Tokyo 2020 Olympics: Kenya’s Jepchirchir wins marathon, plus diving, boxing and more – live! | Sport

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Girls’s marathon: The Olympic marathon is meant to be the last word check however that’s normally simply due to the competitors. The warmth has been half the battle at this time. Kenya’s Peres Jepchirchir streaks forward to take gold, her teammate Brigid Kosgei, the world document holder, hangs on for silver. And it’s an excellent bronze for USA’s Molly Seidel in simply her third-ever marathon – she screams in delight as she crosses the road. If I don’t win an Olympic medal in my third marathon, I’m not going to be pleased. The profitable time is 2hr 27min 20 sec.

Girls’s marathon: Brigid Kosgei has a private greatest (and world document) of 2hr 14min. She received’t get wherever close to that at this time on this sweltering warmth and she or he could not get the gold both: Peres Jepchirchir has dropped her Kenyan teammate! Kosgei appears to be like uncomfortable now. She ought to nonetheless get silver however so much can occur within the 1km or so to go.

Girls’s marathon: Kenya’s Kosgei and Jepchirchir look again because the runners go below some blessed shade within the campus of Hokkaido College. They’d have seen USA’s Seidel sliding into the gap. It’s between the 2 Kenyans for silver and gold now. About 1.6 miles to go.

Girls’s marathon: And a giant break! Kenya’s Kosgei and Jepchirchir have gotten forward of the sector. USA’s Seidel is possibly 10 seconds again in bronze, whereas Israel’s Salpeter has slowed to a stroll. If her race isn’t over, her medal chances are high. Two miles to go.

Girls’s marathon: The temperature continues to climb in Sapporo because the morning wears on. The athletes are in search of the shady aspect of the highway at any time when they’ll. USA’s Molly Seidel is beginning to fall of the main pack now. Her inexperience could also be coming into play now …

Girls’s marathon: Yep, Chumba is certainly dropping off the main pack so we now have USA’s Seidel, Kenya’s Kosgei and Jepchirchir, and Israel’s Salpeter within the medal hunt. That is solely Seidel’s third-ever marathon and she or he look fairly snug because the athletes seize drinks from the feeding station.

Girls’s marathon: Simply over 4 miles to go and the main pack is down Bahrain’s Chumba, USA’s Seidel, Kenya’s Kosgei and Jepchirchir, and Israel’s Salpeter. However Chumba is beginning to drift off. Considered one of these girls would be the Olympic champion.

So, the tip is nigh – and I’m not simply speaking in regards to the collapse of the Gulf Stream. Yep, the Olympics are nearing their finish – as is the ladies’s marathon because the athletes pound the streets of Sapporo (we’ve moved north to keep away from the Tokyo warmth. Though it’s scorching in Sapporo too). We’ll have way more on the massive race quickly, however within the meantime right here is my colleague Martin Belam with the Day 15 highlights.

All occasions are listed right here in native Tokyo time. Add an hour for Grafton, subtract eight hours for Bristol, 13 hours for Jacksonville and 16 hours for San Francisco.

When you solely watch one factor: 7.35pm-9.50pm Athletics/monitor and discipline – there’s just one session within the stadium on Saturday and it’s remaining after remaining. We get the girls’s excessive soar and the males’s javelin. The girls’s 10,000m remaining is at 7.45pm. The males’s 1500m remaining is 8.40pm. Then we end the monitor occasions within the stadium with the explosive double whammy of the ladies’s and males’s 4x400m relay finals 🥇

• 6am Girls’s marathon – held in Sapporo to attempt to keep away from the Tokyo warmth, the ladies will begin at round 10pm UK time so you possibly can settle in along with your Ovaltine for a late night time watching another person run 26.2 miles to gold 🥇
• 6.30am Golf – it ought to be the fourth and remaining spherical of the ladies’s golf – climate allowing 🥇
• 9.30am-12.47pm Canoe dash – there are 4 finals on Saturday, within the girls’s canoe double 500m, males’s canoe single 1000m, and the kayak 4 500m in each flavours 🥇
• 10am-12.20pm Seashore volleyball – the lads’s bronze match options pairs from Latvia and Qatar, adopted by Norway and Not Russia serving for gold 🥇
• 10am and 3pm Diving – the lads’s 10m platform semi-final after which the ultimate 🥇
• 10am, 11.30am and 3.20pm Rhythmic gymnastics – the morning periods are {qualifications} for the group all-around. The afternoon is the person all-around remaining 🥇
• 11.30am, 4pm and 8pm Basketball – the programme is all topsy-turvy – presumably for the advantage of US TV audiences – however the morning begins with the lads’s gold medal recreation between the USA and France. At 4pm, it’s the ladies’s bronze remaining (France v Serbia) with the lads’s bronze medal match between Australia and Slovenia at 8pm 🥇
• 12pm and 7pm Baseball – first the bronze medal match between the Dominican Republic and South Korea, after which the ultimate within the night between Japan and the USA 🥇
• 2pm-3.15pm Boxing – 4 remaining bouts at this time in males’s fly, girls’s fly, males’s center and ladies’s welter weights. Britain’s Galal Yafai faces Cuba’s Carlo Paalam at 2pm 🥇
• 2pm-8.45pm Karate – that includes the lads’s Kumite +75kg and ladies’s Kumite +61kg. The bronze medal bouts and the finals get going round 7.20pm 🥇
• 2.30pm-7.30pm Trendy pentathlon – the lads’s competitors options swimming, fencing, present leaping after which the mixed cross-country run interrupted by having to shoot at issues. It’s so nice to observe 🥇
• 3.30pm-6.25pm Observe biking – races all day, however one remaining to look out for: the lads’s madison remaining at 4.55pm 🥇
• 5pm and 9pm Handball – it’s Egypt v Spain for bronze first, then France v Denmark for the gold within the males’s competitors 🥇
• 7pm Equestrian – it’s the ultimate day with the horses at this time, and it’s the leaping staff remaining 🐴🥇
• 7.30pm Creative swimming – the staff free routine remaining lights up Saturday on the ultimate day of occasions 🥇
• 8.30pm Soccer – it’s the lads’s remaining in Yokohama, that includes Brazil v Spain 🥇

You will discover our full interactive occasions schedule right here, which additionally acts as a stay scoreboard throughout the day.

Because it stands

Right here’s how the emoji desk stood at 11pm Tokyo time:

1 🇨🇳 China 🥇 36 🥈 26 🥉 17 whole: 79
2 🇺🇸 USA 🥇 31 🥈 36 🥉 31 whole: 98
3 🇯🇵 Japan🥇 24 🥈 11 🥉 16 whole: 51

4 🇬🇧 Nice Britain 🥇 18 🥈 20 🥉 20 whole: 58
5 ◽️ Not Russia 🥇 17 🥈 23 🥉 22 whole: 62
6 🇦🇺 Australia 🥇 17 🥈 6 🥉 21 whole: 44
7 🇮🇹 Italy 🥇 10 🥈 10 🥉 18 whole: 38
8 🇩🇪 Germany 🥇 9 🥈 11 🥉 16 whole: 36
9 🇳🇱 Netherlands 🥇 9 🥈 10 🥉 12 whole: 31
10 🇫🇷 France 🥇 7 🥈 11 🥉 9 whole: 27