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7:36 AM 6th August 2024
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Today At The Games: Paris 2024 Day Ten

 
Keely Hodgkinson in the Women’s 800m Athletics event at the Stade de France in Paris, France on 5th August 2024. Photo Credit:David Pearce/Team GB
Keely Hodgkinson in the Women’s 800m Athletics event at the Stade de France in Paris, France on 5th August 2024. Photo Credit:David Pearce/Team GB
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.

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.Keely Hodgkinson


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

Picture by Alex Whitehead/SWpix.com - 04/08/2024 -  Paris 2024 Olympic Games - Track Cycling - National Velodrome, Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France - Women’s Team Sprint - Great Britain: Katy Marchant, Sophie Capewell, Emma Finucane on the podium receiving the Olympic Gold Medal after winning the Women's Team Sprint to become Olympic Champions with New Zealand: Rebecca Petch, Shaane Fulton, Ellesse Andrews receives the Olympic Silver Medal and Germany: Pauline Grabosch, Emma Hinze, Lea Friedrich receives the Olympic Bronze Medal
Picture by Alex Whitehead/SWpix.com - 04/08/2024 - Paris 2024 Olympic Games - Track Cycling - National Velodrome, Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France - Women’s Team Sprint - Great Britain: Katy Marchant, Sophie Capewell, Emma Finucane on the podium receiving the Olympic Gold Medal after winning the Women's Team Sprint to become Olympic Champions with New Zealand: Rebecca Petch, Shaane Fulton, Ellesse Andrews receives the Olympic Silver Medal and Germany: Pauline Grabosch, Emma Hinze, Lea Friedrich receives the Olympic Bronze Medal
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.

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.
Emma Finucane


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

Joe Clarke in the Mens Kayak Cross Competition at the Varies-sur-Marne Nautical Stadium in Vaires-sur-Manre, France on 5th August 2024. Photo Credit:David Pearce/Team GB
Joe Clarke in the Mens Kayak Cross Competition at the Varies-sur-Marne Nautical Stadium in Vaires-sur-Manre, France on 5th August 2024. Photo Credit:David Pearce/Team GB
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.

We're both obviously over the moon, two medals in five minutes for Team GB it can't get much better than that.
Joe Clarke

Kimberley Woods competes for TeamGB in the womens Kayak Cross Competition at the Varies-sur-Marne Nautical Stadium in Vaires-sur-Manre, France on 5th August 2024. Photo Credit:David Pearce/Team GB
Kimberley Woods competes for TeamGB in the womens Kayak Cross Competition at the Varies-sur-Marne Nautical Stadium in Vaires-sur-Manre, France on 5th August 2024. Photo Credit:David Pearce/Team GB

Two medals in Team GB in five or ten minutes is pretty incredible.
Kimberley Woods


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.

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.
Alex Yee


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.