Who said the number 13 was unlucky? Team GB won their 13th gold of Paris 2024 the same number day of Paris 2024.
Two more medals ensured that we passed the 50 medal mark as there were also strong results in athletics, track cycling and more.
Sailing
Ellie Aldridge took home Team GB’s first sailing gold of the Games, with two superb victories in the women’s kite final.
The 27-year-old was heading into the final in second and needed two wins before Frenchwoman Lauriane Nolot secured one. And Aldridge delivered back-to-back victories to secure gold to become the inaugural women’s kite Olympic champion.
She said: “I still can't believe it, really it's crazy. I don’t really feel anything at the moment. I’m so completely overwhelmed I don’t feel anything because I can’t believe what’s happened.”
John Gimson and Anna Burnet finished fourth in the mixed multihull after they were disqualified from the medal race, while Connor Bainbridge was third in the men’s kite semi-final and did progress to the final.
The first ever female kite Olympic champion.
— Team GB (@TeamGB) August 8, 2024
Bravo, Ellie Aldridge 👏
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Track Cycling
Emma Finucane picked up her second medal of the Olympics with bronze in the women's keirin.
Finucane finished third in the six-woman final behind New Zealand’s Ellesse Andrews and Hetty van de Wouw of the Netherlands, pipping teammate Katy Marchant who finished fourth.
She said: “To get a bronze medal, it literally feels like gold to me because I left everything out there on the track.
“If you told me a year ago I’d be coming to the Olympics and getting a gold in track sprint and then bronze in keirin, I would've been like ‘no way’ but here I am."
The 21-year-old will now target her third medal of the Games in the individual sprint, in which she’s world champion.
Jack Carlin battled into the men’s sprint semi-finals and will go for a medal tomorrow, while teammate Hamish Turnbull finished seventh.
Ethan Hayter finished eighth in the men’s omnium.
Athletics
Katarina Johnson-Thompson takes a lead into the second day of the women’s heptathlon with 4055 points after the first four events, 48 points over Belgium’s Nafissatou Thiam.
The two-time world champion threw a personal best 14.44m in the shot put and cleared 1.92m in the high jump, her highest clearance in five years. She also ran 23.44 in the 200m and 13.40 in the 100m hurdles.
Commonwealth bronze medallist Jade O'Dowda sits 17th.
The men’s and women's 4x100m relay team both qualified for their respective finals.
The women’s team of Imani Lansiquot, Amy Hunt, Bianca Williams and Desiree Henry qualified for the final, winning their heat and in second overall with a time of 42.03.
The men's 4x100m relay team, comprising Jeremiah Azu, Louie Hinchliffe, Richard Kilty and Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake, were third in their heat and overall in 38.04.
Georgia Bell and Laura Muir both qualified for the women’s 1500m final finishing second and fourth respectively in their heats.
Revée Walcott-Nolan was ninth in her semi-final, running a personal best, and did not qualify for the final.
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