Tokyo 2020 - Bianca Walkden secures second Olympic bronze as Milica Mandic takes taekwondo title

ByTom Bennett

Updated 27/07/2021 at 15:32 GMT

Bianca Walkden heartbreakingly missed out on a place in the Olympic final with a last-second defeat in her earlier semi-final, but was the better fighter throughout against Poland’s Aleksandra Kowalczuk. You want it? We have it. Stream every Olympic event live on discovery+.

Bianca Walkden secured Olympic taekwondo bronze with victory in her final bout at the Tokyo Olympic Games.

Walkden heartbreakingly missed out on a place in the Olympic final with a last-second defeat in her earlier semi-final, but was the better fighter throughout against Poland’s Aleksandra Kowalczuk.

The medal is a second Olympic bronze of Walkden’s career, after she also finished on the podium at Rio in 2016.

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Her Polish opponent in Tuesday’s match struggled to get into the flow of the fight, with the 2018 European Champion slipping into an early deficit.

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Kowalczuk closed the gap in the second round to put Walkden under pressure, but the 29-year-old Liverpudlian showed her class in the third and final round to pick up a bronze – not the medal she came to Tokyo for but one she looked relieved to have won.

In the final Serbia's Milica Mandic beat South Korea's Lee Da-Bin in a nervy and even contest to secure Olympic gold.

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