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Shooting (men’s skeet):Gold – Vincent Hancock (USA), Silver – Jesper Hansen (DEN), Bronze – Abdullah Al-Rashidi (KUW) Shooting (women’s skeet):Gold – Amber English (USA), Silver – Diana Bacosi (ITA), Bronze – Wei Meng (CHN) But the big winners were Argentina’s María Belén Pérez Maurice and her coach, Lucas Guillermo Saucedo, as Saucedo proposed during her interview after she lost her opening bout in sabre.

men’s foil fencers were upset, with first seed Gerek Meinhardt and third seed Alex Massialas ousted in the Round of 32, leaving Nick Itkin as the only American to get to the Round of 16. Dagmara Wozniak, competing in her fourth Olympics, lost her first bout, as did Anne-Elizabeth Stone, who has finished third and fifth in the last two world championships but was making her Olympic debut. SEE MORE: María Belén Pérez Maurice gets surprise marriage proposal AROUND THE GAMESįencing: Mariel Zagunis, the 20 gold medalist, reached the quarterfinals before finishing out of the medals. World record-holder Wei Meng of China, who hit 124 of 125 targets in qualifying, took bronze. But Hancock missed just one of his 60 shots, leaving little room for anyone to keep him from gold.Įnglish missed four times and hung in long enough for defending champion Diana Bacosi of Italy to have a few costly misses. The sentimental favorite of the day was 57-year-old Kuwaiti Abdullah Al-Rashidi, a seven-time Olympian who took his second straight Olympic bronze in the men’s event.

Tokyo olympics while you were sleeping beach volleyball ...