And it was the beam which started the medal action on day nine with Morgan scoring 13.033 to eventually sit second behind China’s Xijing Tang (14.033).

The 15-year-old then had a nervous wait while the rest of the field tried to push her out of the medal positions, however with only Russia’s Kseniia Klimenko successful with 13.533 Morgan could celebrate her second medal of the Games.

She was soon back in action to make it three with the floor final, scoring 13.233 to take silver. Italy’s Giorgia Villa, who has dominated the women’s artistic gymnastics competition at Buenos Aires 2018 with three golds and a silver, was triumphant again but Morgan couldn’t have been happier with her performances at the Games.

“It feels absolutely incredible,” said a jubilant Morgan, who also won all-around silver in Argentina. “I was not expecting three medals at a Youth Olympic Games coming into it so I’m absolutely over the moon.

“Going into this competition I knew it was my last one as a junior and I just wanted to go out there and show everyone what I can do as a junior. It will be a lot harder going into seniors but this has given me that extra confidence that if I can do it on this level.”

Adam Tobin brought a busy and overall successful Games to a close as he competed in the parallel bars.

The 17-year-old was eighth on the start list so knew what was expected of him and there were some strong scores already on the board, most notably from Takeru Kitazono of Japan (14.166) and China’s Dehang Yin (13.800), with Tobin scoring 13.366 for a fifth place finish.

In the acrobatic gymnastics mixed pairs final, Team GB’s Clyde Gembickas and Sophia Imrie-Gale finished in eighth, scoring 26.770 as Bulgaria took gold with 27.850, Israel with silver (27.590) and Ukraine in bronze (27.450).

At the cycling team event, Team GB were in the points on a strong day in the combined cross country and an impressive performance in particular from Harry Birchill who won the big final earning the men’s team 100 points in the process.

The competition saw riders compete in heats all the way through to the finals, with three of Team GB’s four cyclists racing in finals and all four scoring points for their teams.

Birchill was the man to beat throughout the day and his final time of 1:44.000 was enough to see off the challenge of the Italian rider Tommaso Dalla Valle in second (1:45.000) and bring home maximum points.

It was a tougher day for Sean Flynn who was eliminated in the quarter-finals but still secured three points and helped the men’s pair sit in third on 117 points, with Kazakhstan leading on 220 points, with two events left.

Confident performances from Harriet Harnden and Anna McGorum in the big and small finals respectively capped off an impressive points tally for Team GB on day three.

In the women’s event, Harnden finished in fourth on 1:55.000, which was enough for 50 points, and with McGorum adding 25 more the pair’s total of 95 left them in ninth after three of the five events.

Two of Team GB’s number one boxing seeds were in action in the form of Caroline Dubois and Ivan Hope. First up in the Oceania Pavillion was Ivan Hope, who came up against fellow flyweight Algerian Hichem Maouche.

Hope put in a dominant yet rusty display with all five judges returning verdicts in his favour to progress him to the semi-finals where he will meet Irishman Dean Clancy.

“It wasn’t my best performance but I’ve been waiting a long time so it was nice to get the rust off,” said Hope. “Every fight you have nerves and I’ve boxed this kid before and beaten him so you can’t take it lightly.

“Sometimes it’s better to box someone who is highly skilled rather than someone who just comes and has a fight with you as you can read it and box to a game plan. For that fight you can’t really prepare for it, you just need to get in there and adapt which I did.”

Dubois was last up in the early afternoon session and she didn’t disappoint making light work of Tunisia Mawada Taghouti, winning by unanimous decision with all five judges going with the blue corner.

The Londoner will be last on tomorrow night and it’s fair to say the atmosphere will be electric as she takes on Argentine fighter Oriana Saputo in the 57-60kg category.

“I was a bit disappointed with the performance,” admitted Dubois. “I was just going for her in the first round but I should have paced myself more.

“It’s been hard to wait all this time [to start fighting] and then switch from a long period of training and getting down to fighting.”

Over at the beach volleyball it wasn’t to be for the Bello brothers Joaquin and Javier as they were beaten by Argentina in a thrilling quarter-final, 35-33 21-14. A mammoth opening set saw the upper hand seesaw between the two sides before the home favourites ran away with the second to book a semi-final place.

