprint
kayak
four
500
metres.
The
34-year-old
teamed
with
Tamara
Csipes,
Anna
Karasz
and
Dora
Bodonyi
to
hold
off
Belarus
and
Poland.
It
was
Kozak’s
third
consecutive
gold
in
the
fours
after
taking
silver
in
the
event
in
her
Olympic
debut
in
Beijing.
She
also
won
gold
in
the
K1
500m
in
London
and
Rio,
and
in
the
K2
in
Rio.
She
took
bronze
in
the
K2
earlier
this
week,
so
Saturday’s
win
gives
her
eight
Olympic
medals
overall.
In
other
sprint
kayak
finals,
Germany
won
the
men’s
kayak
four
500m,
China
took
the
women’s
canoe
double
500m
and
Isaquias
Queiroz
dos
Santos
of
Brazil
won
the
canoe
single
1000m.
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