Paris 2024 Day Seven report: Team GB’s medal rush continues
On day seven, Team GB won seven medals including three golds, Léon Marchand and Teddy Riner won another Olympic title for the French, and the Athletics schedule got underway.
TOP STORIES – Emily Craig and Imogen Grant complete an unbeaten Olympic cycle in rowing.
Emily Craig and Imogen Grant won Great Britain rowing’s second gold in Paris after capturing the women’s lightweight double sculls Olympic title.
Craig and Grant overtook Romania early on and then dominated. They finished a full length ahead of the Romanians with a time of 6:47.06. Greece finished third.
The British duo haven’t lost a race since narrowly losing the Olympic final in Tokyo three years ago. They have since won the world title and broken the world record.
Oliver Wynne-Griffith and Tom George had to settle for the silver medal in the men’s coxless pair. They led for most of the race but were then dramatically pipped on the line by Croatia. Switzerland won bronze.
Bryony Page holds all of trampolining’s marbles
British gymnast Bryony Page won the Olympic trampolining title after a stunning performance in her final routine.
The score of 56.480 lifted her into the gold medal position above Viyaleta Bardzilouskaya and Canada's Sophiane Methot.
The result means that Page now holds the Olympic, World and European titles. She won the silver medal in Tokyo, three years ago.
EQUESTRIAN SHOWJUMPING
Ben Maher, Harry Charles and Scott Brash unexpectedly won the team show jumping gold medal in Versailles.
Team GB had not won this event since London 2012 but they qualified strongly in third for the final.
Maher has now won his third Olympic gold after winning an individual title in Tokyo.
It is Great Britain’s second gold in Eventing in Paris.
SWIMMING
Léon Marchand won his fourth gold medal of Paris 2024 when he broke the Olympic record in the men’s 200m individual medley.
The Frenchman also became the fourth swimmer to win four individual titles in one Olympics. The others were Michael Phelps, Mark Spitz and Kristen Otto.
British swimmer Duncan Scott took silver. Scott has now won eight Olympic medals since his debut at Rio 2016.
Earlier in the session, Ben Proud won silver in the 50m freestyle.
DIVING
Team GB have now won a medal in all four synchronised diving events after Jack Laugher and Anthony Harding won bronze in the men’s 3m synchronised springboard.
The final was close between the three medalists. Laugher and Harding comfortably finished in third with a score 438.15, six points behind silver medalists Mexico and eight points behind Olympic champions China.
JUDO
French Judo legend Teddy Riner, 35, won his fourth Olympic gold in the 100kg final in front of a raucous crowd in his home town. Riner scored an ippon to defeat Kim Min-jong of South Korea.
Riner – who has also won two Olympic bronze medals – is now the most decorated judoka of all time.
BMX RACING
Beth Shriever and Kye Whyte failed to win a medal in the men’s and women’s BMX racing final.
Kye Whyte fell badly in the second race of the men’s semi-final and had to go to hospital to be treated.
In the final, France won all three medals much to the delight of the Parisian crowd.
Beth Shriever won all three races in her semi-final but suffered from a bad start in the final. She was then crowded out on the first jump and was never able to recover. Australia’s Saya Sakakibara won gold.
ATHLETICS DAY ONE
In the women’s 100m heats, Marie-Josee Ta Lou, was the fastest with a time of 10.87. Shelly-Anne Fraser-Pryce and world champion Sha’carri Richardson are also comfortably through.
British contingent Dina Asher Smith, Imani Lansiquot and Daryll Neita also qualified. Neita posted a season’s best time of 10.92.
Jamaica’s Shericka Jackson pulled out of the 100m earlier in the week to concentrate on the 200m after suffering from injuries.
Team GB’s 1500m world champion Josh Kerr ran a season’s best in his first heat to reach the semi-finals. His great rival Jakob Ingebrigtsen also qualified in his heat. They remain on course for a showdown in Paris on Tuesday.
GB medal hopeful Keely Hodgkinson is also through to the semi-finals of the women’s 800m after comfortably winning her heat.
TENNIS
Novak Djokovic and Carlos Alcaraz have set up a blockbuster Olympic final at Roland Garros after winning their semi-finals. Djokovic beat Lorenzo Musetti 6-4 6-2 and Alcaraz beat Felix Auger-Aliassime 6-1 6-1.
Alcaraz beat Djokovic in the Wimbledon final in June.
In the mixed doubles Olympic final, Czech duo Tomas Machac and Kateřina Siniaková beat Zhang Zhizhen and Wang Xinyu of China 6-2 5-7 10-8 to win mixed doubles gold. Canada’s Auger-Aliassime won the bronze medal.
HOCKEY
Team GB men’s hockey lost their final pool match 2-1 to Germany. Despite the defeat GB comfortably qualified in third position. They will play India in the quarter-finals.
