A roundup from events.
Canada wins first women’s soccer gold medal after dramatic shootout
YOKOHAMA, Japan — Stephanie Labbe blocked two shots in a shootout and Julia Grosso converted the winner as Canada won its first major title Friday night, beating Sweden in a shootout for the gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics.
Canada beat Sweden 3-2 on penalties after the game ended in a 1-1 tie. Jessie Fleming converted a penalty in the 67th and Stina Blacksteinius had scored in the 34th.
Canada’s best finish at a World Cup or an Olympics had been the bronze medal in both London and Rio. Their victory gives Christine Sinclair, the international scoring leader, a gold medal in what could be her last game for Canada.
U.S. women take silver in 4x100 relay behind Jamaica
TOKYO – The U.S. women’s team was unable to get a third-consecutive Olympic gold medal in the 4x100-relay, but they will be on the podium.
The four-member relay team ran a season-best 41.45 to place second in the 4x100-meter relay final on Friday night.
Kenya’s Faith Kipyegon wins women’s 1,500 meters in Olympic record
TOKYO – Faith Kipyegon set a new Olympic record in the women’s 1,500 meters to win gold here on Friday.
Kipyegon pulled away in the final 200 meters of the race to finish in 3:53:11, ahead of Britan’s Laura Muir and Sigan Hassan of the Netherlands.
Allyson Felix makes history with bronze medal run in 400 meters
TOKYO — This one’s for the moms. Less than three years after the birth of her daughter Camryn, Allyson Felix won bronze in the women’s 400-meter dash at the Tokyo Olympics on Friday night, becoming just the second U.S. track and field athlete to win 10 Olympic medals.
Felix, 35, joins Carl Lewis as the only two Americans to win double-digit medals on the track. Only 11 U.S. athletes in all sports, both summer and winter, have ever reached the milestone – and eight of them are swimmers, where competitors can more easily take on multiple events.
Felix used a strong kick Friday to finish in the top three, crossing the line in 49.46. Shaunae Miller-Uibo of the Bahamas won the gold in 48.36, and Marileidy Paulino took the silver.
–Tom Schad
U.S.’s Paul Chelimo wins bronze in 5k with dramatic diving finish
TOKYO -- Paul Chelimo lunged headfirst over the finish line Friday to win bronze in the men’s 5,000-meter final, falling on his stomach after recording a season-best time of 12:59.05.
Chelimo led for parts of the race but ultimately couldn’t keep up with Uganda’s Joshua Cheptegei and Canada’s Mohammed Ahmed, who finished first and second, respectively.
–Tom Schad
American heavyweight Gable Steveson earns wrestling gold
TOKYO – U.S. wrestling heavyweight Gable Steveson, still a collegian at Minnesota, won the Olympic men’s freestyle 125kg gold medal in the closing seconds Friday.
Steveson, 21, defeated Georgia’s Geno Petriashvili 9-8 at Makuhari Messe Hall, completing an astounding run that includes going undefeated to an NCAA title as a junior and outscoring opponents 42-4 at the U.S. Olympic Trials.
–Jeff Metcalfe
Ariel Torres wins U.S.’s first Olympic medal in karate
TOKYO – American karateka Ariel Torres won the bronze medal bout in men’s kata, the non-fighting discipline of karate, earning the U.S.’s first Olympic medal in karate.
Torres, 23, scored 26.72 points overall, which is broken down to a technical performance score of 18.62 and an athletic performance score of 8.10. He finished with a greater score than his opponent Antonio Jose Diaz Fernandez of Venezuela, who earned 26.34 points.
–Olivia Reiner
Kyle Dake becomes sixth U.S. wrestling medalist with bronze in freestyle
TOKYO – U.S. wrestler Kyle Dake won an Olympic bronze medal Friday in men’s freestyle 74-kilogram class.
Dake, the 2018 world champion at 79kg, defeated Italy’s Frank Chamizo Marquez 5-0 at Makuhari Messe Hall with all but one point scored in the first period.
Dake is the sixth U.S. wrestling medalist in Tokyo.
U.S. women’s basketball team reaches gold medal game
TOKYO — There isn’t a single entity in American sports as reliable as the U.S. women’s basketball team. Not only do they show up at every Olympics with superior talent to the rest of the world, they deliver on that promise time and time again – without exception, without drama, without fail.
At this point, it’s nothing less than a dynasty. And Team USA is one win away from extending their dominance one more Olympic cycle.
After dispatching Serbia in the semifinals, 79-59, the U.S. team will play in the gold medal round on Sunday against Japan.
–Dan Wolken
Team USA advances to indoor volleyball final
TOKYO — The U.S. women’s volleyball team will finally have a chance to play for Olympic gold.
The Americans advanced to the final, beating Serbia 25-19, 25-15, 25-23 in the semifinal on Friday. Annie Drews and Jordan Larson led the U.S. women with 17 and 15 points, respectively.
–Rachel Axon
Nelly Korda heads into final round of women’s golf with lead
KAWAGOE, Japan — Nelly Korda didn’t have her best game, at least not compared to Thursday’s Olympic-record score of 62 (9-under-par) in the second round, but that didn’t matter much.
She’ll carry a three-shot lead into the final round of the stroke play tournament on Saturday at Kasumigaseki Country Club, with Aditi Ashok of India three strokes back, after shooting a 69.
Groups will tee off at 6:30 a.m. local time off tees one and 10 in an effort to finish the final round before an expected tropical storm moves into the area. Before the tournament started, players had been warned the tournament may last only 54 hole or that the final round could be moved to Sunday.
Others at 10-under are Hannah Greene (Australia), Emily Petersen (Denmark) and Japan’s Mone Inami.
Ross and Klineman capture beach volleyball gold
TOKYO – The U.S. beach volleyball “A Team” of April Ross and Alix Klineman took Olympic gold in their 2-0 finals victory over Australia’s Mariafe Artacho del Solar and Taliqua Clancy.
Ross and Klineman won 2-0 (21-15, 21-16). Ross contributed nine total attack points and Klineman finished with ten attack points and two block points. They went on an early 5-0 run to go up 7-2 in the first set and Australia was never able to take a lead through 20 minutes of playtime.