Live: Ireland at the Paris Olympics, day 13 updates
Kate O’Connor of Team Ireland with her father and coach Michael O'Connor. Pic: Brendan Moran/Sportsfile
Grant Holloway (USA) claims gold in the Men's 100m Hurdles final in 12.99. USA's Daniel Roberts takes silver with Rasheed Broadbell of Jamaica taking bronze with a SB of 13.09.
Pakistan's Arshad Nadeem secured gold with his second round throw which set a new OR of 92.97. Nadeem's final throw would also have broken the previous OR of 90.57 as he hit 91.79 to wrap up his day. India's Neeraj Chopra secured silver with a SB throw of 89.45 with Grenada's Anderson Peters taking bronze.
Believe it, Nadeem.
— The Olympic Games (@Olympics) August 8, 2024
You just became Pakistan's first ever athletics Olympic champion. 🇵🇰🥹 pic.twitter.com/Xiqi2ttCsl
Last of the finals on the track this evening is the Men's 110m hurdles final which will take place at 8.45pm.
USA's Tara Davis-Woodhall took gold in the Women's Long Jump final with her fourth round jump of 7.10. Germany's Malaika Mihambo took silver with USA's Jasmine Moore securing bronze.
America's Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone smashes the world record and wins the Women's 400m hurdles final in a time of 50.37. Anna Cockrell (USA) takes silver with Femke Bol coming in third to take bronze. It's back-to-back Olympic titles for McLaughlin-Levrone.
WORLD RECORD ‼️
— World Athletics (@WorldAthletics) August 8, 2024
It's @GoSydGo's world and we're all living in it.
50.37 400m hurdles world record, double Olympic champion 🤯#Paris2024 #OlympicGames pic.twitter.com/w7STgPQH1B
Next final up on the track is the Women's 400m hurdle final which sees current World and Olympic record holder Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone of the United States going up against Femke Bol of the Netherlands.
Kate O'Connor finished her day with a season's best 24.77 and just shy of her PB to finish in fourth. She will add 908 points to her score to finish on 3596 points for the day.
Pakistan's Arshad Nadeem has smashed the OR in the Men's Javelin Throw in with his second throw of the evening hitting 92.97 beating the previous record set by Andreas Thorkildsen of Norway of 90.57.
ARSHAD NADEEM 🇵🇰 SETS A NEW OLYMPIC RECORD IN THE MEN'S JAVELIN! 😱 pic.twitter.com/gnbAOKXQK5
— The Olympic Games (@Olympics) August 8, 2024
Botswana's Letsile Tebogo claims gold in the Men's 200m final in emphatic fashion in a time of 19.46 to win the first ever gold medal for Botswana. USA's Kenneth Bednarek claiming silver and 100m gold medallist America's Noah Lyles coming in third.
LETSILE TEBOGO IS THE OLYMPIC 200M CHAMP ‼️
— World Athletics (@WorldAthletics) August 8, 2024
🇧🇼's Letsile Tebogo powers to the gold with a 19.46 AREA RECORD 🤯#Paris2024 #Olympics pic.twitter.com/3ReC9PT90o
Next on the track is the Men's 200m final. Noah Lyles will be looking to add this title to his 100m gold medal win. It promises to me another exciting final.
Kate O'Connor has completed her three shot put throws getting 13.30 and 13.32 for her second and third throws. Her first throw was her best at 13.79. She currently sits eighth in her group and 18th overall. Up next for the Heptathletes is the 200m at approx. 7.55pm.
Ethiopia's Diribe Welteji wins the second heat in a time of 3:55.10 with Jessica Hull from Australia finishing second. America's Nikki Hiltz, Ethiopia's Gudaf Tsegay, Kenya's Susan Lokayo Ejore and France's Agathe Guillemot complete the top six with Guillemot finishing with a new NR for France in a time of 3:56.69.
Kate O'Connor has thrown 13.79 in her first shot put throw in the Women's Heptathlon which moves her on the overall scoreboard from 19th to 17th as it stands. She sits in seventh place in her group.
