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Simone Biles took bronze, while Guan Chenchen celebrated the gold<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<\/thead>\n\n\n\n
Dates:<\/strong> 23 July-8 August <\/span>Time in Tokyo:<\/strong> BST +8<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Coverage:<\/strong> Watch live on BBC TV, BBC iPlayer, BBC Red Button and online; Listen on BBC Radio 5 Live, Sports Extra and Sounds; live text and video clips on BBC Sport website and app.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Simone Biles won bronze on an emotional return to Olympic competition on the day canoeist Lisa Carrington earned double gold and hurdler Karsten Warholm smashed a world record.<\/span><\/p>\n

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American gymnast Biles, a four-time Olympic champion, had pulled out of four events at Tokyo 2020 to prioritise her mental health.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

She was third in the women’s beam final as China’s Guan Chenchen, 16, won gold.<\/span><\/p>\n

Norway’s Warholm won men’s 400m hurdles gold in <\/span>an extraordinary 45.94 seconds.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

His performance won a final described as “truly unbelievable” by British former hurdler Colin Jackson.<\/span><\/p>\n

New Zealand’s Carrington showed her class with two quick golds in the canoe sprint.<\/span><\/p>\n

The 32-year-old from Auckland claimed her third consecutive K1 200m sprint Olympic title, then teamed up with Caitlin Regal to win the K2 500m event.<\/span><\/p>\n

Germany’s world champion Malaika Mihambo produced a huge final jump of 7.00m to take women’s long jump gold.<\/span><\/p>\n

Biles is back<\/h3>\n

When Biles announced last Tuesday that she was taking time out of competition, it was unclear whether she would be seen in action again at Tokyo 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n

She made her decision during the women’s team final, leaving the arena – and then returning to support her team-mates – after struggling during the vault.<\/span><\/p>\n

After suffering with the ‘twisties’, which gymnasts describe as a kind of mental block, Biles pulled out of the all-around, vault, floor and uneven bars.<\/span><\/p>\n

But the 24-year-old felt able to return for her final event, jumping up and down and hugging her rivals after scoring 14.000 with a solid routine that ended with a double backward somersault and double pike on to the mat.<\/span><\/p>\n

China took the gold and silver, with teenager Guan, the national champion, scoring 14.633 to beat compatriot Tang Xijing, who scored 14.233.<\/span><\/p>\n

‘Warholm is Superman’<\/h3>\n
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Karsten Warholm beat his own world record – having set a prevous best time of 46.70 seconds in Oslo in July<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Norway’s Warholm ran a stunning men’s 400m hurdles race to slash more than 0.7 seconds off his old world record – then celebrated by tearing open his shirt.<\/span><\/p>\n

Former 1500m Olympic silver medallist Steve Cram, watching Warholm’s celebration, said: “No wonder he rips his shirt apart – he is Superman in this event!”<\/span><\/p>\n

Warholm, who now holds the European, world and Olympic titles, told BBC Sport: “You know the cliche that it hasn’t sunk in yet? I don’t think it has but I feel ecstatic.”<\/span><\/p>\n

In the women’s long jump, Germany’s Mihambo trailed to American Brittney Reese for much of the event.<\/span><\/p>\n

But with her final jump, the reigning world champion hit the 7.00m mark to leave Reese, the 2012 Olympic champion, with a silver – the same medal she won at Rio 2016. Nigeria’s Ese Brume was third.<\/span><\/p>\n

Carrington dominates on water <\/h3>\n

New Zealand sprint canoeist Carrington maintained her fine Olympic record by claiming two golds on Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n

She continued her dominance of the K1 200m sprint, setting a new Olympic best to beat Spain’s Teresa Portela by 0.763 seconds, before joining up with Regal to take K2 500m gold.<\/span><\/p>\n

Carrington starts her bid for another gold on Wednesday in the K1 500m.<\/span><\/p>\n

While Carrington is a familiar face on the Olympic podium, Daiki Hashimoto is emerging as a new star.<\/span><\/p>\n

Hashimoto has cemented his status as the new king of Japanese gymnastics with his second Olympic title at Tokyo 2020 – adding horizontal bar gold to his all-around title and team silver.<\/span><\/p>\n

The 19-year-old has taken the mantle from Japan great Kohei Uchimura, Olympic all-around champion in 2012 and 2016, who chose not to defend his titles in Tokyo.<\/span><\/p>\n

Hashimoto finished the horizontal bar final with a score of 15.066 to beat Croat Tin Srbic (14.900), with Russian team gold medallist Nikita Nagornyy in bronze with 14.533.<\/span><\/p>\n

China’s Xie Siyi won his second diving gold of Tokyo 2020 by taking the 3m springboard title – seven years after being told by a doctor he would never dive again because of a broken ankle.<\/span><\/p>\n

World champion Xie, 25, took gold with a final score of 558.75, finishing ahead of compatriot Wang Zongyuan, with whom he won the 3m synchro gold last Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n

Elsewhere, boxer Sena Irie created history by becoming the first Japanese woman to win Olympic boxing gold, beating Nesthy Petecio, the 2019 world champion, of the Philippines.<\/span><\/p>\n

The USA remain on course for success in the men’s basketball, although they had to come from 11 points down to beat Spain 95-81 in their quarter-final.<\/span><\/p>\n

But India’s hopes of reaching a first hockey final since 1980 were ended as their men were beaten 5-2 by Belgium in their semi-final. Belgium will face Australia, who beat Germany 3-1.<\/span><\/p>\n

What else is coming up on day 11?<\/h3>\n