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’ because of his dedication advised the BBC: “I am simply completely misplaced for phrases. To search out out that I received the gold in that second, it was simply actually unbelievable.
“I have been coaching for this second my entire life, and now I’ve simply received. To say it hasn’t sunk in is an understatement.
“I do not actually know what to suppose proper now, however I think about later, there’s simply going to be a flood of feelings. It is a aim I have been coaching in the direction of for 10 years, mainly. Simply no phrases.”
Roberts later added: “To search out out you’ve got received Olympic gold is unquestionably a shock. It was a rush of adrenaline, emotion after which happiness.
“I hope this makes climbing larger and larger. The game is rising within the UK with climbing gyms opening up, and it is so cool to see climbing on this huge stage.”
KJT misses out on Olympic gold
Katarina Johnson-Thompson was pressured to accept a silver medal within the ladies’s heptathlon
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 getting into the ultimate occasion, the 800m.
She confronted a virtually unattainable process, needing to beat Thiam by greater than eight seconds to surpass her essential rival.
Johnson-Thompson clocked a private greatest 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.
Sensible 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, successful the primary dash and staying within the medal positions for the remainder of the race.
They took probably the most factors of any staff purely from the sprints, however Italy and the Netherlands each gained a lap on the sphere, choosing up 20 factors within the course of.
Evans stated: “It is an Olympic silver medal. That’s unbelievable.
“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 the whole lot and I feel on reflection we’ll be so pleased with the trip we did. However on the identical time while you come for gold it is like, eurgh, not fairly. However nonetheless, 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 successful 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 night time.
They regarded like they could be on the right 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 stated: “We’re all so proud and so completely happy. We now have labored so laborious for this, so to have the ability to be ready not simply to problem for a medal, but additionally for gold, it is 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 really like how the championships are giving medals and the total squad to have their second. This can be a staff effort.
“We now have labored so laborious as a ladies’ss staff relay squad since 2012, now we have pushed so laborious for the final ten years. To face on the rostrum with everyone seems to be a really lovely 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 lads’s particular person 200m because of hamstring tightness, returned to anchor a line-up additionally that includes Azu, Hinchliffe and Mitchell-Blake.
It was a season’s greatest 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 monitor 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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