TAIPEI (The China Put up) — Taiwan’s Yang Yung-wei (楊勇緯) on Saturday claimed Taiwan’s first medal at Tokyo Olympics.
The judoka fell to Naohisa Takato of Japan within the males’s 60-kg judo last, taking residence silver — Taiwan’s first ever medal in an Olympics judo competitors.
In an interview after the match, Yang described the expertise of standing on the rostrum to obtain his medal as “one thing I had dreamed of, however by no means anticipated to occur in actuality.”
“I received’t surrender due to this, my objective is to win a gold medal,” he added.
Taiwan’s third judoka to qualify for Tokyo, Lien Chen-ling (連珍羚), is about to compete in an elimination spherical of 16 within the girls’s 57-kg class on Monday.