Paris 2024 Day Nine: Team GB athletes in action

Paris 2024 03 Aug 24

The finals continue to come thick and fast as we enter Day Nine of the Paris 2024 Olympics.

The finals continue to come thick and fast as we enter Day Nine of the Paris 2024 Olympics.

Team GB will be targeting golds on the golf course, on horseback and on the shooting range, while the action continues in athletics, gymnastics, cycling and beyond. G

Golf

Golf enters its final round on Sunday, with Tommy Fleetwood one shot off the lead in third.

The 33-year-old, who was 16th at Tokyo 2020, shot two under par on Day Three, leaving him on -13 overall.

Defending champion Xander Schauffele and Spanish golfer Jon Rahm are tied for lead on -14.

Fleetwood is yet to win a major with a best finish of third at the Masters in April but has featured in the top ten of the world rankings and won seven European Tour titles.

Team GB teammate Matt Fitzpatrick has withdrawn with a thumb injury following today's round.

Dressage Individual

After winning a team bronze, Team GB’s Charlotte Fry, Carl Hester and Becky Moody will now compete individually in the dressage final, which gets underway at 9am BST.

World champion Fry was the fourth best individual qualifier with 78.913 and the fourth best individual performer in the team final with 79.483.

Hester’s score of 77.345 saw him qualify as the seventh best qualifier, while Moody topped her group with a score of 74.938 and posted a personal best score of 76.489 in the team final on Saturday.

Team GB already has four equestrian medals at the Games, two golds and two bronzes.

Shooting

Amber Rutter goes into the two final rounds of women’s skeet qualification as the joint-leader, having missed just one target during the opening three rounds.

The final two rounds of qualification will get underway at 09:30, before the top six progress to the final, which starts at 2.30pm.

Rutter competed at Rio 2016 but missed Tokyo 2020 after testing positive for Covid. She is in Paris just three months after giving birth to her first child, Tommy.

Athletics

The men’s 100m final is the highlight of Sunday’s athletics programme, taking place at 8.55pm.

Team GB’s Zharnel Hughes and Louie Hinchliffe have both qualified for the semi-finals, which take place at 20:00.

Hinchcliffe clocked 9.98 seconds to win his heat that included current world champion Noah Lyles, while Hughes, who secured a World Championship bronze last year, also qualified from a fast heat in 10.03 seconds.

British record holder Keely Hodgkinson, Jemma Reekie and Phoebe Gill will contest the women’s 800m semi-finals at 20:40, before the men’s 1500m semi-finals, featuring Josh Kerr and Neil Gourley at 8.15pm, with George Mills going in tonight’s repechage.

European record holder Matthew Hudson-Smith and Charlie Dobson will also get going in the men’s 400m heats at 19:05.

Gymnastics Apparatus

There are three individual apparatus finals with British involvement on Sunday following a bronze medal for Jake Jarman on Saturday.

Harry Hepworth will go in two individual finals, the rings at 2pm and the vault at 3.25pm. He qualified in second with 14.766 on the vault and eighth with 14.700 on the rings. Joining Hepworth in the men’s vault final will be Jarman, who scored 14.699.

Beckie Downie will feature on the uneven bars at 2.40pm final after scoring 14.666 in qualifying.

Women’s Road Race

Lizzie Deignan becomes the first British female cyclist to compete at four Olympic Games as she features in the women’s road race, which gets underway at 1pm.

Deignan, who got silver in this event in London, will be joined by Pfeiffer Georgi and Anna Henderson, who has already earned a silver medal in the time trial.

Elsewhere, Tom Hall, competing at his second Olympic Games, will be going up against Germany’s Florian Unruh in the men’s individual archery round of 16 at 9.48am. The gold medal will be won by 2pm.

In the pool, the men’s 4x100m medley relay team will go for gold at 6.06pm.

Team GB’s men’s hockey team face India in the quarter-finals at 9am on Sunday after finishing third in their group.

Sailing and kayak cross also continue with Michael Beckett up to second in the men’s dinghy.

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