Live: Team Ireland at Paris Olympics - Day 8 updates
REWARD: Rhys McClenaghan celebrates with his coach Luke Carson after the men's pommel fina.Picture: Stephen McCarthy/Sportsfile
Kellie Harrington wins by split decision! She is now one victory away from become a two-time Olympic champion. Her third round against Ferreira was superb. She will fight in the final against China's Yang Wenlu on Tuesday at Roland Garros.
Ferreira takes the second 3-2. It's tight going into the final round.
: Kellie Harrington leads 4-1 after the first round.
Coming up shortly reigning Olympic champion Kellie Harrington faces Beatriz Ferreira in the 60kg semi-final.
“I did what I could and played my cards the best way I knew how to, which gave me the best opportunity of trying to go for a medal.
"I’m super proud of the performance and the team. I’ve got to be happy with that. Maybe if I had a little more in the tank I could’ve been super close to a medal but top ten is something to be proud of.”
“That was the goal of my championships, every round was an Olympic final to me,” he said. “I treated it like any race and raced the way I’ve done all season. Yesterday was an off day, a bit of nerves and inexperience at this level. I was so much more relaxed today. I felt great the whole way. I’m absolutely buzzing with that.”
Next up for the Irish will be Kellie Harrington. She will take on Brazil's Beatriz Ferreira in the semi-final of the Women's 60kg. The bout is due to take place at 9.08pm Irish time.
Listen to Brendan O'Brien and Maurice Brosnan as they ahead to tonight's fight.
Disappointment for Andrew Coscoran as he fails to make it through to the semi-final as he finishes 12th in the second heat of the 1500m repechage in a time of 3:39.45.
Cathal Doyle has won the first heat of the 1500m repechage in a time of 3:34.93 just outside his personal best of 3:34.09. He will now go into the semi-final. Luke McCann finished in seventh place in a time of 3:36.50.
Up next for the Irish is the 1500m repechage which will see with Luke McCann and Cathal Doyle going in Heat 1 and Andrew Coscoran going in Heat 2. The first three in each repechage heat will advance into the semi-final. Heats will kick off at 6.15pm.
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"It feels like a dream but it’s a dream well earned. I just can't believe it happened on this day. I always felt it was going to happen but I wasn’t sure when" Olympic gold medallist Rhys tells RTÉ.
"Listen everyone at home see this as an example of find a dream that you love, chase it and enjoy that journey because I could tell you if I fell on my bum today I still would have loved this journey every second of it but I didn’t and today I am walking away with an Olympic medal."
“After the routine I was happy – I wasn’t thinking about medals. When the score came up I was proud of that score because it was mine and I wasn’t thinking of the podium at all I was just thinking I’ve done my job and I feel like that’s where the main emotions came from today.”
"I knew that this would also be the toughest Pommel Horse final of all time, and it was so to come out on top is incredible.”
"Rhys has been working for this moment since he was eight," the Irish gold medallist's mother Tracy tells RTÉ.
The 25-year-old from County Down scored 15.533 to take the gold. Kazakhstan's Nariman Kurbanov took the silver with 15.433 while America's Stephen Nedoroscik claimed bronze with 15.300.
Read more from Brendan O'Brien at the Bercy Arena.
: Rhys still leads as Stephen Nedoroscik scores 15.300 to move into third.
Rhys McClenaghan leads! He overtakes Nariman Kurbanov's 15.433 with a score of 15.533. There are four gymnasts to go in the pommel horse final.
Rhy McClenaghan is up next.
Reigning champion Max Whitlock scores 15.200 in the pommel horse final. It leaves him in second.
The pommel horse final is underway. Rhys McClenaghan goes fourth.
“I think the one thing that we've been taken aback by is just how many people are out there,” McIlroy said after his third round at Le Golf National, which leaves him in contention for a medal heading into Sunday's final round.
“I think that was the thing that I've been surprised by. Actually my first one was Tokyo.
“Especially the contrast of having no-one here on the practise days, and then getting here and having 20,000 people, it's really cool. I think that's been the big talking point, just how great the support has been for us out here.
