Swimming: Erika Fairweather races for gold
Erika Fairweather received her warmth within the 400m freestyle with a time of 4:02.55 and moved into the medal race, which takes place at 6.52am. Eve Thomas completed eighth in the identical warmth with a time of 4:11.86.
Rowing: Kiwis look sturdy on day one
A near-perfect opening day for the New Zealand rowing contingent. Single scullers Emma Twigg and Tom Waterproof coat each received their heats to maneuver into the quarter-finals as did double sculls girls’s pair of Lucy Spoors and Brooke Francis who advance to the semifinals. Males’s double sculls Robbie Manson and Jordan Parry got here second of their warmth to achieve into the semifinals as effectively.
Equestrian: Riders sit fourth total after dressage
First day of the three-day eventing with the dressage and New Zealand sit behind Nice Britain, Germany and France within the medal positions heading into tonight’s cross nation. Clarke Johnstone was the perfect of the Kiwis (25.70 penalty factors, ninth place) with Tim Worth 26.50, twelfth and Jonelle Worth additional behind 30.80, twenty seventh.
Biking: Fantastic time trial trip by Kim Cadzow
Kim Cadzow completed seventh in girls’s time trial, however was in gold medal place for a good size of time.
Australia’s Grace Brown smashed the sphere by over 90 seconds to assert the gold medal. Cadzow finally dropped outdoors the medal – nonetheless an unbelievable consequence for the 22-year-old in her first Olympics and simply three years into her profession.
Within the males’s time trial, Laurence Pithie completed with a time of 38:49.76, to finish in twenty fourth place.
Rugby sevens: All Blacks Sevens end fifth
A profitable day to complete their marketing campaign in Paris after the heartbreak of being knocked out within the quarter-finals. There have been emotional scenes earlier this morning after New Zealand salvaged a 17-12 golden-point victory over Argentina. They then beat Eire for a second time within the fifth-place playoff, 17-7.
Within the gold medal match, France beat 26-7 in wonderful scenes at Stade de France to assert the host nation’s first gold of the Video games. France didn’t even qualify for the final Olympics and denied two-time winners Fiji.
Hockey: Black Sticks males lose pool opener
It was late heartbreak for the Black Sticks who had been denied what would have been a hard-earned draw towards India of their opening pool sport. New Zealand opened the scoring by means of Sam Lane however trailed 2-1 going into the ultimate quarter. Simon Little one levelled the sport halfway by means of the ultimate quarter. However India earned a penalty stroke with 1.57 minutes to play, changing it to take the win.
Canoe slalom: Luuka Jones advances to semifinals
Rio medallist Jones completed fifteenth after the 2 runs as we speak to advance to the semifinals, by means of 22 of the 25 rivals moved to the subsequent stage. Jones might want to enhance to make the ultimate with the highest 12 racing for the medals.
First medals received
*Not for New Zealand, however nonetheless.
Earlier, Kazakhstan turned the primary nation to get on the rostrum at this video games. Alexandra Le and Islam Satpayev claimed bronze within the 10m blended air rifle.
China has develop into the primary nation to assert gold – topping the leaderboard with two already – by profitable the ladies’s synchronised 3m springboard, and 10m blended air rifle.
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