Buoyed by a partisan home crowd the Argentine duo of Juan Bautista Amieva Tarditti and Mauro Zelayeta eventually won the first set, despite the British pair having opportunities to close it out. They didn’t hang around in the second set closing it out in 15 minutes for a place in the semi-finals versus the Netherlands.

“It was a long first set in which we didn’t put on enough serving pressure when it mattered,” said Javier. “Then we didn’t start the second set with any aggression or conviction.”

“We made two mistakes at the end of the first set and that was all it took,” added Joaquin. “We made mistakes at the start of the second and they just took over from there.”

At the diving, it was the turn of Maria Papworth in the women’s 3m springboard final, following Anthony Harding’s silver medal yesterday.

Despite qualifying in 12^th position this morning, Papworth put in a consistent display of dives to finish the competition in fourth place, just 10.65 points behind bronze medallist Bridget O’Neil of the USA.

“I’m gutted with fourth place. But I’ve increased my world ranking – I came fifth at the world championships so to go one better is a positive, but I feel like I should be up there on the podium,” said Papworth.

“I’ve got mixed feelings about how I dived this afternoon. I’m very happy with my mentality and the way I approached my diving, but technically things need a little bit more work.

Alyssia Tromans-Ansell safely navigated her first round in the archery individual event, exacting revenge on Nicole Marie Tagle of the Philippines for the mixed team loss inflicted the previous day. Tagle started strongly but Tromans-Ansell finished confidently, ending the match a 6-4 winner.

It wasn’t an easy day for Dan Thompson, however, as the Welsh archer bowed out to Carlos Vaca Cordero earlier in the day, losing 6-0.

Nor was it for the mixed team golf pairing of Joe Pagdin and Lily May Humphreys who slipped down the leaderboard following today’s individual strokeplay.

Pagdin and Humphreys had been on -3 following the fourballs and foursomes but they soon came unstuck with a string of bogeys seeing the pair drop to +8 for the day.

Some steady closing holes saw a flurry of birdies steadied the ship and the pair finished tied for ninth with Japan and Australia on +4. The medals were shared between Thailand (gold), USA (silver) and Argentina (bronze) with scores or -12, -11 and -7 respectively.

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Harding was first onto the podium following the men’s 3m springboard final. The 18-year-old was second in the morning’s preliminaries, only trailing China’s Junjie Lian, but it was Colombia’s Daniel Restrepo Garcia who eventually took gold in the final with 576.05 points.

As Lian buckled under the pressure, failing his first dive, Harding – who front loaded his final with his two hardest dives – delivered five clean performances to end on 559.50 with Russia’s Ruslan Ternovoi in third (551.20).

“I’m over the moon with silver,” said Harding. “It couldn’t have gone any better.

“Me and my coach discussed what I was going to do before the competition. My first dive was a new one and we thought we’d try it out and see how it went and it’s paid off.

“For the last dive I can do the four and a half but I chose not to do it here as training has been limited so we stuck with the easier one and it still went well.

“I knew the Colombian would come back because he’s got some big dives and the Chinese boy I just feel sorry for – it could happen to anyone, it could happen to me, but I’m pleased it went my way today.”

An hour later across the Youth Olympic Park it was Stamp’s turn to enjoy medal success in the men’s trampoline final. The 16-year-old had qualified in fifth place and went top of the leaderboard in the final following his score of 57.475.

Stamp then had a nervous wait to see if the four gymnasts ahead of him in qualifying could force him out of the medals. However, only China’s Fantao Fu was able to better Stamp’s score and the result ensured Team GB’s seventh medal and fifth silver of Buenos Aires 2018.

“This is crazy,” said Stamp. “It’s absolutely surreal but it’s just the best experience ever. I really enjoyed the competition, felt confident and just had to deliver my routine.

“I was happy to complete the routine. I felt confident and then coming off the trampoline, speaking to my coach and seeing the score come up I knew I had a real chance of getting a medal.

“It’s nerve-wracking sitting there and watching the other gymnasts but my job was done, I couldn’t do any more and I had to keep telling myself that. But it’s definitely a tense wait seeing all the other scores come up.

