Key events
Artistic swimming duet: Before the relay an update on the artistic swimming.
There is one pair to go but at the moment GB’s Kate Shortman and Izzy Thorpe are in the lead so they have at least a silver.
Women’s 4x400m relay: The final will get underway shortly, the action just keeps coming.
Men’s 4x400m relay: Just to update you with the times confirmed, the USA’s gold medal is also an Olympic record time. It was a sensational race, I think if there were 50m more Botswana may have taken it.
Kerr wins men’s high jump gold
McEwen fails to clear 2.34 on the way back down but Kerr does and so wins the gold medal.
What an impressive performance from the New Zealander – he struggled in qualification yesterday but he reached the final and now he is the champion.
USA win 4x400m relay
USA win gold, Botswana with silver and GB in bronze.
Botswana had a really impressive third 400m and they were hunting down the USA, he is closing in. But they just miss out. Wow, what a race.
Men’s 4x400m relay: It’s a good start from all involved but it is the USA who lead after the first 400m, Botswana in second and GB in third. After the second 400m It is the USA who maintain the lead but Botswana and GB are remaining with them.
Men’s 4x400m relay final: This final is about to get underway, updates inbound with the athletes on track now.
Men’s high jump: McEwen fails at 2.36 so Kerr steps up now. But he also fails, it does down to 2.34 now. The rules are that we go back down the heights until we have a winner.
Men’s high jump: Kerr fails again, will we just keep jumping until one clears it? I think so. The bar is now at 2.36 – it goes until one fails and one succeeds. Apologies for the earlier medal call, I was confused with the scoring but I’m up to date now.
Men’s high jump: So McEwen and Kerr could have shared the gold as was the case three years ago in Tokyo. However, they have decided to jump on and they remain at 2.38 as the medals look to be decided. McEwen has failed his fourth attempt.
Kitaguchi wins women’s javelin gold
It is the Japanese star’s first throw that wins her Olympic gold. Silver goes to South Africa’s Jo-Ane van Dyk and bronze to Czech’s Nikola Ogrodinkova.
Men’s high jump: Kerr takes his final jump, already knowing he has gold, but he doesn’t commit and runs under the bar. But hang on, I think we jump on? The usual rule went back to earlier failures but I think they may be deciding to jump on?
Men’s high jump: Well what a contest it was but it looks like Hamish Kerr who will come away with gold.
McEwen shouts “come on” as he attempts 2.38m. He takes his run but his back smacks the bar.
Men’s high jump: McEwen on his second attempt he didn’t clear and that one looked worse than the first, one more attempt for him to try and get gold. Kerr now steps up and that was so close! It was only a trailing leg that knocks the bar down. One more attempt for him also, Kerr is in gold medal position as things stand as he has the fewest number of trials.
Men’s high jump: USA’s McEwen fails to clear 2.38 on his first attempt but it was close. Kerr now has a chance to put pressure on his opponent, he builds the crowd with some applause but he can’t clear it – that did not look close at all.
Men’s high jump: The final reaches 2.38 and Barshim attempts which he must clear to keep this up. He can’t clear it and he has to settle for bronze. But who will get gold? The last two in this one will battle it out now in McEwen and Kerr.
Men’s high jump: Well Barshim has passed and opts to try the next height but Sottile tries to clear it. But he can’t and he is out of this contest.
Men’s high jump: Barshim’s second attempt fails and he screams while leaning back, pure frustration. Sottile also fails and they both now only has one more attempt to stay in this.
Men’s high jump: New Zealand’s Hamish Kerr has also clear 2.36m, the pressure now is on Barshim and Sottile – they have two more attempts.
Men’s high jump: Italy’s Stefano Sottile is having an impressive final here and is going toe-to-toe with the joint defending champion in Qatar’s Mutaz Barshim. Both athletes have failed to clear 2.36 on their first attempt but the USA’s Shelby McEwen has just cleared it, wow.
Men’s high jump: We are getting to the business end of this final now. Two more athletes have been knocked out after they were unable to clear 2.34m. Ukraine’s Uleh Doroshchuk and Japan’s Ryoichi Akamatsu are out.
Women’s 1500m: Kipyegon’s gold set an Olympic record, breaking her own set in Tokyo. She comes across in 3:51:29.
Silver goes to Australia’s Jessica Hull and GB’s Georgia Bell has bronze.
Kipyegon win’s women’s 1500m gold
It is gold for Faith Kipyegon. She has only lost a 1500m race once since 2021.
