There were two more golds for Team GB on Day Ten of the Paris 2024 Olympics as track cycling got off to a flying start and Keely Hodgkinson won Olympic gold.
There were also two medals in the kayak cross and a bronze in the mixed relay triathlon.
Athletics
Keely Hodgkinson won a sensational 800m gold medal to hand Team GB their first athletics gold medal since Rio.
The silver medallist from Tokyo controlled the race from start to finish, crossing the line in 1:56.72.
It was the 22-year-old’s first world title after winning two World Championship silvers since Tokyo.
Hodgkinson said: “That was absolutely incredible. I can’t believe I’ve finally done it. It means so much to me. And to do it here, where better? The audience was absolutely incredible, it felt like a home crowd to me. So I’m super happy.”
Earlier in the evening, Dina Asher-Smith and Daryll Neita both qualified for the women’s 200m final after finishing second in their semi-finals, while Bianca Williams finished fourth in her race and did not qualify.
Amber Anning and Laviai Nielsen advanced to the women’s 400m semi-finals, with Victoria Ohuruogu going into tomorrow’s repechage.
Alastair Chalmers qualified for the men’s 400m hurdles semi-finals as Jessie Knight progressed from the repechage to the women’s 400m hurdles semi-finals.
Molly Caudery and Holly Bradshaw were both unable to progress from the women’s pole vault qualifiers, whilst Nick Percy and Lawrence Okoye did not qualify for the discus throw final.
Track Cycling
Team GB’s track cycling campaign started with an emphatic gold in the women’s team sprint.
The trio of Emma Finucane, Katy Marchant and Sophie Capewell broke the world record three times on the way to beating New Zealand with a time of 45.186 in the final.
Finucane, 21, said: “It’s a dream come true, I’ve dreamed of this since I was 10 years old and to have these two by my side, it’s been unreal.”
Team GB’s men were second in the team sprint qualifying ahead of tomorrow’s finals, as were the men’s pursuit team ahead of tomorrow’s heats.
Canoe Slalom
There were two more medals on the water, as Team GB’s Joe Clarke and Kimberley Woods both made the podium in the kayak cross.
Clarke took silver behind New Zealand’s Finn Butcher in a chaotic men’s final, his second Olympic medal after taking K1 gold in Rio.
That came just five minutes after Woods picked up her second bronze of the Games in the women’s final, following her K1 bronze last week.
Woods said: “Two medals in Team GB in five or ten minutes is pretty incredible.”
Clarke added: “We’re both obviously over the moon, two medals in five minutes for Team GB it can’t get much better than that.”
Team GB’s Mallory Franklin made it to the quarter-final stage.
Triathlon
Team GB’s triathlon mixed relay team started the day with a bronze.
Alex Yee, Georgia Taylor-Brown, Sam Dickinson and Beth Potter finished third following a photo finish with the USA.
It was the second medal of the Games for Yee and Potter, who secured men’s gold and women’s bronze respectively.
Yee said: “We are immensely proud of getting that bronze medal. The efforts that Beth put in that last leg were pretty heroic.
“It was an amazing day overall for us. What an amazing day for our sport.”
Around the Games
Diver Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix qualified third for the women’s 10m individual final, which takes place at 15:00 tomorrow while teammate Lois Toulson finished 13th in the semi-final.
Team GB’s Ben Maher, Harry Charles and Scott Brash all qualified for tomorrow’s equestrian individual jumping final.
Charles and Brash both had clear runs in today’s qualifier while Maher knocked down one fence.
Michael Beckett is in fourth going into tomorrow’s medal race in the men’s dinghy, five points off a bronze medal, after today’s races were abandoned.
Hannah Snellgrove finished 12th in the women’s dinghy while Ellie Aldridge is second in the women’s kite and John Gimson and Anna Burnet moved up to fourth in the mixed multihull.
Toby Roberts and Hamish McArthur are third and eighth respectively following the boulder section of the men’s combined climbing semi-final with the lead climbing section on Wednesday.
And the women’s hockey team lost 3-1 to the Netherlands in their quarter-final.
With thanks to Team GB