“This is way up there at the top of what I’ve achieved. Two silver medals at the World Age Championships but this one trumps them all.”

Elsewhere in the gymnastics finals, Jess Clarke finished sixth in the women’s trampoline with a score of 49.410 as China, Australia and Russia took the medals, while Adam Tobin was fifth in men’s rings.

Tobin will compete again in the parallel bars and high bar finals tomorrow [Monday] and scored 13.033 on rings with Japan, Canada and China claiming the podium places.

“I’m so happy and it’s certainly not something I thought I would achieve at the start of this year,” admitted Clarke. “It was a really tough final, with a lot of excitement and I wasn’t sure I would make the final so I just wanted to perform clean routines.

“The medal [from the mixed team event] just tops it off and I can’t wait to get back in the gym and get ready to compete next year.”

In the beach volleyball last 16, the Bello twins put in a strong performance against Australia to complete a straight sets win, 21-16 21-17.

Not unfamiliar to the Aussie duo, who they defeated in the semi-finals at the Youth Commonwealth Games in the Bahamas, the British duo were in confident mood.

They put their group stage serving issues behind them and wrapped up the win inside 30 minutes and secured a mouth-watering quarter-final against home favourites Argentina tomorrow.

Speaking after the game the deservedly happy twins said: “I think we had a good game plan,” said Javier. “We made a lot less errors than them and it felt like we had the match under control and played with a lot of confidence.”

“We’ve been working on our serve in the last couple of days and I think it showed,” added Joaquin. “The pressure we put on their serve made them make more errors and take the pressure off us.”

There were two British boxers in action on the first day of competition. Unseeded pair Karol Itauma and Hassan Azim were both victorious in their preliminary rounds and will progress into the semi-final bouts in their respective divisions.

Itauma, competing in the men’s light heavy division (81kg), defeated Puerto Rico’s Jancarmelo Morales Nieves by unanimous decision to progress. “I’m really happy. At the end of the fight I took a little glance at the scorecards and I was over the moon with the result.”

“The game plan and everything else me and my coaches have been working on worked really well. They picked out the things that I needed to do, practiced in the changing room and went out there and delivered.”

Azim fought Team USA’s Otha Jones and won by split decision (4:1) to reach Tuesday’s semi-final. “I felt like it should have been a unanimous decision, but I’m pleased I got the win,” said Azim.

“We thought he was going to be aggressive and come in to us, and our plan was to pick him off, but he ended up being more on the back foot so I had to adapt to that and earn the victory.”

The men’s and women’s cycling combined event continued with the road race and Sean Flynn’s 13^th place finish added four points to the men’s team total, with Harry Birchill eight places back and outside the 16 places needed to collect points.

In the women’s competition, Harriet Harnden and Anna McGorum finished in the pack, however, as they finished outside the top 16 they didn’t add to their tally. The pair sit in 10^th place overall on 20 points with the Kazakh duo leading the way on 140.

Day two of the golf team event saw Team GB’s Lily May Humphreys and Joe Pagdin drop back to 10^th overall after a +3 round in the foursomes. This leaves the pair -3 for the competition, nine shots behind Thailand, with just the individual stroke play remaining.

The modern pentathlon individual competition came to a close with Team GB’s Toby Price finishing 17th. A fifth place in his swimming heat with a time of 2:11.21 was followed by one victory in the fencing bonus round and left Price heading off 14^th in laser run.

The 17-year-old couldn’t make up any ground on the front half of the field in hot conditions in the Youth Olympic Park and dropped three places in the final standings.

Speaking after finishing the event Price talked about what might have been and his overall Youth Olympic experience. “The day never really got going after a bad fencing which I was disappointed with,” said Price.

“It let me down and left me with too much to do today. It was really hot and the course was very uneven which made racing tough, however, despite the disappointment I don’t want to let it take away from what an experience it has been.”

Alyssia Tromans-Ansell’s mixed pairs event came to an end as her and her playing partner Reza Shabani lost in the last eight. They met their match in the form of Hendrik Oun from Estonia and Nicole Marie Tagle from the Philippines who ran out eventual 5-3 winners.

