PARIS: Japan claimed two gold and three bronze medals at the Paris Olympics on Monday, the fourth day of the massive sporting event.

Japan took back the Olympic crown for the men’s gymnastics team event, with the Japan squad, comprising reigning world and Olympic all-round champion Daiki Hashimoto as well as Kazuma Kaya, Wataru Tanigawa, Shinnosuke Oka and Takaaki Sugino, securing gold.

Yuto Horigome successfully clinched back-to-back Olympic titles in the men’s street skateboarding, after Japan took two of the three available podium spots in the women’s street skateboarding competition just a day before.

History was made when Japan clinched bronze in the equestrian team event, marking the first medal for the Asian nation in an Olympic equestrian event in 92 years.

In judo, Soichi Hashimoto claimed bronze for the men’s 73-kilogram category, becoming the oldest Japanese judoka to secure an Olympic medal, at the age of 32.

Haruka Funakubo clinched bronze in the women’s 57-kg category, the 100th Olympic medal in Japan’s judo history since judo became an Olympic sport in the 1964 Tokyo Summer Olympics. In this category, Christa Deguchi, who hails from Japan’s Nagano Prefecture but represents Canada, took gold and South Korea’s Huh Mimi, who was born in Tokyo, took silver.

Japanese fencer Misaki Emura, a flagbearer for the Japan delegation for the Paris Olympics and the 2022 and 2023 world champion, was defeated in the table of 16 stage in the women’s sabre individual fencing event.

Japan lost to the reigning Olympic champion United States in the women’s basketball in its opening Olympic game.

JIJI Press