IVIES IN TOKYO - DAY 9 RECAP

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TOKYO – Cornell’s Taylor Knibb helped Team USA to a silver medal in Triathlon mixed relay Olympic debut, while Princeton’s Ashleigh Johnson and Team USA Women’s Water Polo bounced back with an 18-5 win over the ROC to highlight Day 9 action.

At 23 years old, Knibb was one of four triathletes named to the triathlon mixed relay team after finishing 16th overall in her Olympic triathlon debut. Knibb took over in second-place, trailing silver medalist Georgia Taylor-Brown of Great Britain. After transitioning to the bike, she made up some time, narrowing the gap to 11 seconds. Team USA finished second with a time of 1:23.55 behind Great Britain (1:23.41) and France (1:24:04).

After suffering its first Olympic loss since the 2008 gold-medal game earlier this week, Princeton’s Ashleigh Johnson and current Team USA goalkeeper bounced back with an 18-5 win over the ROC on Friday to complete the preliminary group stage with a 3-1 record. Johnson made 16 saves against the ROC and helped her squad advance to the quarterfinals, slated for Tuesday, August 3.

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In a recent press conference at Tokyo, Johnson touched upon how her experience in the Ivy League and at Princeton helped her become a better person and athlete.

Dartmouth’s Cheta Emba and Harvard’s Ariana Ramsey helped Team USA finish its Olympic run with a sixth-place finish after two Pool C rematches against China and Australia. The U.S. fell in the quarterfinals to Great Britain, 21-12, before falling to China in its final game of the 2020 Games.

Former Princeton standout Eliza Stone and the U.S. women’s saber team closed competition with a sixth-place finish at the Summer Games. After the sixth-seeded Americans fell to third-seeded France 45-30 in the quarterfinals, Team USA defeated seventh-seeded China 45-35 in a classification bout. In the fourth bout of that match, Stone defeated Jiarui Qian 5-1 to double the U.S.'s four-touch lead to eight at 20-12 with five bouts left. In the seventh of the match's nine bouts, Stone defeated Hengyu Yang 5-2 to grow the U.S. lead to 14 at 35-21 on the way to the win.

Four Ivies – Robb Paller, Ryan Lavarnway, Ben Wagner and Eric Brodkowitz – competed for Israel’s baseball team. Israel fell 8-1 to Team USA on Friday morning. The Ivy contingent and team Israel will head to the knockout round game next week.

Kieran Tuntivate, a four-time Ivy League Champion, finished 23rd in the men’s 10,000m in his Olympic debut. The former Harvard standout clocked a 29:01.92. Princeton’s Sondre Guttormsen, representing Norway, missed advancing to the next round in the men’s pole vault event clearing 5.50m to finish 11th overall. Nathan Crumpton, representing American Samoa, finished 9th in the preliminary rounds of the 100m race. Crumpton clocked an 11.27 in his Olympic debut. Columbia’s Nadia Eke competed in the women’s triple jump.

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