Day 15 and Day 16 – The final two days of competition at Paris 2024
The two final days of competition in Paris. Sifan Hassan wins the women’s marathon, Dutch cyclist Harrie Levreysen and American athlete Gabby Thomas win their third golds, and Team GB surpass their medal haul from Tokyo.
TOP STORY – Sifan Hassan win’s the women’s marathon after also securing medals in the 5,000m and 10,000m
Dutch long distance runner Sifan Hassan sensationally won the women’s marathon after a tight sprint to the finish with Ethiopia’s Tigst Assefa. Her time of 2 hrs 22.55 was an Olympic record.
Hassan also won bronze in 5,000m and 10,000m in Paris to become the first athlete to compete - let alone reach the podium - in all three events in one Olympics. Kenyan Hellen Obiri won bronze.
ALSO, IN ATHLETICS
In the high jump, Hamish Kerr of New Zealand won a nail-biting men’s competition after a jump off with American Shelby McEwan.
Both athletes were tied at 2.36m after their three jumps but then decided not to share gold to find an undisputed winner.
Kerr eventually prevailed after the bar was lowered to 2.34 after both failed jumps at 2.38m and 2.36m.
It is a stunning result for the New Zealander who also beat reigning champions Mutaz Barshim and Giancarlo Tamberi. Barshim took the bronze medal.
Great Britain’s 400m men and women’s teams both broke the British records to win bronze. It means that team GB have now a medal in every relay event in an Olympics for the first time in history.
The USA won gold in the women’s race with Gabby Thomas winning her third gold of the games. Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone won her second gold.
Femke Bol lead the Netherlands to silver and has now won a complete set of medals in Paris.
Nicole Yeargin, Victoria Ohuruogu, Amber Anning and Laviai Nielsen ran for Great Britain. It was Yeargin, Anning and Nielsen’s second bronze of the games after finishing third in the mixed 4x400m relay.
The USA also won the men’s 400m after breaking an Olympic record in the event. Rai Benjamin picked up his second gold of the games. Letsile Tebogo led Botswana to the silver medal, adding to the gold he won in the 200m.
Matthew Hudson-Smith and Alex Haydock-Wilson led the British team to bronze and secured their second medals in Paris. Lewis Davey and Charlie Dobson won their first Olympic medals in the race.
Elsewhere, Ethiopia's Tamirat Tola broke the Olympic record to win the men’s marathon in a time of 2 hrs 06.26. Belgium’s Bashir Abdi and Kenyan Benson Kipruto won the silver and bronze medals.
Faith Kipyegon broke the women’s 1500m Olympic record in a time of 3:51.29 to win gold. Jessica Hull of Australia won silver and Great Britain’s Georgia Bell unexpectedly took bronze.
Jakob Ingerbrigtsen recovered from his 1500m disappointment to win the 5000m Olympic title.
TAEKWONDO
Caden Cunningham reached the men’s +80kg Olympic final in the Grand Palais before narrowly losing 2-1 to Iran’s Arian Salimi.
Cunningham won the first round before being comfortably beaten in the second. The third round was even until Salimi caught Cunningham with a kick to the head.
Cunningham struggled to recover but left with a well-deserved silver medal. Team GB have won a medal in Taekwondo at every Olympics since Athens 2004.
Rebecca McGowan narrowly missed out on a medal after losing to Nafia Kuş of Türkiye in her bronze final.
ARTISTIC SWIMMING
Isabelle Thorpe and Kate Shortman won an unexpected silver medal in the women’s duet.
Thorpe and Shortman overcame poor funding to reach Paris and then performed the routine of their lives to take silver with a score of 558.5367.
China’s Liuyi and Qianyi Wang won gold with bronze going to the Netherlands.
DIVING
Team GB’s Noah Williams won his second medal in Paris after securing bronze in the men’s individual 10m platform.