Tromans-Ansell will now turn her attention to the individual competition starting tomorrow and the chance of revenge as she faces Tagle once more in the last 16.

Day Seven

Amelie Morgan fell just short of adding to her Youth Olympic medal tally following a packed day of artistic gymnastics finals at Buenos Aires 2018.

The 15-year-old finished fourth on the uneven bars and sixth on vault, a day after collecting silver in the women’s all-around in Argentina. Elsewhere, teammate Adam Tobin ended the first day of individual finals seventh on floor and ninth on the pommel.

Both Team GB gymnasts have two finals left with Morgan still to go on floor and beam on Monday while Tobin will contest the rings final tomorrow [Sunday] and parallel bars the day after.

Morgan’s 13.400 on the uneven bars was enough to lie second behind Russia’s Kseniia Klimenko, who went on to win gold, but with five gymnasts still to compete the Brit was eventually pushed out of the medals by the final two competitors as Giorgia Villa of Italy and China’s Xijing Tang won silver and bronze respectively.

In the vault final, Morgan couldn’t match her qualification score of 13.449, which would have given her another fourth place, with 13.319 good enough for sixth as Villa won her second gold of the Games following yesterday’s all-around.

“I’m really happy with the bars tonight,” said Morgan. “That was one of my best routines and I couldn’t have asked for much more. Especially on bars this field is incredibly talented and they’re hard competitors.

“The vault didn’t quite go to plan but I’m focused on my last two finals. I’ve got a day off tomorrow so I’m going to recover well and get lots of sleep before the finals.”

For Tobin, early landing errors in his floor routine ruled him out of the medals with 13.233 placing him seventh. On pommel, the 17-year-old was one of a number of gymnasts who had to restart their routine following mistakes.

Tobin finished with 9.533 for ninth, with China’s Dehang Yin scoring 13.900 for gold.

“You don’t want to be the only one making mistakes so it does make me feel a little bit better, although I know it’s not nice to say that. I think my mindset wasn’t quite right coming from having a poor floor routine. My landings weren’t great on floor and my tumbles were a bit scruffy.”

Annabel Denton finished the women’s modern pentathlon in eighth position, ending what has proved to be a brilliant week for the young Brit. Denton, the youngest in the field at 15 years old, was sitting in fifth position going into the laser run, but fell three places to end the competition in eighth.

She had previously been in joint third position after the fencing ranking round on day one. Denton then produced the ninth best time in the pool and headed into the laser run in fifth.

“This has been the greatest performance of my life – I’m so happy right now,” said Denton. “I fenced incredibly for me – I was so surprised and then followed it up with a great swim. I felt quite tired before the laser run, but I gave it my all and I’m so happy to come in in eighth place.

“There are 18-year-olds in the field that were likely to have more endurance than me, but hopefully in three years’ time, I will be up there with them and able to compete.

Jack Whitaker brought his Youth Olympic Games to a close at Club Hipico as he ended the second and final day in 22^nd place.

It was always going to be a tall order for Whitaker after day one saw 13 riders go clear and he and his horse, LV Chance Luck, knocked one fence down, incurring four penalty points. His second run would see a further two fences knocked down incurring eight penalty points, 12 overall, for his final position.

There were five riders who went to a jump-off after two clear rounds but in the end it would be Italian rider Giacomo Casadei who won gold with Omar Almarzooqi (UAE) in second and Pedro Espinosa (Honduras) in third.

Team GB teed off in the first round of three of the golf mixed team event at the Hurlingham Club. Paired together for the first time, Lily May Humphreys and Joe Pagdin impressed with a round of -6 to find themselves well in the mix after day one, tied for sixth along with Denmark, Netherlands and Japan, with a dominant Italy leading the way on -13.

The cycling combined got underway, with British pair Harriet Harnden and Anna McGorum sitting in eighth position after today’s women’s team time trial, clocking 9:55, scoring 20 points on day one.

Sean Flynn and Harry Birchill stopped the clock in 10th position in the men’s event with a time of 8:55 which gave them 10 points.

