Olympic 2016 Results: Thursday's Medal Winners, Highlights for Each Event

The United States has been dominating the medal count at the 2016 Rio Olympics, and much of Team USA's success has come in traditional sports like swimming and track and field events.However, the United States added to it's medal total Thursday in a sport that it had never tasted gold before. Helen Maroulis won the first wrestling gold in the history of women's wrestling when she defeated Japanese defending Olympic champion Saori Yoshida in the 53 kg weight class final.Maroulis methodically earned the victory, as she got the best of Yoshida by a 4-1 score. Yoshida has won the world championship on 16 previous occasions, and she was not expected to lose. But Maroulis combined strength, aggressiveness and technique to win the decision.Once she was victorious, Maroulis celebrated her victory in emotional fashion as the tears of happiness flowed."I've dreamed of this my whole life," Maroulis told USA Today. "I put it on this pedestal."I've been dreaming about wrestling Saori for so long. She's a hero. She's the most decorated wrestler in the sport. It's such an honor to wrestle her."Here is a look at the latest medal count and a breakdown of what took place in all events on Day 13 at Rio.Usain Bolt continues to assert his Olympic dominance, as he won the 200 meters with relative ease Thursday night.Bolt won the eighth gold medal of his career by defeating Andre De Grasse of Canada, who took the silver. Bolt's time of 19.78 was significantly faster than De Grasse's 20.02.American Justin Gatlin did not make the finals.Bolt has one more race and one more opportunity to win another gold medal when he competes in the 4x100-meter relay.American Ryan Crouser won the shot put in dramatic fashion, taking the gold medal with a throw of 25.22 meters on his final attempt of the day.Crouser set an Olympic record with his throw, and he was joined on the podium by teammate Joe Kovacs, who won the silver medal with a powerful throw of 21.78 meters. The United States won gold and silver in the shot put for the first time since the 1996 Atlanta games.Tomas Walsh of New Zealand won the bronze medal.Both Crouser and Kovacs are first-time Olympians, and they have an excellent chance at remaining shot put contenders for the United States in Tokyo at the 2020 Olympics.Make it two gold medals in a row for Ashton Eaton in the decathlon. Eaton had his sights on setting a world record in the event when Thursday's action got underway, but that possibility slipped away as the day's five events progressed.However, he was never in serious danger of losing the gold medal, and he put it away with a stellar performance in the 1,500, the final vent of the decathlon.Eaton joined the legendary Bob Mathias (1948 and 1952) as the only American two-time winner of the event. Daley Thompson won back-to-back decathlon titles for Great Britain in 1980 and 1984.Eaton finished in the top three in five of the 10 events, includingthe 100-meters, the long jump, the 400-meters, the pole vault and the 1,500.
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