Today at the Games: Day 14 at Paris 2024

Paris 2024 09 Aug 24

It was a hectic Day 14 as six more medals hit Team GB, including a first ever gold in sport climbing.

There were medals across the cycling and running tracks, as well as a first Olympic medal for Katarina Johnson-Thompson.

Sport Climbing

Toby Roberts earned Team GB’s maiden sport climbing medal, triumphing to take gold in the men’s combined. He scored 155.2 to win, recording 63.1 in the boulder and 92.1 in the lead.

Roberts, who qualified second, was third following the boulder event, but pulled off a better lead effort than Japanese climber Sorato Anraku to clinch Team GB's 14th gold of the Games.

“I’ve been working towards this for like 10 years,” Roberts said. “Me and my dad, we created a plan to get to this stage. It’s been a journey, a lot of competitions, ups and downs, but to finally be on this stage, competing in front of this crowd and to win the gold medal is a dream come true.

“Once climbing got introduced into the Tokyo Olympics [he made the plan to compete]. So when I was around 12, but I’ve been climbing since I was seven.”

Hamish McArthur finished fifth, scoring 53.9 in the boulder and 72.0 in the lead to finish on 125.9.

Athletics

Katarina Johnson-Thompson won her first Olympic medal with a brilliant silver in the women’s heptathlon.

Solid efforts from the two-time world champion in the long jump and javelin were backed up by a personal best in the 800m as she scored 6844 points in total.

Jade O’Dowda finished tenth with 6280.

Both the men’s and women’s 4x100m relay teams medalled in a frenetic penultimate evening of athletics.

The women’s team of Dina Asher-Smith, Imani-Lara Lansiquot, Amy Hunt and Daryll Neita ran 41.85 to secure a superb silver medal.

Asher-Smith said: “We’re all so proud and so happy. We’ve worked so hard for this.”

The men’s team of Jeremiah Azu, Louie Hinchliffe, Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake and Zharnel Hughes then secured bronze in a time of 37.61.

Amber Anning posted a new a national record in the women’s 400m final as she ran 49.29 to finish fifth.

Earlier in the day, Max Burgin qualified for the men’s 800m final on Saturday with a personal best of 1:43.50.

Both the men’s and the women’s 4x400m team qualified for their respective finals on Saturday in second place.

Matthew Hudson-Smith, Charlie Dobson, Sam Reardon and Toby Harries progressed to the final in 2:58.88, while Lina Nielsen, Jodie Williams, Hannah Kelly and Yemi Mary John ran in 3:24.72 to book a place in the final.

Eilish McColgan and Megan Keith finished 15th and 23rd respectively in the women’s 10,000m.

Track Cycling

Elinor Barker and Neah Evans produced a hard-fought silver in the women’s madison, securing 31 sprint points.

A last lap sprint win secured ten vital points to pip the Dutch, who earned a bronze, while Italy won gold.

It was the first of two track cycling medals on Friday as Jack Carlin won a brilliant individual men’s sprint bronze in a deciding race against Dutchman Jeffrey Hoogland.

Team GB now have seven track cycling medals in this Olympics, with four events to come over the last two days.

In the women’s individual sprint, Emma Finucane and Sophie Capewell cruised into the last 16.

Artistic Swimming

Team GB are well-placed after the first of the two women’s artistic swimming disciplines, sitting less than a point off a medal in fourth.

Isabelle Thorpe and Kate Shortman, competing in their second Olympics, scored 264.0282 in their technical routine, which will be combined with tomorrow’s free routine to determine the medals.

The pair have World Championship medals in both disciplines and are targeting their first Olympic medal.

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