Team GB in Olympic gold rush with third of the day - including historic trampoline victory

Medals for Great Britain in the rowing, trampoline and showjumping events on day seven of the Paris Olympics.

Friday 2 August 2024 22:46, UK

Team GB have enjoyed a gold rush on day seven of the Paris Olympics with three gold medals - including a historic win in the women's trampoline event.

Rowers Imogen Grant and Emily Craig got the day off to a perfect start with an emotional win in the lightweight women's double sculls.

The win was especially sweet for the pair as they missed out on a podium spot at the Tokyo Olympics by just one-hundredth of a second.

Craig - who has a picture of the agonising moment when they finished fourth on her wall - was in floods of tears throughout the medal ceremony.

They were followed by Bryony Page, who completed her set of Olympic medals with gold in the women's trampoline event - Team GB's first-ever Olympic trampoline gold.

Page won a surprise silver medal in Rio back in 2016 and followed it up with bronze in Tokyo. She went into this competition as gold medal favourite and reigning world champion.

British showjumpers Ben Maher, Harry Charles and Scott Brash then made it three with team gold on Friday, beating the United States and France.

Maher won individual gold in Tokyo three years ago, while he and Brash were part of the team that secured the top prize on home soil in 2012.

The medal is the first for Charles - whose father Peter was also in the London 2012 squad.

Meanwhile in the pool, swimmer Ben Proud took silver in the men's 50m freestyle final and Duncan Scott became the most decorated Scottish Olympian of all time as he claimed silver in the 200m men's individual medley final.

Scott now has eight Olympic medals, becoming Scotland's most decorated Olympian, surpassing Sir Chris Hoy's medal tally.

Relay events over the weekend could also make him equal or even overtake Sir Jason Kenny's Team GB record of nine medals.

But 27-year-old Scott shied away from comparisons with the cycling duo, insisting Kenny's seven golds and Hoy's half-dozen put them in a different league of sporting success as he has just two.

Ollie Wynne-Griffith and Tom George secured silver in the men's pair rowing, while Anthony Harding and Jack Laugher claimed bronze in the men's 3m synchronised diving.

Today should have seen Alex Wilson compete at the Olympic regatta in Marseille - where she hopes to make history by becoming Great Britain's first Olympic windsurfing champion.

She's already guaranteed a podium place, having won eight of her 14 qualification races, but the medal race was postponed due to light winds. It will now take place tomorrow.

Britain's BMX hopeful Beth Shriever missed out on defending her Tokyo 2020 gold medal after coming last in the women's final.

Speaking after the race, Shriever, known as the Leytonstone rocket, said: "Sometimes it can't go to plan and that is life."

Earlier in the day, during the men's BMX semi-finals, Team GB's Kye Whyte crashed out and left the track on a stretcher. The Tokyo silver medallist revealed after Thursday's heats that he was struggling with a back injury.

Team GB in Olympic gold rush with third of the day - including historic trampoline victory

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