Ethiopia’s Gudaf Tsegay sets a fast pace for the first two laps and Laura Muir, silver medallist in Tokyo, was miles back from the front pack.
Muir makes a move and closes in on the leading pack, if she gets in the medals here it would be very impressive.
The pack starts to separate with a lap to go and Kipyegon gets ahead and it will take a lot to take this off of her. She absolutely stretches clear, hat-trick Olympic titles. Silver and bronze to be confirmed.
Cycling: The final repechage race in the men’s keirin has seen a horrible crash. Trinidad and Tobago’s Kwesi Browne hit the deck and he was reportedly knocked out, hopefully he is okay. The race eventually gets back underway and it is Canada’s James Hedgcock and Colombia’s David Ortega who are through to the quarter-finals.
Women’s 1500m: Next up on track is the women’s 1500m final, it is not slowing down this evening. Kenya’s Faith Kipyegon is favourite for the gold here.
Men’s high jump: We have lost some more athletes at 2.31m. Bulgaria’s Tihomir Ivanov and Korea’s Sanghyeok Woo are out after not being able to clear the height.
Men’s 5000m: Silver goes to Kenya’s Ronald Kwemoi and bronze to USA’s Grant Fisher.
Ingerbrigtsen wins men’s 5000m gold
A smart run from the Norwegian.
The pace starts to increase with two laps to go. The commentators worried about athletes falling over with a packed field but everyone stays up at the moment. All three of Ethiopia’s runners are leading but then Ingerbrigtsen makes a move on the last lap.
Oh my the Norwegian starts to pull away and it looks like gold and he puts a huge gap between his competitors. Wow.
Men’s 5000m: Norway’s Jakob Ingebrigtsen had disappointment earlier in the Games but he is in a good position at the moment with 1,300m to go. The moves will be made soon, the pack as strung out along the track but no clear leader yet.
Women’s javelin: Japan’s Haruka Kitaguchi is still leading the final with Colombia’s Denis Ruiz Hurtado in second and Spain’s Yulenmis Aguilar in third. Still a long way to go.
Men’s 5000m: The commentators are calling this final ‘desperately slow’ after five laps and no one looks like they want to make a statement move yet.
Men’s 5000m: The field are still together with 11 laps to go and there is a feeling it could break up with the pace quite slow at the moment.
The pack are starting to split slightly but they are still running as one.
Men’s 5000m: It is a crowded field with 22 runners on track and it starts in a good pace. Australia’s Stewart McSweyn is the pace maker.
Men’s 5000m: Well we are now onto another track final and this one should be a tasty race.
All updates to come, the athletes on the start line now.
Men’s high jump: This final has just progressed from 2.27m with the Czech Republic’s Jan Stefela, Jamaica’s Romaine Beckford and Italy’s Gianmarco Tamberi who are knocked out.
Tamberi, the joint gold medallist in Tokyo, is out but he has had a lot of health issues at this Games. He looks devastated but he gave it his all.
Women’s javelin: So far in this final it is Japan’s Haruka Kitaguchi who leads with a throw of 65.80. There is still a long way to go in this one though so everything could change.
Cycling: Two more repechage races have taken place in the men’s keirin and it’s GB’s Hamish Turnbull, Germany’s Luca Spiegel, Malaysia’s Muhammad Sahrom and France’s Rayan Helal who are through to the quarter-finals. Only one more race to go there.
Women’s 100m hurdles: France’s Cyrena Samba-Mayela takes silver and bronze goes to Puerto Rico’s Jasmine Camacho-Quinn.
The top three only separated by three one hundredths of a second.
Russell wins women’s 100m hurdles gold
It is gold for USA’s Masai Russell
We wait with baited breath to see who wins gold as three athletes were so close together over the line but Russell has it by one hundredth of a second!
Silver and bronze to be confirmed.
Women’s 100m hurdles: The final is about to get underway, medal inbound.
What else is happening right now I hear you ask? The answer is a lot of sports! the artistic swimming duet free routine final, women’s javelin and wrestling are among those taking place – I will bring you any major updates and medal winners as soon as we have them.
Cycling: The men’s keirin repechage races have got underway with athletes battling for quarter-final spots.
The first repechage race has taken place and it sees Japan’s Kaiya Ota and New Zealand’s Sam Dakin through.
Men’s high jump: Tamberi has cleared 2.22 on his third attempt and he celebrates wildly.
