Tonia Couch and Sarah Barrow secured a sixth Rio quota place for Team GB while there was a double celebration at Lillehammer 2016. Here’s our review of the last 24 hours.
Tonia Couch and Sarah Barrow now only won 10m synchro bronze at the Rio World Cup, but also secured Team GB a quota place for Rio 2016 along the way.
Couch and Barrow qualified for the final in seventh place but improved four places as they finished third with an overall score of 308.82.
That was enough to secure Team GB a sixth quota place for the Games in the summer, with the other five having been attained at the 2015 World Championships in Russia.
Meanwhile, world bronze medallists Chris Mears and Jack Laugher finished in fourth place in the men’s 3m synchro with a score of 400.32.
The pair qualified for the final in third place and were looking in a strong position through the final moved out of the medal places in the final round.
However, Mears and Laugher already qualified the 3m synchro Olympic quota place by winning bronze at the World Championships in 2015.
Ben Swift moved into the overall lead of the Ruta del Sol in Spain after finishing second to Italy’s Oscar Gatto on stage three.
The Team Sky rider started the day fourth overall and crossed the line more than a bike length behind Gatto in a sprint finish, but thanks to combined stage placings, he now climbs to the top of the general classification.
There are no bonus seconds on offer at the five-day race, so Swift is level on time in the standings with second-placed Raymond Kreder and third-placed Reto Hollenstein.
Geraint Thomas stayed second at the Volta ao Algarve in Portugal after finishing third on stage three's individual time trial, as Tony Martin took the overall race lead.
Fabian Cancellara claimed victory on the day by stopping the clock on a flat, 18km course starting and ending in Sagres in 20min 57sec, which was five seconds faster than runner-up Martin and 28 seconds ahead of Thomas.
The result moved Martin to the top of the general classification, three seconds ahead of Thomas and 20 seconds in front of third-placed Ion Izagirre.
England men will face France in the semi-finals of the European Team Championships after a convincing win over Poland. England, the second seeds, completed a comfortable 3-0 win over the Poles in Kazan, Russia. Rajiv Ouseph, the England number one, led the way with a 27-minute win over world number 67 Adrian Dziolko 21-6, 21-11. Marcus Ellis and Chris Langridge were made to work against Adam Cwalina and Przemyslaw Wacha before coming through 21-15, 21-16. Third on court, Toby Penty then overcame Michal Rogalski 21-17, 21-17 to secure an unassailable 3-0 lead for England.
Dominic Parsons finished in the top ten as the men’s skeleton concluded at the World Championships in Austria.
Martins Dukurs of Latvia was in imperious form as he successfully defended his skeleton world title, securing the fastest time in all four heats.
Meanwhile, Parsons’ time of 3:32.29 saw him finish tenth, with compatriot David Swift six places further back.
At the halfway stage of the women’s event, Laura Deas is 11th and Donna Creighton is 17th with two runs still to go with German Tina Hermann currently leading.
Ashleigh Pittaway and Madi Rowlands lit up Team GB’s Youth Olympic Games after winning gold and bronze during Day 8 of Lillehammer 2016.
Pittaway began the medal action in the women’s skeleton this morning, finishing almost a whole second clear of the field after her two runs, before Rowlands secured bronze in the ski slopestyle to take Team GB’s medal tally at the Games to three.
Rowlands’ medal follows up her success in the halfpipe event earlier in the Games when her gold medal was the first ever won by a Team GB athlete on snow in the history of the Olympic and Youth Olympic Games.
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