First of the 1500m Women's semi-finals sees Faith Kipyegon, the current WR and OR holder, win in a time off 5:58.65. Georgia Bell of Great Britain came in second followed by Elle St Pierre (USA), Laura Muir (GB), Klaudia Kazimierska (Poland) and Agueda Marques of Spain who just pipped her team mate Esther Guerrero on the line for the final spot.
Kate O'Connor is back in action at the Stade de France with the shot put section of the Heptathlon.
"On Thursday afternoon thousands of people spilled into the Site d’Escalade to witness the world’s best go for gold in the speed version of rock climbing. This is basically a series of races between two competitors up a pair of identical 15-metre walls rigged with protrusions. And they do it at breakneck speed."
Brendan O'Brien spent a productive afternoon at the speed climbing action, it seems.
The second round of the women's tournament at Le Golf National has wrapped up.
The Irish pair of Stephanie Meadow and Leona Maguire are way, way back on eight and 13 over respectively.
With no cut, they'll have to stick around tomorrow.
Switzerland's Morgane Metraux is leading the chase for that gold medal.
Despite a protest and a cha with the ref, Mexico's Vasquez Montana fails to score for this miscue at the diving.
That didn't go to plan 🤕
— Cycling on TNT Sports (@cyclingontnt) August 8, 2024
Mexico's Vazquez Montana scores no points from this dive 🙁#Olympics #PARIS2024 pic.twitter.com/hFidlECqFb
"Every sports fan looks at the Olympics differently. We become experts in diving, sailing, and skateboarding. We shake our heads if a hurdler’s technique is not quite right, or a long jumper misses the board. We find ourselves randomly saying stuff like “kick speed is swim speed”. Some of us look at Olympic handball and think it is very like modern Gaelic football. Others look at Olympic handball and say it is better than modern Gaelic football.
The volleyball spike, the Ippon in judo, the dismount from the beam – you name it, for two weeks, we’ll know it."
Read Jack Anderson's take on the Games and some of the legal issues they've thrown up, as always.
A warning from Cathal Dennehy; don't miss the women's 400m hurdles final tonight.
Ireland's Olympians will be honoured at a special homecoming in Dublin on Monday afternoon.
Gold medalists Kellie Harrington, Daniel Wiffen, Paul O'Donovan, Fintan McCarthy, Rhys McClenaghan and Co. will be welcomed home at the GPO on O'Connell Street at 12.30pm.
Irish athletes have won seven medals so far in France, four gold and three bronze.
This is the first time the Irish Olympic Team have received a civic reception on their return home and the event has been planned in conjunction with the Olympic Federation of Ireland.
Kate O'Connor bounces back after a sub-par hurdles, going over a season's best of 1.77m on the third attempt in the high jump.
The Dundalk native heptathlon tilt is very much back on track.
Kellie Harrington has said she is "done and dusted" with boxing after she secured her second Olympic gold medal in Paris.
Harrington, a native of Portland Row in Dublin, became only the fourth Irish athlete to retain an Olympic title when she defeated Wenlu Yang of China on Tuesday night in Roland Garros. In the immediate aftermath of the fight, she said that the fight was "the last one."
Speaking to Morning Ireland on Thursday, she reaffirmed that she was hanging up her gloves. "I know now — done, dusted and what a way to go out."
"The fact that I know that I am now done, and the fact that I am finishing this way [is great], because a lot of the time people don't know when to finish, and I'm happy that I am making that decision to finish it this way, my way, and go out as a double Olympic champion."
Both Leona Maguire and Stephanie Meadow sit on one over, and seven over overall after four and two holes, respectively.
After a disappointing round of 78 yesterday, Cavan golfer Leona Maguire has bogeyed the first and parred the second on day 2 at Le Golf National in Paris.
Irish heptathlete runs the 100m hurdles in a time of 14.07, leaving her with a 7th place finish in her heat. As it stands, O'Connor is 22nd of the 22 athletes competing in the heptathlon.
9.05am: Athletics, Women’s Heptathlon, 100m hurdles, Kate O’Connor
9.22am: Golf, Women’s Individual, Round 2, Stephanie Meadow, Leona Maguire
10.05am: Heptathlon, High Jump, Kate O’Connor
6.35pm: Heptathlon, Shot Put, Kate O’Connor
7.55pm: Heptathlon, 200m, Kate O’Connor
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