Olympic 2016 Medal Count: Updated Saturday Tally, List of Winners and Results
Germany dominated the final day of the canoe sprint, collecting gold in both of the men's team events at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro on Saturday. There was also a second-straight gold in the women's K4 500-metres event for Olympic champions Hungary.
Elsewhere, Team GB's Liam Heath completed a very personally successful Games when he won gold in the K1 200-metres.
Nicola Adams became the first British boxer in 92 years to successfully defend an Olympic gold medal in Rio, defeating Sarah Ourahmoune of France to take the women's flyweight title for the second Games in a row.
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Meanwhile, Cuba saw double in the men's boxing finals after Robeisy Ramirez and Arlen Lopez came out on top of the bantamweight and middleweight competitions, respectively.
There was also joy for Sweden in the women's mountain bike final, where Jenny Rissveds finished 37 seconds ahead of the competition to clinch gold, while Poland's Maja Wloszczowska and Canada's Catharine Pendrel took respective silver and bronze medals.
The United States continued their rampage at the summit of the medal tally after Gwen Jorgensen beat out the rest of her competition in the women's triathlon final, rounding the course in one hour, 56 minutes and 16 seconds.
South Korea's Inbee Park also clinched a major piece of Olympic history after triumphing in the women's golf tournament, where she ended up five shots ahead of silver medallist, Lydia Ko of New Zealand.
In badminton, China's Chen Long survived an arduous final to take gold in the men's event. Earlier, Dane Viktor Axelsen had beaten China's Lin Dan to snag the bronze.
Here is what the medal count currently looks like:
Here's the tally of the medal winners from Saturday's events:
| Athletics | |||
| Women's High Jump final | Ruth Beitia (ESP) | Mirela Demireva (BUL) | Blan Vlasic (CRO) |
| Men's Javelin Throw final | Thomas Rohler (GER) | Julius Yego (KEN) | Keshorn Walcott (TTO) |
| Men's 1500-metre final | Matthew Centrowitz (USA) | Taoufik Mahloufi (ALG) | Nicholas Willis (NZL) |
| Women's 800-metre final | Casfter Semenya (RSA) | Francine Niyonsaba (BDI) | Margaret Nyairera Wambui (KEN) |
| Men's 5000-metre final | Mo Farah (GBR) | Paul Kipkemoi Chelimo (USA) | Hagos Gebrhiwet (ETH) |
| Women's 4 x 400-metre relay final | United States | Jamaica | Great Britain |
| Men's 4 x 400-metre relay final | United States | Jamaica | Bahamas |
| Badminton | |||
| Men's Singles | Chen Long (CHN) | Lee Chong Wei (MAS) | Viktor Axelsen (DEN) |
| Basketball | |||
| Women's | United States | Spain | Serbia |
| Canoeing | |||
| Men's Kayak Single 200-metre final | Liam Heath (GBR) | Maxime Beaumont (FRA) | Saul Carviotto (ESP) and Ronald Rauhe (GER) |
| Men's Canoe Double 1000-metre final | Sebastian Brendel and Jan Vandry (GER) | Erlon de Souza Silva and Iasquias Queiroz dos Santos (BRA) | Dmytro Ianchuk and Taras Mishchuk (UKR) |
| Women's Kayak Four 500-metre final | Hungary | Germany | Belarus |
| Men's Kayak Four 1000-metre final | Germany | Slovakia | Czech Republic |
| Cycling | |||
| Women's Cross-country | Jenny Rissveds (SWE) | Maja Wloszczowska (POL) | Catharine Pendrel (CAN) |
| Diving | |||
| Men 10-metre platform final | Aisen Chen (CHN) | German Sanchez (MEX) | David Boudia (USA) |
| Football | |||
| Men's | Brazil | Germany | Nigeria |
| Golf | |||
| Women's round 4 | Inbee Park (KOR) | Lydia Ko (NZL) | Shanshan Feng (CHN) |
| Gymnastics | |||
| Individual All-round final | Margarita Mamun (RUS) | Yana Kudryavtseva (RUS) | Ganna Rizatdinova (UKR) |
| Handball | |||
| Women's | Russia | France | Norway |
| Modern Pentathlon | |||
| Men's combined running/shooting | Alexander Lesun (RUS) | Pavlo Tymoshchenko (UKR) | Ismael Marcelo Hernandez Uscanga (MEX) |
| Taekwondo | |||
| Women's 67-kilogram | Shuyin Zheng (CHN) | Maria del Rosario Espinoza (MEX) | Jackie Galloway (USA)/ Bianca Walken (GBR) |
| Men's 80-kilogram | Isaev Radik (AZE) | Abdoulrazak Issoufou Alfaga (NIG) | Congmin Cha (KOR)/ Maicon Siqueira (BRA) |
