TOKYO – First day of event Tokyo 2020 Olympics has been completed, Saturday (24/7/2021). The provisional medal acquisition was led by China with a collection of three gold medals and one bronze medal.
The Bamboo Curtain country also won the first gold medal in this multi-event event. Chinese athlete Yang Qian won the first gold medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics in the women’s 10-meter air rifle shooting event.
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While the other two Chinese gold medals came from fencing and weightlifting in the women’s 49 kg class. Sun Yiwen won the gold medal in fencing while Hou Zhihuia won the women’s 49 kg weightlifting gold medal.
Right behind China, Italy is trailing in second place with a total of two medals. One gold medal and one silver medal were won by the Italian contingent on the first day of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
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Meanwhile, host Japan is in third place in the medal standings. Same with Italy, Japan’s representatives currently only won one gold medal and one silver medal.
The first gold medal for the host country came from judo through their athlete, Takato Naohisa who was in the men’s 60kg class. In the final, Takato beat Taipei’s representative, Yang Yung Wei.
