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This tournament was thrown open in the preliminary round as the top two seeds Farzan Ashourzadeh and Kim Tae-Hun were upset

Just as impressive in the bottom half of the draw was Li Xiaoxia and Ai Fukuhara neither of whom dropped a set in making the quarter finals

Russia were absolutely dominant in this event, proving their status as pre-event favourites to be correct. They led in both

New Zealand turned it on in the semi-final, with Portia Woodman scoring a hat trick to help beat Great Britain 25-7

In the final, performances only improved. Mamun scored 19 points in every event with Kudryavtseva managing it in all but one.

Brazil could not continue the hot streak and were knocked out in the quarter finals by Netherlands. The other ties went to form

France beat Sweden 29-27 to set a final with Russia beating Norway 27-26.

In the other semi-final once again Sweden and Brazil would head to a penalty shootout. This time Sweden would get the win

Smith was first up and improved on both scores from qualification, scoring 15.833. Whitlock was the final man to go

Taha Akgul (Turkey) was the reigning Olympic champion but was beaten 7-0 by young, explosive Gable Steveson (United States).

Diaz and Qiuyun improved to 124kg and 123kg respectively. Entering the final round they both put 3kg on the bar

Russia would lead the semi-final 7-6 at half time but the United States would rebound 15-11.

France continues their good run through the tournament, beating Argentina 3-0 in the semi-final.

The second race between the Dutch riders saw swings and Lavreysen managed to edge Hoogland on the line to send it to a third race.

This became a very open contest as Ashleigh Barty (Australia) and Naomi Osaka (Japan) both failed to get far in the event

Calderano went two sets up only for Ovtcharov to win four straight. In the bottom quarter, Ma Long (China) came through

Kolesnichenko/Romashina (Russia) led qualification by over three points. They scored over 97 points in both the free and technical