Olympic 2016 Medal Count: Updates on Sunday's Medal Standings for Each Nation
The ninth day at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro featured a number of medal events in several sports, highlighted by the 100-meter and 400-meter finals in men's track and field, with Usain Bolt gunning for his third straight gold medal in the former event.
Also on the docket were the finals for the men’s floor exercise, men’s pommel horse, women’s vault and women’s uneven bars in gymnastics and the final round of the men's golf tournament.
Below, we'll break down the day's medal winners and events. But first, a look at the updated medal count:
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Cycling
| Gold | Jason Kenny | Great Britain |
| Silver | Callum Skinner | Great Britain |
| Bronze | Denis Dmitriev | Russia |
Jason Kenny won the battle of the Brits, beating his countryman, Callum Skinner, to earn the gold medal in the men's sprint final.
"To have two British riders claiming the gold and silver medal in the men’s sprint is awe-inspiring and testament to the hard work of everyone involved in the team. Both Jason and Callum should feel extremely proud. Callum’s performances on his Olympic debut have been truly exceptional. Incredibly, this is Jason Kenny’s fifth Olympic gold medal. The journey since Jason began his cycling career through our youth racing programme, Go-Ride, has been inspirational and I know that his medal today will lead thousands of young people to get into our fantastic sport.
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Certainly, Kenny has only added to his impressive Olympic legacy.
Golf
| Gold | Justin Rose | Great Britain | -16 |
| Silver | Henrik Stenson | Sweden | -14 |
| Bronze | Matt Kuchar | United States | -13 |
Justin Rose had a one-stroke lead over Henrik Stenson heading into Sunday's final round in the men's golf tournament at the Rio Games. He managed to hold off the Swede, shooting a final-round 67 to finish 16-under for the tournament and earn the gold medal by two strokes.
Stenson settled for the silver, shooting a 69 on Sunday.
It's been 167 years since golf was in the Olympics, and sports broadcaster James Pearce suspects Rose and Stenson should keep it around:
Jason Sobel of ESPN was pleased to see Rose win the gold, meanwhile:
While Rose's gold medal was the main storyline on the day, nobody was better on Sunday than Matt Kuchar. He shot a 63, holding off Belgium's Thomas Pieters and Spain's Rafael Cabrera Bello to earn the bronze.
"I’ve never felt this sort of pride busting out of my chest before," Kuchar said after his round, per Jay Coffin of GolfChannel.com.
Doubles Tennis
| Gold | Irina Vesnina/Ekaterina Makarova | Russia |
| Silver | Martina Hingis/Timea Bacsinszky | Switzerland |
| Bronze | Lucie Safarova/Barbora Strycova | Czech Republic |
Russia's Irina Vesnina and Ekaterina Makarova won the women's doubles tournament on Sunday, knocking off Switzerland's Martina Hingis and Timea Bacsinszky, 6-4, 6-4.
The Russian's won 82 percent of their first-serve points, per Rio2016.com, ripping 36 winners. They overcame 24 unforced errors in the match and withstood six break points chances, never being broken in the match.
The pair were superb throughout the doubles competition, never dropping a set.
Lucie Safarova and Barbora Strycova of the Czech Republic earned the bronze medal on Saturday.
Shooting
| Gold | Niccolo Campriani | Italy | 458.8 |
| Silver | Sergey Kamenskiy | Russia | 458.5 |
| Bronze | Alexis Raynaud | France | 448.4 |
Italy's Niccolo Campriani won his second gold medal in the 50m rifle 3 position, just edging out Russia's Sergey Kamenskiy in a back-and-forth shootout.
Campriani led after the kneeling phase and the prone phase, though he and Kamenskiy passed the lead back and forth in the standing phase. Kamenskiy looked as though he had the gold after Campriani's final shot was a 9.2, but Kamenskiy followed up with a shocking 8.3, giving the Italian his second gold.
Sailing
| Gold | Dorian Van Rijsselberghe | Netherlands |
| Silver | Nick Dempsey | Great Britain |
| Bronze | Pierre Le Coq | France |
The Netherlands' Dorian Van Rijsselberghe came into Sunday as a guaranteed gold-medal winner, taking some of the drama out of the event. Likewise, Great Britain's Nick Dempsey had already secured the silver.
That left just the bronze medal up for grabs, and France's Pierre Le Coq just edged out Poland’s Piotr Myszka by a solitary point to reach the podium.
In the women's event, France's Charline Picon took home the gold.
| Gold | Charline Picon | France |
| Silver | Peina Chen | China |
| Bronze | Stefaniya Elfutina | Russia |
It was an impressive result for Picon, who finished seventh at the 2012 London Games.
Boxing
| Gold | Hasanboy Dusmatov | Uzbekistan |
| Silver | Yurberjen Herney Martinez | Colombia |
| Bronze (A) | Joahnys Argilagos | Cuba |
| Bronze (B) | Nico Miguel Hernandez | United States |
Uzbekistan's Hasanboy Dusmatov earned Olympic gold in the Men's Light Fly (46-49kg) on Sunday, beating Colombia's Yurberjen Herney Martinez.
All three judges—Fathi Madfoua, Rene Just and Hassan Moudrikah—had Dusmatov on top, with only Madfoua finding that he dropped the third round. After clearly winning the first two rounds, Dusmatov's task in the third round was simple: Don't get knocked out.
