Sarah Storey claimed her six medals and her 15th Paralympic title on the first day of Paralympic Games 2020 at Tokyo. Storey smashed her world best by over four seconds in the C55 3, 000 individual pursuit qualifying and in the final caught team-mate Crystal Lane-Wright, who matched her silver medal from Rio in 2016.…
Top Six countries with most medals. Track cyclist Jason Kenny’s historic gold and Lauren Price won gold in the middleweight final. Team GB claimed 22 golds, 21 silvers and 22 bronze medals in Japan/ Jason Kenny successfully defended Keirin title to become the first Briton to win seven Olympic gold medals and 2 silver. His…
Brazil wins Olympic Football gold medal, beating Spain 2-1 Brazil 2 Spain 1 Santos Carneiro Da Cunha (45’+2). Oyarzabl (61’) Malcom (108’) Brazil defended their Olympic men’s football title following a dramatic extra-time victory over Spain at the Nissan Stadium. Substitute Malcom raced in behind and slotted home the winner after 108 minutes to hand…
GB’s sprint relay teams won silver and bronze medals, with men’s quartet missing out on the 4x100m gold by a hundredth of a second. Earlier Asha Philip, Imani-Lara Lansiquot, Dina Asher-Smith and Daryll Neita took the bronze. Jamaican team with all three of the 100m individual medallists took gold. Country Gold Silver Bronze Total China…
GB’s Kate French win Olympic gold for Modern pentathlon, to make GB’s 18th gold in Tokyo. GB’s cyclist Laura Kenny became the first woman to triumph at three Olympics and Katie Archibald claim gold in the madison. GB’s Carlin wins bronze in men’s sprint. In women’s hockey GB world number 4, and gold medal winners…
Liam Heath claims bronze in the K1, 200m canoe sprint. He got out of his canoe and slapped the winner, the Hungarian Sandor Totka, and the silver medallist Manfredi Rizza generously on the back. Jamaica’s Hansie Parchment crosses the finish line to win the 110m hurdles ahead of second placed USA’s Grant Holloway and third…
Sky Brown, wins bronze to become GB’s youngest medal winner at Olympics, surpassed Sarah Hardcastle, who took two medals in swimming in 1984, when she was 15 years old. Brown broke 93-year-old record of Margery Hinton to become the youngest athlete to represent Team GB. Skaura Yosozumi of Japan wins gold for skateboarding with a…
World number one Oliver Townend, Laura Collet and Tom McEwen sealed victory in the final show jumping stage before McEwen won a solo silver. Emily Campbell (27) became first British woman to win an Olympic weightlifting silver medal in the 87kg category to win the 35th medal of the game for Team GB. GB…
Team GB wins a gold medal in the inaugural Olympic triathlon mixed relay by Jessica Learmonth, Jonny Brownlee, Georgia Taylor-Brown and Alex Yee ,followed by winning the 4x100m mixed medley relay in a world record time. Learmonth set the platform, Brownlee broke away from the pack and Taylor-Brown and Yee maintained the advantage to secure…
Dreams come true for Tom Daley who said m in 2005 “I want to get to the Olympics and win a gold medal” and 16 years later he realised his dream with Maty Lee secured a historic synchronised 10m platform Olympic title at Tokyo 2020. Daley now aged 27, is Britain’s most decorated diver,…