London 2012 Day 7 Part 2

The medals continued as Team GB beat their own world record as they defended their men's Olympic pursuit title to win yet another cycling gold and this was soon added to by Victoria Pendleton who won second Olympic gold medal as she captured victory in the women's keirin.

Rebecca Adlington sealed silver after her and fellow favourite Lotte Friis were blown away by 15 year old American Katie Ledecky in the Women's 800m freestyle with Belmonte Garcia sealing silver.

After last month's Wimbledon final loss to Roger Federer not many would have predicted that Andy Murray would have the chance to redeem himself in a repeat but today he achieved that chance by shocking World number one Novak Djokovic (Srb) in straight sets 7-5 7-5 to set up a chance for Olympic gold vs Federer. However, Murray could be Olympic champion before having won Wimbledon itself which would eradicate the defeat at SW19 and even spur him on for next year but a silver as a minimum is a massive accolade for him.

Over in the Heptathlon, favourite Jess Ennis lead into day two after mixed results after her blistering 100m Hurdles win in the High Jump, Shot Put and 200m.

London 2012 Day 7 Part 1

A great morning for Great Britain at Eton Dorney as George Nash and William Satch secured a bronze in the Men's Pair followed by Katherine Grainger and Anna Watkins cruising to gold in the Women's double sculls and the morning ended with Alan Campbell clinching bronze in the Men's single sculls after a very energy sapping race.

Jess Ennis got her heptathlon gold chase off to an amazing start as she blitzed home in the 100m Hurdles in 12.54 seconds and sets a new British record and the fastest time by a Heptathlete and Dai Green reached the 400m hurdles semi-finals in 48.98 to win his heat.


Karina Bryant loses her Judo semi to her Japanese opponent but claims a bronze medal after winning the bronze mdal match against Ukrainian Iryna Kindzerska to double the target for Judo medals for GB and puts GB on 19 medals and still in 4th on the medal table.

London 2012 Day 6 Part 2

GB's afternoon is going great as Gemma Gibbons reaches the final in the Judo and wins a silver with USA taking the gold.

Tim Baillie and Etienne Stott seal gold in the Men's Canoe double with the gold rush continuing with Peter Wilson with gold in the Double trap shooting.

David Florence an Richard Hounslow seal silver in the Canoe double.

GB's team sprint cyclists set a new WR only to have it beaten by China but still qualify second quickest for the next round but were disqualified for changing over in the wrong part of the track.

The Men's pursuit team break the WR with a new time of 3.52.499 to qualify for tomorrow's next round.

Gold for the Men's Team Sprint with an WR of 42.6 secs with Sir Chris Hoy winning his 5th Olympic gold.

London 2012 Day 6 Part 1

At Eton Dorney, the Men's four reached the final by winning their semi ahead of Australia and the Women's Lightweight double sculls also won their semi with Sophie Hosking and Katherine Copeland beating Greece by three seconds. Hunter & Purchase also reach their final by winning their Men's Lightweight double sculls semi ahead of France.

Over in the pool and in heat 1 of the Women's 800m freestyle, Ellie Faulkner finished sixth in her heat to miss out on the final but fellow Brit Rebecca Adlington stormed home in the third heat to go into the final as fastest ahead of Dane Lottie Friis who had won heat 2.

Missy Franklin won the last heat of the Women's 200m Backstroke, with Stephanie Proud of Great Britain fourth in 2:10.01.This meant that proud will be joined by Lizzie Simmonds in the semi finals after she came home fourth in her heat. 

In the final of the Men's double sculls New Zealand took the win ahead of Italy and Slovenia with Britain in fifth, Silver for GB in the Men's lightweight four as South Africa took the gold woth Denmark third.

London 2012 Day 5 Part 2

Golden success for GB continued as Bradley Wiggins stormed home 42 seconds ahead of German Tony Martin to secure his place as Britain's Best Olympian (in terms of medals) now with four golds two silvers and a bronze and cap off two great months after his Tour De France victory. Chris Froome secured a bronze to add to his second place in Le Tour.

GB's boxers Luke Campbell (bantanweight) advanced to the quarter final after an 11-9 victory over Italian Jahyn Vittorio Parrinello and Anthony Joshua defeated Erislandy Savon of Cuba 17-16 in the men's super heavyweight.

GB's football team advanced to a tie with South Korea after beating Uruguay 1-0 thanks to a Daniel Sturridge goal. In the All-Round Gymnastics, mistakes cost GB pair Kristian Thomas and Dan Purvis the chance of fighting for a medal as they finished 7th and 12th respectively.

After a great morning at Eton Downey, the succes continued with Charles Cousins, Stephen Rowbotham, Tom Solesbury and Matthew Wells finishing third in their semi-final to advance to the final with the Men's Pair winning their semi to reach Friday's final.

Andy Murray's chase for gold continued despite dropping the first set to advance to the quarter finals after defeating Marcos Baghdatis 4-6 6-1 6-4 .

Another night in the pool came with mixed results, Michael Jamieson came close to gold and was only beaten by a WR swim by Gyurta to secure silver bu Andrew Willis finished in eighth.


Caitlin McClatchey, Rebecca Turner, Hannah Miley and Joanne Jackson finished fifth in the women's 4x200m freestyle relay with the gold going to Team USA with a new OR.

James Goddard and Joe Roebuck both advanced to the semis of the 200m IM with successes in the heats and Southport's Fran Halsall finished fourth in her 100m freestyle semi to advance to the final but sadly Amy Smith missed out.

Jemma Lowe finishes 6th in the women's 200m butterfly final with James Goddard adding to his earlier success with a third place in the 200m IM semi behind American's Ryan Lochte and Michael Phelps to reach the final but in the other semi Joe Roebuck came in seventh and missed out on the final.

London 2012 Day 5

Day 5 got off to a great start with swimmers Fran Halsall and Amy Smith both qualifying for the semis of the 100m freestyle and both in with a shout of a medal.

Over at Lords they saw a shock as GB's Amy Oliver beat the World Champion Deepika Kumar (Ind) 6-2 but sadly lost in the last 32 by a socre of 7-1 to Ika Yuliana Rochmawati of Indonesia.

Gold for Great Britain in the Rowing as Helen Glover and Helen Stanning cruise home in 7.27.13 to win the Women's Pair and win GB's first gold of 2012 and the first Women's Rowing gold in Olympic history for GB which was very well deserved ahead of Australia and New Zealand.

The Women's Quad went next but in a field with massive Olympic experience they faltered and came in sixth with Ukraine taking the gold followed by Germany in second and USA in third.

Back in the medals for the Men's Eight after an amazing race in which they led for a period they secured a bronze with Germany and Canada taking gold and silver near the end.

London 2012 Part 2

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.