Photos of 2020 Olympic Gold Medalists Taken at the Perfect Time

Crew Latvia piled on high of one another after profitable the boys’s 3×3 basketball gold medal on July 28.
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The staff is made up of Agnis Čavars, Edgars Krūminś, Kārlis Lasmanis, and Nauris Miezis.
Equally, Crew USA’s girls’s 3×3 basketball staff embraced after defeating Crew ROC on July 28.
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Crew USA was made up of Stefanie Dolson, Allisha Grey, Kelsey Plum, and Jackie Younger.
Members of Crew Fiji embraced after profitable males’s rugby sevens on July 28, defending their 2016 win.
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Fiji defeated New Zealand to win the gold.
It was a giant day for hugging — Crew France’s Hugo Boucheron and Matthieu Androdias additionally embraced after profitable the boys’s double sculls remaining on July 28.
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Sculling is one of some varieties of rowing on the Olympics.
To kick off day 5, Crew Netherlands’ Annemiek van Vleuten lifted her bike after profitable the ladies’s biking time trial on July 28.
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The 38-year-old additionally took house the silver in one other biking occasion.
Lasha Bekauri of Crew Georgia regarded skyward after defeating everybody within the males’s 90-kilogram judo on July 28.
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Bekauri, 21, made his Olympic debut this yr.
Chizuru Arai regarded surprised after profitable the ladies’s 70-kilogram judo gold for Crew Japan on July 28.
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That is 27-year-old Arai’s first Olympic medal, although she has different world championships below her belt.
Crew Nice Britain’s James Man, Matthew Richards, and Tom Dean cheered on their teammate Duncan Scott as he anchored the boys’s 4×200-meter freestyle relay on July 28.
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All three have been understandably hyped.
Crew Slovenia’s Primož Roglič was lifted into the air after defeating the competitors on the males’s biking time trial race on July 28.
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The 27-year-old really began as a ski jumper, however he ended his ski profession in 2011.
Daiki Hashimoto of Crew Japan gestured to the stands after profitable the boys’s particular person all-around gymnastics gold medal on July 28.
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Hashimoto, 19, gained the silver medal with the remainder of his teammates for the boys’s staff all-around occasion.
Ariarne Titmus gained her second gold medal this yr, this time for the ladies’s 200-meter freestyle, on July 28.
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She posted a brand new Olympic report.
Crew Netherlands flexed after profitable the boys’s quadruple sculls remaining on July 28.
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The staff consisted of Dirk Uittenbogaard, Abe Wiersma, Tone Wieten, and Koen Metsemakers.
One other sort of rowing, the boys’s coxless 4, was gained by Crew Australia on July 28.
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Crew Australia’s coxless 4 squad is made up of Alexander Purnell, Spencer Turrin, Jack Hargreaves, and Alexander Hill.
Crew Australia additionally gained the ladies’s coxless 4 on July 28.
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The ladies’s staff was made up of Lucy Stephan, Rosemary Popa, Jessica Morrison, and Annabelle McIntyre.
Ancuța Bodnar and Simona Radis of Crew Romania gained girls’s double sculls on July 28.
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Bodnar and Radis, each 22, have been rowing since they have been youngsters.
Crew China celebrated after profitable the ladies’s quadruple sculls race on July 28.
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Crew China consisted of Chen Yunxia, Zhang Ling, Lü Yang, and Cui Xiaotong.
Crew South Korea’s males’s sabre staff, Oh Sang-uk, Kim Jun-ho, Kim Jung-hwan, and Gu Bon-gil, held fingers on the rostrum on July 28.
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Sabre is one in every of three varieties of fencing on the Olympics, together with foil and épée.
Kristóf Milák of Crew Hungary beat Michael Phelps’ 2008 report within the males’s 200-meter butterfly on July 28.
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Milák, 21, additionally needed to contend with a last-minute swimsuit rip.
Crew USA’s Katie Ledecky gained the very first gold medal within the girls’s 1,500-meter freestyle on July 28.
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This was the primary gold medal for Ledecky on the 2020 Olympics.
