Paris 2024 Day Seven: Team GB athletes in action

Paris 2024 01 Aug 24

Team GB will be looking to add to their medal tally on Friday, with 23 golds available, the most of any day at the Games so far.

There are more medals to be won in swimming, rowing and diving, whilst BMX racing and trampolining will see their medals handed out.

Rowing

Team GB will look to increase their rowing medal haul on Day Seven, with two medal races involving British rowers on Friday.

Emily Craig and Imogen Grant are competing in the women’s lightweight double sculls final at 11:22 BST, after winning their semi-final yesterday.

The pair missed out on a medal in Tokyo by 0.01 seconds but went on to win back-to-back world titles.

Fine margins have decided plenty of medals so far in the rowing, but while the pair will take inspiration from their teammates, they are also focussing on themselves.

"There is so much talent in the GB squad at the moment," Emily Craig said. "I have so much faith in the training that I’ve done, and we’ve all done that.

"I take a lot of positivity from that, but I think also, we have to race our own races, we have to do our own thing.

"So we’ll celebrate with them, but it’s focusing on our final as well."

Their race will be preceded by the men’s pair final, which will feature Ollie Wynne-Griffith and Tom George, who qualified second in their heat.

Team GB's last medal in the event came with bronze at London 2012, won by Will Satch and George Nash.

BMX Racing

The finals of the men’s and women’s BMX racing will take place back to back on a frenetic Friday evening.

Team GB’s Beth Shriever will be targeting a defence of her Olympic gold in the women’s competition at 20:50.

That will be preceded by the men’s final at 20:35, with Tokyo silver medallist Kye Whyte also aiming for a spot on the podium.

Gymnastics trampoline

Three trampolinists are in action across the men’s and women’s individual competitions on Friday, with medals to be won in both.

Bryony Page, who won silver in Rio and bronze in Tokyo, can complete the set with a gold in Paris.

The 33-year-old, who has won two World Championships since Tokyo, will be joined by Izzy Songhurst, who has World Championship team medals alongside Page.

On the men’s side, 21-year-old Zak Perzamanos will represent Team GB. Perzamanos also has world team medals under his belt, and was fifth in the individual event at last year’s World Championships.

Women’s qualification starts at 11:00, with the final at 12:50, with the men’s qualification at 17:00 and the final at 18:45.

Diving

Jack Laugher pairs up with Anthony Harding for the men’s 3m synchronised springboard final, which gets underway at 10:00.

Team GB have won three medals in three synchro finals so far, but are yet to win a gold.

Laugher, in his fourth Olympics, earned an Olympic gold medal in the same event at Rio 2016 alongside Chris Mears, before teaming up with Dan Goodfellow in Tokyo, finishing seventh.

Laugher and Harding started competing together in 2022, and have won two world silver medals and a European gold medal during that time.

Swimming

There are more medals to be won in the pool on Friday, as Duncan Scott looks to add to his seven Olympic medals in the men’s 200m medley final at 19:43.

Scott, who picked up silver in Tokyo, qualified in third for the final, while teammate Tom Dean also booked a lane.

There are also two Team GB finalists in the women’s 200m backstroke, with the final at 19:36.

Honey Osrin finished second in her heat pushing world record holder Kaylee McKeown of Australia all the way, while European silver medallist Katie Shanahan also advanced..

Ben Proud is the other swimmer to make it through, tying for first place in his semi-final with Australia's Cameron McEvoy.

Proud has a World Championship gold and three bronze to his name in the 50m freestyle.

Elsewhere, Emma Wilson will go for gold in the women’s windsurfing final. Wilson leads the opening series comfortably with eight wins in 14 races and has already guaranteed herself a medal.

And Dina Asher-Smith, Keely Hodgkinson and Josh Kerr will be among the stars in action as the athletics continues. Patrick Dever will be in the men’s 10,000m final.

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