“I think I was in a certain mindset going into Tokyo and I left with a different mindset, just like I've done a lot of times in my career because I'm ignorant and naïve and don't give things much thought. But once you experience things you start to see what the hype is about.”
Belgium's Remco Evenepoel takes gold in the road race. Valentin Madouas and Christophe Laporte, both of France, take the silver and bronze respectively. Despite a valiant effort, there was no medal for Ireland's Ben Healy who finished tenth.
9km to go and Ben Healy is still in contention for a medal in the men's road race.
“But you're still, as a pro golfer, you still have a lot of pride in what you do, and even I'm going out there this morning… I'm pretty much out of it, unless I shoot eight-, nine-under today. And I had a chance to do that at certain stages of the round. I had it going.
“Yeah, it is a lot different because you know on a different week if you just make the cut, if I can finish top ten, there's plenty of FedExCup points available and all else goes with it. Yeah, it is different. It is certainly different, yeah.”
Read more from Shane Lowry following his third round at Le Golf National.
With 22km to cycle, Ben Healy is in a three-rider chasing gropup behind the two leaders.
Ben Healy is on his own in third with 25km to go. Belgium's Remco Evenepoel and France's Valentin Madouas lead.
Ben Healy has been caught by the chasing group in the road race but he's not out of medal contention yet. There are 28km to cycle and he's among the leaders.
Rory McIlroy finished 5-under for the third round at Le Golf National, leaving him on 10-under for the tournament. He's currently in seventh, four shots behind leader Xander Schauffele.
Ireland's Ben Healy is the solo leader in the men's road race with 36km to go. He has a lead of around 30 seconds right now.
"No matter what happens today, we should see greatness in action." Brendan O'Brien and Maurice Brosnan are at the Bercy Arena in Paris to watch Ireland's Rhys McClenaghan go for gold in the pommel horse.
In the Women's Dinghy Eve McMahon finished 22nd in race four of her fleet series and 34th in race five which will probably be the score she discards. The Olympic debutant will go in her sixth race later today.
Finn Lynch placed 12th in the Men's Dinghy improving to seventh in race six to end the day in 15th overall.
Shane Lowry has found his groove and has finished on five under for his third round. The Offaly man has hit eight birdies and three bogeys for his round and sits seven shots off the leader Great Britain's Tommy Fleetwood. Lowry was on six under going into the 18 but dropped a shot with a bogey. He is currently tied for 24 overall.
Rory McIlroy is three shots of the lead currently on nine under, hitting four under for his round today through 12.
Mona McSharry has casts doubts over her future as the Sligo woman said in an interview with RTÉ that this will 'most likely' be her last Olympics. Speaking with her teammates after breaking the Irish record in the 4x100m Medley relay McSharry was asked about the highs of winning bronze and she said "Its been unbelievable, i couldnt have asked for anything better and I think with all the training, the dreams, knowing that this is most likely my last Olympics so I am really happy to come away with a medal".
Her team mates on chorus said that she will be there with them for LA in 2028 to which McSharry replied "I will be excited to go to LA and watch these ladies."
Daniel Wiffin spoke to RTÉ after he eased into the Men's 1500m Freestyle final. Wiffen was surprised when he saw his time as he felt that he was slower. "To be honest at the start I still think I got a bit of fatigue from the 800 but at the end there I was flying and I felt really slow.
"I mean I thought I was about five seconds slower than that on the overall time to look up there and see 14:40 is like a top five time for me its pretty special."
When asked if Paltrinieri was his main threat Wiffen said "I am not going to lie he holds a good pace and I was just like I will stay with him and then when I get a bit bored I will go a bit faster."
Ireland Women's Medley relay team have matched their male counterparts in the 4x100m Medley Relay by setting a new Irish record of 4:00.12 and finishing in six place.
Danille Hill got the Irish of to a good start and was in third place after 50m but fell back to fifth when she handed over to Olympic Bronze medalist Mona McSharry for her Breaststroke leg. McSharry stormed through her leg and at the 50m mark had Ireland back up to third and remained there when she handed over to Ellen Walshe.
Walshe had a good leg in her Butterfly and handed the baton to 16-year-old Grace Davison who brought Ireland home in seventh place.
