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Medals Table

Nation G S B TUSA 25 18 18 61China 13 11 17 41Britain 11 14 7 32Germany 8 5 3 16Russia 7 11 8 26Italy 7 7 5 19Japan 7 3 14 24Australia 6 7 9 22South Korea 6 3 4 13France 5 8 7 20Hungary 5 3 3 11Netherlands 4 2 3 9Spain 3 0 2 5New Zealand 2 6 0 8Canada 2 2 8 12Kazakhstan 2 2 3 7Switzerland 2 1 2 5Belgium 2 1 1 4

Nation G S B TThailand 2 1 1 4Croatia 2 1 0 3Iran 2 0 0 2Sweden 1 3 1 5Brazil 1 2 3 6Denmark 1 2 3 6North Korea 1 2 2 5Belarus 1 2 1 4Colombia 1 2 0 3Kenya 1 2 0 3Poland 1 1 2 4Romania 1 1 2 4Slovenia 1 1 1 3Slovakia 1 1 0 2Vietnam 1 1 0 2Czech 1 0 5 6Ethiopia 1 0 3 4Uzbekistan 1 0 3 4

Nation G S B TTaiwan 1 0 2 3Greece 1 0 1 2IOA 1 0 1 2Jamaica 1 0 1 2Argentina 1 0 0 1Fiji 1 0 0 1Kosovo 1 0 0 1Puerto Rico 1 0 0 1Singapore 1 0 0 1South Africa 0 5 1 6Ukraine 0 3 1 4Azerbaijan 0 2 0 2Indonesia 0 2 0 2Cuba 0 1 3 4Lithuania 0 1 2 3Georgia 0 1 1 2Bahrain 0 1 0 1Ireland 0 1 0 1

Nation G S B TMalaysia 0 1 0 1Mongolia 0 1 0 1Philippines 0 1 0 1Turkey 0 1 0 1Egypt 0 0 2 2Israel 0 0 2 2Norway 0 0 2 2Estonia 0 0 1 1Kyrgyzstan 0 0 1 1Portugal 0 0 1 1Tunisia 0 0 1 1UAE 0 0 1 1Total 147 147 165 459Note: Table reads as gold, silver, bronze and total.

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Photo by Mohamad MorseOlympic men’s double trap gold medalist Fehaid Al-Deihani displays his medal as Sheikh Salman (fourth from left), and other dignitaries look on.

Britain’s Mo Farah poses with his gold medal on the podium of the men’s 10,000m during the athletics event at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium in Rio de Janeiro on

Aug 13. (AFP)

RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug 14, (Agencies): British distance runner Mo Farah recovered from a dramatic fall to defend his 10,000m title on Saturday as Jamaica’s Elaine Thomp-son ended the Olympic reign of compatriot Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce to claim 100m gold.

The 33-year-old Briton brought the Olympic Stadium crowd roaring to its feet after conjuring a trademark surge down the home straight to win in 27min 5.17sec.

Kenyan Paul Tanui won silver in 27:05.64 with Ethiopian Tamirat Tola third in 27:06.26.

But it was Farah’s heroic recovery that was the only talking point of a display that was every bit as memorable as his win in

London four years ago.Farah, aiming to become only the sec-

ond man since legendary Finn Lasse Viren in 1972 and 1976 to complete a 5000m-10,000m double, was left stunned after being sent crashing to the track by training partner Galen Rupp on the 10th lap.

But he brilliantly recovered to get back in the race, hunting down the leaders and powering to gold.

Farah later told reporters he had thought of a promise made to his daughter as he tumbled over.

The victory cements Farah’s place as the dominant distance runner of his generation.

It was his eighth successive win in the 5,000 or 10,000m at a world championships or Olympics since 2011.

As Farah extended his Olympic reign however, another one drew to a close with Jamaica’s Fraser-Pryce downed by training partner Thompson in the blue riband 100m fi nal.

Fraser-Pryce had been aiming to become the fi rst woman in history to win three con-secutive Olympic golds in the same event after her wins in 2008 and 2012.

But she was left trailing in the wake of Thompson, who surged into the lead af-ter exploding from the blocks to win in 10.71sec.

Tori Bowie of the United States took silver with 10.83sec while Fraser-Pryce claimed bronze in 10.86.

A thrilling night was rounded out with a nerve-jangling fi nish in the heptathlon, where Belgium’s Nafi ssatou Thiam took gold by a slender 35 points from Britain’s defending champion Jessica Ennis-Hill.

Thiam, 21, went into the fi nal event, the

800m, with a narrow 142-point lead over the Briton, knowing that if she fi nished within nine seconds of her rival gold would be hers.

The Belgian did just that, fi nishing at 7.47sec to amass a total of 6,810 points, with Canada’s Brianne Thiesen-Eaton claiming bronze (6,653).

In men’s fi eld events Saturday, Ameri-can Jeff Henderson soared to an emotional gold in the long jump.

Meanwhile, Jemima Sumgong made the most of a kick with 6km to run to win Ken-ya’s fi rst ever Olympic women’s marathon gold on Sunday.

Sumgong, winner of this year’s London marathon, timed 2hr 24min 04sec for Ken-ya’s fi rst-ever women’s marathon gold over the 42km-long course that fi nished at Rio’s Sambodromo with temperatures hitting 28 degrees Celsius (82F).

Just before the fi nish, a group of protest-ers carrying banners climbed over barriers and ran onto the course before being inter-cepted by police on motorbikes. Runners were not disturbed by the protests.

