Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 | Italian Jacobs succeeds Bolt with Olympic gold in 100m

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gives another medal to the Spanish delegation: Ray Zapata has taken silver in the floor final behind the Israeli Artem Dolgopyat, who obtained exactly the same score as the Spanish, 14,933, but took gold due to the greater difficulty of his exercise. It is the first Spanish gymnastics medal since Gervasio Deferr's silver on the ground in Beijing 2008. In the triple jump final, Venezuelan Yulimar Rojas made history by breaking the world record on her last attempt: 15.67m. It was in that same test, with the Portuguese Patricia Mamona, silver, in which the Galician Ana Peleteiro beat the Spanish record twice to take the bronze with a jump of 14.87m. Spain already has seven metals. In swimming, Caeleb Dressel broke the Olympic record of 50 freestyle and participated in the world record in 4x100 strokes.And in the star test of the day, the final of the 100m sprint, the Italian Lemon Marcell Jacobs, with a time of 9.80s, became the heir to Usain Bolt. Jacobs is the new Olympic champion.

In team sports, the Spanish men's handball team closed the group stage with a victory against Argentina (36-27) heading to the quarterfinals.

The women's basketball team beat Canada (66-76) and will avoid playing the US in that round as well.

The men's team fell (87-95) to Doncic's Slovenia, who they struggled to annul throughout the match.

The team led by Ricky and the Gasol brothers will go to the quarterfinals as second in group C and will face the United States.

It was the men's hockey team that did not make it to the semifinals, which was eliminated 3-1 by world champion Belgium.

The most outstanding results of the day:

• ATHLETICS.

  Lemon Marcell Jacobs (9.80s) wins Olympic gold in the 100m sprint.

• GYMNASTICS.

  Ray Zapata, silver medal in the floor final.

• ATHLETICS.

  Ana Peleteiro (14.87m), bronze in the triple jump final, which was won by Yulimar Rojas (with a new world record: 15.67m) and Patricia Mamona with silver (15.01m).

  Adrián Ben goes to the final of 800m.

• BASKETBALL.

  Group stage final: Spain, 87;

  Slovenia, 95. The team goes to the quarterfinals as second in the group and will face the USA in the quarterfinals, and the women's team defeats Canada 66-76 and moves to the quarterfinals as the leader of their group.

• HANDBALL.

  Last game of the men's team group stage, Spain, 36 - Argentina, 27.

• ATHLETICS.

  Laura Redondo has been eliminated in the hammer throw, Fátima Diame in the long jump and Óscar Husillos in the 400 meters.

  Carolina Robles has qualified for the final of 3,000 meters hurdles.

• MALE HOCKEY.

  Belgium, 3 - Spain, 1, which is eliminated in the quarterfinals.

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