Day seven of the Tokyo Olympics saw Great Britain make history by collecting three gold medals, bringing their total count to nine and setting a new Games gold record. Their overall tally rose to 27 medals, a fantastic achievement. The success is the result of an impressive showing across several sports which included trampolining, equestrian, diving, and rowing.
Emily Craig and Imogen Grant, who just missed out on a medal three years ago in Tokyo, won gold in the women’s lightweight double sculls, beating Romania by almost a length. Men’s pair Ollie Wynne-Griffith and Tom George were also close to winning gold, only to concede to the Croat brothers Martin and Valent Sinkovic by a narrow margin. Divers Anthony Harding and Jack Laugher brought home bronze in the men’s 3m synchro springboard final, and Bryony Page won gold in the trampoline. GB also won the team jumping final in the equestrian arena.
Hosts France enjoyed success in the Champ de Mars Arena, followed by celebrations in the pool and on the BMX track. Teddy Riner claimed his fourth Olympic gold medal and sixth gold overall in the men’s +100kg category. Leon Marchand became the first French athlete ever to take four individual golds at a single summer Olympics, and Joris Daudet, Sylvain Andre, and Romain Mahieu took a clean sweep of the medals in the men’s BMX racing final. Meanwhile, ugly scenes marred France’s 1-0 win over Argentina in the quarter-finals of the men’s football.
The athletics got underway on Friday on the purple track at the Stade de France, with one of Britain’s main medal hopes, Josh Kerr, cruising into the semi-finals of the 1500m in his best time of the season so far. GB’s Neil Gourley also progressed in a heat containing Norway’s defending champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen, but George Mills missed out and will hope for a reprieve on Saturday. Dina Asher-Smith, Daryll Neita, and Imani-Lara Lansiquot all qualified from their women’s 100m heats, and Keely Hodgkinson, Jemma Reekie, and Phoebe Gill advanced in the women’s 800m heats. However, Morgan Lake failed to reach the final in the women’s high jump
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