Cheng settles for joint bronze
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TOP-SEEDED Mashu Baker won the men’s under-90 kilogram judo competition at the Rio Olympic Games on Wednesday in a night of double golds for the sport’s birthplace of Japan.
He defeated Georgia’s Varlam Liparteliani, who took silver.
China’s Cheng Xunzhao and 2015 world champion and world No. 1 Gwak Dong-han of South Korea each took bronze.
Gwak ducked under Sweden’s Marcus Nyman to throw him for ippon with a shoulder throw to win his bronze.
Cheng came through a tight encounter with Lkhagvasuren Otgonbaatar of Mongolia to win the other bronze medal.
On the women’s side, Japan’s Haruka Tachimoto also won a gold medal.
Japan has now won three gold medals in judo. Shohei Ono had got it off the golden mark on Monday by winning the men’s under-73kg while all bar one of the 10 fighters to compete so far have finished on the podium.
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