Tokyo 2020. Androdias and Boucheron in gold in rowing, Xuefei Qi eliminated in badminton… The summary of the night – Tokyo 2020

The event: Hugo Boucheron and Matthieu Androdias in gold in rowing!

Matthieu Androdias and Hugo Boucheron were crowned Olympic rowing champions on Wednesday in the sculls category, giving France their third title (after Romain Cannone in fencing and Clarisse Agbegnenou in judo) and their eighth medal at the Tokyo Games. The French beat the Netherlands and China, world champions.

Badminton: Xuefei Qi eliminated in pools

The step was too high for Xuefei Qi. Hit in the knee and weakened, the adopted Breton lost in two sets (21-10, 21-13) in her third group match against Taiwanese world number one Tzu-Ying Tai. With two losses and one victory, she was eliminated from the badminton tournament.

Cycling: Juliette Labous 9th in the time trial, the Dutch Van Vleuten crowned

The Dutchwoman Annemiek van Vleuten, already a silver medalist on Sunday in the road race, became the Olympic time trial champion on Wednesday at the Mount Fuji circuit, 120 km from Tokyo. Van Vleuten completed the 22.1 km in 30’13”49.

The Swiss Marlen Reusser (at 56”47) won the silver medal and another Dutchwoman, Anna van der Breggen (at 1’01”63) the bronze medal. Juliette Labous, the only committed Frenchwoman, finished 9th at 2’28”65.

Judo: Margot Pinot stops as soon as she enters the running

Margot Pinot, who represented a real chance for a medal, was eliminated by the Greek Elisavet Teltsidou in her first fight in the -70 kg category.

The Frenchwoman, twice European champion in 2019 and 2020, 3rd in the Worlds in 2019, was sanctioned with three penalties in two and a half minutes of fighting and was therefore disqualified.

Judo: Axel Clerget out in the second round

There will be no French medal in judo this Wednesday. in -90 kg, Axel Clerget was eliminated in his second fight by the Dutchman Noel van T’End, on a waza ari with a golden score.

Swimming: Maxime Grousset in the 100m freestyle final

Frenchman Maxime Grousset, eighth in the semi-finals of the 100m freestyle, qualified on Wednesday for the first world final of his career, where the Russian Kliment Kolesnikov, new European record holder, will challenge the American Caeleb Dressel .

Grousset (22), started quickly in the first half, resisted at the end of the race to take the last qualifying place for the grand final of the queen distance, Thursday, in 47”82. He will have to achieve a feat to become the first French medalist on the round trip since the coronation of Alain Bernard in 2008.

Swimming: Kristof Milak crushes the 200m butterfly

Hungarian Kristof Milak crushed the final in the 200m butterfly to clinch the first Olympic title of his career at the age of 21, while breaking Michael Phelps’ Olympic record.

Reigning world champion and world record holder, Milak swam in 1’51”25 to beat Japan’s Tomoru Honda (1’53”73) and Italian Federico Burdisso (1’54”45).

Swimming: double 200-400m freestyle for Ariarne Titmus

Already in gold on Monday in the 400m freestyle, Australian Ariarne Titmus also won the 200m on Wednesday, ahead of Hong Kong’s Siobhan Bernadette Haughey and Canadian Penny Oleksiak.

Still third at 50m from the finish, Titmus, 20, accelerated to set a new Olympic record (1’53”50), while the five-time Olympic champion and defending champion over the distance, the American Katie Ledecky, finished 5th (1’55”21).

Swimming: Antoine Viquerat stops in the semi-final over 200 m breaststroke

Frenchman Antoine Viquerat, who is living his first Olympic Games, stopped in the semi-finals of the 200m breaststroke with the 12th fastest time in 2’09”97. The 22-year-old Toulousain had improved his personal best in the playoffs the day before, lowering it from 2’10”21 to 2’9”54 (12th fastest already).

Swimming: Japanese Yui Ohashi wins 20m medley

Japan’s Yui Ohashi clinched a brace on Wednesday by winning the 200m medley, after winning the 400m medley on Sunday, ahead of young Americans Alex Walsh and Kate Douglass.

The swimmer from Hikone, 25, completed the distance in 2’8”52, beating Walsh (2’08”65) and Douglass (2’09”04), both 19, in the final meters. and new faces of American swimming.

Swimming: Ledecky consoles himself with the 1,500m freestyle

The American Katie Ledecky, already five-time Olympic champion, overcame the disappointment of her fifth place in the 200m freestyle Wednesday morning to claim the first title in the 1,500m, which makes its appearance at the Games.

Archi-favorite, with the ten best times in history over this distance, the swimmer did the entire race in the lead to win (15’37”34) ahead of her compatriot Erica Sullivan (15’41”41 ) and the German Sarah Kohler (15’42”91).

Swimming: in the absence of Dressel, Great Britain creates the feat on 4x200m freestyle

Great Britain largely dominated the men’s 4x200m freestyle relay ahead of Russia and Australia. In 6’58”58, the British set a new European record and fell just three hundredths of a second off the world record to overtake the Russians (7’01”81), under neutral flag, and the Australians (7’01”84).

Without the star Caeleb Dressel who, unsurprisingly, did not add the 4x200m to its already extensive program, the United States collapsed: it is the first time in Olympic history that they have participated in the Olympic Games without climb on the podium of the discipline (they were absent from the Boycott Games in Moscow in 1980).

Men’s Sevens Rugby: New Zealand in the final against Fiji

New Zealand, winner of the last world circuit, left no chance for Great Britain (29-7) to reach the final of the Olympic Sevens rugby tournament, where it will be opposed to Fiji, reigning Olympic champions and logical victors of valiant Pumas.

Archery: it’s over for Thomas Chirault and Jean-Charles Valladont

The bad series continues for the French archery team. Jean-Charles Valladont, silver medalist at the Rio Olympics in 2016, and Thomas Chirault, were eliminated in the 32nd finals in individual.

France had already been disappointing in ranking shooting, then eliminated in the mixed doubles quarterfinals and exited in the eighth of the men’s team event. Men’s hopes now rest on Pierre Plihon, who faces American Jack Williams at the end of the day.

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