China continued their dominance of Olympic table tennis, beating Germany in the men's team final.
China's men have taken team gold, brushing Germany aside 3-0 in the final to put the seal on a dominant Olympic table tennis campaign.
Up against the world's top three paddlers in Fan Zhendong, Ma Long and Xu Xin, the German team were always facing an uphill struggle, and China's Xu and Ma steamrollered their opponents 3-0 in the opening doubles match.
But world No.7 Dimitrij Ovtcharov then fought hard to try to turn the tables against world No.1 Fan, eventually going down 2-3.
World No.2 Ma then sealed the victory by beating Timo Boll 11-5 11-9 11-13 11-7, to give China their fourth gold in the sport's five events at Tokyo 2020.
Earlier, Japan clinched bronze with a 3-1 win over South Korea.
Australian Associated Press
