Tuesday, 7 August 2012

London 2012 Day 11 Part 1

In the Velodrome, Sir Chris Hoy seals a place in the semi finals of the Men's Keirin ahead of New Zealander Simon van Velthooven.

Success in the Athletics as Lawrence Clarke reaches the 110m Hurdles semis with second place in his heat while Andy Turner wins his heat and also reaches the semis.

Goldie Sayers bows out of the Javelin competition after three successive no throws, Phillips Idowu's Olympics lasted less than an hour after failing to reach the Triple Jump final by finishing 14th in qualifying which was a bit of a shame after the weeks of controversy surrounding his fitness.

Julia Bleasdale safely qualifies for the final of the women's 5,000m with a new PB of 15.02.00 and she is joined by Jo Pavey who finishes with a time of 15.02.84 but fellow Brit Barbara Parker fails to qualify coing in in 15.12.81.

In the 200m, Christian Malcolm reaches the semi-finals by finishing 2nd in his heat with James Ellington finishing sixth in his heat and missing out on the final which features medal favourite Usain Bolt who cantered home in the heats in just over 20 seconds.


Over at Eton Dorney, Rachel Cawthorn qualifies for Friday's final of the women's kayak single 500m by finishing second in the semis while Abi Edmonds and Louisa Sawers qualify for Friday's B-final of the women's kayak double 500m.

Silver for Nick Dempsey in the Windsurfing RS:X class takes GB up to 41 medals so far but the count soon rose in the Triathlon as the Brownlee brothers, Alistair and Jonny seal gold and bronze despite Jonny suffering a 15 second penalty for mounting his bike wrongly and the pair sandwiched Javier Gomez of Spain who took the silver. The gold equalled GB's haul of wins from Beijing with five days of eventing still to take place including many medal favourites from GB.




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