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.
Monday, July 30, 2012
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