Japan&#39;s Women Wrestlers Win 2 Golds; Medal Count Sets Record
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Japan&#39;s women wrestlers added four medals, including two golds, to lead the country to a record Olympic performance and be within one gold medal of its biggest haul of championships.
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Japan claimed gold in the women&#39;s marathon Sunday. Battling extreme heat and a difficult 42.195 kilometer course through historic Athens, Mizuki Noguchi passed the finish line in two hours, 26.
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Japan&#39;s Yoko Shibui overcame a run-in with an official to win the Berlin Marathon on Sunday in a race-record 2 hours, 19 minutes, 41 seconds, the fourth-best time for a woman at the distance.
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U.S. softball sluggers Jessica Mendoza and Crystl Bustos on Tuesday slammed two homeruns at the world softball championships, clinching a 3-0 victory over Japan and giving the Americans the gold medal.
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Athens, Greece (Sports Network) - Catalina Ponor of Romania won two gold medals Monday night, finishing first in the women&#39;s floor exercise and balance beam.
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Ai Shibata wore down French teen-ager  Laure Manaudou to win the women's 800 meters freestyle gold  medal at the Athens Olympics Friday and provide Japan with  their first female swimming champion in 12 years.
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Japan's women on Monday reached the team badminton final for only the second time in Asian Games history with a solid 3-0 win over Singapore.
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New Zealand&#39;s Sarah Ulmer stormed to gold in the women&#39;s individual pursuit in a new world record time. Ulmer, fourth in Sydney four years ago, beat Australia&#39;s Katie Mactier in a time of three minutes 24.
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Abby Wambach stroked home a 58th-minute  winner to give the United States a 2-1 win over Japan Friday,  setting up a semi-final showdown with world champions Germany  in the Olympic women's soccer tournament.
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ATHENS -- The United States had been confident of coming away from the first Olympic women's wrestling tournament with the maximum four medals. Now it can get only two, and even those aren't a certainty.
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Japan's industrial output hits a record level, as the world's second-largest economy continues to recover.
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Greek teenager Ilias Iliadis swept up the Olympic host country&#39;s second gold medal on Tuesday, winning the men&#39;s judo under 81kg category.
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Athens, Greece (Sports Network) - Ilias Iliadis captured Greece&#39;s second gold medal of the 2004 Olympics with a thrilling victory over Roman Gontyuk of the Ukraine in the men&#39;s under 81kg category in judo on Tuesday.
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ATHENS (Kyodo) Masae Ueno captured the women&#39;s 70-kg gold medal, but Hiroshi Izumi had to settle for silver in the men&#39;s 90-kg in the judo competition at the Athens Olympics on Wednesday.
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Russian star wrestler Buvaysa Saytiev, a five-time world champion, eased to win the men&#39;s 74kg freestyle Olympic gold in Athens on August 29 afternoon.
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Aya Miyama her second goal of the game off an outstanding free kick with five seconds left, rallying Japan to a 2-2 tie against England on Tuesday in the Women's World Cup.
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Reliving its glory days as a gymnastics power, Japan captured the men&#39;s team gold medal at the Athens Olympics on Monday.