Williams scored 497.35 points out of his six dives to finish third behind Cao Yuan of China and Japanese diver Rikuto Tamai.
Williams won silver alongside Tom Daley at the beginning of the games. Cao’s gold meant that China completed a clean sweep of Olympic titles in diving.
TRACK CYCLING
Team GB’s Emma Finucane won her third medal of the games after securing bronze in the women’s sprint. She won bronze in the keirin and gold in the women’s team sprint.
Her team-mate Sophie Capewell finished 5th.
Jack Carlin was unable to finish the men’s keirin final after horrifically crashing on the final lap. He had to receive medical attention on the track but according to reports was fine in the hours after.
Dutch rider Harrie Lavreysen won his third gold medal of the games with Australian’s Matthew Richardson and Matthew Glaetzer winning silver and bronze.
WEIGHTLIFTING
Emily Campbell grabbed team GB’s 65th and last medal of the games by winning bronze in the women’s +81kg category.
Campbell finished with an overall total of 288kg. She lifted 126kg in the snatch lift and 162kg in her clean and jerk lift.
It is her second Olympic medal after winning silver in Tokyo. China's Li Wenwen won gold and South Korea’s Park Hye-Jeong took silver.
BASKETBALL
In a star studded men’s final, Steph Curry scored 24 points in the USA’s victory over the hosts France.
France held on for as long as they could but just couldn’t compete with the star power of the United States who ran out 98-87 winners. Serbia won the bronze medal.
In the women’s final the USA narrowly beat France 67-66 to take to the gold medal for the 8th successive time.
France led by 10 ten points at the beginning of the third quarter, but the USA fought back to lead by three points in the closing moments.
France then thought they had tied the game on the buzzer when Gabby Williams hit a shot from distance, but her foot was ruled to have been inside the three-point line.
France had to settle for silver with Australia winning the bronze medal.
FOOTBALL
Emma Hayes’ USA team won the women’s Olympic title after edging out Brazil at the Parc des Princes.
Mallory Swanson scored the only goal of the game. Germany won the bronze medal after beating Spain 1-0.
WATER POLO
Serbia won the men’s gold medal after beating rival Croatia 13-11. The USA beat Hungary 11-8 in the bronze medal match.
In the women’s final, Spain beat Australia 11-9 to secure gold whilst the Netherlands edged out the USA 11-10 to win bronze.
HANDBALL
In the men’s final Denmark beat Germany 39-26 to win the Olympic title. Spain won the bronze medal after beating Slovenia 23-22.
Norway beat hosts France 29-12 in the women’s gold medal match. Denmark won the bronze after beating rivals Sweden 30-25.
MODERN PENTATHLON
British Olympic champion Kate French was unable to defend her modern pentathlon title after pulling out with illness. Her team-mate Kerenza Bryson finished ninth.
Blanka Guzi of Hungary won gold, Elodie Clouvel won silver for France and Seong Seungmin won bronze for South Korea.
CLIMBING
British climber Eric McNeice finished 5th in the women’s boulder and lead final. Slovenia’s Janja Garnbret retained her title from Tokyo with USA’s Brooke Raboutou winning silver. Austrian Jessica Pilz took bronze.
VOLLEYBALL
France defended the Olympic title in the men’s volleyball beating Poland 3-0. The USA won the bronze medal after beating Italy 3-0.
The Italian women’s volleyball team avenged the men’s defeat by beating the USA 3-0 to win the gold medal.
Brazil beat Türkiye 3-1 to win bronze.
BEACH VOLLEYBALL
Beach volleyball came to an end under the spectacular gaze of the Eiffel Tower. Sweden beat Germany 2-0 to win the men’s gold and Norway beat Qatar 2-0 to win the bronze.
GOLF
New Zealand’s Lydia Ko won the women’s Olympic golf title at Le Golf Nationale. She finished 10 under par. Esther Henseleit of Germany won silver and Lin Xiyu of China won bronze.
