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Bethany Shriever claimed an exhilarating BMX gold and Duncan Scott prolonged his streak within the pool as Nice Britain received six Olympic medals on Friday with probably extra to return.
A silver for Kye Whyte within the BMX males’s race was Britain’s first within the occasion at an Olympic Video games, and a primary gold shortly adopted via Shriever within the girls’s race.
Scott claimed his third medal in Tokyo with silver within the males’s 200m particular person medley, whereas Luke Greenbank took 200m backstroke bronze.
The boys’s eight received a rowing bronze and Bryony Web page added one other within the girls’s trampolining on day seven.
GB completed the Video games with two rowing medals, their lowest rowing medal tally at an Olympics since they received two at Atlanta 1996 and the primary time they haven’t received a minimum of one gold since 1980.
Friday introduced the beginning of the athletics in Tokyo, with Dina Asher-Smith qualifying second in her opening 100m warmth.
From crowdfunding to Olympic gold
Shriever needed to fund her personal qualification marketing campaign after UK Sport reduce its assist for her occasion following Rio 2016, and two years in the past she mentioned she wanted to lift a “worrying” £50,000 via crowdfunding.
The 22-year-old, who additionally labored part-time as a instructing assistant to cowl coaching prices, held off two-time Olympic champion Mariana Pajon from Colombia to win on her Olympic debut.
“Truthfully, I am in shock. To even be right here is an achievement in itself,” mentioned Shriever.
“To make a remaining is one other achievement in itself. To win a medal, not to mention a gold medal, I am over the moon.”
Shriever’s gold meant GB grew to become the third nation, after France and the Netherlands, to win in all 4 biking disciplines – BMX, mountain bike, highway and monitor.
Whyte completed 0.114 seconds behind Dutchman Niek Kimmann to assert silver.
Nicknamed the Prince of Peckham, 22-year-old Whyte has fought again from critical harm to earn his place on the Olympic podium.
Nice Scott eyes GB historical past
Scott added to his 4x200m freestyle relay gold and 200m freestyle silver by ending 0.28 seconds behind China’s Wang Shun within the 200m medley.
Though Scott once more narrowly missed out on a primary particular person gold, he might turn out to be the primary British Olympian to win 4 medals at a single Video games when the 4x100m medley takes place this weekend.
“It was at all times going to be tight and at all times going to be thrilling. I’m actually proud of the swim,” the 24-year-old Scot instructed BBC Sport.
Scott’s silver got here shortly after Greenbank took bronze within the 200m backstroke, describing his first Olympic medal as a “dream come true”.
The 23-year-old touched dwelling in 1:54.72 as Russian Evgeny Rylov received gold with an Olympic file 1:53.27.
“It’s wonderful,” Greenbank instructed BBC Sport. “I’m so glad – over the moon and a bit misplaced for phrases, I’m not going to lie.”
Scott and Greenbank took GB’s swimming medal tally at Tokyo to 6 – three golds, two silvers and one bronze.
Within the rowing, GB males’s eight took bronze within the remaining race of the Tokyo 2020 regatta, pipped to silver by Germany as New Zealand took gold.
Vicky Thornley was edged out of a medal regardless of a late push within the girls’s single scull, ending 0.67 seconds off bronze.
It was Britain’s sixth fourth-placed end on the Sea Forest Waterway, whereas they received two medals.
They had been the main rowing nation at Beijing 2008, London 2012 and Rio 2016, claiming six, 9 and 5 medals respectively at these Video games.
Web page, who grew to become the primary Briton to win an Olympic trampolining medal in Rio, backed that up with a bronze in Tokyo.
The 30-year-old certified with the third-best general rating and took the lead within the remaining with a rating of 55.735, however Chinese language pair Lingling Liu and Xueying Zhu claimed gold and silver respectively.
Athletics below approach in Tokyo
Asher-Smith, who’s bidding to turn out to be the primary British girl to win an Olympic particular person dash gold, reached the semi-finals with a run of 11.07 seconds.
Daryll Neita and Asha Philip completed second of their heats to qualify for Saturday’s semi-finals.
Jemma Reekie, Keely Hodgkinson and Alex Bell are into the ladies’s 800m semi-final, whereas excessive jumper Tom Gale reached the boys’s remaining with a season’s finest of two.28m.
There shall be British curiosity within the males’s 10,000m remaining at 12:30 BST on Friday with Marc Scott and Sam Atkin competing.
What’s developing on Friday?
Girls’s soccer reaches the quarter-final stage with GB taking over Australia at 10:00.GB face the USA within the girls’s rugby sevens quarter-finals at 10:30.Bradley Forbes-Cryans will race for GB within the canoe slalom K1 remaining (08:00).In judo, GB’s Sarah Adlington makes her Olympic debut within the girls’s +78kg class (09:00-11:50).In hockey, GB’s males face Belgium at 13:15. 