Only South Africa’s Brian Raats has been knocked out so far in the final.
Elgendy wins men’s pentathlon gold
Egypt’s Ahmed Elgendy has won the men’s pentathlon gold. He also finishes off in style by coming first in the final event of laser run.
Elgendy recorded a time of 10:02:07 in the final event.
Silver goes to Japan’s Taishu Sato and bronze to Italy’s Giorgio Malan.
Men’s high jump: Italy’s Tamberi, who looks in pain, takes his first jump at 2.22 but he doesn’t clear it. Six other athletes have cleared the height so far.
Wanyonyi win’s men’s 800m gold
Kenya’s Emmanuel Wanyonyi with a blistering run. 1:41:49, huge.
The field were hard to split around the first bend and now the tactics come into play.
Emmanuel Wanyonyi led after the first 400m and he just kept going and no one could stop him. Wow, what a run.
Silver goes to Canada’s Marco Arop and Bronze to Algeria’s Djamel Sedjati.
Women’s volleyball: Brazil have won the bronze medal after beating Turkey 25-21, 27-25, 22-25, 25-15.
It was a close battle with the bronze medal final going to a fourth set but the Brazil team saw it out for the win.
Men’s 800m: It is set to be a fast pace of medals on track tonight and first up is the men’s 800m. The athletes are just coming out onto track so stay tuned for a medal update.
Men’s high jump: The final of the event has just got underway and there is confirmation Gianmarco Tamberi, who won joint gold in Tokyo, will take part despite being in hospital earlier today.
US win women’s football gold
A year on from crashing out of the World Cup in the last 16, the USWNT have won gold at the Olympics.
Former Chelsea boss Emma Hayes’ team beat Brazil 1-0 in the final. Mallory Swanson scored in her 100th cap to seal the gold.
Brazil will take silver and legend of the game Marta bows out with some silverware. Germany took the bronze with a win over Spain yesterday.
Modern pentathlon: Team GB’s Joseph Choong came first in the 200m freestyle swimming with a time of 1:57:52 but overall he is down in 14th. The top three heading into the final event are Egypt’s Ahmed Elgendy, Switzerland’s Alexandre Dallenbach and Korea’s Woongtae Jun
Thank you Adam! Are you strapped in for a bonkers evening full of medals? I am! First up I’ll bring you an update from the modern pentathlon and then the women’s football final. The football in the closing stages now.
Adam Collins
And with that, it’s time for me to pass the baton. Thanks for your company over the last five hours – must’ve been about a dozen gold medals decided in that window of time; what a joy. Over to Sarah Rendell. Bye!
Portugal win the Men’s Madison gold!
Bonkers! It does come down to the final sprint and it’s enough to get them the medal that matters most. They put the afterburners on in the final 30 laps, winning the final few sprints, getting the 20 points for the extra lap, hitting the lead then holding their nerve. What a victory! The winning riders are sat on the track in exhaustion, they cannot believe it. The Danes (bronze) and Italians are consoling each other, the latter crashing in the final few minutes at the worst time – it’s silver for them. It’s Portugal’s first gold medal of Paris 2024 and what a way to do it. Scenes.
Cycling: Portugal 45, Italy 43, Denmark 41 – they’re our leaders. Four points with up to ten on offer in the final sprint – the gold is going to come down to that sprint. Four laps to go. What a Madison final this has been.
Cycling: Spain are out – they have been pulled by the medical staff, saying it is a head injury. More relevant to the medal standings, Portugal has taken a lap! Add 20 points! They are in the mix here… they are in gold medal position! One sprint to go with double points on offer, 8 laps left.
Cycling: 17 sprints down in the Madison and the scorecard reads as it did before – Italy still lead Denmark by five points, with the Czechs in third. Oohh! A crash for the Italians in a handover! One of their pair has hit the deck, which is fine – as long as they have one rider going. But it does mean they have missed the latest sprint, won by Portugal. The Spanish rider who fell off a few laps ago is kicking off now with the officials. All happening!
Cycling: Back to the men’s Madison – 40 laps to go, riders everywhere. We’ve had 16 of the 20 sprints. In addition to that, teams banking 20 points apiece for lapping the pack are Italy, Denmark, Czechia and Japan – sure enough, they are our top four. In the hunt for gold, Italy (43) are ahead of Denmark by five points, which is what a single sprint is worth. This will surely result in a bonkers finish. Oh, and the final sprint counts double!
