Team GB won two silvers and four bronzes on the penultimate day of the Paris Olympics, including a historic artistic swimming medal.
It also saw Team GB seal its highest number of athletics medals won at a Games since 1984, while there were also taekwondo and diving medals to celebrate.
Athletics
There were three bronze medals as Team GB finished their track and field campaign with a bang.
Georgia Bell set a new women’s 1500m national record on her way to a brilliant bronze.
Bell’s time of 3:52.61 was nearly four seconds quicker than her previous personal best, set earlier this year and was enough for third behind three-time gold medallist Faith Kipyegon and Australia’s Jessica Hull.
She said: “I don’t know if I’ve ever been this happy. I’m over the moon.”
Team GB’s Laura Muir was fifth, running a personal best time of 3:53.37.
The men’s and women’s 4x400m relay teams also picked up bronze medals, both clocking new national record times.
The men’s team Alex Haydock-Wilson, Matthew Hudson-Smith, Lewis Davey and Charlie Dobson secured bronze in a time of 2:55.83, a European record.
Hudson Smith said: “It was an amazing Olympic games. I wanted to come away with two medals and to do this one for the boys. I’ve got the best team in the world, it’s an amazing feeling.”
Victoria Ohuruogu, Laviai Nielsen, Nicole Yeargin and Amber Anning then followed that up with a time of 3:19.72 to take third in their race.
The results mean Team GB won medals in every relay event and finished with ten athletics medals, their most since Los Angeles 1984.
Max Burgin finished eighth in the men’s 800m final in 1:43.84 and George Mills was 21st in the men’s 5000m final.
Earlier in the day, Emile Cairess finished fourth in 2:07:29. in the men’s marathon. Philip Sesemann placed 46th in 2:13:08, while Madamed Mahamed was 57th in 2:15:19.
Taekwondo
Cade Cunningham picked up Team GB’s first taekwondo medal of the Games with a silver in the men’s +80kg.
Huddersfield’s Cunningham won three bouts before losing his gold medal fight to Iran’s Arian Salimi.
He said: “It’s the start of whatever I want. If I stay with this, I’ll be the king of taekwondo for the next four years, no problem.”
Teammate Rebecca McGowan was defeated in the quarter-finals of the women’s +67kg.
McGowan won her first repechage fight but lost her bronze medal fight to Turkey’s Nafia Kus Aydin.
Artistic Swimming
Kate Shortman and Izzy Thorpe made history with Team GB’s first-ever artistic swimming medal with silver at Paris 2024.
The best friends from Bristol won duet silver after a jaw-dropping free routine on the second day of competition which rocketed them up from fourth to second place.
The duo produced a show-stopping score of 294.5085 in their routine that is inspired by a rising phoenix to leapfrog the Austrian and Netherlands pair and clinch silver.
They scored 264.0282 in their technical routine yesterday.
Diving
Noah Williams produced two stunning final dives to earn his second medal of the Olympics in the men’s 10m platform.
The individual bronze for Williams, who also got a silver in the synchro event with Tom Daley, means Team GB finish with five diving medals at this Olympics, their highest total at a Games.
Williams scored 497.35 points in total, with his last two dives both going above 90 points, as he finished third behind Rikuto Tamai of Japan and Cao Yuan of China.
The 24-year-old said: “I don’t think it’s sunk in. It’s literally a dream. I know I said that last time in the synchro but winning an individual medal is on a whole other level.”
Team-mate Kyle Kothari finished 11th.
Around the Games
Kerenza Bryson and Kate French both qualified for the women’s modern pentathlon final on Sunday.
Bryson progressed as the semi-final winner, setting a new Olympic record for points scored as she finished on 1402 while French, the reigning Olympic champion, progressed to the final in fifth.
Joe Choong finished ninth in the men’s modern pentathlon.
On the cycling track, Emma Finucane cruised into the women’s sprint semi-finals, while Jack Carlin and Hamish Turnbull qualified for the men’s keirin quarter-finals.
Sophie Capewell lost her women’s sprint quarter-final, while Mark Stewart and Ollie Wood finished 12th in the madison.
Elsewhere, Erin McNeice finished fifth in the sport climbing women’s combined. She scored 59.5 in the boulder and 68.1 in the lead to record 127.6 points in total.
In the women’s golf, Charley Hull shot four under par to finish one over par, while Georgia Hall finished five over.
With thanks to Team GB