Yui Ohashi gained her second gold medal for Crew Japan on July 28, for the ladies’s 200-meter particular person medley.
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The 25-year-old gained one other gold medal earlier within the video games.
Browsing made fairly the Olympic debut when Carissa Moore of Crew USA took house the gold for girls’s shortboard on day 4, July 27.
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Moore, 28, additionally has 4 World Surf League Girls’s World Tour championships to her identify.
On the boys’s aspect, Crew Brazil’s Ítalo Ferreira gained gold for males’s shortboard on July 27.
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Ferreira, 27, was named the rookie of the yr in 2015 by the World Surf League, and he gained the world title in 2019.
Crew Japan hoisted supervisor Reika Utsugi into the air after clinching the first-ever Olympic gold medal in softball on July 27.
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Baseball may even make its debut in a while within the video games.
Clarisse Agbegnenou, Crew France, gained the gold for the ladies’s judo -63-kilogram division on July 27.
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Agbegnenou, 28, gained the silver medal on the 2016 Olympics in Rio.
Lydia Jacoby was unable to cover her shock when she gained the ladies’s 100-meter breaststroke for Crew USA.
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Seventeen-year-old Jacoby made her Olympics debut this yr, and her surprise win sent her classmates back in Alaska right into a frenzy.
Crew ROC’s (Russia Olympic Committee) Vladislav Larin yelled with delight when he gained males’s taekwondo within the +80-kilogram division on July 27.
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Larin, 25, made his Olympic debut this yr.
Ricarda Funk of Crew Germany splashed with glee after profitable the ladies’s slalom kayaking race on July 27.
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Funk, 29, additionally made her Olympics debut this yr.
Crew Australia’s Kaylee McKeown flashed the digicam a thumbs up when she gained the ladies’s 100-meter breaststroke race on July 27.
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McKeown, 20, set a brand new Olympic report together with her win, finishing the race in 57.47 seconds.
Kuo Hsing-chun of Crew Chinese language Taipei (Taiwan) collapsed on the bottom with delight after profitable the ladies’s 59-kilogram weightlifting on July 27.
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Hsing-chun, 27, gained a bronze medal at Rio 2016 — this yr, she set a brand new Olympic report.
Flora Duffy of Crew Bermuda regarded near tears as she crossed the end line on the girls’s particular person triathlon on July 27.
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Duffy, 33, competed at Beijing 2008, London 2012, and Rio 2016, however that is her first medal.
Crew Nice Britain’s Thomas Dean was virtually invisible behind his large splash after profitable the boys’s 200-meter freestyle race on July 27.
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Dean, 21, made his Olympic debut this yr.
Crew ROC’s Lilia Akhaimova, Viktoria Listunova, Angelina Melnikova, and Vladislava Urazova took house the gold within the girls’s inventive gymnastics staff all-around occasion within the early hours of July 27.
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A Russian gymnastics girls’s staff hasn’t gained the gold on this occasion for the reason that Soviet Union gained in 1988.
Crew Switzerland’s Jolanda Neff held the Swiss flag excessive after profitable the ladies’s cross-country mountain bike race on July 27.
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Neff, 28, gained the gold medal — her Swiss teammates Linda Indergand and Sina Frei gained silver and bronze, respectively, making it the primary totally Swiss Olympic podium since 1936.
Jiang Ranxin and Pang Wei of Crew China embraced after profitable the blended 10-meter air pistol occasion on July 27.
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Jiang, 21, and Pang, 35, every gained particular person medals as nicely.
Here is Takanori Nagase of Crew Japan defeating Saeid Mollaei of Crew Mongolia to win the boys’s judo -81-kilogram gold medal on July 27.
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Nagase, 27, gained the bronze medal in the identical occasion on the 2016 Olympics.
Crew China’s Zhang Jiaqi and Chen Yuxi jumped for pleasure once they gained the ladies’s synchronized 10-meter platform diving remaining on July 27.
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Seventeen-year-old Zhang and 15-year-old Chen every made their Olympics debut this yr.