Four races will now follow over the next four days: road race, cross-country eliminator, cross-country short circuit and criterium, and points will be handed out to the top 16 finishes in each event. The final standings are decided by whichever team has the most points at the end of the five days.

Speaking at the end, both pairs were pleased with the day’s racing. “I’m really happy with eighth place in the team time trial,” said Harnden. “Anna and I have only done a couple of time trials together before, so it was a good experience. As a pair, we’ve done a lot more road racing than time trialling, so we have a fair idea of what we’re trying to aim to do seeing as we’ve ridden on the course a few times.

Flynn and Birchill had gone out first this morning in the men’s event and were pleased to finally be out on the road. “It went pretty good today, I felt quite fresh out there,” said Birchill. “We tried to push as hard as we could, communicate well and stay together, and I think we did that.”

It was a mixed day on the archery range for Team GB’s competitors, playing as part of the mixed international team round of 16. Alyssia Tromans-Ansell, playing with Reza Shabani from Iran, enjoyed an impressive 5-1 victory over their opponents from India/South Africa.

It was a tougher competition for Dan Thompson and his playing partner, the Korean Yeryeong Son, as despite matching their Dutch/Russian opponents after two sets, couldn’t continue that form and ultimately lost 6-2.

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Hawkins is just one race away from a place on the podium after producing his best day on the water in the men’s windsurfing at the Games.

On the penultimate day of action, Hawkins recorded a fourth and two third place finishes as he heads into tomorrow’s final race on 23 points, 20 clear of Tomer Vardimon of Israel in fourth.

Today’s performance means Vardimon needs to win tomorrow’s race and hope the Brit finishes 12th or worse in order to overhaul Hawkins into the medal positions.

Islay Watson climbed two places to 11th in the women’s event following 10th, 11th and sixth place finishes today. The 17-year-old from Aviemore sits on 105 points with one race to go, nine points shy of a top 10 result.

In the gymnastics, Adam Tobin pitted his wits against the best male artistic gymnasts in the all-around competition. He proved beyond doubt that he is rightfully among this elite group as he put in a determined performance with some particular moments of brilliance, most notably on the vault, to finish fifth overall with a score of 79.573.

This followed strong displays on the floor and rings, however no one in the America Pavillion could match the supreme ability of Japanese gymnast Takeru Kitazono (82.298). The other medal spots were taken by Russia’s Sergei Naidin (80.498) and Diogo Soares from Brazil (80.265).

“I was pleased with fifth,” said Tobin at the completion of the men’s all-around competition. “I was in ninth at one point and had to do something spectacular to get back in the top six. I had to do the best vault I could and I did, I stuck that and got a high score.”

Speaking about his competitors, there was no surprises on who he went head to head with but one name definitely came as a shock. “The Japanese didn’t surprise me at all, he’s insane. I’ve competed against Sergei Naidin before in European competitions so I always have my eye on him. However, the Brazilian came out of nowhere.”

Looking ahead to the individual finals, there was no doubt in Tobin’s mind about his objectives admitting that he is “aiming for top three in the floor and hopefully rings too.”

In the triathlon, Team GB had representation in two of the European teams in the Mixed Team Relay, with Calum Young and Libby Coleman going head to head. Coleman started her team’s penultimate leg in eighth, and a strong swim saw her make-up four places, putting them at the front of the chasing pack.

She closed the gap still further after her cycle leg, before handing over to her Belgian partner with her team well within medal contention. They eventually finished in fifth position.

Coleman said, “I’m happy. We were so close to third, so it’s a bit disappointing coming fifth. I managed to close the girl in front down on the swim, which is pretty good because in my individual race I didn’t have the best of swims. It was pretty nice to put my team in medal contention.

Calum Young had the tough task of running the anchor leg for his team in the mixed relay. With the two-leaders way out in front, Young was forced into a three-way scramble for the bronze medal.

He was neck and neck with his Spanish counter-part heading into the final lap, however, a strong-run from the Spaniard saw him clinch the bronze, with Young and his team having to settle for fourth.

“It was a good race, but a bit disappointing coming fourth, but we were seeded fifth and came fourth so we did better than we expected to do,” said Young. “The relay is a lot shorter, and it feels a lot harder. It can get very tactical at times and is very exciting to watch.”

