Summer Olympics 2016: Predictions and Results for Medal Events on Day 1
Day 1 of the Rio Games is in the books.
We started the 2016 Summer Olympics with 12 medal events, from shooting, fencing and weightlifting to four big-ticket swimming battles.
We saw a couple of world records in the pool, a gold medal for Team USA in the air rifle and plenty of other drama across all venues.
Here's a summary of how Day 1 shook out.
Women's 10-Meter Air Rifle
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Results
Nineteen-year-old Virginia "Ginny" Thrasher kicked off the United States' campaign to top the overall medal count by winning the 2016 Summer Olympics' first hardware in the women's 10-meter air rifle.
Thrasher, who dominated NCAA individual rifle events as a freshman at West Virginia this past year, pushed past older, more experienced competitors.
China's Du Li, 34, and Yi Siling, 27, took silver and bronze, respectively. Yi was the defending champion in the event, while Du won gold in 2004 and the small-bore rifle competition in 2008.
The future is bright for Thrasher, but she earned a chance to enjoy the present with her incredible performance.
Gold: Virginia Thrasher, United States
Silver: Du Li, China
Bronze: Yi Siling, China
Men's Cycling Road Race
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Results
In a race marred by crashes, Belgium's Greg van Avermaet emerged with the gold medal by a narrow margin over Denmark's Jakob Fuglsang.
Both cyclists finished the 237.5-kilometer race in a time of six hours, 10 minutes and five seconds, but Van Avermaet crossed the finish line just ahead. Poland's Rafal Majka was five seconds behind the duo.
Majka held the lead following the final descent, coming out clear of danger after fellow leaders Vincenzo Nibali of Italy and Sergio Henao of Colombia went down. However, Majka couldn't hold the lead as Van Avermaet and Fuglsang caught him with 1,400 meters left and then faced off for the gold down to the wire.
It's been a good summer for the 31-year-old Van Avermaet, who won a mountain stage at the Tour de France and was the overall leader for three stages before giving up the yellow jersey to eventual winner Chris Froome of Great Britain.
Froome finished 12th in 6:13:03 on Saturday, struggling throughout the course, while pre-race favorite Alejandro Valverde of Spain was 30th in 6:19:43.
Gold: Greg van Avermaet, Belgium
Silver: Jakob Fuglsang, Denmark
Bronze: Rafal Majka, Poland
Men's 10-Meter Air Pistol
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Results
Brazil's Felipe Almeida Wu came within 0.4 points of earning the host country its first gold medal but had to settle for silver behind Vietnamese shooter Xuan Vinh Hoang.
Hoang's score of 202.5 points set an Olympic record thanks to a format change in which all shooters' scores were wiped out after qualification. The 41-year-old trailed by 2.3 points at one point in the final but took the lead for good on the second-to-last of his 30 shots.
It was the country's first Olympic gold in any sport and third medal since the reunification of North and South Vietnam in 1976. The country earned silvers in women's featherweight taekwondo (Tran Hieu Ngan) at the 2000 Sydney Games and men's bantamweight weightlifting (Hoang Anh Tuan) at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
Wu, the reigning Pan American Games champion, earned Brazil's first shooting medal since 1920.
Third place went to China's Wei Pang, the 2008 gold medalist, who led after the qualification round.
Gold: Xuan Vinh Hoang, Vietnam
Silver: Felipe Almeida Wu, Brazil
Bronze: Wei Pang, China
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Women's 48 kg (Judo)
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Argentina's Paula Pareto followed up her world championship last August in Kazakhstan by claiming gold in the 48-kilogram division, defeating South Korea's Jeong Bokyeong in the final.
The 30-year-old Pareto, whose nickname “La Peque” means “little one,” was not scored upon in any of her four Olympic matches. It was her second Olympic medal, having taken bronze in 2008 in Beijing. She has every medal Argentina has won in the sport.
Defending Olympic champion and Sarah Menezes of Brazil failed to medal after losing in the quarterfinals and then falling a second time in the consolation round. She was eliminated in the repechage by Mongolia's Munkhbat Urantsetseg, who ended up losing to Japan's Ami Kondo in one of the two bronze-medal matches.
Gold: Paula Pareto, Argentina
Silver: Jeong Bokyeong, South Korea
Bronze: Ami Kondo, Japan
Bronze: Otgontsetseg Galbadrakh, Kazakhstan
Men's Archery Team Competition
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Results
South Korea lived up to its billing as the top archery team, blanking the United States 6-0 in the finals to win gold.
The trio of Kim Woo-jin, Lee Seungyun and Ku Bonchan won their matches 60-57, 58-57 and 59-6 over Americans Brady Ellison, Zach Garrett and Jake Kaminski. South Korea won bronze in the men's team event in 2012 in London, despite setting a world record during the qualifying round, but its all-new squad was unbeatable this time around.
Ellison and Kaminski earned silvers in the team event for the second straight Olympics, having placed second to Italy four years ago. Garrett, the only newcomer, won silver at the Shanghai World Cup earlier this year.
