Paris 2024 Day 11: Team GB athletes in action

Paris 2024 05 Aug 24

The athletics track takes centre stage for Team GB on day 11 with tantalising medals to be won.

There are also diving, equestrian, sailing and skateboarding medals up for grabs on a busy day of action.

Athletics

Athletics continues at the Stade de France, where Josh Kerr and Neil Gourley will contest the men’s 1500m final at 19:50.

Kerr, the reigning world champion and bronze medallist in Tokyo, qualified for the final in 3:32.46, while Gourley progressed with 3:32.11.

Later in the evening, at 20:10, Elizabeth Bird will go in the women’s 3000m steeplechase final, before the women’s 200m final at 20:40, with Darryl Neita and Dina Asher-Smith both representing Team GB.

Jacob Fincham-Dukes will contest the men’s long jump final from 19:20.

Charlie Dobson and European record holder Matthew Hudson-Smith will compete in the men’s 400m semi-finals at 18:35, followed by Jessie Knight and Lina Nielsen in the women’s 400m hurdles semi-finals at 19:07.

The women’s 1500m gets underway earlier in the day, with Olympic silver medallist Laura Muir, Georgia Bell, and Revee Walcott-Nolan running in the heats from 09:05.

Equestrian Jumping Individual Final

Ben Maher, Harry Charles and Scott Brash will represent Team GB in the equestrian individual jumping final at 09:00.

The trio have already won gold in the team jumping event in Paris, having combined for three clear rounds and two seconds worth of time penalties.

Maher is the reigning individual Olympic champion after winning a six-way jump-off in Tokyo, following on from Nick Skelton’s gold medal in the same event in Rio.

Charles and Brash both jumped clear rounds to qualify for the final with no penalty points, while Maher knocked down one fence to qualify with four.

Diving Women’s 10m finals, Men’s 3m preliminaries

Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix will be targeting a second Olympic diving medal in Paris after earning a bronze medal in the 10m synchro bronze. She competes in the individual final at 14:00.

The 19-year-old already has a world championship bronze medal and Commonwealth gold to her name in this format.

She progressed from her semi-final in third with a total score of 367.00 after qualifying in fourth.

Another synchro bronze medallist, Jack Laugher, goes in the men’s 3m preliminaries at 10:00, along with European silver medallist Jordan Houlden.

Team GB already have a historic four diving medals at the Games.

Track Cycling

Following the women’s team sprint tonight, it’s the turn of the men to go for gold.

The team of Jack Carlin, Edward Lowe and Hamish Turnbull will be targeting the gold medal final at 19:07.

Carlin was part of the team that picked up sprint silver at Tokyo, and also earned an individual sprint bronze at that Games. He has three World Championship silver medals, two in team sprint.

Turnbull joined Carlin for a World Championship bronze in 2022, while 20-year-old Lowe has a junior team sprint gold to his name.

Meanwhile, the women’s team pursuit will be in qualifying action at 16:30, and it’s the first round of the men’s team pursuit at 18:14.

Skateboarding

Sky Brown was just 13 when she won Olympic bronze in Tokyo and tomorrow she targets a second Olympic medal.

The now 16-year-old, will compete in the women’s park preliminaries at 11:30, with the final at 16:30.

Brown, who became a world champion last year, is joined in the competition by Lola Tambling, who is making her Olympic debut after finishing sixth at the worlds.

Sailing

Michael Beckett will be aiming to earn a medal in the men’s dinghy on Tuesday, as they head into the final race.

Beckett goes into the medal race in fourth place, five points off a medal, after both of Monday’s races were cancelled.

Races in the mixed dinghy, men’s kite, women’s kite and mixed multihull will continue.

Elsewhere, Lewis Richardson will compete in the men’s light middleweight semi-finals at 20:46.

He is guaranteed a bronze medal, but a victory against Mexico’s Marco Verde will put him in the gold medal bout.

Sport climbers Molly Thompson-Smith and Erin McNeice will start in the women’s combined competition, with the boulder semi-final getting underway at 09:00.

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