Medals to be awarded in numerous track & field events

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Most of Friday’s high-profile Olympic events were early, including some track and field events, as well as the jumping team event at Tokyo’s Equestrian Park. Here’s a look at who won medals overnight and this morning at the Tokyo Games.Track & FieldAllyson Felix won her record 10th Olympic track medal with a bronze in the 400 meter. She finished two spots behind gold medalist Shaunae Miller-Uibo.Miller-Uibo defended her 400-meter title in a time of 48.36 seconds.Felix now has more Olympic track and field medals than any woman in history. She came into the Tokyo Games even with Jamaican runner Merlene Ottey.Marileidy Paulino of the Dominican Republic finished second a full .84 seconds behind Miller-Uibo.It was a far less dramatic finish than in 2016 when Miller-Uibo dived at the finish line to edge out Felix for the gold. Joshua Cheptegei of Uganda also won the gold medal in the men’s 5,000-meter race a week after earning silver in the 10,000 at the Tokyo Games.Chepetgei was in the leading pack for most of the race and won in 12 minutes, 58.15 seconds.Mohammed Ahmed of Canada surged into second place to get the silver medal in 12:58.61 and Paul Chelimo of the United States picked up bronze in 12:59.05.Chelimo was a silver medalist in the 5,000 at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics. He dived across the line to edge Nicholas Kipkorir Kimeli of Kenya.EquestrianJessica Springsteen and the U.S. equestrian jumping team have qualified for the finals and will compete for a second straight medal Saturday night.Springsteen — daughter of rocker Bruce Springsteen and his E Street Band wife, Patti Scialfa — will join teammates Laura Kraut and McClain Ward as the Americans try to improve on their silver from 2016 in Rio de Janeiro.Springsteen and Kraut each displaced just one rail for four penalty points each, and Ward closed with five penalties. Their total of 13 points assured them a finals entry before qualifying even ended.Springsteen also picked up four penalties in Tuesday’s qualifying for the individual jumping, when all three American riders failed to earn entry to the final.Ward is the only returning member of the silver-medal team from Rio. He and Kraut were also on the 2008 team that took gold in Beijing.Women’s VolleyballApril Ross now has the complete set of Olympic beach volleyball medals: silver in London, bronze in Rio de Janeiro and a gold she won with Alix Klineman at the Tokyo Games on Friday with a victory over Australia.The Americans beat Mariafe Artacho del Solar and Taliqua Clancy of Australia 21-15, 21-16 under a blazing sun in a match that was mercifully quick for the biggest crowd yet at Shiokaze Park — about 60 people in the temporary stadium that seats 9,600.Playing in 92-degree Fahrenheit temperatures under the hot Tokyo sun, the Americans finished off the Aussies in 43 minutes. In the bronze medal match earlier Friday, Joana Heidrich and Anouk Verge-Depre of Switzerland cruised to a straight-set victory over Latvia.The silver for Australia was its first beach volleyball medal since Natalie Cook and Kerri Pottharst took gold on Bondi Beach in 2000. But they were never really close against the Americans, who tied for the top spot in the Olympic qualification points race and lost just one set in seven matches in Tokyo.Women’s basketballBrittney Griner had 15 points and 12 rebounds to help the Americans beat the Serbians 79-59 on Friday to advance to title game.”This is exactly where we want to be,” said Breanna Stewart, who also had a double-double with 12 points and 10 rebounds. “Everything is on the line. We’re going to do what we can to make sure we come home with a gold.”The Americans are now one win away from a seventh consecutive gold medal which would match the U.S. men’s team that won seven Olympic titles in a row from 1936-68.It would also give Sue Bird and Diana Taurasi five gold medals — the most ever by a basketball player in the Olympics. The Americans will face Japan on Sunday. The teams played in the preliminary round and the U.S. won 86-69. Japan beat France 87-71 in the semifinals, assuring the host nation its first medal ever in women’s basketball.”I think everybody here wants to win gold for them, for us, for everybody that’s started this streak that got us here,” Griner said. “You know there’s a lot of different reasons why we want to win this gold medal. So I think you’re going to see some really good basketball in the gold medal game.”Men’s BasketballFrance made sure the U.S. wouldn’t win a medal at the 2019 Basketball World Cup, then beat the Americans again to open the Tokyo Games.If France beats the U.S. for a third consecutive time, the country will take over as Olympic champions.The rematch is set: France and the U.S. play for gold, and France has made it this far in the Olympics only twice before, falling to the U.S. in the gold-medal games at Sydney in 2000 and at London in 1948.The Americans are bidding for a fourth consecutive gold medal, and Kevin Durant can join Carmelo Anthony as the only U.S. men with three basketball golds.No nation has ever defeated the U.S. men twice in the same Olympics. WrestlingAmerican Gable Steveson defeated Georgia’s Geno Petriashvili 10-8 to claim wrestling gold in the men’s freestyle 125-kilogram class.Georgia challenged the final points, to no avail. Steveson, as is customary after his biggest wins, celebrated with a backflip.Steveson outscored his opponents 23-0 in the first three rounds. He rolled past 2016 Olympic gold medalist Taha Akgul 8-0 in the quarterfinals.Petriashvili, the No. 1 seed, is a three-time world champion who was an Olympic bronze medalist in the class in 2016. He led Steveson 8-5 in the final minute, but couldn’t handle the 21-year-old’s quickness late. Water PoloGreece won its first men’s water polo medal at the Olympics. The only question now is silver or gold.Stylianos Agryropoulos Kanakakis scored four times, Emmanouil Zerdevas made seven saves and Greece beat Hungary 9-6 in the semifinals of the Tokyo Games.Playing in its 11th straight Olympics, Greece improved to 6-0-1 with its fifth straight win since a 6-6 draw against Italy during group play. It also beat Hungary 10-9 in its first game in Tokyo on July 25.Greece’s previous best finish was fourth in 2004. Next up is the winner of the Spain-Serbia semifinal.Krisztian Manhercz scored two goals for Hungary, and Viktor Nagy made eight saves. Hungary is the winningest program in men’s water polo with nine golds, but it hasn’t won a medal since its run of three straight Olympic titles from 2000 to 2008.Men’s BaseballSouth Korea plays the Dominican Republic in the bronze medal baseball game. The U.S. beat South Korea to send the defending champions into the bronze medal game.