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Updated August 1st, 2021 at 16:10 IST

Bencic wins tennis gold for Switzerland; Qatar claims gold in 96kg weightlifting

Belinda Bencic of Switzerland won the women’s tennis gold medal in singles and she could add another in doubles.

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Belinda Bencic of Switzerland won the women’s tennis gold medal in singles and she could add another in doubles.

The 12th-ranked Bencic beat Marketa Vondrousova of the Czech Republic 7-5, 2-6, 6-3 for the first major title of her career.

Bencic will also contest the women’s doubles gold-medal match on Sunday.

Fares Elbakh of Qatar has won the gold medal in the men’s 96-kilogram weightlifting category with a dominant performance, earning the country's first Olympic title.

Elbakh lifted 177 kilograms in the snatch and 225 in the clean and jerk for a total of 402kg. He attempted a world record 232kg clean and jerk but couldn’t make the lift.

Keydomar Vallenilla took second for Venezuela with a total 387kg despite having his last lift ruled out for dropping the bar before he got the signal to do so.

Vallenilla lifted the same total as third-place Anton Pliesnoi of Georgia but was ranked above Pliesnoi because he made his best clean and jerk lift earlier in the competition.

Poland was a surprise winner in the Olympic debut of the 4x400 mixed relay event, holding off a late charge from an American team that didn’t have Allyson Felix in the lineup.

The Dominican Republic finished with the silver medal and the Americans took bronze. There was some thought Felix might be on the track for the relay with a chance to win her record 10th Olympic medal. It will have to wait.

Taiwan’s Lee Yang and Wang Chi-Lin have swept China’s Li Jun Hui and Liu Yu Chen for gold in the men’s doubles badminton final.

Daniel Stahl has won gold in the men’s discus to give Sweden its first Olympic title in the event.

Simon Pettersson took silver in a Swedish 1-2. Austria’s Lukas Weisshaidinger claimed the bronze.

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Published August 1st, 2021 at 16:10 IST

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