Irish in action at the Olympics today:
- Leona Maguire (Golf). Finished 59th.
- Stephanie Meadow (Golf). Finished 39th.
- 8.14pm – Women’s 4x400m Relay (Sophie Becker, Rhasidat Adeleke, Phil Healy, Sharlene Mawdsley)
Leg 4: Gold for America. Mawdsley fights for it but Bol is too strong in the final 50 metres. Netherlands 2nd, Britain 3rd.
Ireland finish 4th! So close! Irish record
Leg 3: Phil Healy is holding on well and gives it to Mawdsley on the final leg but has Britain and Netherlands on them.
Leg 2: Adeleke is flying it and moves into second place! Adeleke doing everything she can. Brilliant run as America lead by miles.
Leg 1: Williams with a strong start for Jamaica, Shamier Little for USA too and Klaver for Netherlands.
Some big guns in for other teams as well as Adeleke for Ireland. Bol for Netherlands, McLaughlin-Lavrone for USA, Amber Anning for Britain.
Ireland’s 4x400 women’s relay coming up next! Ireland’s team of Sophie Becker, Rhasidat Adeleke, Phil Healy, Sharlene Mawdsley. They won silver in the European Championships in 3:22.71 behind Netherlands. Netherlands in the field here, with USA heavy favourites.
Lane 2: Canada
Lane 3: Belgium
Lane 4: Ireland
Lane 5: Netherlands
Lane 6: United States
Lane 7: Britain
Lane 8: Jamaica
Lane 9: France
Men’s 4x400m relay: Thrilling race! 200m Tebogo nearly took it for Botswana, never won a medal before this Olympics. USA win as Rai Benjamin holds off the Botswanian for an Olympic record time of 2.54.43. USA gold, Botswana silver and Britain bronze.
High jump: Great day for New Zealand as Hamish Kerr takes gold in the jump-off. Kerr gold, McEwen silver, Barshim bronze.
Women’s javelin: Japan’s Haruka Kitaguchi has won the gold with a throw of 65.80m
Men’s high jump: A jump off between New Zealand’s Hamish Kerr and USA’s Shelby McEwen after they both jumped 2.36 metres.
Up next on the track is 4x400m men’s. Then the women’s and Ireland’s big hope.
Women’s 1500m: Faith Kipyegon wins gold for Kenya, no surprises there! But a third gold in a row is quite the achievement. Great runs by Australia’s Jessica Hull for silver and Britain’s Georgia Bell for bronze. Kipyegon breaks the Olympic record with 3.51.29. Very fast race. Left to wonder how Ciara Mageean would have done after beating Bell in the Europeans, but Bell broke the British record and Mageean would have had to significantly beat her personal best to medal there.
Men’s 5000m: Gold for Ingebrigtsen, three Ethiopians went early but ran out of steam and the Norwegian wins by a large distance. He gets his gold after the disappointment of the 1500m missing a medal. Kenya’s Ronald Kwemoi gets silver and USA’s Grant Fisher gets bronze. Winning time of 13.13.66. Race set up perfectly for the Norwegian as nobody made a move and Ingebrigtsen with the 1500m experience was simply too good.
Men’s 5000m: Ethiopia’s Yihune leads and Ingebrigtsen in fifth is just waiting to kick with four laps to go.
Men’s 5000m: Four minutes gone in that one, Ingebrigtsen not going to the front here, just staying in the pack. Gianmarco Tamberi, the defending champion, is out of the high jump meanwhile.
Women’s 100m hurdles: Tight finish, close for France but the home nation takes a medal. USA’s Masai Russell wins gold with 12.33, Cyréna Samba-Mayela wins silver with 12.34, Jasmine Camacho-Quinn with 12.36.
Men’s 800m final: What a start to the night! Thrilling finish and fast race, only a second off the world record. Gold for Kenya, Emmanuel Wanyonyi just holds off a fast-finishing Marco Arop from Canada. Algeria’s Djamel Sedjati gets the bronze. Wanyomi runs 1.41.19. Only the great David Rudisha’s 1.40.91 and Wilson Kipketer are faster all-time.
Some Olympics news from earlier:
- Daniel Wiffen and Mona McSharry have been selected as Ireland flagbearers for Olympics closing ceremony
- Lydia Ko wins the Olympics golf gold as Leona Maguire reveals illness
- Ethiopia’s Tamirat Tola wins Olympics marathon as Kipchoge fails to finish
Hello and welcome to live coverage of the final night of sporting action in the Olympics on the track, and Ireland have one more shout of a medal, in the women’s 4x400m relay. The team confidently qualified for the final without star sprinter Rhasidat Adeleke, but the Tallaght woman is back for the final to join Sophie Becker, Phil Healy and Sharlene Mawdsley. USA are likely to win gold but after that it’s all to play for with Britain and Netherlands among the main other competitors.
There are also several other finals on the track and field at the Stade de France - the men’s high jump, men’s 800m, the women’s javelin, the women’s 100m hurdles, the men’s 5000m, the men’s 4x400m relay and the women’s 1500m final. Unfortunately Ciara Mageean isn’t in that one after injury but it promises to be a great night of athletics, with Jakob Ingebrigtsen running in the 5000m final.
There is also one of the most anticipated team events of the Olympics, the men’s basketball final with USA’s dream team of LeBron James, Steph Curry, Kevin Durant et al against home nation France led by young star Victor Wembanyama. That starts at 8.30pm after the athletics. We also have the women’s soccer final between Brazil and USA.
