Tokyo 2020 Olympics - Sport Climbing - Men's Bouldering - Final - Aomi Urban Sports Park - Tokyo, Japan - August 5, 2021. Alberto Gines Lopez of Spain in action REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov
TOKYO (Reuters) - Spanish teenager Alberto Gines Lopez clinched the first-ever gold medal in climbing on Thursday, in a gripping men's final that went down to the wire, as the sport made its Olympic debut this week.
Nathaniel Coleman of the United States took home the silver medal, while Austria's Jakob Schubert overcame a huge deficit in the standings to emerge top in the competition's deciding event and bag the bronze.
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