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Great Britain's former Olympic champion Joe Clarke missed out on a medal in the men's kayak single (K1) final at Paris 2024.

The 31-year-old world champion, who won gold on his Olympic debut at Rio 2016, placed fifth in 89.82 seconds to finish 1.6secs behind Italy's gold medallist Giovanni de Gennaro.

French 19-year-old Titouan Castryck won silver and Spain's Pau Echaniz took bronze.

Clarke, omitted from the team for the Tokyo Games three years ago, will now target gold in kayak cross - an event in which he is the three-time reigning world champion.

As the fastest qualifier, Clarke was the last to make his bid for gold in the final but, while he received no penalties, could not force his way on to the podium.

Clarke’s Olympic journey to Paris had been one of extremes, from the glorious heights of Rio 2016 to a painful Tokyo omission, and he placed his hands on his head after seeing confirmation that he had fallen short at the Vaires-sur-Marne Nautical Stadium.

Britain's first individual K1 gold medal winner at the age of 23 on his Olympic debut in Rio eight years ago, Clarke has since admitted that glorious moment may have arrived too early in his career.

Clarke was left considering his future in the sport after missing out on Tokyo but has been rewarded for his perseverance since, winning double world gold last year in the men's K1 and kayak cross events.

The Briton will now target Olympic kayak cross gold, having triumphed in that discipline at each of the past three World Championships.

However, the , making its Olympic debut in Paris and which pits four athletes against each other on the course at the same time, means there are no guarantees Clarke's world domination will translate to success when that competition begins on Friday.

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Great Britain’s riders have qualified safely for Friday’s jumping team final at the Paris Olympics.

The GB trio of Ben Maher, Harry Charles and Scott Brash finished third of the 10 qualifiers in Versailles.

Tokyo individual gold medallist Maher gave them the perfect start with a superb clear round on Dallas Vegas Batilly.

Maher had made a late decision to ride the mare in France rather than his regular mount Point Break.

Olympic debutant Charles had four penalties on Romeo 88 as did Brash on his horse Jefferson for a team total of eight penalties and a time of 227.79 seconds.

Qualifying was led by Germany (no penalties and 229.74), followed by the USA (six penalties and 227.57) with Belgium fourth (eight penalties and 231.52).

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Ecuador's Brian Daniel Pintado strode home to win Olympic gold in the men's 20km race walk in Paris.

Pintado broke away from the leading pack in the final kilometre to win the South American country's first medal of the 2024 Games and their fourth ever Olympic gold.

Pintado follows in the footsteps of Jefferson Perez, who won the 20km walk at the 1996 Atlanta Games - Ecuador's first Olympic gold.

Brazil's Caio Bonfim, who led early on before dropping back then finishing strongly, took silver while Spain's Alvaro Martin won bronze.

Italian defending champion Massimo Stano was aiming to be the first man to win this event twice, but could not keep pace at the conclusion and finished fourth.

Great Britain's Callum Wilkinson finished 16th in an event where the start was delayed by 30 minutes due to thunderstorms in Paris.

The women's 20km race walk followed immediately afterwards and was won by China's Yang Jiayu for her country's 11th gold of these Games.

Spain's Maria Perez and Australian Jemina Montag won silver and bronze respectively.

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Great Britain's Emma Reid is out of the Olympic women's 78kg judo after losing to South Korea's Yoon Hyunji in the last 32.

The 29-year-old Briton, a world championship bronze medallist, received three penalties and was eventually beaten by ippon.

Reid is the fifth and final Team GB judoka to be knocked out in Paris.

"It's a frustrating way to lose, especially when I know I could give much more," she told ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Sport.

"I had a good game plan, I just didn't execute as well as I could have done. I was ready and up for it today so disappointed it didn't go my way."

Great Britain's Bryony Pitman was knocked out of the Olympic women's individual archery at the last-16 stage as she was beaten by Li Jiaman of China.

The 27-year-old from Shoreham-by-Sea defeated Angela Ruiz of Mexico 6-0 in her opening match.

But she could not cope with the consistency of Li at Les Invalides, and was beaten by the same scoreline.

It means Pitman does not follow GB team-mate Megan Havers into the quarter-finals, after the 16-year-old progressed on Wednesday.

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Mallory Franklin was unable to continue Great Britain’s canoe slalom medal streak at Paris 2024, as Jessica Fox made Australian history in the women's canoe single (C1) final at Vaires-Sur-Marne Nautical Stadium.

Reigning world champion Franklin finished 12th after receiving 56 penalty seconds for touching three gates and failing to clear the 20th.

The 30-year-old won silver in Tokyo three years ago and is the reigning world champion in the discipline.

However, it was Fox who stole the spotlight, following up her kayak single (K1) gold on Sunday with another victory to become the first Australian athlete to win six individual Olympic medals.

Fox clocked 101.06 seconds - including two penalty seconds - to beat Germany's Elena Lilik to gold by 2.48, as American Evy Leibfarth took bronze.

Team GB had won medals in the first two canoe slalom finals at the Games, with Adam Burgess winning men’s C1 silver on Monday after Kimberley Woods had taken women's K1 bronze a day earlier.

Rio 2016 champion Joseph Clarke will contest the men's K1 semi-finals on Thursday, with the final taking place later that day.

Franklin is Great Britain’s most successful female canoeist, winning a total of 16 world medals and making 18 European podiums in addition to her Olympic silver, but it was not to be on Wednesday and she will now look ahead to the kayak cross, which starts on Friday.

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Britain's Emma Wilson tops the windsurfing table with two days left, with Israel’s Sharon Kantor second.

Wilson looks well placed for a medal after winning seven of the 11 completed races.

On Wednesday, the debut women's windsurfing marathon was abandoned as wind faded.

There are five more races planned on Thursday, before the quarter-final, semi-final and final stages on Friday.

Wilson would progress straight to the final - and a guaranteed silver medal - if she finishes top of the rankings.