China’s Deng Wei broke the world record in winning the weightlifting gold medal in the women’s 63-kilogram category Tuesday at Rio de Janeiro.
Deng lifted 147 kilograms in the clean and jerk and 115 in the snatch for a world-record total of 262 across the two lifts.
Silver went to North Korea’s Choe Hyo Sim, who briefly broke the Olympic clean and jerk record at 143, but had finished too far behind Deng in the snatch to challenge for gold. Kazakhstan’s Karina Goricheva took bronze.
Weightlifting has been ravaged by doping in recent years, with the women’s 63-kilogram class particularly badly hit.
Kazakhstan’s 2012 gold medalist Maiya Maneza missed the Olympics after failing a drug test, while two of the top four from last year’s world championships were also out for doping-related reasons.
Fencing (men’s epee) — The future of men’s fencing might well be Sangyoung Park.
The 20-year-old South Korean sure looked like the sport’s next big star, dispatching more experienced and accomplished fencers on his way to a gold medal. Park stormed back to score the final 5 points and win men’s epee in a matchup of the youngest and oldest competitors in the field.
Park beat 41-year-old Geza Imre of Hungary Imre, 15-14, after perhaps the best rally of this tournament.
American Jason Pryor’s tournament ended after just one match. He fell to Switzerland’s Benjamin Steffen, 15-14.
‘‘That was the most difficult bout I've ever fenced in my life. There’s enough adrenaline to kill an elephant,’’ Pryor said. ‘‘You try to be disciplined but your body is trying to jump on the touches like a broken jack in the box.’’
Equestrian (eventing) — Michael Jung and Sam FBW are Olympic champions again.
The German pair won their second straight Olympic title in the discipline.
At the 2012 London Games, Jung became the first rider to finish an Olympic eventing competition on his dressage score. They repeated that feat in Rio with another perfect round in the final showjumping phase.
Jung is only the third eventer to win back-to-back Olympic titles.
Astier Nicolas and Piaf de B'Neville took silver.
Phillip Dutton of the United States, who had come within one fence of an individual medal in every major championship since 1994, won bronze on Mighty Nice.
Canoe slalom — France’s Denis Gargaud Chanut paddled his way to gold, ending a two-man stranglehold that dated to the 1992 Barcelona Games.
Slovakia’s Michal Martikan and France’s Tony Estanguet had won every gold medal in men’s C1 since the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, but Estanguet retired and Martikan failed to make the Slovakian team.
Gargaud Chanet qualified third and covered the churning course in 94.17 seconds to beat Slovakia’s Matej Benus by 0.85 seconds.
Japan’s Takuya Haneda captured bronze and began weeping in his canoe after the final paddler went past the finish line to secure his medal.
Women’s 25-meter pistol — Anna Korakaki had been one point from a gold medal, leading 6-0, in the final, but she began to choke. She hit a wrong target and missed one completely, allowing Monika Karsch of Germany to draw level at 6-6.
Karsch started the seventh five-shot series hitting the wrong target, and Korakaki retook the lead going to the last shot. Korakaki hit, paused, and jumped up and down when she realized she won.
‘‘I'm the happiest person on Earth but I can’t find the words in English, in Greek or French to describe my feelings,’’ said the 20-year-old Korakaki, who also won bronze in the 10-meter air pistol.
