Monday, July 30, 2012

Olympics 2012: Team GB athletes at London Games Day Three

A sport-by-sport round-up of how every Team GB athlete performs on Day Three of the 2012 Olympic Games in London.


ATHLETICS
Freya Murray  chosen to replace Paula Radcliffe for Great Britain in the marathon. 



FENCING
Corinna Lawrence,  Great Britain's only entrant in the women's individual epee, beats Chile's Caterin Bravo Aranguiz 15-12 in the round of 64 and meets European champion Simona Gherman of Romania next. 


JUDO 
Sarah Clark  goes out as she is beaten 1-0 by Automne Pavia of France. 
Daniel Williams  loses by an ippon to 2008 bronze medallist Rasul Boqiev of Tajikistan and goes out of the men's -73kg in the round of 32. 


ROWING
Kath Grainger  and  Anna Watkins break the Olympic record in the women's double sculls with a time of 6:44.33 to win the first heat and go straight through to the final. 


The men's four crew of  Andy Gregory, Pete Reed, Tom James  and  Andrew Triggs Hodge  comfortably win heat two in 5:50.27 and progress to the semi-finals. Australia set a new Olympic record in heat one but are not due to meet Great Britain until the final. 


GB men  achieve a convincing win in the eight repechage in 5:26.85, holding off a fast finish from the Canadians, to go into Wednesday's final. 


Melanie Wilson, Beth Rodford, Frances Houghton  and  Debbie Flood  produce a great finish to take third in the women's quadruple sculls repechage and progress to the final in a time of 6:21.65. 


SHOOTING
James Huckle  finishes 24th in a field of 47 in the 10m air rifle and goes out with a score of 593 out of 600. 


SAILING
Steve Morrison  and  Ben Rhodes  come home 12th in race one of the 49er. 


SWIMMING
Simon Burnett  has retired from swimming after the team he was part of failed to reach the final of the men's 4x100m freestyle relay on Sunday. 


Caitlin McClatchey  wins heat four of the women's 200m freestyle in 1:58.03 and qualifies in joint seventh overall.  Rebecca Turner  finishes sixth in heat three in a time of 1:58.98. With the top 16 going through, she finishes 17th overall and is out by two hundreths of a second. 


Hannah Miley  finishes fourth in heat five - and 10th overall - to reach the semi-finals of the women's 200m individual medley with a time of 2:12.27.  Sophie Allen  finishes fifth in heat four with 2:14.72, which is 21st overall, so she goes out. 


 In the men's 200m butterfly,  Joe Roebuck  is seventh in heat three with a time of 1:56.97, while  Roberto Pavoni  also finishes seventh in heat five (1:57.55). Neither time is good enough to qualify for the semi-finals. 


TABLE TENNIS 
Paul Drinkhall's  singles tournament is over as he is beaten 4-0 by Ukrainian-born German Dimitrij Ovtcharov in the third round.

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