Paris 2024 Olympics day seven: GB take rowing gold, athletics, tennis and more

Over to the men’s hammer throw now and both qualification groups have finished and we now know who is progressing. Earlier we told you Canada’s Rowan Hamilton and Ukraine’s Mykhaylo are through but since then another group has gone and there are seven other athletes who have qualified.

Canada’s Ethan Katzberg threw the longest throw in that group with 79.93 to secure his spot. The USA’s Rudy Winkler, Norway’s Eivind Henriksen, Hungary’s Bence Halasz, Poland’s Pawal Fajdek, Greece’s Christos Frantzeskakis and Germany’s Merlin Hummel also progress.

A summary from those women’s 100m heats. The fastest time was posted by Marie-Josee Ta Lou-Smith with 10.87 seconds. Legend Shelly-Ann Frser-Pryce is through to the semi-finals.

For GB three athletes progress in Daryll Neita, Dina Asher-Smith and Imani Lansiquot. Neita was the fastest of the three with a time of 10.92.

The final heat of the women’s 100m has finished and there are quite a few qualifiers in a fast race. Ivory Coast’s Marie-Josee Ta Lou-Smith, Jamaica’s Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and Germany’s Gina Lueckenkemper all qualify as they finished in the top three.

Belgium’s Rani Rosius and Puerto Rico’s Gladymar Torres also progress with fast times.

Some worrying news from swimming. Slovakian Tamara Potocka is under a medical assessment after she collapsed following her 200m indidiuval medley heat. She was stretchered away with an oxygen mask, the venue’s media manager has confirmed she is under assessment and conscious.

She failed to progress to the semi-finals after finishing seventh in her heat.

Heat 7 in the women’s 100m has finished and Gambia’s Gina Mariam Bass Bittaye, Switzerland’s Mujinga Kambundji and Belgium’s Delphine Nkansa have progressed to the semis.

Nkansa equalled her personal best time of 11.20 to qualify.

Australia’s Bree Masters progressed through her heat in the women’s 100m, running alongside American star Sha’Carri Richardson. She said a note from her roommate in the village, Torrie Lewis, helped her relax. “[Lewis] was asleep this morning by the time that I left, so she left me a note and it said: ‘If I’m not awake in time, I wish you the best of luck. You’ve worked so hard to get in this individual 100 meters now go beat Sha’Carri.”

Masters didn’t beat Richardson, but her 11.26s was good enough for third place and a place in the semi-finals. Lewis – the national 100m record holder – chose not to run the event at Paris to concentrate on the 200m and 4x100m relay.

The Netherlands win women’s skiff sailing gold 🥇

Dutch pair Odile van Aanholt and Annette Duetz have won the women’s skiff gold in sailing.

Sweden’s Vilma Bobeck and Rebecca Netzler have won silver and France’s Sarah Steyaert and Charline Picon claim bronze. GB’s Freya Black and Saskia Tidey finished 16th.