LIVE BLOG: Paris 2024 Day 8

Welcome to Day 8 of the NZ Team LIVE Blog. Today there are medal chances in the rowing, road race, sailing, shot put, swimming and 100m sprint!

Swimming: Fairweather eighth in 800m final

Erika Fairweather has finished eighth in the Women's 800m Freestyle final with a time of 8:23.27.

Katie Ledecky (USA) won the gold medal in a time of 8:11.04.

Athletics: Walsh, Gill outside Shot Put medals

Jacko Gill has finished seventh overall in the Men's Shot Put final, with a longest attempt of 21.15.

Tom Walsh closed his Olympic campaign with three no marks after suffering an injury on his second attempt.

Ryan Crouser (USA) won the gold medal with 22.90.

JACKO GILL
Attempt 1: x
Attempt 2: 20.81
Attempt 3: 21.15
Attempt 4: x
Attempt 5: 19.23
Attempt 6: TBC

TOM WALSH
Attempt 1: x
Attempt 2: x
Attempt 3: x

Athletics: Hobbs misses out on 100m final

Zoe Hobbs has finished sixth in her Women's 100m semi final, crossing the line in 11.13. Unfortunately she does not progress to the final.

Athletics: Tanner misses 1500m semi finals

Sam Tanner has finished 13th in the Men's 1500m repechage, and is unable to progress to the semi finals.

Cycling: Strong, Pithie complete Road Race

Corbin Strong and Laurence Pithie have completed the 273km Men's Road Race.

Corbin Strong: 27th
Laurence Pithie: 39th

GOLD: Remco Evenepoel (BEL)
SILVER: Valentin Madouas (FRA)
BRONZE: Christophe Laporte (FRA)

Kayak Cross: Jones, Butcher through to Heats

Luuka Jones and Finn Butcher have both cleared Round 1 of the Kayak Cross (KX), qualifying for tomorrow's Heats.

Sailing Update from Marseille

Josh Armit has narrowly missed out on the chance to race for a medal after finishing fourth in the Men's Windsurfing semi final.

Veerle ten Have has missed out on progressing to the Women's Windsurfing semi final after finishing seventh in the quarter final.

In the Dinghy racing, Thomas Saunders is fifth after six races while Greta Pilkington is 30th after six races.

Micah Wilkinson and Erica Dawson after fourth after three races in the Mixed Multihull.

Golf: Fox and Hillier wrap up third round

Ryan Fox and Dan Hillier have both completed their third round of individual stroke play.

RYAN FOX: -5 (Total: 208)

DAN HILLIER: +5 (Total: 218)

Shooting: Tipple completes qualifying day one

Chloe Tipple has finished day one of the Women's Skeet Shooting qualifying.

Round 1: 23/25
Round 2: 22/25
Round 3: 20/25

Rowing: Mackintosh finished fifth in final

Tom Mackintosh has finished fifth in the Men's Single Sculls final with a time of 6:49.62.

GOLD: Oliver Zeidler (GER)
SILVER: Yauheni Zalaty (AIN)
BRONZE: Simon van Dorp (NED)

Emma Twigg seals Single Sculls SILVER

Emma Twigg has won silver in the Women's Single Sculls final, crossing the line in 7:19.14.

GOLD: Karolien Florijn (NED)
SILVER: Emma Twigg (NZL)
BRONZE: Viktorija Senkute (LTU)

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