Bahrain claimed only their second medal in any sport when Kenyan-born Eunice Kirwa took silver, 9sec adrift of Sumgong, while defending world champion Mare Dibaba of Ethiopia claimed bronze, at 26sec.

Dibaba, in her fi rst race since fi nish-ing sixth at the London Marathon, had led a lead pack of seven runners through the 35km mark in 2:00.31.

But then with 6km to go, Kirwa surged, only Dibaba and Sumgang managing the pace.

Ethiopian Tirfi Tsegaye, who timed a world-leading 2:19:41 to win the Dubai Marathon at the start of the year and then fi nished second at the Boston Marathon, and Belarus’ Volha Mazuronak became the new chase pack as Bahrain’s Kenyan-born Rose Chelimo and American Shalane Fla-nagan were dropped.

Leila, Liina and Lily Luik made Olympic history Sunday when they became the fi rst triplets to compete in the Games marathon.

The 30-year-old Estonians, identically petite, platinum blonde and blue-eyed, fi n-ished far behind Kenyan winner Jemima Sumgong.

But they were elated with their perfor-mances despite Liina failing to fi nish in

Rio’s searing heat.Meanwhile, Michael Phelps brought the

curtain down on one of sport’s most storied careers with a dynamite relay swim to give himself 23 Olympic gold medals and de-clared it a perfect fi nale.

The American, far and away the most decorated athlete in Olympic history, fi n-ished with fi ve golds and a silver in Rio after signing off in dramatic style, coming to the rescue in the 4x100m medley fi nal.

Turning back the clock in his fi fth and fi nal Games, Phelps produced a blistering third leg of butterfl y to restore his team’s lead and tee up victory after Britain’s Adam Peaty had threatened to gatecrash his party.

The hullabaloo over the Phelps’s fare-

well overshadowed the achievement of the women’s 4x100m medley relayers as they captured their country’s 1,000th Olym-pic medal, according to the United States Olympic committee.

The country’s fi rst medal dates back to 1896, when James Connolly won triple jump gold.

Even that statistic seemed to pale against the irrepressible Phelps -- and likewise Ryan Murphy’s leadoff backstroke leg, which set a new 100m world record of 51.85.

Britain took silver, thanks largely to a breaststroke leg from Peaty that was quick-er than the world record he set to win indi-vidual gold, but won’t count as it came in the middle of a relay.

Australia claimed bronze, but the mem-ory of sharing the pool with Phelps in his fi nal race could last longer than the glow of their relay gongs.

Max Whitlock ended Britain’s 120-year wait for an Olympic gymnastics gold medal when he upstaged favourite and twice world champion Kenzo Shirai to win the men’s fl oor exercise title on Sunday.

Whitlock produced a series of gravity-defying tumbles to win gold with a score of 15.633 while Brazilian Diego Hypolito made up for his fl op shows at the last two Games by claiming silver to the delight of the partisan crowd.

There was more joy for the home fans as Arthur Mariano picked up the bronze.

Shirai fi nished fourth after almost sit-ting down following one of his tumbling runs and stumbling on the next. All around champion Kohei Uchimura was fi fth.

Defending Olympic champion Nic-colo Campriani won his second gold of the Games by clinching the men’s 50 metre rifl e three positions event on Sunday, mak-ing Italy the most successful country in the shooting in Rio with four gold medals.

Campriani, a 28-year-old who won the event in London 2012, narrowly defeated Russia’s Sergey Kamenskiy who was mak-ing his Olympic debut, in the last of the 15 shooting events.

France’s Alexis Raynaud took the bronze

in his fi rst Olympics at the age of 21.Campriani also took the gold in the 10

metre air rifl e event, making him the only shooter to win two golds in Rio. Italy also won three silver medals.

Russia’s Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina shattered Martina Hingis’s hopes of a golden Olympic return after a 20-year absence with victory in the women’s dou-bles fi nal on Sunday.

The seventh seeds won 6-4, 6-4 against Hingis and Swiss partner Timea Bacsin-szky, seeded fi ve.

Hingis last played the Olympics in 1996 in Atlanta. For the Russian duo, the gold medal comes on top of their two Grand Slam titles together at the 2013 French Open and 2014 US Open.

However, that victory almost cost them dear as a series of fl ight delays and cancel-lations meant it took the pair the best part of four days to get to Brazil, arriving two days before the event started.

The result ended a diffi cult Olympics for 35-year-old Hingis.

First, Roger Federer, her scheduled part-ner in the mixed doubles, withdrew with injury and a day later Belinda Bencic, her doubles teammate, also pulled out.

In a last-minute solution, where Vitorija Golubic dropped out of the team, Hingis was paired with Bacsinszky.

Hingis also split with regular tour dou-bles partner, India’s Sania Mirza despite the duo being the top ranked players in the world. The US Olympic Committee says Ryan Lochte and three other American swimmers were robbed by armed men who stopped their taxi.

USOC spokesman Patrick Sandusky says Lochte and the others left the French Olympic team’s hospitality house early Sunday in a taxi headed for the athletes vil-lage, hours after the last night of Olympic swimming.

He says “the taxi was stopped by indi-viduals posing as armed police offi cers who demanded the athletes’ money and other personal belongings.”

Photo by Mohamad MorseFehaid Al-Deihani returns to a hero’s welcome at Kuwait International

Airport after his historic Olympic gold victory in Rio.

Medalists – Page 42

See Also Pages 39 to 43

Whitlock clinches historic gold for Britain; Kenyan-born Kirwa hands Bahrain silver