The first day of the athletics on the track he crowned the Ugandan Joshua Cheptegei as the new champion of the 10,000m, on a ‘bleu, blanc, rouge’ Friday that saw Leon Marchand achieve his fourth gold already Teddy Riner become the best judoka in history. France is lurking in the Paris 2024 Olympic Gameswhere it still dominates China and Australia consolidated its supremacy in the water.
The Ugandan, reigning three-time world champion in this event, had been Olympic champion in Tokyo 2020 in the 5,000 metres, but not in the 10,000 metres, where he had to settle for silver, beaten then by the Ethiopian Selemon Barega, who could now only finish seventh.
Cheptegei also accompanied his gold (the first in athletics at the stadium) with an Olympic record (26:43.14), to beat Ethiopian Berihu Aregawi and American Grant Fisher on the podium.
On a memorable day for French sport, swimming prodigy Léon Marchand completed his haul of four individual golds with victory in the 200m individual medley, while judoka Terry Riner became the greatest in his sport’s history by claiming a third Olympic title in the premier class, something no one had ever achieved before.
And in BMX Racing, the apotheosis: three Frenchmen on the podium. The host country has made a jump in the medal table and is now in second place with 36 medals and 11 golds, just two behind China.
With the same number of first places but fewer medals in total is Australia, which has 11 golds, of which 7 were in swimming. This Friday, the Oceanians won two of the three finals that were contested (only Marchand stood in the way): Cameron McEvoy triumphed in the men’s 50m freestyle, while Kaylee McKeown was champion in the women’s 200m backstroke.
Brazil and Spain also made a good jump in the medal table thanks to their first gold medals on Friday. The South American delegation did so in judo, with the title of Beatriz Souza, for a total of 7 medals (in addition to three silvers and three bronzes).
Medal table of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games of day 7 (gold, silver, bronze, total)
China 13 9 9 31
France 11 12 13 36
Australia 11 6 5 22
United States 9 18 16 43
Great Britain 9 10 8 27
Japan 8 4 6 18
South Korea 7 5 4 16
Italy 5 8 4 17
Netherlands 4 3 2 9
Canada 3 2 6 11
Germany 2 3 2 7
New Zealand 2 3 1 6
Romania 2 3 1 6
Hungary 2 2 1 5
Hong Kong 2 0 2 4
Ireland 2 0 2 4
Croatia 2 0 1 3
Azerbaijan 2 0 0 2
Brazil 1 3 3 7
Sweden 1 2 2 5
Georgia 1 2 0 3
Switzerland 1 1 4 6
Spain 1 1 3 5
South Africa 1 1 2 4
Belgium 1 0 2 3
Kazakhstan 1 0 2 3
Uzbekistan 1 0 2 3
Guatemala 1 0 1 2
Czech Republic 1 0 1 2
Argentina 1 0 0 1
Ecuador 1 0 0 1
Slovenia 1 0 0 1
Serbia 1 0 0 1
Uganda 1 0 0 1
Israel 0 2 1 3
Mexico 0 2 1 3
North Korea 0 2 0 2
Greece 0 1 3 4
Poland 0 1 3 4
Kosovo 0 1 1 2
Türkiye 0 1 1 2
Ukraine 0 1 1 2
Ethiopia 0 1 0 1
Fiji 0 1 0 1
Mongolia 0 1 0 1
Tunisia 0 1 0 1
India 0 0 3 3
Moldova 0 0 2 2
Tajikistan 0 0 2 2
Austria 0 0 1 1
Egypt 0 0 1 1
Slovakia 0 0 1 1
Portugal 0 0 1 1
Source: Ambito
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