Olympics 2024: Britain's Toby Roberts wins climbing gold; Katarina Johnson-Thompson takes on Napi Thiam | Olympic News

Teenage sport climber Toby Roberts has won the men's bouldering and lead event to claim Britain's 14th gold medal at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.

The 19-year-old Roberts earned 155.2 points to edge out Japan's favorite Sorato Anraku, but Anraku lost the lead and fell, leaving Roberts needing just 86 points more to claim silver.

Austria's Jakob Schubert took bronze, while another Briton, Hamish McArthur, came fifth.

Roberts' determination earned him the nickname 'The Terminator'. BBC: “I was speechless. It was amazing to find out at that moment that I had won the gold medal.

“I've been training for this moment my whole life and I just got it. To say it doesn't feel real yet is an understatement.

“I don't know what to think about it now, but I imagine it's going to be a flood of emotions later on. It's basically a goal I've been training for for 10 years. I just can't express it in words.”

Roberts later added: “It was a real shock to find out I had won an Olympic gold medal. It was a rush of adrenaline and emotion and euphoria.

“I hope this will make climbing bigger and bigger. The sport is growing in the UK with climbing gyms opening up and it’s great to see climbing on such a big stage.”

British woman Madison's shining silver medal

Great Britain's Eleanor Barker and Nia Evans compete in the women's madison final at the Velodrome National de Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines in France on day 14 of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. Photo date: Friday, August 9, 2024.
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Elinor Barker and Neah Evans won Olympic silver medals in the Madison women's event.

Eleanor Barker and Nia Evans She won a silver medal in the women's madison event.

A late charge from Barker saw Britain win the last of 12 sprints in the 120-lap race, beating the Netherlands as Italy's Chiara Consoni and Vittoria Guazzini took gold.

Italy finished the tournament with 37 points, England with 31 and the Netherlands with 28.

KJT, Olympic gold medal possibility still remains

Katarina Johnson-Thompson has lost the heptathlon to Nafissatou Thiam ahead of the 800m final at the Stade de France (7.25pm ​​BST).

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Sky Sports' Miriam Walker-Khan explains what Katarina Johnson-Thompson needs to do to win Olympic gold in the heptathlon.

The reigning world champion took the gold medal from day two and maintained it with a jump of 6.40m in the long jump.

However, Johnson-Thompson was outclassed in the javelin by two-time Olympic champion Thiam, who threw 54.04m to Johnson-Thompson's 45.49m.

The Briton is currently 121 points behind Thiam and needs to be around eight seconds ahead of his rival to win gold in Paris.

Johnson-Thompson's 800m best is 2:05.63, more than six seconds faster than Thiam's 2:11.79.

Harper misses diving medal, but China wins gold again

China won its seventh gold medal in seven diving events in Paris as Britain's Yasmin Harper finished fifth and Britain's Grace Reid 10th in the women's 3m springboard.

On the opening day of the competition, Chen Yiyuan, who won the 3m synchronized swimming title with Chang Yani, recorded 376.00 points to win the title, beating Australia's Madison Kinney (343.10) and Australia's Chang (318.75).

Harper (305.10) failed to add to her bronze medal win with Scarlett Mu Jensen in the 3m synchronized swimming event.

In addition, Britain's Hector Pardo finished sixth in the men's 10km open water swim, beating France's Marc-Antoine Olivier in the photo final, while Ireland's Daniel Whippen, who won 800m freestyle gold and 1500m bronze in the pool, finished 18th in his open water debut.

Hungary's Kristof Rasowski won gold in the open water event in 1 hour, 50 minutes, 52 seconds, 2.1 seconds ahead of Germany's Oliver Klemett, while Rasowski's teammate David Bethlehem took bronze.

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