Paris 2024 Day Seven Preview

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Team GB will be looking to add to their medal tally on Friday, with 23 golds available, the most of any day at the Games so far.

There are more medals to be won in swimming, rowing and diving, whilst BMX racing and trampolining will see their first medals of the Games handed out.

Rowing

Team GB will look to increase their rowing medal haul on Day Seven, with two medal races involving British rowers on Friday.

Emily Craig and Imogen Grant are competing in the women’s lightweight double sculls final at 12:22 CET, after winning their semi-final yesterday.

The pair missed out on a medal in Tokyo by 0.01 seconds but went on to win back-to-back world titles.

Their race will be preceded by the men’s pair final, which will feature Ollie Wynne-Griffith and Tom George, who qualified second in their heat.

Team GB’s last medal in the event came with bronze at London 2012, won by Will Satch and George Nash.

BMX Racing

The finals of the men’s and women’s BMX racing will take place back to back on a frenetic Friday evening.

Team GB’s Beth Shriever will be targeting a defence of her Olympic gold in the women’s competition at 21:50.

That will be preceded by the men’s final at 21:35, with Tokyo silver medallist Kye Whyte also aiming for a spot on the podium.

The quarter-finals and last-chance race are tonight, with the semi-finals from 20:00 tomorrow.

Gymnastics trampoline

Three trampolinists are in action across the men’s and women’s individual competitions on Friday, with medals to be won in both.

Bryony Page, who won silver in Rio and bronze in Tokyo, can complete the set with a gold in Paris.

The 33-year-old, who has won two World Championships since Tokyo, will be joined by Izzy Songhurst, who has World Championship team medals alongside Page.

On the men’s side, 21-year-old Zak Perzamanos will represent Team GB. Perzamanos also has world team medals under his belt, and was fifth in the individual event at last year’s World Championships.

Women’s qualification starts at 12:00, with the final at 13:50, with the men’s qualification at 18:00 and the final at 19:45.

Diving

Jack Laugher pairs up with Anthony Harding for the men’s 3m synchronised springboard final, which gets underway at 11:00.

Team GB have won three medals in three synchro finals so far, but are yet to win a gold.

Laugher, in his fourth Olympics, earned an Olympic gold medal in the same event at Rio 2016 alongside Chris Mears, before teaming up with Dan Goodfellow in Tokyo, finishing seventh.

Laugher and Harding started competing together in 2022, and have won two world silver medals and a European gold medal during that time.

Swimming

There are more medals to be won in the pool on Friday, as Duncan Scott looks to add to his seven Olympic medals in the men’s 200m medley final at 20:43.

Scott, who picked up silver in Tokyo, qualified second for tonight’s semi-finals, while teammate Tom Dean will be in the same semi-final after qualifying joint-seventh.

There are also two Team GB semi-finalists in tonight’s women’s 200m backstroke, with the final tomorrow at 20:36.

Honey Osrin finished second in her heat to qualify fifth overall, while European silver medallist Katie Shanahan was less than half a second slower and qualified 11th.

Ben Proud is the other swimmer aiming to be in a final tomorrow night, as he won his 50m freestyle heat to qualify fifth for tonight’s semi-final.

Proud has a World Championship gold and three bronze to his name in the 50m freestyle.

Elsewhere, Emma Wilson will go for gold in the women’s windsurfing final. Wilson leads the opening series comfortably with eight wins in 14 races. Wilson is guaranteed a medal.

And Dina Asher-Smith, Keely Hodgkinson and Josh Kerr will be among the stars in action as the athletics continues. Patrick Dever will be in the men’s 10,000m final.

With thanks to Team GB