Lydia Ko completed her Olympic medal collection on Saturday with the most valuable of them all, a gold medal that puts the 27-year-old Kiwi into the LPGA Hall of Fame.

Ko built a five-shot lead on the back nine at Le Golf National as her closest pursuers all collapsed, and then had to hang on until the very end. Her lead down to one, Ko laid up on the par-5 18th, hit wedge to 7 feet and made birdie for a 1-under 71 and a two-shot victory.

Ko won the silver medal in Rio de Janeiro. She won the bronze in Tokyo. The missing one turned out to be more valuable than its weight in gold. The victory pushed her career total to 27 points for the LPGA Hall of Fame, one of the strictest criteria for any shrine.

Esther Henseleit of Germany shot a 66 to make Ko work for it. She wound up with the silver. Xiyu Lin of China shot 69 to take bronze.

American McEwen gets silver in tiebreaker

First they put the bar up higher. Then they lowered it.

Wherever they put the bar, American Shelby McEwen and world indoor champion Hamish Kerr of New Zealand couldn’t clear it in an interminable jump-off for the high jump title.

It was Kerr who finally broke the streak of failures when he got over 2.34 meters to take the gold after 11 straight misses in regulation and the jump-off between the two of them. There were so many misses that there wasn’t enough room on the scoreboard for all the Xs.

McEwen was left with the silver, with both he and Kerr having cleared 2.36 in regulation.

The competitors could have chosen to tie and both would have received a gold medal, which is exactly what happened at the Tokyo Olympics between Mutaz Barshim of Qatar and Gianmarco Tamberi of Italy.

Unprecedented sweep for China in Paris

Call it the Great Haul of China. Cao Yuan defended his title in the men’s 10-meter platform and gave his nation an unprecedented sweep of the diving gold medals at the Paris Olympics.

The Big Red Machine won all eight golds handed out at the Olympic Aquatics Centre, most of them with dominating victories.

That wasn’t the case in the final diving event of the Games. With teammate Yang Hao having an uncharacteristically poor day and Rikuto Tamai of Japan keeping the pressure on until a botched dive in the next-to-last round, the burden of completing the Chinese sweep fell entirely on Cao’s slender shoulders.

He was up to the task.

Cao, 29, essentially locked up the gold with big scores on his toughest dive of the competition, a forward 41/2 somersaults in the fifth of six rounds. He finished with 547.50 points to become the first male diver since Greg Louganis in 1988 to win a second straight gold off the big tower.

Cao now has four golds in his career, tying Louganis for the most ever by a male Olympic diver.

France upends Poland, repeats as champion

France defended its Olympic gold medal in men’s volleyball, and oh how special to do so right at home with a raucous, standing-room-only crowd offering assists every step of the way.

South Paris Arena instantly became party central as the dejected Poland team sat and watched its victorious opponent dance all over the court.

Fans waving The Tricolore roared and shook the stands for every remarkable rally, leaping block, powerful spike and service ace as their team handled world No. 1 Poland in straight sets.

The second-ranked French won 25-19, 25-20, 25-23 to make it two in a row on top of the Olympic podium.

They were led by Jean Patry’s hard hitting and match-high 17 points along with the team’s sensational service game that led to eight aces — four in the second set — and just plain hustle plays.

Dake of U.S. gets bronze

Kyle Dake’s frantic comeback for bronze and Kennedy Blades’ push into the finals highlighted the day for the United States.

Dake trailed Serbia’s Hetik Cabolov 4-3 late before rallying to win 10-4 to win his men’s 74 kg freestyle match.

American Kennedy Blades beat Kyrgyzstan’s Aiperi Medet Kyzy 8-6 to reach the final in the women’s 76 kg class. She will face Japan’s Yuka Kagami for gold.

Taiwanese boxer responds with gold

Boxer Lin Yu-ting of Taiwan won a gold medal in the women’s featherweight division, following Imane Khelif’s lead a day earlier with a glittering response to the intense scrutiny faced by both fighters inside the ring and around the world over misconceptions about their womanhood.

Lin routed Julia Szeremeta of Poland 5:0 in the final at Roland Garros, capping her four-fight unbeaten run through Paris by winning Taiwan’s first Olympic boxing gold medal.

Friday, Khelif won Algeria’s first women’s boxing medal with a decisive win in the welterweight final, beating Yang Liu of China.

Both fighters persevered through an avalanche of criticism and uninformed speculation about their sex during the Paris tournament to deliver the best performances of their boxing careers. Lin won all four of her bouts by shutout, even if she didn’t win every round on every judge’s card as Khelif did.

Swedish men rout Germany for gold

Jump-setting Swedes David Ahman and Jonatan Hellvig quickly dispatched Germany to win the Olympic gold medal, needing just 33 minutes. The 22-year-old Swedes beat Nils Ehlers and Clemens Wickler 21-10, 21-13 in the final competition at Eiffel Tower Stadium.

Norway beat Qatar in the men’s beach volleyball bronze medal match.

American Harrison just misses gold

American Nevin Harrison came within a photo finish of winning her second straight Olympic gold medal in the women’s canoe sprint 200-meter event. Katie Vincent of Canada edged her in a world-best 44.12 seconds. Harrison’s time was 44.13 seconds — significantly better than the 45.93 she posted when she won the inaugural event in Tokyo at age 19.

Raboutou gets U.S. women’s first medal

Janja Garnbret and Brooke Raboutou cried together in joy as they hugged after the boulder and lead sport climbing final. Garnbret had just enhanced her status as one of the biggest stars in the sport by defending her Olympic title. Raboutou was celebrating the first-ever climbing Olympic medal for the U.S. women’s team.

Garnbret, the Slovenian who won the combined gold when sport climbing made its Olympic debut at the Tokyo Games three years ago, overcame Raboutou for the victory on the last climb of the day in Le Bourget to secure the gold.

Also

Canadian b-boy Phil Wizard (Philip Kim) took gold in the first Olympic men’s breaking tournament. American b-boy Victor (Victor Montalvo) took the bronze. ... The team of Iúri Leitão and Rui Oliveira from Portugal won the final sprint in the men’s Madison after a 200-lap cycling race, holding off Italy and defending champ Denmark to capture the gold medal. ... Handball powerhouse Norway beat Tokyo champion France 29-21 in the women’s final for its third Olympic gold medal. ... China pulled off a stunner in rhythmic gymnastics, becoming the first non-European country to win Olympic gold in the group event.