Team GB’s final taekwondo athlete, Sharissa Gannaway went in the +63kg event, facing off against Iranian fighter Kimia Hemati. It was Hemati who was on the board first, finding success landing headshots to Gannaway.

Despite the Southampton-born fighter staying close in the opening two rounds the Iranian stretched her lead in the final round, running out an eventual 19-8 winner.

“I’d trained hard for this so it’s tough to take. It was frustrating today as she caught me with shots I knew she would be looking to get,” said a disappointed Gannaway.

Chris Grimley will battle for bronze in the badminton mixed team relay after his team, Zeta, lost an agonising semi-final 110-109.

The mixed relay pits players from a variety of nations together, playing singles and doubles matches consecutively. Grimley will feature as part of Team Zeta in tomorrow’s bronze medal match.

James Miller’s Youth Olympic Games ended at the last 16 stage in the mixed 10m air pistol team event. Miller, who finished ninth in the individual, was partnered with France’s Kateline Nicolas and the pair eased through qualifying with 739 before losing in the first knockout round to Vanessar Seeger of Germany and Bulgaria’s Kiril Kirov.

Finally, at the Hurlingham Club Lily May Humphreys enjoyed a strong finish to the individual competition with a +3 score of 73, which meant she shared 11th place with Mexican golfer Maria Fernanda Martinez Almeida. Australian Grace Kim won gold, whilst Italian Alessia Nobilio and Emma Spitz won silver and bronze respectively

In the men’s event, Team GB’s Joe Pagdin was unable to complete his final round due to illness while Karl Vilips made it a double gold for Australia, pushing American Akshay Bhatia and Jerry Ji from the Netherlands into second and third.

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Whitaker, who’s just turned 17, competed as part of Europe in today’s finals and the five-strong team were only edged into silver by North America via a dramatic jump off.

Europe had headed into today as joint leaders alongside North America and Australasia following clear rounds in yesterday’s qualifications – including one from Whitaker – but it was Africa who took bronze with just one penalty point to their name.

With the best three riders’ scores counting, Europe and North America’s faultless scores couldn’t be separated, even after all riders had jumped again, but it was the North Americans who took gold on the combined times of their quickest three clear rounds in the decider.

Whitaker, onboard LV Chance Luck, clipped a fence in both the final and the jump off to record four penalty points in each but was delighted to cap a 17^th birthday with silver. His first phone call was to father Michael who won silver 34 years ago at Los Angeles 1984 as Whitaker continued the family’s Olympic success in Buenos Aires.

“It means so much to win this medal. My dad has achieved so much so it’s great to continue the legacy,” said Whitaker.

“I spoke to him on the phone straight after the final, he likes to keep across what’s happening and he’s the boss so I like to tell him what I’m doing. He never says too much usually but said a ‘massive well done’ when I spoke to him.

“It was a bit of an unknown today. I had no idea what the horse was going to be like in competition having only ridden him three times out here and we’ve never competed as Europe before so I think it’s a great achievement to win a medal.

“Having only been with the horse a few days you try and work with it as much as you can rather than against it and you just do your best to build a bond with him.

“The performance over the last two days gives me massive confidence going into the individual event. He [L V Chance Luck] has done well today so hopefully that can continue into the weekend.”

Elsewhere, in blustery conditions at Urban Park and on choppy waters, Team GB’s rowing men’s pair battled to a fifth place overall.

Entering the semi-final Theo Darlow and Michael Walton were drawn in a tricky race against Uzbekistan, Chile and Argentina.

The home team and Uzbekistan flew out early and despite Team GB reeling them back in over the closing stages they held on to make the A final, meaning Team GB dropped into the B final, which they won comprehensively over Croatia and Chile.

“It was disappointing not to make the A final,” admitted Darlow. “But we certainly used that as fuel for the B final and we felt it was still a good result as the 500m race is quite new to us. The conditions weren’t great and we struggled to find our rhythm.

“We set our sights on who we thought would be the next fastest crew,” added Dalton. “We have a good history against the Croatians so it was pleasing to put down a fast time and beat them.”

