The 21-year-old edged out Anastasiia Galashina after the ROC shooter missed the centre two rings, scoring 8.9 on her final shot. Yang scored 9.8 with her final shot to finish with an Olympic record of 251.8. Galashina finished 0.7 behind on 251.1. Nina Christen of Switzerland took the bronze medal.
* Ecuador's Richard Carapaz won Olympic gold in the men's cycling road race on Saturday (Jul 24), timing to perfection a tactical final descent after a tough 234km course worthy of a mountain stage of a Grand Tour.
Slovenia's Tadej Pogacar, bidding to become the first cyclist to win the road race in the same year as the Tour de France, had to be content with bronze in a photo finish with Belgium's silver medallist Wout van Aert.
* China's Hou Zhihui took the first weightlifting gold of Tokyo 2020 on Saturday (Jul 24) as she dashed India's hopes of an elusive first women's Olympic title. The 24-year-old world championship silver medallist Hou dominated the 49kg competition, opening up a 7kg advantage over India's Chanu Saikhom Mirabai after the opening three lifts.
* Takato Naohisa has the honour of being Japan's first gold medallist at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics after winning by ippon over Yang Yung Wei of Chinese Taipei in the judo men's -60kg contest.
The win was also Japan's first gold medal in the weight class since Nomura Tadahiro at Athens 2004. As for Yang, the 23-year-old was Chinese Taipei's first medallist of these Olympic Games and the nation's first ever medallist in Olympic Judo.
Takato Naohisa celebrates winning Japan's first gold medal at Tokyo 2020. (Photo: Getty)
Kazakhstan's Yeldos Smetov took bronze after beating Tornike Tsjakadoea of the Netherlands while France clinched their first medal of Tokyo 2020 through Luka Mkheidze in the other bronze medal contest with an emotional golden score win over Kim Won Jin from the Republic of Korea (RoK).
Kosovo's judoka Distria Krasniqi won the gold medal in the women's -48kg category at the Tokyo Olympics on Saturday, beating Japanese rival Funa Tonaki in the final.
* Hungarian Aron Szilagyi, 31, won gold in the men’s individual sabre fencing competition on Saturday, becoming the first man ever to win three gold fencing medals in an individual discipline. Luigi Samele of Italy took silver and Kim Jung-hwan of South Korea claimed bronze.
China’s Sun Yiwen won the women’s individual epee gold medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Ana Maria Popescu of Romania took silver and Katrina Lehis of Estonia claimed bronze.
* Italy’s Vito Dell’Aquila defeated Tunisia’s Mohamed Khalil Jendoubi to win the men’s taekwo58kg category gold medal on Saturday. The RoK’s Jang Jun and Russian Mikhail Artamonov claimed the bronze medals.
Meanwhile, Thailand's Panipak Wongpattanakit, the bronze medallist in Rio five years ago, beat Spanish teenager Adriana Cerezo Iglesias to win the gold medal in the women’s 49kg category on Saturday.
Panipak Wongphatthanakit of Thailand celebrates winning gold with the Thai national flag. (Photo: Reuters)
* World champions the United States began their quest for a third straight Olympic gold medal in women’s water polo by storming into the record books with a 25-4 humbling of hosts Japan at the Tatsumi Water Polo Centre on Saturday.
But the US record for most goals scored in a single match at the Olympics stood just a few hours before being overhauled by reigning European champions Spain, who crushed South Africa 29-4 to lay down a marker of their own.
Teenager Elena Ruiz, making her Olympic debut at the age of 16, top scored for Spain with five goals, while nine more of her team mates were also on target.
* Sweden recovered to continue their dominant run in the women's Olympic soccer tournament with a 4-2 comeback win over Australia, while Zambia striker Barbra Banda netted her second hat-trick in as many games to lead the scoring charts.
* “King” Kohei Uchimura’s distinguished Olympic career came to a shock end on the opening day of the gymnastics competition when he suffered a crash landing and failed to qualify for the horizontal bar final, while Japan pushed on without one of the sport’s all-time greats.
* Vietnamese boxer Nguyen Van Duong beat Azerbaijan’s Aliyev Tayfur 3-2 in the round of 32 of the men’s 57kg category, which is the first Olympic victory for Vietnamese boxing in 33 years. Next up for him will be a tough match against Erdenebat Tsendbaatar of Mongolia, who ranked fifth overall in Rio 2016 and is the reigning Asian champion.
Nguyen Van Duong (in red) has put an end to Vietnam's 33-year drought for an Olympic win in boxing.
* The UK’s Geraint Thomas said he "must have done something wrong in a previous life" after his hopes of a first Olympic road race medal were wiped out by yet another crash on Saturday.
The Welsh former Tour de France champion was tipped as a medal prospect on a 234-km course packed with brutal climbs, but he hit the deck early on in a crash also involving fellow team member Tao Geoghegan Hart.
* Novak Djokovic launched his quest for Olympic gold on Saturday (Jul 24) with a straight-sets win at the Tokyo Games as tennis stars toiled in the searing summer heat on the opening day of the tournament.
World number one Djokovic, the undisputed favourite for the men's title in Japan, easily dispatched Bolivia's Hugo Dellien 6-2, 6-2, avoiding a repeat of his first-round exit five years ago in Rio.
* Hosts Japan began their men's volleyball campaign with a straight sets win over Venezuela while Italy fought back from two sets down to seal a remarkable victory against Canada in their Pool A openers at an empty Ariake Arena on Saturday (Jul 24).
Japan's Yuki Ishikawa (15 points) and 19-year-old Ran Takahashi (11 points) led from the front with a barrage of spikes while Akihiro Yamauchi was in inspired form at the net to seal a 25-21 25-20 25-15 victory.
The Tokyo 2020 medal count as of 9pm on July 24.
