Tokyo, 5 Aug (Xinhua) -- On 5 August, two well-known "dream teams" won two more gold for China. China's women's table tennis defeated Japan and achieved the Olympic women's table tennis team's four consecutive championships; 14-year-old Quan Hongchan won the gold medal in diving 10 meters without suspense. The "Chinese Whirlwind" was reproduced on the track and field, and the men's and women's relay teams advanced together to advance to the 4×100m relay final.
In the afternoon diving women's singles 10m platform final, Quan Hongchan and teammate Chen Yaoxi played together. The competition lost suspense from the first jump, and the first time she participated in the international competition, Quan Hong Chan five jumped in three jumps, not only created a record of 466.20 points in the history of the Olympic diving competition, as well as the minimum age of the Chinese delegation to win the Olympic Games, her almost perfect water pressure splash technology also made "dumplings are bigger than her splash" and other topics on the hot search. Chen Yaoxi won the silver medal.
In the evening women's table tennis team final, the Chinese women did not leave any opportunities for the hosts, and defeated the opponent in three straight sets, winning the 34th gold for the Chinese delegation. The Hong Kong team won the bronze medal.
After Su Bingtian made history in the 100-meter final, China Speed once again surprised the new Tokyo National Stadium on the 5th, with the men's and women's relay teams both reaching the 4×100m relay finals, while in the triple jump final, Zhu Yaming won the second place with a personal best of 17.57 meters. The wrestling event also ushered in a surprise, and Pang Qianyu successfully advanced to the women's freestyle 53 kg final.
However, the United States and Japan were "frightened" on the day, and the American team was only sixth in the group in the handover error in the 4×100m relay preliminaries, and the favorite to win the championship was out early. The event familiar to Chinese audiences – the men's 110m hurdles, the favourite to win the title – Horowe, who ran this year's world best of 12.81 seconds in the U.S. domestic Olympic trials, finished second in 13.09 seconds, while the 31-year-old Jamaican, who finished third at the London Olympics, unexpectedly won the championship 0.05 seconds ahead.
Japan, on the first day of the opening of the karate, was almost completely unsuccessful, winning only one silver medal; while in the men's climbing mixed event, which the hosts aimed to win, Tomoya Ubizaki, who had high hopes from Japan, ranked fourth in his own strength difficulty competition, and Spain's 18-year-old Lopez won the championship. It was also the first gold medal in Olympic history.
Another new Olympic sport skateboard produced the last gold medal of the Olympic Games on the same day, and the Australian athlete finally broke Japan's gold monopoly in the event and won the men's bowl pool championship. At this point, skateboarding was completed, and the host Japan won three golds; Chinese teenager Zeng Wenhui finished sixth in the women's street competition that had previously ended.
Although it had a slight disappointment in the relay and hurdles events, the United States still won 4 gold medals in athletics, boxing and kayak still water on the 5th. On the gold medal list, China's 34 gold, 24 silver and 16 bronze are still at the top of the list, the United States is second in 29 gold, 35 silver and 27 bronze, and Japan is third in 22 gold, 10 silver and 14 bronze, and the pattern of the top three has not changed.
The men's basketball semifinals also ended on the same day, and the United States will compete with France for the gold medal. The latter narrowly beat Slovenia, which owns Doncic, 90:89.
On the same day, IOC President Bach went to the Uenomori Water Arena in Tokyo to visit The Chinese team members Liu Hao and Zheng Pengfei, who won the 1,000-meter runner-up in the men's double rowing boat on the 3rd. Bach said he had previously watched the live broadcast of the two athletes' matches, appreciated their fighting spirit, and wished them excellent results in the next competition.
Bach also gave them a custom Watch for the Tokyo Olympics made by the International Olympic Committee specifically for champions or special honor athletes, and the two athletes presented Bach with a model of a competitive dragon boat. In this regard, Bach said that the dragon boat sport reflects the culture of team combat and unity, especially the motto of this year's Olympic Games has added the word "more unity", and the dragon boat sport is undoubtedly a display of the Olympic spirit. (End)