Great Britain's Bethany Shriever wins gold in BMX racing

Great Britain's Bethany Shriever has spoiled Colombian Mariana Pajon's bid for a third straight gold medal in BMX racing.

Shriever jumped out to an early lead and held off Pajon at the finish in her first Olympics. Dutch rider Merel Smulders took bronze.

Pajon became the first rider to win two BMX racing gold medals with her victory at the 2016 Rio Olympics.

Niek Kimmann of the Netherlands won the men's race, edging Great Britain's Kye Whyte at the finish line. Carlos Ramirez Yepes of Colombia took bronze. B.C. native Drew Mechielsen finished last in eighth place.

Reigning men's gold medallist Connor Fields of the United States did not make it to the finals after a violent crash in the third semifinal heat at the Tokyo Olympics, which forced him to be carried off on a stretcher.

Fields was fourth after his opening two heats and landed hard off a jump heading into the first turn in the third run. The 28-year-old from Las Vegas slammed into the turn and lay on the track as medical personnel rushed out to help him.

Fields was attended to for several minutes before being carried away. He qualified for the finals, but was not be able to race.

He became the first American BMX rider to win gold at the 2016 Rio Games and was a favourite to win it again in Tokyo.

Batsarashkina prevails in shoot-off to win 25m gold

Russian Olympic Committee's Vitalina Batsarashkina won the gold medal in the women's 25-meter pistol event at the Tokyo Olympics on Friday.

Kim Min-jung of South Korea won the silver, while China's Xiao Jiaruixuan claimed the bronze.

Both Batsarashkina and Kim shot an Olympic record of 38 in the final to force a shoot-off in which the Russian, who had won the 10m pistol gold on Sunday, prevailed.

Bulgarian Antoaneta Kostadinova, who won silver in 10m pistol, finished fourth after topping the qualification round.

Rio Games champion Anna Korakaki of Greece came sixth.

Bulgaria's two-time Olympic champion Maria Grozdeva missed the cut, as did world champion Olena Kostevych of Ukraine.

Georgian Nino Salukvadze, who became the first female athlete to compete in nine Olympics, finished her campaign without a medal in Tokyo having failed to reach the final of both her pistol events.

Russian athletes are competing under the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) flag at the Tokyo Olympics this year as part of sanctions for doping scandals.