Britain’s Amber Rutter won a controversial silver medal in the Olympic women’s skeet shooting final in Chateauroux on Sunday.
Just over three months after giving birth to her son, Tommy, Rutter kept her cool during a tense six-athlete shoot-off to seal her place in the gold medal showdown.
After Rutter and Chile’s Francesca Crovetto both missed one of their subsequent 10 shots, it forced a sudden-death shoot-off.
Both competitors missed one in the first six shots of the shoot-off, then a second miss from Rutter allowed Crovetto to close out the win. However, TV replays showed Rutter had not missed but in fact hit the target.
But the miss was not overturned by the judges despite Rutter’s protest, with shooting’s version of VAR/Hawkeye not in use at the Olympics.
“I would bet a lot of money that I did hit that last target,” she told the BBC.
“But this is a part of sport. It’s not just shooting, it’s not just myself. There are so many sports and athletes which are impacted. There were so many other athletes in that final which were appealing targets and there was nothing to look back on to review the shots.
“It’s something we have had in the past. We’ve had VAR systems in place so we are able to have a fair field of play. But unfortunately at the Olympics this time we haven’t been able to have that.”
Still, her silver medal capped a remarkable career resurgence for Rutter, who had missed out on a place at the Tokyo Games due to Covid.
Fleetwood takes golf silver as Scheffler crowned
Great Britain’s Tommy Fleetwood won silver as Scottie Scheffler was crowned Olympic men’s golf champion at Paris 2024.
Fleetwood fired a final-day 66 to finish one stroke short of Scheffler’s 19 under par total after the world No 1 had tied the Le Golf National course record with a 62.
The 33-year-old from Southport was level with USA’s Scheffler with two to play, but a bogey on the 17th cost him dear.
Scheffler produced six birdies in his back-nine 29 to add to the multiple titles he has won on the PGA Tour this year, including his second Masters title at Augusta in April. Hideki Matsuyama of Japan finished one shot behind Fleetwood to take bronze.
Team GB add dressage, vault bronze medals
Charlotte Fry won a bronze medal in the dressage individual Grand Prix Freestyle.
Fresh from winning bronze in the team event on Saturday, Fry and her stallion Glamourdale achieved a mark of 88.971 per cent, which left her in third behind German riders Jessica von Bredow-Werndl and Isabell Werth.
Fry said: “I’m speechless, it’s absolutely amazing and I am so proud of Glamourdale. I knew he was capable of it but to be able to pull it off in there today and get the bronze is just incredible.”
Fellow Brits Carl Hester and Becky Moody also competed, finishing sixth and eighth respectively.
Later on Sunday, Team GB claimed another medal when Harry Hepworth took bronze in the final of the men’s vault competition.
Hepworth averaged 14.949 points for his two attempts to take the lead, but he was soon passed by eventual gold medal winner Carlos Yulo from the Philippines.
Armenia’s Artur Davtyan, the last man to jump, pushed Hepworth down to third, which also knocked team-mate Jake Jarman out of the medals as he finished fourth.
Hodgkinson and Kerr make middle-distance finals
Keely Hodgkinson cruised into the women’s 800m final
Keely Hodgkinson impressed as she reached Monday’s 800m final in style, bossing her semi-final in a time of 1.54.
“You can’t take any chances and it gave me good practice for tomorrow as well but I just wanted to be safe in qualifying. Job done. We’re in the final now, mission is on,” Hodgkinson told the BBC.
“I’ve said it all year, I really want to upgrade my silver. I think I am in the best shape physically, mentally and emotionally to do that that I have been ever.
“I just hope that I can really put that together and let’s see what we can do.”
Josh Kerr cruised home in second position with a time of 3.32 behind Jakob Ingebrigtsen in the men’s 1,500m semi-finals.
The final on Tuesday night could be an epic with fellow Briton Neil Gourley also making it through after finishing third in his heat.
What else happened on day nine?
Great Britain were dejected following their quarter-final defeat to India in a penalty shoot-out
Britain’s hopes of a first medal in men’s hockey since 1988 were ended by a penalty shoot-out defeat against 10-player India in the quarter-finals.
The game finished 1-1 after 60 minutes and India, who also defeated Britain at the same stage in Tokyo, were flawless in a 4-2 victory in the shoot-out, while Conor Williamson and Phil Roper could not convert.
Britain had looked favourites when Amit Rohidas was sent off early in the second quarter, a rarity in top-level hockey, for catching Will Calnan in the face with his stick.
In the athletics, Britain’s Dina Asher-Smith was third quickest in the women’s 200m semi-finals with a time of 22.28 and Daryll Neita was fifth fastest with Bianca Williams also through. The United States’ Gabby Thomas appears the woman to beat with the quickest time of 22.20 in Sunday morning’s preliminary round.
Jamaica’s world champion Shericka Jackson – who did not run the 100m – withdrew from the event, less than a month after she suffered an injury at a tune-up meet in Hungary.
In the tennis, Novak Djokovic produced a stunning display to defeat rival Carlos Alcaraz 7-6 (7-3) 7-6 (7-2) in the match of the year to win his first Olympic gold medal and complete a career Golden Slam.
Cindy Ngamba became the first representative of the refugee team to win a medal at the Olympics after making it to the boxing semi-finals, guaranteeing her at least a bronze
Ngamba, who was born in Cameroon, trains with GB Boxing and is a three-time British National Amateur champion awaiting citizenship.
“It means the world to me, to be the first ever refugee to win a medal. I’m just a human, just like any other refugee. I hope I can change the medal on my next fight,” she said.
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