MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Monday saw 14 sets of medals being awarded in diving, fencing, gymnastics, judo, rugby sevens, swimming and weightlifting.
China scored first place in the men's 10m platform synchronized diving with Lin Yue and Chen Aisen beating US and British athletes, who scored silver and bronze respectively.
In women's individual sabre fencing finals, Russia’s Yana Yegorian competed with fellow Russian Sofiya Velikaya, beating the latter with the score 15:14. This marks the first time Russian nationals meet in fencing finals since 1996. Egorian’s gold medal is the second Russian victory at the Rio Olympics.
Thai teammates, Sukanya Srisurat and Pimsiri Sirikaew, were awarded gold and silver medals in the women's 58kg weightlifting, while Chinese Tapei's Kuo Hsing-chun occupied the third place.
Swimming feud between Efimova and King
Efimova’s victory comes after she was cleared by the International Swimming Federation at the last minute to take part in the competition, successfully winning her appeal against a doping ban imposed in July.
Prior to the race, King slammed Efimova for being caught "drug cheating" and stated that she was "not a fan" of the Russian swimmer as well as refused to congratulate her on the silver medal after the race. However, the US swimmer apologized afterwards for the incident.
"If I had been in Yulia’s position, I would not have wanted to be congratulated by someone who was not speaking highly of me. So if she was wishing to be congratulated, I apologize," King said.
In the men's 100 meters breaststroke, US athletes Ryan Murphy and David Plummer won gold and bronze respectively, with Murphy setting a new world record. Chian's Xu Jiayu was awarded second place in the race.
First win in 16 years for Russian artistic gymnastics
Denis Ablyazin, David Belyavskiy, Nikolai Kuksenkov, Nikita Nagornyy and Ivan Stretovich got 271.453 points, about 2.6 points less than the Japanese team.
Shooting bronze
The day after Russia’s Vitalina Batsarashkina won a silver medal in the women's 10m air pistol shooting, her fellow teammate, Vladimir Maslennikov, also scored a medal at the Rio Olympics, winning a bronze medal at the men's 10m air rifle event.
Japanese Shohei Ono won gold in the men's 73kg judo, with Azerbaijan's Rustam Orujov taking silver and Georgia's Lasha Shavdatuashvili and Belgium's Dirk Van Tichelt scoring bronze medals in the competition.
Meanwhile, Australia scored gold inthe women's rugby sevens after beating New Zealand in the finals, as Canadians took home bronze medals.
The United States still leads the overall medal count with 19 medals including five gold ones, while Russia stays at the seventh place with 10 medals including two gold ones.
