2016 Rio Olympics - Soccer - Final - Women's Football Tournament Gold Medal Match - Sweden v Germany - Maracana - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - 19/08/2016. Josephine Henning (GER) of Germany and Melanie Leupolz (GER) of Germany celebrate winning the gold. REUTERS/Murad Sezer
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Germany won their first ever Olympic gold medal in women's football on Friday when they turned in a superior second half performance to beat Sweden 2-1.
The no. 2 ranked Germans, who are now one of only three women's teams to win both the Olympics and World Cup, scored two goals in the second half, and although the Swedes got a goal back they could not get a second to take the game into extra time.
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