However, Ireland were upgraded to sixth place after Italy were disqualified. The Irish quartet finished 11th overall.
Ireland finished sixth in their 4x100m Medley Relay in a new Irish record of 3:33.81. Conor Ferguson, in his first Olympic Games, started the relay off for the Irish with the Backstroke. Up next was Daragh Greene with the breaststroke with both hitting the wall in eighth place. Max McCusker got the Irish up to seventh spot on his Butterfly leg with Shane Ryan finishing strongly in the Freestyle with a time of 47.2.
The Irish finished in seventh but were moved up a place after Spain were disqualified. However it was not enough to make it into the final.
Daniel Wiffen remains very much on course for a second Olympic medal after putting in a statement swim in qualifying for the final of the men’s 1500m freestyle at the Paris La Defense Arena on Saturday morning.
The Armagh man had 1.5 metres to spare with 600m to go, led by over 5 metres at one point, and still had four by the time he touched the wall in a time of 14:40.36. As with the 800, Wiffen posted the fastest time and claims the key lane four for the final.
A hugely impressive swim and still one almost six seconds off his national record. Brendan O'Brien
10.45am: Golf
Rory McIlory starts his third round at Le Golf National. He starts the round tied in 13 on five under.
Shane Lowry is still on two under through seven. He shot a bogey on the fifth but got back on track with a birdie on the sixth.
Danielle Hill finished eighth in her 50m Freestyle heat in a time of 25.02 outside her Irish record of 24.68. Hill went in Heat 8 and finished in 21st overall with the top 16 going through to the semi-final. She will be in the water again later on this morning in the 4x100 Medley Relay at 11.52am.
Ben Healy and Ryan Mullen go in the Men's Road race. The race is 273km long which starts and ends at the Trocadero with riders going into the challenging terrain of the Chevreuse Valley before returning to do laps of Montmarte including a cobbled climb. The time trial course is a flat 32.4km that starts at Esplande des Invalides and concludes on the Port Alexandre III bridge.
Shane Lowry is off to a flying start to his third round with two birdies in his first three holes which sees him two under.
Shane Lowry takes to the course at Le Golf National for his third round. Currently sitting tied in 43 on level par, Lowry will be going into the weekend hoping to improve on his par score for his first two rounds.
: Golf, Men’s Individual, Round 3, Shane Lowry
: Cycling Road, Men’s Road Race, Ben Healy, Ryan Mullins
: Swimming, Women’s 50m Freestyle heats, Danielle Hill, heat 8/10
: Golf, Men’s Individual, Round 3, Rory McIlroy
Swimming, Men’s 1500m Freestyle heats, Daniel Wiffen, heat 3/4
: Sailing, Men’s Dinghy, Race 5, Finn Lynch
: Swimming, Men’s 4x100m Medley relay, heat 2/2
: Swimming, Women’s 4x100m Medley relay, heat 2/2 1
Sailing, Men’s Dinghy, Race 6, Finn Lynch
: Sailing, Women’s Dinghy, Race 5, Eve McMahon
: Sailing, Women’s Dinghy, Race 6, Eve Mc Mahon
: Women’s Kayak Cross Round 1, Madison Corcoran
: Men’s Kayak Cross Round 1, Noel Hendrick, Liam Jegou
: Artistic Gymnastics, Men’s Pommel Horse FINAL, Rhys McClenaghan
: Women’s Kayak Cross Repechage, Madison Corcoran
: Men’s Kayak Cross Repechage, Noel Hendrick, Liam Jegou
: Athletics, Men’s 1500m, Luke McCann, Cathal Doyle, repechage – heat 1
: Athletics, Men’s 1500m, Andrew Coscoran, repechage – heat 2
: Athletics, Shot Put, Final, Eric Favors *
: Swimming, Women’s 50m Freestyle semi-finals, Danielle Hill *
: Swimming, Women’s 200m IM final, Ellen Walshe *
: Athletics, 4x400m Mixed Relay, final *dependant on progression
: Swimming, Women’s 200m IM, final, Ellen Walshe *
: Boxing, Women’s 60kg Lightweight, Kellie Harrington V Beatriz Ferreira (BRA)
*dependant on progression
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