Tokyo Olympics 2021 Updates: Kamalpreet finishes 6th in discus final; India women in hockey semis

Shin Jea-hwan of South Korea won gold in the men's vault at the Tokyo Olympics on Monday. Denis Abliazin of the Russian Olympic Committee won silver and Artur Davtyan of Armenia took bronze. (AFP Photo)

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Britain's Oliver Townend, Laura Collett and Tom McEwen won team gold in equestrian eventing at the Tokyo Olympics on Monday. Australia claimed the silver medal and France the bronze. (Getty Images)

Jessie Fleming scored a second-half penalty as Canada upset four-time Olympic women's football champions the United States 1-0 in Kashima on Monday to reach the final for the first time. Fleming's 74th-minute spot-kick earned Canada a first win over their neighbours since 2001 and set up a clash with Sweden or Australia for the gold medal. (Reuters Photo)

Jade Carey of the United States won the gold medal in the women's floor at the Tokyo Olympics on Monday. Italy's Vanessa Ferrari won silver while Japan's Mai Murakami and the Russian Olympic Committee's Angelina Melnikova both took the bronze, with identical scores. (AP Photo)

China won the gold medal in the Olympic women's team sprint at the Izu Velodrome on Monday, beating Germany in the final. Russian Olympic Committee took the bronze. (Reuters Photo)

Zhang Changhong of China won the men's 50-metre rifle three positions gold with a world record score of 466. Russian Sergey Kamenskiy took the silver while Serbian Milenko Sebic claimed the bronze. (AP Photo)

China's women broke their own team sprint world record with a time of 31.804 seconds to beat Lithuania in the first round at the Olympics on Monday. The Chinese pair of Bao Shanju and Zhong Tianshi bettered the 32.034 mark set by Zhong and Gong Jinjie at the 2015 world championships. Gong and Zhong won the Olympic title in Rio five years ago -- the first and only gold for China in a cycling event. Up next for China are Germany's Lea Friedrich and Emma Hinze, who defeated Ukraine in the first round. (AFP Photo)

China's Wang Zhouyu won gold in the women's 87kg weightlifting category at the Tokyo Olympics on Monday. Ecuador's Tamara Salazar took the silver medal and the Dominican Republic's Crismery Santana claimed bronze. (AP Photo)

Liu Yang of China won the gold medal in the men's gymnastics rings event at the Tokyo Olympics on Monday. You Hao, also from China, won silver and Greece's Eleftherios Petrounias took the bronze. (Reuters Photo)

US gymnast Simone Biles is on the start list for Tuesday's balance beam final, according to the Tokyo 2020 schedule posted on Monday afternoon. Biles, who won four golds in the 2016 Rio Olympics, had withdrawn from the other four individual finals she had qualified for in Tokyo, citing mental health issues. The beam is her last chance to take part. (AP Photo)

Reigning world champion PV Sindhu on Monday said she was completely blank after winning a second successive Olympic medal and it took her a while to realise the enormity of her historic achievement in the ongoing Games. The 26-year-old Indian on Sunday etched her name among the all-time greats after winning badminton's women's singles bronze medal to add to the silver she won at Rio de Janeiro five years back. She became the first Indian woman and second overall from the country to achieve the feat. (Getty Images)

Germany smashed the women's team pursuit world record in the Olympics qualifying competition on Monday, crossing the line in a time of 4min 07.307sec. The German quartet of Franziska Brausse, Lisa Brennauer, Lisa Klein, Mieke Kroeger beat the previous mark of 4:10.236 set by the British women's team at the 2016 Rio Games by nearly three seconds. Britain, led by Laura Kenny, won gold in the women's team pursuit in Rio and in London four years earlier while Germany are looking to claim their first ever Olympic medal in the event. (AP Photo)