Matthew Hudson-Smith has overcome mental health struggles and injuries to become one of the world’s best in the 400m, winning silver in the world championships last year. Can he triumph in the 400m final and add to Keely Hodkinson and Josh Kerr’s medals on the track?

It could be another big night at the velodrome with the men’s and women’s team pursuit finals. The women’s team comprised of Elinor Barker, Josie Knight, Anna Morris and Jessica Roberts won gold at the world championship last year. Team GB men go for team pursuit gold in the final against Australia later.

Team GB’s Andy MacDonald, 51, is the oldest competitor in Olympic skateboaring history will bid to reach tonight’s men’s park final.

In sailing, Team GB are in medal contention on the final day of the mixed multihull medal race, while the men’s dinghy medal race also takes place after it was postponed yesterday.

The women’s golf tournament gets underway at Le Golf National, with Charley Hull and Georgia Hall teeing off in the first round.

Here are the day’s top picks for Team GB and a full rundown from around Paris:

Paris, 1924. Eric Liddell is poised at the starting line of the 400m track, a union jack sitting proudly on the breast of his white running kit. It took him 47.6 seconds to make history that day – Liddell set a new Olympic and world record during the sprint. It was a race that would later be immortalised in the 1981 Oscar-winning film Chariots of Fire.

If you have seen the film, you’ll be forgiven for thinking you know the other dramatic storylines in his short life, too – notably that he was more famous for the race that he didn’t win during the Paris Olympics that year.

The Scot had been a favourite to take the gold medal for the 100m sprint, but when the event timetable was released, he declined his place. “I’m not running on a Sunday,” he said. His commitment to his religious beliefs came first.

Keely Hodgkinson has set her sights on World Championships gold after securing a first Olympic title in the women’s 800 metres final.

She snapped a streak of silvers that began with her Tokyo podium and extended through to the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham and back-to-back World Championships as she came home in front of Ethiopia’s Tsige Duguma and Kenya’s Mary Moraa at Stade de France on Monday night.

She said: “It hasn’t completely sunk in yet, I feel like when I get my medal at the ceremony that will really be an emotional moment for me.

“I’m just over the moon that it all came together, you can work so hard sometimes and it all not be executed as well as you like it to be. I’m so happy I finally got my gold medal.

“Since the last Olympics I think it was always an aim by Paris to try to be in a position to try to upgrade that to gold. After so many silver medals on a global stage in my sport, this really meant the most and there’s no better place to upgrade it than the Olympics.

“I didn’t really know how the race was going to be run or how it was going to play out, you can never really know those things until you’re in the moment but I felt like I was in the best position however it was run and be hard to beat, we’ve worked hard for this and it’s a great moment.

“I still don’t have a World Championships gold, so there’s still plenty more to be done.”

The Team GB golfer smokes while out on the course and was dubbed the “female John Daly” by the American media at the US Open two months ago.

Hull also provoked a social media stir after signing autographs for a group of young children with a lit cigarette dangling from her lips at Lancaster Country Club in Pennsylvania.

Ireland’s Kellie Harrington was crowned Olympic champion after beating Wenlu Yang at Roland Garros in the women’s 60kg final.

Following a cagey start, Yang began to land more punches and looked to be in control, but Harrington regained her composure and landed a flurry of body shots before the bell went.

Josh Kerr insisted the Olympic 1500 metres final fulfilled his vow to deliver a race that would “go down in generations” even after a surprise ending written by American gold medallist Cole Hocker in Olympic record time.

The penultimate event on Tuesday evening had been billed as a two-man showdown between Scotsman Kerr, the reigning world champion, and his arch-rival Jakob Ingebrigtsen, who claimed gold in Tokyo three summers ago.

The duo were neck and neck down the final stretch, but perhaps paying too close attention to one another when Hocker seized on his opportunity to surge ahead and cross the finish before either of the two heavy favourites.

“I got beaten by the better man today,” said Kerr, “I could feel (Hocker) coming and I kept getting pushed out, so there was nothing I could do to close that door.

“Obviously I wanted that gold, that’s not something that I was able to shy away from. I’m proud of the way I executed today. It was not a slow race. I think that record will stay for a very long time.

“We had a lot of storylines this year, back and forth with me and Jakob and things like that, but I knew that there was going to be threats coming from the Americans and Cole put together a performance that is the best the Olympics has ever seen.

“It’s the fastest I’ve ever ran, it’s the best 1500m performance that I could ask for. I told you guys we were going to put a 1500 on that would hopefully go down in generations, and I think we did that.”

All times BST – names in bold signify medal chances.

Charley Hull, Georgia Hall – golf, women’s stroke play round one (from 8am)

Jack Laugher, Jordan Houlder – diving, men’s 3m springboard semi-final (9am)

Jack Carlin, Hamish Turnbull – track cycling, men’s sprint (11:45pm)

Michael Beckett – sailing, men’s ILCA 7 (12:13pm)

Elinor Barker, Josie Knight, Anna Morris and Jessica Roberts – cycling, team pursuit (12:52 first round)

John Gimson, Anna Burnet – sailing, mixed Nacra 17 (1:43pm)

Andy MacDonald – skateboarding, men’s park (2:04pm heat)

Elinor Barker, Josie Knight, Anna Morris and Jessica Roberts – cycling, team pursuit final (5:52pm)

Ethan Hayter, Charlie Tanfield, Oliver Wood – track cycling, team pursuit final (7:33pm)

Matthew Hudson-Smith – athletics, men’s 400 final (8:20pm)

Hundreds of flag-waving Algerian supporters turned the normally genteel surroundings of Phillippe-Chatrier Court at Roland Garros into a cauldron of noise as boxer Imane Khelif sealed her place in the Olympic women’s welterweight final.

Chants of “Imane” tumbled down from the stands as Khelif, who is one of two boxers at the centre of a gender eligibility row, dominated her opponent Janjaem Suwannapheng of Thailand to confirm she will get the chance to emulate compatriot Hocine Soltani, who won lightweight gold in 1996.

The participation of Khelif and Chinese Taipei featherweight Lin Yu-ting has caused an international storm since Khelif beat Angela Carini of Italy in just 46 seconds in her opening bout last Thursday.

Jakob Ingebrigtsen admits he “hit the wall” and got his timing wrong after suffering a shock upset in a thrilling 1500m final at the Olympics.

A race billed as a battle between two great rivals, the Norwegian and Josh Kerr have been embroiled in a war of words ever since the Briton claimed gold at the world championships last year.

But as Kerr snatched the lead on the home straight in the Paris 2024 final, Cole Hocker pounced with a perfectly-timed kick to win gold in an Olympic record time. And with USA teammate Yared Nuguse coming home strong to win bronze, Ingebrigtsen was left with the strange feeling of no medal at all, cursing the damage done in the first 200m.

Lewis Richardson had to settle for bronze after being beaten on split decision by Mexico’s Marco Verde in the men’s 71kg semi-final at Roland Garros.

Richardson started well landing a solid punch to Verde’s face, but the Mexican grew back into the round throwing a series of different combinations and breaking through the British fighter’s defence.

The second round saw the British fighter show off his boxing skills, landing a great uppercut and a couple of big blows to Verde’s head to take the round on the majority of the judges’ cards.