Crew Estonia’s Julia Beljajeva, Irina Embrich, Erika Kirpu, and Katrina Lehis additionally leapt into the air after profitable the ladies’s staff épée remaining on July 27.
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All 4 gained their first medals on the 2020 Olympics.
Crew Serbia’s Milica Mandić appeared to ask the group in the event that they weren’t entertained when she gained the ladies’s taekwondo +67-kilogram struggle on July 27.
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Mandić, 29, gained the gold in the identical occasion on the 2012 Olympics.
Evgeny Rylov of Crew ROC flexed his muscle tissues after profitable the boys’s 100-meter backstroke gold medal on July 27.
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Rylov, 24, gained a bronze medal on the 2016 Olympics in the identical race.
Crew Canada’s Maude Charron was dropped at tears when she gained the ladies’s 64-kilogram weightlifting competitors on July 27.
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The 28-year-old made her Olympics debut this yr.
Crew Germany’s dressage staff — Jessica von Bredow-Werndl, Dorothee Schneider, and Isabell Werth — took house the gold on July 27.
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Schneider, 52, gained the gold on the 2016 Olympics and the silver on the 2012 Olympics on this occasion. Werth, additionally 52, gained the gold in 1992, 1996, 2000, and 2008 in staff dressage, and the gold in 1996 for particular person dressage. She additionally gained silvers for particular person dressage in 1992, 2000, 2008, and 2016.
On July 27, Crew China’s Yang Qian and Yang Haoran swept the blended 10-meter air rifle competitors.
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Yang Qian, 21, moreover gained a person gold. Yang Haoran, 25, took house the bronze within the males’s 10-meter air rifle.
Matea Jelić of Crew Croatia was overjoyed at her gold medal win in girls’s taekwondo 67-kilogram, which kicked off day three on July 26.
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Jelić, 23, took house her first Olympic medal this yr.
Crew Nice Britain’s Adam Peaty earned this scream after profitable the boys’s 100-meter breaststroke on July 26.
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Peaty has two different medals to his identify — a gold and a silver from 2016.
Sofia Pozdniakova of Crew ROC was overcome when she gained the ladies’s particular person sabre on July 26.
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Pozdniakova, 24, needed to beat her Crew ROC teammate Sofya Velikaya to take house the gold.
Crew Hong Kong’s Cheung Ka-long took house the gold for males’s particular person foil on July 26.
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Ka-long, 24, competed on the 2016 Olympics however failed to put.
This image of Crew Norway’s Kristian Blummenfelt — the gold medal winner of the boys’s particular person triathlon on July 26 — is value a thousand phrases.
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Blummentfelt, 27, competed in the identical occasion on the 2016 Olympics however failed to put.
Maggie MacNeil of Crew Canada was completely shocked by her win within the girls’s 100-meter butterfly on July 26.
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MacNeil, 21, was additionally a part of the relay staff that took house the silver medal within the 4×100-meter relay this yr.
Tom Daley and Matty Lee of Crew Nice Britain celebrated their win within the males’s synchronized 10-meter platform diving occasion collectively on July 26.
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27-year-old Daley’s response to his first-ever gold medal win was so heartwarming that it even made a reporter cry, Insider reported.
Jun Mizutani and Mima Ito of Crew Japan gained the gold for blended doubles desk tennis on July 26.
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Mizutani, 32, and Ito, 20, defeated Crew China to win their gold medal.
Crew USA’s Caleb Dressel, Blake Pieroni, Bowe Becker, and Zach Apple celebrated after their win within the males’s 4×100-meter freestyle relay on July 26.
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Dressel, 24, now has three gold medals to his identify.
Hidilyn Diaz reacted emotionally when she gained the Philippines’ first gold medal — ever — on the girls’s 55-kilogram weightlifting remaining on July 26.
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Sure, Diaz, 30, has the distinct honor of taking house the Philippines’ first-ever gold medal for the reason that nation’s Olympic debut in 1924.
