Kara Kohler is first U.S. rower to qualify for Tokyo Olympics

Kara Kohler, a 2012 Olympic bronze medalist who didn’t make the 2016 Olympic team, is going back to the Games.

Kohler became the first U.S. rower to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics — and the first U.S. athlete from any sport to qualify since July — by winning the single sculls at the first of up to three trials events across the disciplines.

Women’s single sculls was the only event at this week’s trials that produced an Olympic qualifier.

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Kohler, 30, won a four-woman final that also included Gevvie Stone, the 2016 Olympic single sculls silver medalist who put a medical career on hold to pursue a third Games.

Stone, 35, was bidding to…