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Mallory Franklin gained canoe slalom silver as shooter Matthew Coward-Holley gained entice bronze after a irritating morning for Crew GB on the Tokyo Olympics.
Franklin completed second behind Australia’s Jessica Fox within the girls’s C1 to win Britain’s 18th medal, six days into the Video games.
Moments earlier, world champion Coward-Holley completed third within the entice, capturing 33 of 40 within the last.
In a single day, rowers Helen Glover and Polly Swann missed out on a fairytale end to their story as they completed fourth within the girls’s pair.
It was fourth too for fellow British rowers Emily Craig and Imogen Grant as they fell shy of the medals by simply 0.01sec within the light-weight girls’s double sculls, whereas within the pool James Wilby positioned sixth within the males’s 200m breaststroke last.
Britain’s rowers have now completed fourth in 5 occasions on the Sea Forest Waterway.
Elsewhere, two new Olympic information have been set in swimming finals, first by Australia’s Izaac Stubblety-Prepare dinner within the 200m breaststroke earlier than American Caeleb Dressel within the 100m freestyle.
China held off a late surge by the USA to win the ladies’s 4x200m freestyle relay in a world-record time of seven minutes 40.33 seconds, beating the report held by Australia by 1:17.
This is what else has occurred on day six:
Duncan Scott, recent from successful relay Olympic gold on Wednesday, certified second quickest for the 200m particular person medley last.Crew GB riders Kye Whyte and Bethany Shriever reached the boys’s and ladies’s BMX semi-finals.In hockey, Sam Ward scored twice as GB males got here from behind to attract 2-2 with the Netherlands.GB’s girls’s rugby sevens crew gained their opening pool A match towards the Russian Olympic Committee 14-12.British boxer Frazer Clarke gained his opening super-heavyweight bout.Eire gained their first gold medal of the Tokyo Olympics as Paul O’Donovan and Fintan McCarthy gained the light-weight males’s double sculls.Three members of the Australian athletics crew are isolating after shut contact with US pole vaulter Sam Kendricks, who has examined optimistic for Covid-19.
Franklin paddles to silver
The ladies’s C1 occasion was added to the Olympic programme for the primary time for Tokyo, and after successful the check occasion in 2019 hopes have been excessive for 27-year-old Franklin.
Ranked second on this planet, she was in gold medal place till the final run when Fox, a four-time C1 world champion, usurped her on the highest of the rostrum, 3.64secs faster, to turn into Australia’s first feminine Olympic canoeing champion.
The bronze medal was gained by Germany’s Andrea Herzog.
Franklin turns into solely the second British feminine to win a canoe slalom medal on the Olympics, after Helen Reeves’ K1 bronze in Athens in 2004.
“I’ve had a wrestle in my finals so to place down a run like that, even with that contact, was wonderful for me,” Franklin instructed BBC Sport.
“It was so annoying being sat up there on the beginning line, however I had a second the place I assumed ‘I would not need to be wherever else’ – it is simply actually cool.”
Coward-Holley shoots for bronze
Coward-Holley entered the Tokyo Olympics because the reigning world and European entice champion however his probabilities for Olympic gold slipped early on after lacking three of his first 10 targets.
The 26-year-old, who beforehand performed rugby earlier than breaking his again, recovered with 14 successive hits to climb into medal rivalry.
However his 33 hits from 40 wasn’t sufficient to problem for the title, his bronze medal confirmed earlier than Czech pair Jiri Liptak and David Kostelecky entered a shoot-off to take gold and silver respectively.
“It is a bit little bit of a mixture of feelings. I am a bit bit misplaced for phrases,” mentioned Coward-Holley.
“It is my first Olympics so to return away with a medal, it is phenomenal.”
GB rowers miss out on extra medals
Glover and Swann solely teamed up within the girls’s pair earlier this 12 months, after double Olympic champion Glover got here again to rowing following a break to have her three kids and Swann returned having labored as a physician in the course of the Covid-19 pandemic.
They have been topped European champions in April however couldn’t add one other Olympic medal to their assortment, ending greater than two seconds off bronze as New Zealand gained gold.
“In Rio I mentioned it was my final one. This time I am saying ‘no, it is positively it’,” mentioned Glover, 35. “Everybody round me retains going ‘no, no, you are going to do the one’, however I positively do not see myself coming again. It is positively not within the pipeline.”
Lower than an hour later, it was an agonising consequence for Craig and Grant because the Netherlands edged out the British pair for the bronze.
Italy pipped France to gold with the 4 crews separated by simply half a second.
Up to now Nice Britain have gained just one rowing medal – silver within the males’s quadruple sculls on Wednesday.
GB was the main rowing nation at Beijing 2008, London 2012 and Rio 2016, claiming six, 9 and 5 medals respectively at these Video games.
Wilby misses out in pool
Commonwealth Video games champion Wilby had completed second quickest within the 200m breaststroke semi-finals however pale in Thursday’s last as Stubblety-Prepare dinner set a brand new Olympic report of of two:06.38 to win the race.
Wilby touched the wall 1.06secs off the bronze medal time, because the Netherlands’ Arno Kamminga and Finland’s Matti Mattsson completed second and third respectively.
“Bodily and mentally it hurts,” 27-year-old Wilby instructed BBC Sport.
“The result’s what it’s. It’s arduous, the way in which I swim it must be an ideal balancing act and if I’m off ever so barely it actually pays off in a foul means.”
Britain’s Alys Thomas completed seventh within the 200m butterfly last however put in a powerful efficiency as she touched house in 2:07.90, knocking off greater than second from her semi-final time.
Scott, who has gained two medals to this point in Tokyo, eased into the 200m particular person medley last whereas Luke Greenbank certified quickest for the 200m backstroke last.
Anna Hopkin is into the 100m freestyle last whereas Molly Renshaw and Abbie Wooden each booked their locations within the 200m breaststroke last by ending third and fourth of their respective semi-finals.
American Dressel gained his second gold of the Video games and stays in rivalry for an additional 4 meals as he appears to be like to complete this Olympics as one of the vital profitable swimmers at a person Video games.
Solely two swimmers in Olympic historical past have gained greater than six medals at a Video games – Michael Phelps with eight in Beijing in 2008 and Mark Spitz with seven in Munich in 1972.
What’s arising?
Badminton – Toby Penty is the final Brit standing and he takes on Denmark’s world quantity three Anders Antonsen within the final 16 (09:45 BST).Rugby Sevens – GB girls play New Zealand of their second pool recreation (10:30 BST).Hockey – GB girls tackle world and European champions the Netherlands in a replay of the Rio 2016 gold medal match (11:00 BST).Gymnastics – British twins Jessica and Jennifer Gadirova compete within the girls’s all-around last (11:50 BST).Boxing – Britain’s Charley Davison faces China’s Yuan Chang within the girls’s fly spherical of 16 (11:54 BST).
