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

by Admin
August 2, 2024

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.

The three golds, Team GB’s biggest single-day haul of the games so far, mean they leapfrog France into third in the medal table, with nine golds, behind the US and China.

Meanwhile, 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.