Daniel Wiffen headlines day four with a gold medal chance in the 800m freestyle
The world record was set in 2009 by Zhang Lin with 7:32:12. Wiffen’s has the ninth fastest time of all-time with 7:39:19.USA win the gold in the team competition in gymnastics. Italy the silver and Brazil the bronze.
Top-ranked New Zealand defeated the United States 24-12 in the other semifinal. Ireland, who lost to France 19-7 earlier to day will take on GB at 5.0pm, Irish time for seventh and eighth place.Abigail Lyle made her Olympic debut in the Dressage Individual Grand Prix on board Giraldo, at the picturesque Palace of Versailles venue, and scored a brilliant 69.441 to finish sixth in her group, but it wasn’t enough to progress to the individual final.
Lynch said: “We knew we were in a good position coming in but you don’t really know where other countries are at, and like we didn’t win a single race until Worlds last year so we’re showing good signs I suppose that we’ve timed it fairly well. Obviously the last block before we came here was probably our best one yet so hopefully we can just bring that in to the final now.“It went pretty much the exact way we thought it would go, we did what we wanted to do, we executed well.
The Women’s Four of Emily Hegarty, Natalie Long, Eimear Lambe and Imogen Magner also fell short on picking up a place in the final with a fourth-place finish in the repechage. With only two boats to qualify to the final, Ireland will race for final placings on Thursday.Meath’s Jennifer Lehane met a very experienced Chinese fighter on her Olympic 54kg debut and ultimately lost 5-0 to Yuan Chang in the last 16, but said the experience will only drive her on further.
“All my crazy family were there. They all came over to support me here and I know there was loads of support from my home town of Ashbourne and the school I worked in , where I know the kids were looking up to me, so I hope I have been able to inspire a few more to follow their dream.”
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