As did Crew Nice Britain’s Tom Pidcock when he crossed the end line on the males’s cross-country mountain biking race on July 26.
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Pidcock, 21, made his Olympics debut this yr.
Crew Slovenia’s Benjamin Savšek was raised up by his teammates after profitable the boys’s slalom canoeing on July 26.
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Savšek, 34, competed on the 2012 and 2016 Olympics, however he did not medal both time.
Crew Kosovo’s Nora Gjakova pointed to her nation’s flag after profitable the ladies’s 57-kilogram judo on July 26.
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Gjakova, 28, has gained many World Cup medals, however that is her first Olympic medal.
Whereas Crew Australia’s Ariarne Titmus’ coach stole the present when she gained the ladies’s 400-meter freestyle, she was busy elevating her fist in triumph on July 26.
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The 20-year-old’s coach went completely wild — watch the video here.
Vincent Hancock of Crew USA gained the boys’s skeet capturing remaining on July 26.
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Hancock, 32, gained the gold medal for skeet in 2008 and 2012 too.
Crew Japan’s Momiji Nishiya gained the first-ever girls’s road skateboarding gold medal on July 26.
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The 13-year-old is now the youngest individual to ever win a gold medal for Japan.
Crew ROC took house the gold within the males’s inventive gymnastics staff all-around remaining on July 26. The staff consisted of Denis Ablyazin, David Belyavskiy, Artur Dalaloyan, and Nikita Nagornyy.
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The ROC solely won the gold by just .103 points, leaving Japan in second and China in third.
Amber English of Crew USA held up her gun after profitable the ladies’s skeet capturing on July 26.
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English, 31, gained her first Olympic medal that day.
Crew ROC’s Maksim Khramtsov donned a hat emblazoned with “The Crimson Machine” after sweeping the boys’s 80-kilogram taekwondo remaining on July 26.
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The 23-year-old beat Crew Jordan for first place.
The South Korean males’s archery staff, Kim Woo-jin, Oh Jin-hyek, and Kim Je-deok, gained the gold medal for the staff occasion on July 26.
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The South Koreans beat Crew Chinese language Taipei for the highest spot.
Shohei Ono of Crew Japan regarded a bit shell-shocked after profitable the boys’s 73-kilogram judo.
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Ono, 29, retained his gold medal streak from the 2016 Olympics.
Crew USA’s Lee Kiefer bested the remainder of the world within the girls’s foil on July 25, day two.
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The 27-year-old turned the primary American, male or feminine, to take house the gold medal in particular person foil competitors.
Anastasija Zolotic of Crew USA’s pleasure was infectious after she gained the ladies’s taekwondo 57-kilogram division on July 25.
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When the 18-year-old gained, she turned the primary American lady to win an Olympic gold in taekwondo.
Ahmed Hafnaoui, gold medal winner of the boys’s 400-meter freestyle, was representing Crew Tunisia on July 25.
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Hafnaoui, 18, was each the primary Tunisian and the primary African to win gold this yr.
Uta Abe of Crew Japan gained the ladies’s 52-kilogram judo remaining bout on July 25.
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Abe, 21, has a brother who additionally competed within the Olympics …
Her brother, Hifumi Abe of Crew Japan, gained the boys’s 66-kilogram judo remaining on the identical day.
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He is two years older than his sister, at 23.
Crew Japan’s Yui Ohashi was delighted by her girls’s 400-meter particular person medley gold medal on July 25.
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The 25-year-old gained her first of two golds this yr on July 25.
Romain Cannone of Crew France was lifted into the air by his teammates after his males’s particular person épée win on July 25.
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Cannone, 24, wasn’t initially speculated to compete — he was an alternate who was referred to as up after teammate Daniel Jérent was removed due to a failed drug test.
Áron Szilágyi of Crew Hungary’s celebration after profitable the boys’s sabre occasion on day one, July 24, regarded so loud we are able to virtually hear it by way of the display screen.
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Szilágyi, 31, started off day one with a bang, turning into “the primary Olympic fencer to win three particular person sabre gold medals,” in line with the Related Press.
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