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TOKYO (Reuters) - Canada's Maude Charron won the gold medal in the women's 64kg weightlifting event with a combined lift of 236kg at Tokyo Olympics on Tuesday. Italy's Giorgia Bordignon took the silve...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Defending champions Serbia got their Olympic title defence up and running at the second time of asking, with a 19-5 victory over Kazakhstan in the men's water polo competition at Tat...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Estonia won gold in the women's team epee fencing competition on Tuesday. South Korea took silver, and Italy bronze. (Reporting by Sakura Murakami; editing by John Stonestreet)

By Ece Toksabay and Junko Fujita TOKYO (Reuters) - Weightlifter Polina Guryeva made history on Tuesday as Turkmenistan's first Olympic medallist and, as the shock sank in, began wondering how she migh...

By Eimi Yamamitsu TOKYO (Reuters) - For Austrian Liu Jia, reaching the last 16 of the women's singles table tennis event has left her facing a dilemma -- she is still in the running to win a medal at ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -Simone Biles's quest to become the greatest female Olympian here in Tokyo took a bizarre twist on Tuesday. After a disappointing vault in the first rotation of the women's team event,...

TOKYO (Reuters) - After two days of hitting flying clay objects at the Asaka Shooting Range, Naoko Ishihara's trusted shotgun fell silent as she prepared to return to a 1,300-year-old shrine in Kanuma...

TOKYO (Reuters) - The United States women's soccer team were less than convincing in their goalless draw with Australia on Tuesday but did enough to reach the Olympic tournament knockout stage behind ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese judoka Takanori Nagase won the gold medal in the men's -81 kg weight class on Tuesday by beating Saeid Mollaei of Mongolia in the final. Shamil Borchashvili of Austria and M...

TOKYO (Reuters) - French judoka Clarisse Agbegnenou won the gold medal in the women's -63 kg weight class on Tuesday by defeating Slovenian Tina Trstenjak in the final. Italy's Maria Centracchio and C...