17:34
1 year ago
Patrick Burke
at the Main Media Centre in Kraków
Patrick Burke

Plank narrowly takes women's under-50kg kumite title

The first kumite gold medal in karate has gone to Austria's Olympic bronze medallist Bettina Plank.

She struck a single yuko with less than two minutes remaining to beat Italy's Erminia Perfetto 1-0 in the women's under-50kg final.

Austria become the 16th country to medal at the Games today, meaning one-third of the nations competing have had at least one athlete on the podium so far.

In fact, you can make that 17 because Cyprus' Irene Kontou earned one of the bronzes earlier.


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