Following Team GB’s first gold medals of the Games on Monday, there are 14 medals to be won on Tuesday.
Following Team GB’s first gold medals of the Games on Monday, there are 14 medals to be won on Tuesday. Team GB will be back in action in the pool, but there’s also triathlon, artistic gymnastics and shooting golds up for grabs.
Swimming
The men’s 4x200m freestyle relay headlines another big evening in the pool on Tuesday. Team GB are the defending champions from Tokyo, with Thomas Dean, James Guy, Matthew Richards, Duncan Scott expected to join forces again to defend their crown. The quartet also finished just 0.03 seconds outside of the world record at Tokyo. The heats take place at 12:08 BST, with the final at 21:01.
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Richards, alongside Jacob Whittle, will also be in men’s 100m freestyle action, with the heats starting at 10:15 and the semi-finals at 19:30. Anna Hopkin goes in the women’s 100m freestyle, with the heats at 11:39 and the semi-finals at 20:25.
Read more: Meet Great Britain's golden 4x200m freestyle team
Men’s Triathlon
The men's triathlon has been postponed until 9:45am BST on Wednesday, after the women's individual race.
Team GB’s Alex Yee will be aiming to upgrade the silver medal he earned in Tokyo. Yee, who also won a mixed relay gold in Tokyo, will be joined by Olympic debutant Sam Dickinson, who was a travelling reserve in Tokyo and has since won Commonwealth gold.
Artistic Gymnastics: Women’s Artistic Team All-Around Final
Attention will then turn to the artistic gymnastics women’s team final at 17:15 CET. Team GB’s Ruby Evans, Georgia-Mae Fenton, Abi Martin, Becky Downie and Alice Kinsella qualified for the final in seventh place. Kinsella, who was part of the squad which finished with an historic bronze medal in Tokyo, will also feature in the all-around final alongside Fenton, while Downie, who missed Tokyo due to the death of her brother, qualified for the uneven bars. Downie said: “I think it's going to be a really exciting day. The team final was a big goal for our team coming in here.”
Men’s Trap Shooting
Team GB’s Nathan Hales is well placed going into the second day of trap shooting, with medals will be won. Through three of the five qualifying rounds, world silver medallist Hales has 73 points out of a possible 75, one point off the leaders. Teammate Matthew Coward-Holley sits on 70 points. The remaining two qualifying rounds take place at 9:00, with the top six qualifying for the final, which starts at 14:30.
Elsewhere, judoka Lucy Renshall will compete in the women’s -63kg, with a gold medal to be won.
Charlotte Worthington begins the defence of her Olympic title in the preliminary stages of the women’s BMX freestyle, with world champion Kieran Reilly in the men’s preliminaries.
Andy Murray and Dan Evans will be back in men’s doubles action as the men’s hockey team face the Netherlands and gold medallist from Rio 2016, Joe Clarke gets underway in the men’s K1 canoe slalom.
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