Paris 2024 Day 14: Team GB athletes in action

Paris 2024 08 Aug 24

There are plenty of athletics medals on offer on Day 14 of the Paris Olympics, with Team GB targeting five of them.

There’s also track cycling, diving, open water swimming and climbing medals among the 34 on offer.

Athletics

The women’s heptathlon concludes with the long jump, javelin and 800m, with the competition wrapping up at 19:15 BST.

Team GB’s Katarina Johnson-Thompson sits top of the standings after two events, following season's bests in the 100m hurdles and high jump.

Teammate and Commonwealth bronze medallist Jade O’Dowda sits ninth after clocking a season's best time of 13.53 in the 100m hurdles.

Johnson-Thompson, a two-time world champion, is seeking her first Olympic medal at her fourth Games after an injury at Tokyo.

Amber Anning qualified fourth for the women’s 400m final, which takes place at 20:00.

Team GB will be also looking for medals in the 4x100m relay finals, after qualifying second for the women’s final at 18:30. The men's team qualified third-fastest, with the final taking place at 19:45.

This will be followed by the women’s 10,000m final at 19:55, featuring Eilish McColgan and Megan Keith.

McColgan, the reigning Commonwealth Games champion, is competing at her fourth Olympics while Keith is making her debut, having earned a European bronze earlier this year.

In the morning session, the women’s and men’s 4x400m relay teams will aim to qualify for the final on Saturday having won 4x400m mixed relay bronze.

Max Burgin, Elliot Giles and Ben Pattison will compete in the men’s 800m semi-finals at 10:30, while Cindy Sember will go in the women’s 100m hurdles semi-finals at 11:05.

Track Cycling

Jack Carlin will be targeting men’s sprint glory on Friday, as the semi-finals take place at 14:41 ahead of the final from 17:00.

Carlin already has team sprint silver to his name in Paris and took individual sprint bronze at Tokyo. He also has a World Championship silver and bronze to his name.

The other cycling gold on offer on Friday is in the women’s madison at 17:09, where world champions Elinor Barker and Neah Evans will be hoping to get their first Olympic madison medals.

Barker already has a bronze medal in the women’s team pursuit.

Emma Finucane and Sophie Capewell will also be back in women’s individual sprint action ahead of Sunday’s final.

Sport Climbing

Toby Roberts and Hamish McArthur will compete in the men’s combined final, with the boulder event starting at 09:15, before the lead at 11:28, with the scores combined to determine the medals.

Roberts, 19, has World Cup gold medals in lead, boulder and combined since last year, with four golds and four bronzes in his career.

He finished second in qualifying, while McArthur, 22, progressed in eighth.

Diving

Grace Reid and Yasmin Harper both qualified for the women’s 3m springboard final at 15:00.

Reid, who is seeking her first Olympic medal at her third Games, progressed in seventh with 290.05 points.

Harper, who has already earned a 3m springboard synchro bronze medal in Paris alongside Scarlett Mew Jensen, scored 278.90 to qualify in 12th.

Earlier in the day, at 09:00, Noah Williams and Kyle Kothari will compete in the men’s 10m platform preliminaries.

Williams, a European silver medallist in 2022, already has a silver in the men's synchronised 10m platform. Kothari is making his Olympic debut after injury ruled him out of competing in both Rio and Tokyo.

Marathon Swimming

The men’s 10km open-water swim gets going at 06:30 with Team GB represented by Hector Pardoe, who earned a world bronze medal earlier this year, and Toby Robinson.

Pardoe was forced to pull out of the open water swim in Tokyo after taking a blow to the eye, while this is Robinson’s first Games.

The modern pentathlon men’s semi-finals get underway at 13:00, with athletes competing in show jumping, fencing, swimming and laser run.

Reigning Olympic champion Joe Choong will represent Team GB, alongside Charlie Brown.

Team GB’s Isabelle Thorpe and Kate Shortman, competing in their second Olympics, are in the artistic swimming duet competition, which begins with the technical routine at 18:30.

Since then, they clinched a European Games bronze medal in the duet free routine in 2022, before a world silver in the technical routine and a bronze in the free routine in 2024.

At the Olympics, the points from the free and technical routines are combined to determine the final standings.

The women’s golf tournament, featuring Georgia Hall and Charley Hull, continues today at 09:00, with Hall four over par and Hull eight over.

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