Paris 2024: Rowers produce magical Day 6 for New Zealand

The NZ team are well poised to keep their medal run rolling on Day 6, as the rowers return to the water for a series of finals.

Lucy Spoors and Brooke Francis will contest the women's double sculls showpiece, while Robbie Manson and Jordan Parry saddle up in the men's.

Meanwhile on the links, Ryan Fox and Daniel Hillier will tee off in their hunt for the podium for their opening round of the men's golf.

Both recently spoke with SENZ about their excitement for representing New Zealand at Golf National, following on from The Open Championship.

The sailing team are in the medal mix with a host of finals, while Lewis Clareburt has one final chance to bring home a medal, lining up for the 200m men's individual medley heats.

Be sure to check in with senzradio.nz each day for your Olympic fix over the next fortnight, with fixtures, results, plus on the ground reaction from Paris with guests joining both Scotty & Izzy and The Run Home with Kirst & Beav at opposite ends of the day on SENZ.

Day 6: August 1-2 (NZT)

Golf
7.22pm: men’s first round (Ryan Fox)
8.22pm: men’s first round (Daniel Hillier)

Rowing
7.30pm: Single sculls women’s semifinals (Emma Twigg)
7.50pm: Single sculls men’s semifinals (Tom Mackintosh)
9.18pm: Double sculls women’s final (Lucy Spoors and Brooke Francis)
9.30pm: Double sculls men’s final (Robbie Manson and Jordan Parry)
10.10pm: Four men’s final (Logan Ullrich, Matt Macdonald, Tom Murray and Oliver Maclean)
10.30pm: Four women’s final (Jackie Gowler, Davina Waddy, Phoebe Spoors and Kerri Williams)

Judo
8pm: Women’s 78kg round of 64 (Moira Koster)
8.28pm: Women’s 78kg round of 32 (Moira Koster) - if qualified
10.20pm - Women’s 78kg round of 16 (Moira Koster) - if qualified
11.16pm - Women’s 78kg quarter-final (Moira Koster) - if qualified
2.51am - Women’s 78kg semifinal (Moira Koster) - if qualified
4.09am - Women’s 78kg medal bouts (Moira Koster) - if qualified

Hockey
8.30pm: Black Sticks men v Australia, pool B game

Swimming
9pm: 200m IM medley men’s heat (Lewis Clareburt)
9pm: 4 x 200m freestyle relay women’s heat
9pm: 50m freestyle men’s heat (Taiko Torepe-Ormsby)
6.37am: 200m backstroke men’s final (Kane Follows) - if qualified
6.44am: 50m freestyle men’s semifinals (Taiko Torepe-Ormsby)
7.34am: 200m IM medley men’s semifinal (Lewis Clareburt) - if qualified
7.48am: 4 x 200m freestyle relay women’s final

Sailing
10pm: One-person Dinghy men’s races 1-2 (Tom Saunders)
12.43am: 49er medal race (Isaac McHardie and William McKenzie)
1.03am: Foil women medal race (Veerle ten Have) - if qualified
1.35am: One-person Dinghy women’s races 1-2 (Greta Pilkington)
1.43am: 49er FX medal race (Jo Aleh and Molly Meech)
1.53am: Foil men medal race (Josh Armit) - if qualified

Canoe - Slalom
1.30am: Men's K1 semi-final (Finn Butcher)
3.30am: Men's K1 final (Finn Butcher) - if qualified

BMX Racing
6am: men’s quarter-final (Rico Bearman)
6.20am: women’s quarter-final (Leila Walker)
8.05am: men’s last chance qualifier (Rico Bearman)
8.15am: women’s last chance qualifier (Leila Walker)

RESULTS

After a spectacular Day 6, New Zealand is currently ranked 12th on Paris 2024's medal table with 2 golds, 2 silver, and a bronze. China, USA, and France are 1-2-3 respectively, while Australia are fourth with 8 golds, 6 silver, and 4 bronze.

Golf
Ryan Fox is T6 at four-under par following round one, while Daniel Hillier is T56 on four-over par at Le Golf National. Japan's Hideki Matsuyama leads at eight-under, while USA's Xander Schauffele is two shots back in second.

Rowing
In a magical hour of rowing, NZ took home three medals with Lucy Spoors & Brooke Francis winning gold the women's double scull, the men's four of Ollie MacLean, Logan Ullrich, Tom Murray & Matt Macdonald claimed silver, plus the women's four of Jackie Gowler, Phoebe Spoors, Davina Waddy & Kerri Williams secured bronze.

Emma Twigg and Tom Mackintosh will both row for medals in the men's and women's single sculls respectively on Saturday night.

Judo
In the women's 78kg elimination round, Moira Koster lost to Guinea's Marie Branser.

Hockey
The Black Sticks men lost 5-0 to Australia and fail to qualify for the quarter-finals.

Swimming
The women's 4x200m freestyle team of Caitlin Deans, Erika Fairweather, Laticia Transom & Eve Thomas finished 8th in the final, Lewis Clareburt progressed out of the men's 200m individual medley heats, but was 7th in semi-final and eliminated from final contention. Taiko Torepe-Ormsby did not advance in the men's 50m freestyle, finishing 19th fastest out of 74 swimmers with a time of 22.01 seconds.

Sailing
In the ILCA 6, Tom Saunders finished 11th in race 1 and 17th in race 2 to be 12th overall with eight races remaining. Meanwhile in the ILCA 7, Greta Pilkington finished 21st in her opening race with nine more to go.

In the men's windsurfing, Josh Armit was 2nd in race 11, 3rd in race 12 and 11th in race 13 to finish 3rd overall and qualify for the semi-finals. Veerle ten Have placed 3rd in race 11, 2nd in race 12, 16th in race 13, and 13th in race 14 in a mammoth day of competition to finish 9th overall and qualify for quarter-finals.

The 49er and 49erFX medal races were postponed until Friday.

Canoe - Slalom
Finn Butcher placed 19th in the men’s K1 semi-final, ending his run in the event.

BMX Racing
Rico Bearman took his last chance in the men's BMX, finishing 1st to advance to the semi-finals, however Leila Walker was 6th in her last chance race and failed to progress to the semi-finals.

PODCASTS

Lucy Spoors & Brooke Francis, the Super Mums themselves, joined Scotty & Izzy on Friday morning (NZT) to reflect on their gold medal-winning efforts in the women's double sculls.

Continuing on New Zealand's success in the rowing category, Ollie Maclean & Matt Macdonald from the silver medal-winning men's coxless four also spoke with Scotty & Izzy.

And to wrap it all up, Sky Sport's Kimberlee Downs continues to burn the oil at both ends of the day providing incredible coverage to viewers back home in NZ - she called into SENZ for an update on what's been happening in the pool.

Main photo: Iain McGregor, Photosport