Target Shooting: South Korea’s Jin Jong-oh shot his way back from the brink of elimination to win his third consecutive gold in the Olympic men’s 50 metre pistol event yesterday. With a steadier hand in the final rounds, Jin prevailed over Vietnam’s Xuan Vinh Hoang, who made history on Saturday by winning his country’s first gold medal. Kim Song Guk, of North Korea, won the bronze. The 36-year-old Jin is one of the Olympics’ most decorated pistol shooters, having won the 50m titles at Beijing and London, where he also claimed the 10m event.

Rugby Sevens: Top seeds Fiji beat the United States 24-19 in the final first round match yesterday to save New Zealand the embarrassment of a pool stage exit at the inaugural Olympic tournament but the send the Americans home. New Zealand had earlier suffered a 21-19 loss to Britain which, coming after their stunning 14-12 defeat to Japan on Tuesday, left the All Blacks relying on the Fijians to beat the Americans by more than four points to reach the quarter-finals.

Diving: Britain’s Jack Laugher and Chris Mears took gold in the men’s three metre springboard event last night, dethroning reigning Olympic champions China. Chinese divers had been targeting a sweep of all eight gold medals at the Rio diving competition, after winning six of out the total at the London 2012 Olympics. Laugher and Mears’ medal was Britain’s third gold of the games. Their teammates Tom Daley and Dan Goodfellow took bronze in the 10 metre synchronized competition on Monday.

Judo: Russia climbed to the top of the judo medal table on Tuesday as Khasan Khalmurzaev earned his country’s second judo gold of the Rio Games in emphatic fashion. The European champion won his final two matches by ippon over Sergiu Toma, of the UAE, in the semi-final and then American Travis Stevens in the final of the men’s -81kg category. Russia had also won bronze in judo on Sunday, extending its strong run in the sport after claiming five medals total at the Olympics four years ago.