Summary:
- Team GB won bronze in a photo-finish triathlon mixed relay despite final standings showing them in second position on Monday.
- Amber Rutter won silver in a controversial women’s skeet final on Sunday.
- Tommy Fleetwood won silver in the men’s golf final while Harry Hepworth brought home bronze in the men’s vault on Day 9, carrying the toll to 38.
Team Great Britain is currently ranked fifth in Paris, with 38 medals including 10 gold, 12 silver, and 15 bronze.
The freshest bronze medal was won on Monday in the triathlon mixed relay. The initial final standings showed the Brits in second position, but the dramatic photo-finish eventually swapped their silver with bronze.
The controversial medal was added to Team GB’s other 37 medals, including two silver and the bronze grabbed on Sunday, Day 9 of the Paris Olympics.
The nation is currently ranked fifth, behind Australia with 31 medals, France with 44, China with 45, and the US with 72.
Controversial Triathlon Mixed Relay Event
The event went ahead on Day 10 of the Olympics despite reports speaking about several athletes falling ill.
The action kicked off with Team GB (Alex Yee, Georgia Taylor-Brown, Samuel Dickinson and Beth Potter) losing its title to Germany following a dramatic sprint finish.
Beth Potter managed to carry a lead into the final leg. However, she was caught by Laura Lindemann from Germany and Taylor Knibb from the US.
It eventually all came down to another dramatic photo finish which showed Lindemann as the fair winner of the gold medal.
The call between Potter and Knibb was very close, and, despite the final standings originally indicating Team GB as the silver winner, the result was changed and silver was swapped with bronze.
Team US grabbed silver.
Rutter Took Home Silver in Women’s Skeet Event
On Sunday, Amber Rutter finished yet another controversial event at the Paris Games with a silver medal around her neck.
The Women’s Skeet ended in quite the controversy with a sudden-death shoot-off where the 26-year-old finished tied on 55 shots from 60 targets with Francisca Crovetto Chadid from Chile.
The two were still tied after three rounds of shoot-offs. However, in a moment of contention, Rutter was called to have missed a shot.
However, the slow-motion replays indicated she did, in fact, hit, which made her contest the call.
Nonetheless, the shooting’s version of a video assistant referee was not used at the Olympics, which convinced the judges not to overturn the decision.
34-year-old Chadid struck with both her next shots and grabbed her country’s first-ever shooting gold medal.
Tommy Fleetwood claimed the silver medal in men’s golf behind Team USA’s Scottie Scheffler, after firing a final-day 66 to finish one stroke short of his rival’s 19 under-par total after the world leader tied the Le Golf National course record with a 62.
Harry Hepworth, who was diagnosed with Perthes disease when he was five, won the bronze medal in men’s vault, following a tense eight-man final on Sunday afternoon.
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