<p> Chinese teenager Ren Qian claimed the gold medal in the women's individual 10 metre platform event on Thursday, giving her country a clean sweep of the champion titles in the sport's women events.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Fifteen-year-old Ren, the first Chinese Olympic champion to be born after 2000, achieved the highest-scored dive of the evening at 94.05 points, which gave her a total of 439.25 points. <br /><br />Her team-mate, 17-year-old Si Yajie, took second place with a score of 419.40 while Canada's Meaghan Benfeito won the bronze with 389.20 points.<br /><br />Cerutti, Schmidt triumph<br /><br />Brazil took beach volleyball gold in front of a raucous home crowd that refused to be quietened by the driving rain, as Alison Cerutti and Bruno Schmidt defeated Italy 2-0.<br /><br />In both sets, the Brazilians fought back after Italy's Paolo Nicolai and Daniele Lupo took early leads, but the power of Cerutti at the net ultimately took the match 21-19, 21-17.<br /><br />The Netherlands beat Russia earlier to take bronze.<br /><br />Sailing win for hosts<br /><br />Martine Grael and Kahena Kunze won Brazil's first 2016 sailing gold in the women's 49erFX class, coming from behind to score a dramatic medal-race victory over New Zealand's Alex Maloney and Molly Meech.<br /><br />Serbia stun US<br /><br />In volleyball, the Serbian women's team eliminated the world's top-ranked team, the United States, in a shock upset after the undefeated Americans lost their top player to a leg injury.<br /><br />Serbia, competing for Olympic medals for the first time, will face China, who are playing for their third gold after overcoming the Netherlands in four sets.<br /><br />The Serbians were riding high after sending Russia home two days earlier and defeated the US 20-25, 25-17, 25-21, 16-25, 15-13 in a five-set clash that could have gone either way.<br /><br />The US team won the first set but Serbia, driven on by their formidable spiker Brankica Mihajlovic, took control after America's top-scoring middle blocker Foluke Akinradewo went off with a left knee injury sustained in the opening set.<br /><br />Russia win <br /><br />In synchronised swimming, Russia won the team gold for the fifth straight Olympics, completing a double launched with their duet title.<br /><br />The victory kept Russia's stranglehold on Olympic gold in a sport in which they have won every title since the Sydney 2000 Games.<br /><br />China achieved 192.9841 for silver and Japan, returning to the podium for the first time since 2004, took bronze with 189.2056.<br /><br />Bronze for Canada<br /><br />Seventeen-year old Deanne Rose turned in a star performance to help Canada beat Brazil 2-1 and ensure the North Americans' second consecutive bronze medal in the women's football.<br /><br />Rose got the opening goal for Canada after 25 minutes when she was on hand to side-foot home a low cross from Ashley Lawrence, after the defender had run half the length of the field on a quick counter-attack. She then turned goal-maker seven minutes into the second half, when she crossed for Christine Sinclair to make it 2-0 from close in.<br /><br /><br /></p>
<p> Chinese teenager Ren Qian claimed the gold medal in the women's individual 10 metre platform event on Thursday, giving her country a clean sweep of the champion titles in the sport's women events.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Fifteen-year-old Ren, the first Chinese Olympic champion to be born after 2000, achieved the highest-scored dive of the evening at 94.05 points, which gave her a total of 439.25 points. <br /><br />Her team-mate, 17-year-old Si Yajie, took second place with a score of 419.40 while Canada's Meaghan Benfeito won the bronze with 389.20 points.<br /><br />Cerutti, Schmidt triumph<br /><br />Brazil took beach volleyball gold in front of a raucous home crowd that refused to be quietened by the driving rain, as Alison Cerutti and Bruno Schmidt defeated Italy 2-0.<br /><br />In both sets, the Brazilians fought back after Italy's Paolo Nicolai and Daniele Lupo took early leads, but the power of Cerutti at the net ultimately took the match 21-19, 21-17.<br /><br />The Netherlands beat Russia earlier to take bronze.<br /><br />Sailing win for hosts<br /><br />Martine Grael and Kahena Kunze won Brazil's first 2016 sailing gold in the women's 49erFX class, coming from behind to score a dramatic medal-race victory over New Zealand's Alex Maloney and Molly Meech.<br /><br />Serbia stun US<br /><br />In volleyball, the Serbian women's team eliminated the world's top-ranked team, the United States, in a shock upset after the undefeated Americans lost their top player to a leg injury.<br /><br />Serbia, competing for Olympic medals for the first time, will face China, who are playing for their third gold after overcoming the Netherlands in four sets.<br /><br />The Serbians were riding high after sending Russia home two days earlier and defeated the US 20-25, 25-17, 25-21, 16-25, 15-13 in a five-set clash that could have gone either way.<br /><br />The US team won the first set but Serbia, driven on by their formidable spiker Brankica Mihajlovic, took control after America's top-scoring middle blocker Foluke Akinradewo went off with a left knee injury sustained in the opening set.<br /><br />Russia win <br /><br />In synchronised swimming, Russia won the team gold for the fifth straight Olympics, completing a double launched with their duet title.<br /><br />The victory kept Russia's stranglehold on Olympic gold in a sport in which they have won every title since the Sydney 2000 Games.<br /><br />China achieved 192.9841 for silver and Japan, returning to the podium for the first time since 2004, took bronze with 189.2056.<br /><br />Bronze for Canada<br /><br />Seventeen-year old Deanne Rose turned in a star performance to help Canada beat Brazil 2-1 and ensure the North Americans' second consecutive bronze medal in the women's football.<br /><br />Rose got the opening goal for Canada after 25 minutes when she was on hand to side-foot home a low cross from Ashley Lawrence, after the defender had run half the length of the field on a quick counter-attack. She then turned goal-maker seven minutes into the second half, when she crossed for Christine Sinclair to make it 2-0 from close in.<br /><br /><br /></p>