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CHIBA, Japan (Reuters) - Russian Maksim Khramtcov defeated Jordanian Saleh Elsharabaty to win the men's taekwondo -80kg category gold medal on Monday. Egypt's Seif Eissa and Croatia's Toni Kanaet clai...

By Steve Keating TOKYO (Reuters) - Russia ended Asia's domination of the Olympic gymnastics men's team event on Monday when they survived a ferocious fightback from China and Japan at the Tokyo Games ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Philippines' Hidilyn Diaz became her country's first ever Olympic gold medallist on Monday, winning the women's 55 kg category for weightlifting at Tokyo 2020. In her fourth and prob...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Cheung Ka Long of Hong Kong won gold in the individual men's foil fencing competition on Monday. Daniele Garozzo of Italy took silver, and Alexander Choupenitch of the Czech Republic...

TOKYO (Reuters) - The U.S. women's water polo team won a battle of attrition with China 12-7 to inch closer to the knockout stages of the Olympic event on Monday, in a match in which their captain Mag...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Sofia Pozdniakova of the Russian Olympic Committee won gold in the individual women's sabre fencing competition on Monday. Sofya Velikaya, also of the ROC, took silver, and Manon Bru...

By Mari Saito TOKYO (Reuters) - Skateboarders making their debut at the Olympics are attracting attention for their outfits as much as for their skills. Twitter users on Monday were especially impress...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Hours after losing the 400m freestyle to Australia's Ariarne Timus, five-times Olympic gold medallist Katie Ledecky was back in the pool and posted the quickest time in qualifying fo...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese judoka Shohei Ono won the gold medal in the men's 73 kg weight category at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics on Monday, beating Lasha Shavdatuashvili of Georgia in the final. Bronze m...

TOKYO (Reuters) - The medals in the surfing competition at the Tokyo Games will be decided 24 hours earlier than scheduled on Tuesday according to changes made on the official Olympic website on Monda...