Georgie Robinson Ranger raced in the quarter-finals of the women’s single sculls. Robinson Ranger lined up against Sweden, Australia and Slovenia and it was the Swedish rower who started quickest.

There wasn’t much to separate the first three with the Slovenian athletes four seconds back. Despite pushing the Swede and Australian in the latter stages, Robinson Ranger wasn’t able to overhaul them and finished third meaning that she will compete in the single sculls semi-final C/D tomorrow morning.

“I was really happy with the race overall,” said Robinson Ranger. “The Swede went fast out of the blocks but I always knew it was going to be a fast race and the length is one where you can’t afford to make mistakes.

“It was a lot choppier today than it has been, so was quite bouncy but it’s like any outdoor race where conditions are interchangeable so you just have to be ready. I’m excited about tomorrow and hoping to go for a top 10 finish.”

Ellie Pryor finished her Youth Olympic Games in sixth in the women’s -53kg event with the Wrexham lifter producing a best of 61kg in the snatch before recording 81kg in the clean and jerk.

A late qualifier for the Games, Pryor was well supported by a hoard of Team GB athletes in the Youth Olympic Park for her only day of competition in Buenos Aires.

“I feel really happy and I’m pleased with my performance,” said the 17-year-old. “I was 3kg off both my personal bests and that’s with just five weeks training for this competition so I’m happy.

“I lifted more than I expected myself to do. I thought I’d do 75kg on the clean and jerk and I did 81kg so that was good. It was really nice having loads of other athletes from Team GB supporting me – it created a great atmosphere. That was my highlight of the Games so far, competing out there, I really enjoyed it.

“I’ve really enjoyed being part of this team and we’ve come quite close across the sports and I think I’ve got friends for life here.

“I’m heading into a period of rest when I get back home and then will start training towards the back end of the year. Long term, my goals are to get selected for the 2022 Commonwealth Games and then the 2024 Olympics.”

Finn Hawkins moved into the medal positions in the men’s windsurfing event after a third and fourth place finish today. Kalpo Kalpogiannakis of Greece, who has led from day one, sits in first on five points with Hawkins 10 points back, two clear of Haoze Chen in fourth.

With the competition at the halfway mark, Hawkins will hope to still be in contention when the medals are contested in Friday’s final race. In the women’s event, Islay Watson sits in 14^th after her six races following an eighth and ninth finish today.

Golf commenced at the Hurlingham Club, named after the venue of the same name in Fulham, London. First up for Team GB was Lily May Humphreys who scored nine over par in her first round of three, placing her joint 22nd.

Later on in the morning Joe Pagdin got his competition underway and the front nine saw him go round at level par before two dropped shots on 11 and 14 were rectified with a birdie on 16 to leave him at +1, two shots off the lead.

Over in the America Pavillion the uneven bars and the parallel bars qualifications were taking place. Amelie Morgan placed fourth with an overall total of 13.300 to qualify for the finals, whilst Adam Tobin also qualified placing seventh with a total score of 13.341.

Elsewhere, there was disappointment in the badminton with both Grace King and Chris Grimley ending their Youth Olympic singles campaigns at the group stage.

King went down 21-13, 21-9 to Tereza Svabikova and, despite two wins in the group, finished third behind the Czech player and Yue Hooi of Singapore.

Grimley produced a comfortable 21-17, 21-12 victory over Balazs Papai of Hungary to sit second in his group but with only the top player going through to the quarter-finals the Scot’s two wins this week weren’t enough to progress.

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Adam Tobin continued his fine start to the Games, adding a rings final to the floor and pommel the 17-year-old booked yesterday. The Devon gymnast finished in fifth with 13.300, just 0.4 off the lead, while he also registered a score of 13.700 on vault as he moves through the all-around qualifying alongside the individual apparatus.

Amelie Morgan, who qualified for the women’s floor final yesterday, will also contest the vault final on Saturday after ending qualifying in fourth with a score of 13.499.

On trampoline, both Jess Clarke and Andrew Stamp progressed to their respective finals. Clarke ended the day in seventh with 92.440 while Stamp qualified in fifth with 101.640. Both athletes will contest the medals next Monday in the men’s and women’s finals.