| Triathlon | |||
| Women's final | Gwen Jorgensen (USA) | Nicola Spirig Hug (SUI) | Vicky Holland (GBR) |
| Volleyball | |||
| Women's Medal Matches | China | Serbia | United States |
| Water Polo | |||
| Men's | Serbia | Croatia | Italy |
| Wrestling | |||
| Men's Freestyle 86-kilogram | Abdulrashid Sadulaev (RUS) | Selim Yasar (TUR) | J'den Michael Tbory Cox (USA)/Sharif Sharifov (AZE) |
| Men's Freestyle 125-kilogram | Taha Akgul (TUR) | Komeil Nemat Ghasemi (IRI) | Ibrahim Saidau (BLR)/ Geno Petriashvili (GEO) |
| Boxing | Serbia | ||
| Women's Flyweight | Nicola Adams (GBR) | Sarah Ourahmoune (FRA) | Ren Cancan (CHN) and Ingrit Lorena Valencia (COL) |
| Men's Bantamweight | Robeisy Ramirez (CUB) | Shakur Stevenson (USA) | Murodjon Akhmadaliev (UZB) and Vladimir Nikitin (RUS) |
| Men's Middleweight | Arlen Lopez (CUB) | Bektemir Melikuziev (UZB) | Misael Uziel Rodriguez (MEX) and Kamran Shakhsuvarly (AZE) |
Full results via Rio2016.com.
Recap
Adams' Saturday triumph marked not just a victory for female boxing, but a win for the sport in British circles after she became the nation's most decorated Olympic boxer with her second consecutive gold.
The 33-year-old captured the hearts of many a British supporter en route to home glory at London 2012, and BBC Sport chronicled just how quickly her star has risen since then:
Attention outdoors was fixed on the terrain course, where Swede Rissveds was a shock victor in the women's mountain bike final, becoming the youngest rider ever to win gold in the event at just 22 years of age.
The International Cyclist Union celebrated Rissveds' win and highlighted just what a positive year 2016 has been for the youngster:
Justin Rose made the history books at Rio 2016 earlier this summer after winning the men's golf tournament, and South Korea's Park followed suit with a groundbreaking triumph in Rio de Janeiro.
She shot a Day 4 score of 66—her third time managing that figure in four rounds—to finish on 16-under-par overall, five shots clear of silver medallist Ko, followed by China's Shanshan Feng, who took bronze:
Heath needed to overcome a sluggish start to beat Frenchman Maxime Beaumont to gold. In typical fashion, the Team GB ace managed a stronger finish.
His paddling was swift and precise enough to ensure a sprint ahead of Beaumont. Heath's achievement increased his team's already burgeoning gold-medal count at these games, per BBC Sport:
On a personal level, it was also Heath's second medal in Rio. He and Jon Schofield had already claimed silver in the men's kayak doubles earlier at the Games.
There was similar joy for Hungary when the women's crew edged ahead of Germany in the women's K4 500-metre final. In particular, Danuta Kozak could be pleased, since she had also retained the Olympic title in the single event on Thursday, per BBC Sport.
However, the most impressive performance undoubtedly came from the German team in the men's K4 1000-metres. The winning mark was clocked at 3:02.143, according to the Games' official website, ahead of Slovakia's 3:05.044.
Germany made a lightning start and never relinquished their commanding lead.
In what was an upset, Axelsen surprised Lin to take bronze in the men's badminton. The match needed three games to decide the outcome after Axelsen battled back from one down.
A 45-stroke rally lasting 49-seconds tipped things the Dane's way in the deciding game.
That match preceded an epic final between Chen and Malaysia's Lee Chong Wei. The former took a fiercely contested match after winning two-straight games by a 21-18 score.
BBC Sport confirmed what more gold for China means at the top of the medal table:
American triathlete Jorgensen ran, swam and cycled her way to victory on Saturday, too, finishing 40 seconds ahead of Switzerland's Nicola Spirig, who claimed the silver medal.
Great Britain's Vicky Holland was just five seconds behind her Swiss opponent, but could be content with a bronze medal after compatriot and team-mate Non Stanford came just three seconds behind her.
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