Teenage sport climber Toby Roberts received Nice Britain’s 14th gold of the Paris 2024 Olympics after victory within the males’s boulder and lead competitors.
Roberts, 19, secured 155.2 factors to beat favorite Sorato Anraku of Japan, who misplaced his grip and fell needing solely 86 factors on the lead wall to relegate Roberts into silver-medal place.
Austria’s Jakob Schubert took bronze, with one other Briton, Hamish McArthur, ending fifth.
Roberts, given the nickname ‘The Terminator’ as a consequence of his dedication informed the BBC: “I’m just absolutely lost for words. To find out that I got the gold in that moment, it was just truly incredible.
“I have been coaching for this second my complete life, and now I’ve simply received. To say it hasn’t sunk in is an understatement.
“I don’t really know what to think right now, but I imagine later, there’s just going to be a flood of emotions. It’s a goal I’ve been training towards for 10 years, basically. Just no words.”
Roberts later added: “To seek out out you’ve got received Olympic gold is certainly a shock. It was a rush of adrenaline, emotion after which happiness.
“I hope this makes climbing bigger and bigger. The sport is growing in the UK with climbing gyms opening up, and it’s so cool to see climbing on this big stage.”
KJT misses out on Olympic gold
On the Stade de France, Katarina Johnson-Thompson laid all of it on the road to safe heptathlon silver for her first Olympic medal.
The Liverpudlian sat 121 factors behind Belgian champion Nafissatou Thiam coming into the ultimate occasion, the 800m.
She confronted a virtually unattainable activity, needing to beat Thiam by greater than eight seconds to surpass her foremost rival.
Johnson-Thompson clocked a private finest 2:04.90, nevertheless it was not fairly sufficient as she completed 36 factors behind Thiam, who has now twice efficiently defended her Olympic title.
Belgium’s Noor Vidts rounded out the rostrum.
Good silver for Brits in ladies’s Madison
Elinor Barker and Neah Evans received Olympic silver within the ladies’s Madison
Elinor Barker and Neah Evans received silver for within the ladies’s Madison.
A giant late cost from Barker noticed Britain win the final of the 12 sprints within the 120-lap race and transfer above the Netherlands as Italy’s Chiara Consonni and Vittoria Guazzini celebrated gold.
Italy completed with 37 factors to Britain’s 31 and the Netherlands’ 28.
The British pair had been on the assault from the off, profitable the primary dash and staying within the medal positions for the remainder of the race.
They took essentially the most factors of any staff purely from the sprints, however Italy and the Netherlands each gained a lap on the sector, selecting up 20 factors within the course of.
Evans mentioned: “It’s an Olympic silver medal. That is fantastic.
“However as world champions we got here in with actually excessive expectations, we wished to win and we felt we have been in a extremely good place and there was an assault that went that we weren’t 100 per cent prepared for and by the point we responded there was a special race dynamic.
“We gave it everything and I think on reflection we’ll be so proud of the ride we did. But at the same time when you come for gold it’s like, eurgh, not quite. But still, silver.”
Dame Laura Kenny and Katie Archibald turned the primary feminine Olympic champions on the Tokyo Video games when the Madison made its debut within the ladies’s programme. Barker and Evans are the reigning world champions after their win in Glasgow final summer season.
Silver and bronze for relay groups
Daryll Neita, Amy Hunt, Imani Lansiquot and Dina Asher-Smith rejoice profitable silver within the ladies’s 4x100m relay
Dina Asher-Smith, Imani Lansiquot, Amy Hunt and Daryll Neita received silver within the ladies’s 4x100m relay.
Crew GB received bronze in the identical occasion for the final two Olympics and have been one of many favourites on Friday evening.
They appeared like they is likely to be on track to safe gold earlier than a messy handover between Hunt and anchor Neita value them time.
The US’ Sha’Carri Richardson took full benefit to pip the Brits to the road by seven one-hundredths of a second in 41.78.
Asher-Smith mentioned: “We are all so proud and so happy. We have worked so hard for this, so to be able to be in a position not just to challenge for a medal, but also for gold, it’s phenomenal.
“I attempted to get to Imani first and I wished to arrange the women for an exceptional run. I didn’t need anyone else in sight.
“I love how the championships are giving medals and the full squad to have their moment. This is a team effort.
“Now we have labored so exhausting as a ladies’ss staff relay squad since 2012, we now have pushed so exhausting for the final ten years. To face on the rostrum with everyone seems to be a really stunning second.”
Jeremiah Azu, Louie Hinchliffe, Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake and Zharnel Hughes sealed bronze within the males’s 4x100m relay.
Hughes, who had pulled out of the boys’s particular person 200m as a consequence of hamstring tightness, returned to anchor a line-up additionally that includes Azu, Hinchliffe and Mitchell-Blake.
It was a season’s finest for the British males’s quartet in 37.61, who completed behind Canada, champions in 37.50, and South Africa, who claimed silver.
Carlin wins eventful dash bronze
Jack Carlin received an eventful particular person dash bronze
Jack Carlin received an eventful particular person dash bronze for Nice Britain, edging out Dutchman Jeffrey Hoogland in a deciding race that needed to be restarted after the pair collided.
Carlin was already racing on a warning after his tetchy quarter-final with Kaiya Ota on Thursday, and raised his hand in apology after veering up the observe and into Hoogland.
The commissaires determined there was no want for any punishment and the race was restarted, with Carlin having the facility to carry off Hoogland down the straight to take his second medal of the week after staff dash silver.
Harper misses out on diving medal as China win gold once more
Within the ladies’s 3m springboard, Britain’s Yasmin Harper got here fifth and compatriot Grace Reid tenth as China received their seventh gold from seven within the diving occasions in Paris.
Chen Yiwen – who additionally received the synchronised 3m title with Chang Yani on the opening day of the Video games – registered a rating of 376.00 to complete forward of Australia’s Maddison Keeney (343.10) and countrywoman Chang (318.75).
Harper (305.10) was unable so as to add to the bronze she claimed alongside Scarlett Mew Jensen within the 3m synchro occasion.
Plus, Nice Britain’s Hector Pardoe got here sixth within the males’s 10km open water swimming after pipping France’s Marc-Antoine Olivier in a photograph end, whereas Eire’s Daniel Wiffen, who received 800m freestyle gold and 1500m bronze within the pool, ending 18th as he made his debut in open water swimming.
Hungary’s Kristof Rasovszky took open water gold with a time of 1 hour 50 minutes and 52 seconds, 2.1 seconds forward of Germany’s Oliver Klemet, with Rasovszky’s compatriot David Betlehem bagging bronze.
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