There were two more medals for Team GB on Day Two of the Olympics, as Adam Peaty earned silver in the pool and Kimberley Woods secured bronze in the canoe slalom.
Swimming
Peaty was 0.02 seconds off a third straight 100m breaststroke gold, having won in Rio and Tokyo and picked up GB’s second silver of the Games with a time of 59.05.
He said: “It doesn’t matter what the time says on the board, I know that in my heart I’ve already won.
“I’m not crying because I’ve come second, I’m crying because it took so much to get here.”
Elsewhere in the pool, Max Litchfield narrowly missed out on a medal, finishing fourth in the men’s individual 400m medley.
Duncan Scott and Matt Richards both qualified for the men’s 200m freestyle final, Angharad Evans qualified for the women’s 100m breaststroke final and Ollie Morgan made the men’s 100m backstroke final.
Canoe Slalom: Women’s K1
Earlier in the day, Woods picked up Team GB’s third medal and second bronze of the Games with a run of 98.94 in the women’s K1 canoe slalom.
She said: “It feels absolutely incredible. I feel absolutely proud to represent Team GB and win this medal.”
Equestrian: Eventing
Team GB’s eventing team are set up for a successful final day tomorrow, sitting top of the standings after the cross-country phase.
Laura Collett is second in the individual standings, having picked up 0.8 of a time-fault during the cross-country to sit on 18.3.
Tom McEwen stays on his dressage score of 25.8 and is sixth after a clear run.
Ros Canter is currently 24th after being awarded 15 penalties during the cross-country, despite
an unsuccessful appeal by Team GB.
Artistic Gymnastics
In artistic gymnastics, Becky Downie, Abi Martin, Georgia Mae-Fenton and Ruby Evans qualified for Tuesday’s women’s team final after finishing top of their sub-division with a score of 160.830.
Mae-Fenton and Kinsella also qualified for the individual all-around final, while Downie, who missed Tokyo due to the death of her brother, qualified for the uneven bars.
“Honestly, the whole week it’s not really felt like I’ve been here,” Downie said.
“Today I think I started to feel it a little bit more but I knew the emotions would come with the competition and it was just trying to let them come and let them go.”
Tennis
Andy Murray and Dan Evans are through to the last 16 of the men’s doubles after an intense first round match. After trailing Japan’s Taro Daniel and Kei Nishikori 9-4 in the deciding tie-break, the pair saved five match points, and won 2-6 7-6 (5) 11-9 against Japan.
In the men’s singles, Jack Draper beat Nishikori 6-1, 6-4, Evans beat Moez Echargui 6-2, 4-6, 6-2, while fellow Brit Cameron Norrie pulled out through injury.
Katie Boulter is out in the first round of the women’s singles after losing 6-4 6-2 to Slovenia’s Anna Karolina Schmiedlova. She will return in the doubles with Heather Watson.
Rowing
In rowing, Ollie Wynne-Griffith and Tom George won their men’s pairs heat, as did Emily Craig and Imogen Grant in the lightweight women’s doubles sculls, and Helen Glover, Esme Booth, Samantha Redgrave and Rebecca Shorten in the women’s fours.
Oli Wilkes, David Ambler, Matt Aldridge and Freddie Davidson placed second in their men’s fours heat, while Chloe Brew and Rebecca Edwards finished fourth in their women’s pairs heat, qualifying for the repechage.
“The team has gone really well the last couple of days and that only serves to boost the overall morale,” said George. “We all know where we stack up, when you see the team going well that lifts everyone in the right direction. Everyone feels pretty calm and relaxed.”
Around the Games
Elsewhere, Evie Richards finished fifth and Ella Maclean-Howell 23rd in the women’s cross-country mountain biking.
Richards was 25 seconds off a medal, finishing the race with a time of 1:29:29. Maclean-Howell was seven minutes further back with a time of 1:36:26.
Megan Havers, Bryony Pitman and Penny Healey lost 6-0 to Germany in their archery women’s team elimination match.
Seonaid McIntosh was impacted by an issue with her gun and finished 37th in the women’s shooting 10m air rifle qualification round, while her teammate Michael Bargeron finished 47th.
In badminton, Ben Lane and Sean Vendy lost 21-18, 13-21, 21-14 to China’s Wei Keng Liang and Chang Wang in men’s doubles Group A match, while Anna Hursey lost 4-1 to Manika Batra in her table tennis round of 64 match.
Chelsie Giles lost to Brazil’s Larissa Pimenta in the judo women’s 52kg round of 16, while Rosie Eccles was defeated by Aneta Rygielska in the boxing women’s 66kg round of 32.
The women’s hockey team lost their opening game 2-1 against Spain with Giselle Ansley scoring the side’s solitary goal. The men’s team drew 2-2 with South Africa.
In boxing, Patrick James Brown lost 4-1 on points in his heavyweight round of 16 fight against Brazil’s Keno Machado.
The women’s rugby sevens team lost to current SVNS Series champions Australia 36-5 after beating Ireland this morning 21-12.
James Peters and Fynn Sterritt finished in 14th in the standings after the first three men’s skiff races, as racing finally got underway following a delayed start to proceedings in Marseille. Freya Black and Saskia Tidey are 10th in the women’s skiff.
