Great Britain’s gold-medal tally at the Paris Olympics is up to nine after glory for rowers Emily Craig and Imogen Grant was followed by victory for Bryony Page in the women’s trampoline as well as the equestrian jumping team.

Craig and Grant dominated the women’s lightweight double sculls to win in a time of 6:47.06, over a second ahead of Romania (6:48.78) with Greece (6:49.28) in third.

The British pair are unbeaten in this event since an agonising fourth-placed finish in Tokyo three years ago when they missed out on an Olympic medal by 0.01 seconds.

Trampoline gymnast Page then landed her first Olympic gold, having taken silver in Rio de Janeiro in 2016 and bronze in Tokyo five years later, as she beat neutral athlete Viyaleta Bardzilouskaya and Canada’s Sophiane Methot with a score of 56.480.

Page’s victory was confirmed when Hu Yicheng of China, the final athlete to go, bounced off the trampoline.

Ben Maher, Scott Brash and Harry Charles then won gold in the team jumping final, recording just two time penalties – one each for Maher and Brash with Charles laying down a faultless run – to eclipse USA and France.

Maher won individual gold in Tokyo three years ago, while both he and Brash were members of the team that secured gold in 2012, as was Charles’ father Peter.

Men’s rowers take silver after being pipped by Croatia late on

Elsewhere, rowers Ollie Wynne-Griffith and Tom George had to settle for silver in the men’s pairs – taking GB’s rowing medal haul in these Games to six (two gold, two silver, two bronze).

Wynne-Griffith and George – part of the GB men’s eight that won bronze in Tokyo in 2021 – were pipped late on by Croatian brothers Valent and Martin Sinkovic having led for almost the entire race.

Team GB finished less than half a second behind Croatia’s winning time of 6:23.66 with Switzerland taking the bronze.

George said: “I don’t think I want to watch that back it was so close! We did an awesome race, exactly what we said we wanted to do and we’re proud of what we achieved. These things happen.

“We came in as favourites. All season whenever we’ve won we’ve reminded ourselves that we’re going to be hunted and we tried to go well and we did – just three strokes short. I’m proud.”

Wynne-Griffith added: “I made a mistake on the line and that’s racing for you [but] Olympic silver medallists – I’m so proud of what we did. I can’t fault the passion and grit. I’ve enjoyed the ride.”

British divers, swimmers add to haul in Paris

Divers Jack Laugher and Anthony Harding added to Team GB’s haul, taking bronze in the men’s 3m synchro. Laugher, secured the fourth Olympic diving medal of his career as his and Harding’s score of 438.15 was good enough for third, behind China (446.10) and Mexico (444.03).

Britain have now won four diving medals in Paris, with Scarlett Mew Jensen and Yasmin Harper starting the success when they took bronze in the women’s 3m synchro springboard on the opening day.

Tom Daley and Noah Williams claimed silver in the men’s 10m synchro platform, with Andrea Spendolini-Sireiex and Louis Toulson then bagging bronze in the women’s event.

Laugher said: “We’ve done fantastically, four medals from four synchro events is unreal. What we’ve achieved as a team is wonderful. That first medal set us off in good stead to continue on. We really wanted to make it four from four. We knew we could, so it is a really wonderful day and one to cherish forever.”

Later in the pool, Ben Proud claimed the one medal missing from his collection as he bagged Olympic silver in the men’s 50m freestyle final.

Proud, who has won world, European and Commonwealth titles in his decorated career, ended his wait on Friday after failing to make the podium in Tokyo and Rio – but only missed out on gold by five-hundredths of a second as Australia’s Cameron McEvoy took top spot in a time of 21.25 seconds, with France’s Florent Manaudou third.

Duncan Scott then won a silver medal in the men’s 200m individual medley, with imperious Leon Marchand winning again. Marchand is the first French athlete to take four individual golds at a single Summer Games and only the third male swimmer to do so after Americans Michael Phelps and Mark Spitz.

Scott picked up his eighth Olympic medal – moving him level with Sir Bradley Wiggins, with only Sir Jason Kenny winning more among British athletes.

Hodgkinson, Gill and Reekie all make semi-finals

Gold medal favourite Keely Hodgkinson was the fastest 800m heats finisher in the fourth of six heats at Stade De France, crossing the line in 1:59.31.

British debutant Phoebe Gill, 17, clawed her way back after dropping to fourth to secure the last of three berths available from her heat in 1:58.83, while Tokyo fourth-place finisher Jemma Reekie got the job done with a first-place finish from the opening group in 2:00.00.

Hodgkinson said: “I don’t really like heats. They’re not my favourite. I was just glad to qualify. I thought the girls really stepped up, because I was looking at their heats and I was like, ‘that’s quite tough, actually, for a heat.

“[Heats] are worse than the final, to be honest. The final you know you’re just giving everything and that’s that.

“In the heats and the rounds you have to contend with people giving it their absolute all, you’re trying to conserve energy, at the same time you don’t want to make a mistake.

“So I’m definitely glad that’s done. I’m just glad to make it through safely. The semis will be fun.”

Hodgkinson, ranked world number one at her signature distance, stormed to a surprise silver three summers ago, breaking Dame Kelly Holmes’ 26-year-old British record in the process.

She has since collected silvers at back-to-back world championships and the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, and is one of Great Britain’s best hopes for gold on the purple Paris track.

Hodgkinson did not rule out the possibility of all three British women reaching Monday evening’s final, saying: “I don’t see why not. I feel like things can happen at championships, I feel like Phoebe has done really well. She’s taking it all in her stride.”

Shriever loses crown as Whyte crashes out

Beth Shriever was unable to add to Friday’s success as she lost her women’s Olympic BMX racing crown after finishing last.

Shriever, twice crowned world champion since winning gold in Tokyo three years ago, had bossed every round in
Thursday’s qualifying and Friday’s semi-finals, but failed to recover from a poor start as Australian Saya Sakakibara triumphed.

Shriever’s disappointment came after team-mate Kye Whyte crashed out of the men’s competition in the semi-finals.

Whyte had struggled through Thursday’s qualifiers, revealing he was suffering from a back injury, and needed treatment on the track, before being taken away on a stretcher.

A statement from British Cycling later said that Whyte had suffered “no significant injuries”.

Elsewhere, windsurfer Emma Wilson was also hoping to go for gold, but her bid to become Great Britain’s first Olympic champion in her event was delayed until Saturday due to light winds in Marseille.

The 25-year-old, a bronze medallist in Tokyo, is guaranteed a medal after winning eight of the 14 qualification races and conditions are scheduled to improve on Saturday for the three-strong final.

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