At the triathlon, Calum Young recorded a tenth-place finish. A strong swim saw Young come out of the water and take to his bike well within reach of the leading duo from New Zealand and Italy.

Whilst a large peloton chased, only a small number within the group, including Young, took the fight to Dylan McCullough and Alessio Crociani, which allowed the pair to stretch their lead ahead of the run.

McCollough stamped his authority on the race finishing first and the Portuguese athlete Alexandre Montez chased down Crociani to push the Italian into bronze.

“I had a good swim and a good start on the bike,” said Young. “I was in the chasing pack but not many people were working on the bikes so that was quite tough and after the exertion on the bike I found the run quite hard. I’m happy with the performance overall. If you had told me I would come tenth at the start of the year I would have grabbed the opportunity, so I can’t really complain.”

Jack Whitaker’s Team Europe qualified joint first into tomorrow’s final of the mixed international team show jumping event after a clean qualification today at Buenos Aires 2018.

Whitaker himself went clear on-board L V Chance as Europe, Australasia and North America all recorded no faults heading into tomorrow’s final.

The mixed team event sees five riders compete together as continental teams with the best three scores counting towards the team’s overall tally.

Theo Darlow and Michael Dalton recorded the fifth fastest time of the day in the rowing men’s pair heats and safely progressed through to tomorrow’s semi-final and potential final.

In a different format to most international regattas, the pair were given points for their finishing places after each of the two heats. Two second places and subsequent four points per race meant the British duo qualified sixth with their 1:36.52 in heat two, their best effort of the day behind fastest qualifiers Argentina with 1:34.52.

A second and third place for Georgina Robinson Ranger in the single sculls has the 18-year-old in 13^th place ahead of tomorrow’s quarter-finals. However, Robinson Ranger’s 1:51.73 in heat two will give the Henley rower confidence heading for the knockouts as the effort was the third fastest of any sculler in the event today.

Day two saw taekwondo continue, with interest in the men’s -55kg and women’s -49kg for Team GB; Mason Yarrow and Aaliyah Powell both in action respectively. Yarrow was the second match of the day and he faced a determined and talented competitor in the form Maeda Hidetaka. The Japanese player started strongly and Yarrow struggled to get a foothold in the game, eventually succumbing 29-6.

Later in the day Powell, who was crowned World Youth Champion earlier this year, faced off against fifth seed Yeji Lee in the quarter-final of the women’s -49kg. In a close encounter the Korean took the fight to Powell, aggressively competing in the opening round. Powell came out strong in the second round bringing the scores back to 12-9, however, an assertive finish saw Lee close it out for a 21-14 victory.

Speaking after the fight, a reflective yet clearly dejected Powell said: “I was disappointed with how it went as I know I’m better than that. I knew what she was going to do but I just wasn’t good enough on the day.

“I’m only 15 and still have a lot of learning to do but also it’s a big achievement to be here in the first place. Not many people can say they’ve been to a Youth Olympic Games and to perform in front of that crowd, in front of my team mates is something to be really proud of.”

In the badminton it was another successful outing for Grace King, who followed up her opening day victory yesterday with some final set heroics to topple Yue Hooi of Singapre 21-17, 6-21 24-22. King’s 100% record means the 18-year-old from Derbyshire tops her group going into her final group match against the eighth seed Tereza Svabikova.

King’s win couldn’t be matched by teammate Chris Grimley, however, as the Scot went down 21-15, 21-13 to the seeded Schiaucheng Chen of Chinese Taipei. However, victory tomorrow versus Hungary’s Balazs Papai, who’s yet to win in Buenos Aires, should be enough for Grimley to progress to the quarter-finals.

Elsewhere, the Bello twins Javier and Joaquin won their opening beach volleyball group match, seeing off the Cuban pair 19-21, 21-12, 15-8, while Finn Hawkins is nicely placed in the windsurfing with the 15-year-old lying fifth overall after three races.

Low winds put paid to anymore action after the first race on day two with Islay Watson in 16^th in the women’s event after a 13^th place finish this afternoon.

Courtesy of Team GB