The Olympic Games are in full swing, the first day of the competition has all ended, and the ranking on the medal table has also changed a lot, the Chinese team was originally in the lead position with two golds, but with the decision of multiple gold medals in swimming events, it has brought great changes to the medal table, and then let's take a look at the specific situation. Gold medal list update on the first day of the Olympics: China ranked second with 2 golds, topped with 5 medals, and Hong Kong, China won the first gold.
Australia topped the table with a total of five medals with three golds and two silvers. It has to be said that Australia still maintains a clear advantage in traditional swimming, their first gold medal was in the road cycling women's individual time trial, but the remaining two gold medals and two silver medals came in swimming. They won gold in the women's 400m freestyle final. They won gold in the women's 4×100m freestyle relay final. In addition, he won two silver medals in the men's 400m freestyle and the men's 4×100m freestyle relay.
The Chinese team ranked second with 2 golds and 1 bronze, and the two gold medals are still our traditional advantage events, the first gold medal comes from shooting, and the second gold medal comes from diving, and on the first day of the swimming event, we have a number of events to hit the medals, but the final results are not outstanding and it is a little regrettable to miss the medals. In the men's 4×100m freestyle relay in the final, the first stroke was 100m world record holder Pan Zhanle, who swam 46.92 seconds to set a new Olympic record. In the first 100m, we were in first place, but then United States overtook and rebounded back to second in the middle, and we finished in 3:11.28, but only fourth and missed out on a medal. The bronze medal came in the women's 4×100m freestyle relay, with our final time of 3:30.30 setting an Asian record for the bronze medal, while the gold medal was won by Australia who set a new Olympic record of 3:28.92.
The United States team finished third with 1 gold, 2 silver and 2 bronze medals, with a total of 5 medals. Many of their medals also came in swimming, with a final time of 3:09.28 to win gold in the men's 4×100m freestyle relay final. The silver medal came from Swimming Event 1. The bronze medal in diving went to swimming and one to road cycling in the women's individual time trial.
As the host team, France won one gold, two silver and one bronze after the first day of competition, temporarily ranking fourth in the medal table. Their first gold medal came in rugby sevens. Fiji, as a dark horse in the final, was still 7-28, and was bombarded 21-0 and finally won only one silver medal, and the gold medal was won by France. Their silver medals came from the women's individual fencing and men's 60kg judo, while the bronze medals also came from judo. So far, as the host, France has performed quite well in various projects.
Korea finished fifth with three medals, one gold, one silver and one bronze. Their three medals came in three events, the gold medal came in the men's sabre individual fencing event, and the silver medal was the shooting mixed team 10m air rifle, which they lost to us 12-16. The bronze medal came from swimming.
The next 6 to 9 teams all won a gold medal and also had good results. It is worth mentioning that the Hong Kong delegation won the first gold medal of this Olympic Games, in the fencing women's epee individual competition, in which the former defending champion Sun Yiwen was upset, and the other players of the Chinese team were also eliminated in the subsequent performance. In the final, Jiang Minxin finally narrowly defeated his opponent 13:12 and won the gold medal.
Subsequent delegations also won medals, namely silver and bronze medals. After the first day of competition, a total of 20 delegations had achieved some results in medals, and all of them were in good form. There will still be more competitions in the future, looking forward to more chasing in the medal table, and also looking forward to Chinese athletes making breakthroughs in their respective events.