Turkey captures three more medals in Tokyo

Three Turkish athletes clinched bronze medals at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics on Aug. 6, increasing the country's total medals tally at the games to 10.

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Ali Sofuoğlu won his medal in the men's karate kata event, Merve Çoban in the women's karate kumite 61-kg and wrestler Taha Akgül in the men's freestyle 125-kg class.

Akgül, beat his Mongolian opponent Lkhagvagerel Munkhtur 5-0 to claim the second Olympic medal of his career, following his gold at the 2016 Rio Games.

Çoban was said to have missed a chance at gold.

"This was not what I expected," she said. "I finished third in the Olympics but I'm sorry I didn't get the gold medal, which was the reason I am here for."

The Turkish Olympic team headed to the last weekend of the Tokyo Games, which close on Aug. 8, with a total of 10
medals: One gold, one silver and eight bronze medals. Meanwhile, Turkish athlete Eda Tüysüz finished fourth in the women's javelin throw final with a score of 64.0 meters.

Elsewhere in the Tokyo Olympics on Aug. 6, beach volleyball players roasted on the sands of Tokyo Bay and Olympic race walkers broiled in Japan's supposedly cooler north. With solar and political heat clinging to athletes in their final three days of the Games, climbers clambered up the walls in the sport's Olympic debut while Team USA claimed the women's volleyball gold for the birthplace of the sport.

The boxing gold went to a dominant Cuba as Julio la Cruz outclassed Russian world heavyweight champion Muslim Gadzhimagomedov to win his second Olympic title and his country's third gold of the five awarded so far.

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On the track, Joshua Cheptegei made up for his silver in the 10,000 metres to win the 5,000m Olympic title on Aug. 6, succeeding two...