France gained its first gold medal of its residence Video games within the males’s rugby sevens, whereas Belgium’s Remco Evenepoel continued his meteoric rise with a gold within the males’s particular person time trial.
France, the host nation of the Paris Olympics 2024, was among the many international locations that gained a gold medal on the opening day of the Video games.
Right here’s a abstract of a few of the medal winners from Saturday:
Dupont the hero in France’s emphatic gold medal rugby win
France claimed their first gold medal of the Paris Olympics, and first of any sort in males’s rugby sevens, when Antoine Dupont led them to a surprising 28-7 win over double-defending champions Fiji on an unforgettable night time within the Stade de France.
Fiji had gained all 17 of their earlier matches within the Olympics and went forward by way of Joseva Talacolo.
However the residence followers exploded when Rayan Rebbadj, who scored twice within the semifinal win over South Africa earlier, dived between the posts to stage the scores at halftime.
Celebrity scrumhalf Dupont then got here off the bench to arrange Aaron Grandidier Nkanang, who barrelled over himself to make it 21-7.
The 67,000 crowd might barely management themselves as France then managed the ball within the remaining minutes and nearly took the roof off when Dupont crashed over within the remaining play of the match to make the ultimate rating 28-7.
The Fijians settled for the silver, whereas within the earlier bronze medal match, South Africa beat Australia 26-19 with the final play of a pulsating third-place playoff.
American Perry Baker additionally made headlines, changing into the all-time main males’s scorer in Olympic rugby sevens when he claimed his tenth strive in america’s 17-14 loss to Eire of their 5-8 putting playoff.
Evenepoel and Brown seize golds in biking highway occasions
On the moist and slippery roads of Paris, Belgium’s Remco Evenepoel gained the gold medal within the males’s particular person time trial, whereas Australia’s Grace Brown triumphed within the girls’s competitors.
Evenepoel added an Olympic gold to his world title with the 24-year-old clocking 36 minutes and 12.16 seconds over 32.4km (20.1 miles) in driving rain to beat Italy’s Filippo Ganna by 14.92 seconds.
Evenepoel’s fellow countryman Wout van Aert accomplished the rostrum with a third-place end.
Within the girls’s highway biking, Brown earned Australia’s first gold medal at this 12 months’s Olympics as she destroyed the sector, her energy and bike dealing with talents unmatched by her rivals all through the competition.
The Australian gained on the course at Pont Alexandre III by a whopping 1 minute and 31.59 seconds, whereas the UK’s Anna Henderson took the silver. A number of riders slid and fell on moist and cobbled corners, with world champion Chloe Dygert settling for bronze.
Two medals for France in judo
Japan’s Natsumi Tsunoda gained gold within the girls’s beneath 48kg (105.8 kilos) class.
Three-time champion Tsunoda defeated reigning world champion Baasankhuu Bavuudorj of Mongolia, who took the silver medal. Shirine Boukli, who gained France’s first medal of their residence Video games, shared the bronze with Sweden’s Tara Babulfath.
Kazakhstan’s Yeldos Smetov was the champion within the males’s beneath 60kg (132.2 kilos) occasion.
Smetov gained Kazakhstan their first gold medal in Paris, with France’s Luka Mkheidze gathering a silver medal. The bronze medals went to Japan’s Nagayama Ryuju and Spain’s Francisco Garrigos.
