Britain's Badminton campaign ended with Susan Egelstaff
losing her final match to Japan's Sayaka Sato 18-21 21-16 21-12. British number one
Rajiv Ouseph also ended with a loss of 2-1
to Kevin Cordon of Guatemala.
Chris Adcock and Imogen Bankier completed the trio of losses by losing 2-0 to Chinese pair Zhang Nan and Zhao Yunlei.
Another medal favourite bowed out for GB, this time it was David Florence in the Canoe Slalom semi final after a collison with gate 18 which hampered his finishing time and placed him sixth.
After yesterdays fourth place in the Men's Diving, Tonia Couch and Sarah Barrow came close to a medal but had to settle for fifth place.
The success of the day came in the Equestrian Team event as GB notched a Silver after Tina Cook's clear in the showjumping sealed the medal for her and fellow eventers, Willam Fox-Pitt, Zara Phillips, Nicola Wilson and six time Olympian Mary King. However, in the Individual eventing none of the five received a medal with King 5th, Cook 6th and Zara Phillips 8th.
More success in the Women's football as GB beat Brazil 1-0 meaning they ended the group with a 100% record of three wins and without conceding a goal, they go on to face Canada in the quarter-finals.
Over in the Gymnastics, The women's team finished sixth with the gold going to USA with hopes moving on to the singles events later in the week.
Another night in the pool saw the GB men finish sixth in the 4x200m freestyle relay with Caitlin McClatchley finishing seventh in her 200m freestyle final and Hannah Miley also finishing seventh in the 200m IM final.
Wimbledon saw Andy Murray progress to meet Marcos Baghdatis (Cyp) after defeating Jarkko Nieminen (Fin) 6-2 6-4. GB's women suffered losses but to higher seeded players with Heather Watson losing to Maria Kirilenko 6-3 6-2 and Laura Robson taking Maria Sharapova all the way in the first set but narrowly losing 7-6 (7-5) and close in the final set but lost 6-3.
Chris Adcock and Imogen Bankier completed the trio of losses by losing 2-0 to Chinese pair Zhang Nan and Zhao Yunlei.
Another medal favourite bowed out for GB, this time it was David Florence in the Canoe Slalom semi final after a collison with gate 18 which hampered his finishing time and placed him sixth.
After yesterdays fourth place in the Men's Diving, Tonia Couch and Sarah Barrow came close to a medal but had to settle for fifth place.
The success of the day came in the Equestrian Team event as GB notched a Silver after Tina Cook's clear in the showjumping sealed the medal for her and fellow eventers, Willam Fox-Pitt, Zara Phillips, Nicola Wilson and six time Olympian Mary King. However, in the Individual eventing none of the five received a medal with King 5th, Cook 6th and Zara Phillips 8th.
More success in the Women's football as GB beat Brazil 1-0 meaning they ended the group with a 100% record of three wins and without conceding a goal, they go on to face Canada in the quarter-finals.
Over in the Gymnastics, The women's team finished sixth with the gold going to USA with hopes moving on to the singles events later in the week.
Another night in the pool saw the GB men finish sixth in the 4x200m freestyle relay with Caitlin McClatchley finishing seventh in her 200m freestyle final and Hannah Miley also finishing seventh in the 200m IM final.
Wimbledon saw Andy Murray progress to meet Marcos Baghdatis (Cyp) after defeating Jarkko Nieminen (Fin) 6-2 6-4. GB's women suffered losses but to higher seeded players with Heather Watson losing to Maria Kirilenko 6-3 6-2 and Laura Robson taking Maria Sharapova all the way in the first set but narrowly losing 7-6 (7-5) and close in the final set but lost 6-3.
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