He not only did so, he also won the round, according to Just and Moudrikah.
Men's Gymnastics
| Gold | Max Whitlock | Great Britain | 15.633 |
| Silver | Diego Hypolito | Brazil | 15.533 |
| Bronze | Arthur Mariano | Brazil | 15.433 |
Max Whitlock earned the first gymnastics gold medal in Great Britain's history, edging out Brazilians Diego Hypolito and Arthur Mariota in front of a raucous Rio crowd.
Sam Oldham, a member of the 2012 Great Britain gymnastics team, was thrilled for his former teammate:
Japan's Kenzo Shirai, the favorite in the event, finished a disappointing fourth, while American Sam Mikulak's error-filled routine left him in last place. Medal hopefuls Kohei Uchimura of Japan and Jacob Dalton of the United States finished in fifth and sixth, respectively.
One good turn deserved another for Whitlock, who then won the gold in the pommel horse as well.
| Gold | Max Whitlock | Great Britain | 15.966 |
| Silver | Louis Smith | Great Britain | 15.833 |
| Bronze | Alexander Naddour | United States | 15.700 |
It was an excellent day for Great Britain, as his teammate, Louis Smith, took home the silver.
Women's Gymnastics
| Gold | Simone Biles | United States | 15.966 |
| Silver | Maria Paseka | Russia | 15.253 |
| Bronze | Giulia Steingruber | Switzerland | 15.216 |
Simone Biles continued her dominance in women's gymnastics, winning the gold in the vault competition by a wide margin.
NBC Olympics captured an overhead shot of her winning vault:
Biles remained on pace to potentially win five gold medals in these games, with floor exercise and the balance beam still to follow. Even her father has been taken aback by his daughter's achievements, per Mark Berman of Fox 26:
But her teammate, Madison Kocian, came up just short of making it two gold medals for the American women on the day.
| Gold | Aliya Mustafina | Russia | 15.900 |
| Silver | Madison Kocian | United States | 15.833 |
| Bronze | Sophie Scheder | Germany | 15.566 |
There was little shame in Kocian's second-place finish, even given her immense talent, as Aliya Mustafina was the defending gold-medal winner in the event.
Women's Marathon
| Gold | Jemima Jelagat Sumgong | Kenya | 2:24:04 |
| Silver | Eunice Jepkirui Kirwa | Bahrain | 2:24:13 |
| Bronze | Mare Dibaba | Ethiopia | 2:24:30 |
Kenya's Jemima Jelagat Sumgong held off Bahrain's Eunice Jepkirui Kirwa to win the gold medal in the women's marathon Sunday morning.
She became the first Kenyan woman to ever win Olympic gold in the marathon, per BBC Sport. Kenyans had won the past three silver medals in the event.
And Sumgong was quite confident that would be the case throughout the race:
"I was never worried that I'd lose this. At 40km I knew the gold was mine. At 35km I noticed that my other two team-mates had dropped off and that gave me the motivation to carry on. At 40km I saw there were three of us but I knew whatever happened I couldn't lose the gold and then I knew I was on the way to history.
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Women's marathon world-record holder Paula Radcliffe broke down the race.
"The conditions will have taken their toll," she noted, per BBC Sport. "The way Sumgong stumbled over the line shows that. It was a race of attrition and about who could hold and leave enough. Sumgong dominated that race mentally as well as physically."
That earned Sumgong the praise of Kenya's president, Uhuru Kenyatta:
Shalane Flanagan, Desiree Linden and Amy Cragg of the United States finished sixth, seventh and ninth, respectively.
Overall Picture
It is not hyperbole to say the United States has dominated these Olympics given the medal tracker following Sunday’s action.
The Americans are far ahead of the rest of the field with 69 medals, while China checks in at second with 45. Great Britain is in third with 38 after it made some noise on Sunday behind the combined efforts of Whitlock, Rose and tennis player Andy Murray.
Murray beat Juan Martin del Potro in the gold-medal match of men’s singles tennis after his fellow countrymen Whitlock (two golds) and Rose proved triumphant in their sports.
Elsewhere, Jamaica is far down the medal tracker, but Bolt was the overpowering force he has been throughout his career again on Sunday. He won the 100-meter dash at 9.81 seconds and became the first runner to win the event in three separate Olympics:
He surpassed American Justin Gatlin, who earned silver at 9.89 seconds, and was once again too much for the rest of the field as arguably one of the best Olympians of all-time.
Still, the Americans have paced the rest of the world in these Games, and Gatlin’s silver helped in that regard. Much of their success came earlier in the pool thanks to stars such as Michael Phelps and Katie Ledecky, but Biles, Kocian, Gatlin, Kuchar and others added to the total on Sunday.
They weren’t the only ones, as LaShawn Merritt won a bronze in the men’s 400-meters and Sarah Robles earned bronze in the women’s +75-kilogram weightlifting competition.
The swimmers and gymnasts have made many of the headlines for the United States, but there are plenty of athletes contributing to the overwhelming lead in the medal tracker. The Americans wouldn’t be so far ahead if it wasn’t for that balanced effort, and they still have clear opportunities to add to the total in events such as men’s and women’s basketball and beach volleyball in the coming days.
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