Today at the Games: Day 10 at Paris 2024

Paris 2024 05 Aug 24

There were two more gold medals on Day Ten of the Paris 2024 Olympics as track cycling got off to a flying start and Keely Hodgkinson won a brilliant 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.

Hodgkinson said: "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."

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 Jesie 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

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.

Finucane, 21, said: “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."

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

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.

Woods said: “Two medals in Team GB in five or ten minutes is pretty incredible.”

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

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.

Yee said: “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.”

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