Gold: South Korea
Silver: United States
Bronze: Australia
Men's 60 kg (Judo)
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Russia doesn't have nearly as many athletes in Rio as it expected to have due to the nation's doping scandal, but that didn't stop Beslan Mudranov from getting his country onto the board with its first gold of the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Mudranov defeated world champion Yeldos Smetov of Kazakhstan in the finals, going 44 seconds into golden score time before winning with a waza-ari takedown. It was a thrilling finish to an unexpected run by the 16th-seeded competitor, who turned 30 last month and needed to not only knock off the world champ but also beat top-ranked Kim Won Jin of South Korea in the quarterfinals.
Smetov, who is 23, was searching for Kazakhstan's first-ever gold in judo. The country earned a silver in the men's 100-kilogram class in 2008 in Beijing.
Mudranov gives Russia gold in this event for the second consecutive Olympics, with Arsen Galstyan winning in London in 2012.
Gold: Beslan Mudranov, Russia
Silver: Yeldos Smetov, Kazakhstan
Bronze: Diyorbek Urozboev, Uzbekistan
Bronze: Naohisa Takato, Japan
Women's Epee
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Results
Hungary's Emese Szasz scored a major upset to win the gold medal, knocking off two-time defending world champion Rossella Fiamingo of Italy 15-13 in the finals.
Fiamingo never trailed during the first two periods, leading by as many as four points late in the second, but the 33-year-old Szasz pulled within 12-11 entering the final period and then outscored Fiamingo 4-1 to claim gold.
Hungary has been most successful in fencing in the Summer Olympics, with Szasz claiming the country's 36th gold and 85th medal.
China's Sun Yiwen earned the bronze with a 15-13 win over France's Lauren Rembi, while American entrants Katharine Holmes, Courtney Hurley and Kelley Hurley all failed to advance past the Round of 32.
Gold: Emese Szasz, Hungary
Silver: Rossella Fiamingo, Italy
Bronze: Sun Yiwen, China
Women's 48 kg (Weightlifting)
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Results
Sopita Tanasan of Thailand used a seven-kilogram advantage in the snatch competition to help capture the gold medal in the 48 kg division in women’s weightlifting on Saturday in Rio.
Tanasan lifted 92 kg in her third snatch attempt, creating a wide chasm between herself and the rest of the field, none of whom lifted more than 85 kg. She then cruised through the clean and jerk, successfully lifting 106 kg, then 108 kg, then failed on her third attempt at 110 kg.
Indonesia’s Sri Wahyuni Agustiani took the silver with a snatch of 85 kg and a clean and jerk of 108 kg after failing on two last-ditch clean and jerk attempts at 115 kg. Japan’s Hiromi Miyake captured the bronze on her final lift with a snatch of 81 kg and a clean and jerk of 107 kg.
Morghan Whitney King of the U.S. set a personal best with an 83 kg snatch that put her in fifth place after the first part of the competition, then also exceeded her previous personal best with 100 kg in the clean and jerk. She wasn’t able to manage her lifts at 103 kg and finished in sixth place.
Gold: Sopita Tanasan, Thailand
Silver: Sri Wahyuni Augustiani, Indonesia
Bronze: Hiromi Mikaye, Japan
Men's 400-Meter Individual Medley
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Japan's Kosuke Hagino held off a charge by Chase Kalisz of the United States to capture gold in the men's 400-meter individual medley in the first swimming final of 2016 in Rio.
The 21-year-old Hagino holds the top times in both the 200 and 400 medleys this year. His countryman Daiya Seto holds the third-best time and picked up the bronze.
Gold: Kosuke Hagino, Japan
Silver: Chase Kalisz, United States
Bronze: Daiya Seto, Japan
Men's 400-Meter Freestyle
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Australian Mack Horton held off the reigning Olympic champion, Sun Yang, to capture gold in the men's 400-meter freestyle.
The 20-year-old swam 3:41.65 earlier this year at the Australian Championships, which was the fastest time in the 400 free since Sun's gold-medal performance in London.
No hardware for the Americans in this race. Italy's Gabriele Detti finished third to pick up the bronze.
Gold: Mack Horton, Australia
Silver: Sun Yang, China
Bronze: Gabriele Detti, Italy
Women's 400-Meter Individual Medley
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Hungary's Katinka Hosszu did what she was expected to, obliterating the field to win her first Olympic medal, a gold, in the women's 400-meter individual medley.
Hosszu set a world record with a time of 4:26.36.
American Maya Dirado captured silver, while Spain's Mireia Belmonte Garcia took the bronze.
Dirado, who was the runner-up to Hosszu at the 2015 FINA World Championships, is one the best stories on the American team. At 23, she plans to retire after the Games to pursue a business career, per USA Today's Nicole Auerbach.
Gold: Katinka Hosszu, Hungary
Silver: Maya Dirado, United States
Bronze: Mireia Belmonte Garcia, Spain
Women's 4x100-Meter Freestyle Relay
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As expected, this race belonged to the Australians, who have the two fastest 100-meter freestyle swimmers in the world, Cate and Bronte Campbell, on the squad.
The Aussies set a world record to capture gold in 3:30.65. Team USA grabbed silver in 3:31.89, and Canada held off the Netherlands to capture bronze.
Gold: Australia
Silver: United States
Bronze: Canada
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