Paris 2024: Tom Walsh battles injury in shot put final, Emma Twigg grabs silver

The Olympic Games rolls into the second week of competition with a busy schedule of events featuring New Zealand.

Saturday night (NZT) has the potential of being another memorable hour on the water with Emma Twigg lining up to defend her women's single sculls gold medal from Tokyo 2020, plus Tom Mackintosh racing for gold in the men's single sculls.

Also, the men's golf continues with Ryan Fox (T30) and Daniel Hillier (59th) looking to improve their standings in the third round at Le Golf National.

It will be a busy day on the water for the sailing team as well with Josh Armit and Veerle ten Have racing to go beyond the men's and women's windsurfing quarter-finals. The multihull Nacra and dinghy classes also continue their series.

If that's not enough water action for you, the ultra-cool kayak cross sees Luuka Jones in the women's event, and Finn Butch in the men's. And Erika Fairweather will be in the pool chasing a medal in the women's 800m freestyle final on Sunday morning (NZT).

Speaking of Sunday - set those alarms for 5am with Jacko Gill and Tom Walsh on deck for the men's shot put final at Stade de France, while Zoe Hobbs sets her sights for a potential women's 100m final berth.

Be sure to check in with senzradio.nz Sunday morning for results and photos of Kiwis in action.

Day 8: August 3-4

Shooting
7pm: women’s skeet qualification (Chloe Tipple)

Golf
7pm: men's third round (Daniel Hillier)
8.44pm: men's third round (Ryan Fox)

Rowing
8.18pm: women's single sculls final (Emma Twigg)
8.30pm: men's single sculls final (Tom Mackintosh)

Cycling - Road
9pm: men's road race (Laurence Pithie, Corbin Strong)

Sailing
10.05pm: women's dinghy races 4-6 (Greta Pilkington)
10.13pm: women's windsurfing quarter-finals (Veerle ten Have)
10.20pm: men's dinghy races 5-6 (Tom Saunders)
10.33pm: men's windsurfing quarter-finals (Josh Armit)
10.35pm: women's windsurfing semi-finals (Veerle ten Have - if qualified)
10.50pm: women's windsurfing final (Veerle ten Have - if qualified)
10.55pm: men's windsurfing semi-final (Josh Armit - if qualified)
11.05pm: mixed multihull races 1-3 (Micah Wilkinson & Erica Dawson)
11.23pm: men's windsurfing final (Josh Armit - if qualified)

Canoe - Slalom
1.30am: women's kayak cross - round 1 (Luuka Jones)
2.40am: men's kayak cross - round 1 (Finn Butcher)
4.05am: women's kayak cross - repechage (Luuka Jones - if required)
4.45am: men's kayak cross - repechage (Finn Butcher - if required)

Athletics
5am: men's shot put final (Jacko Gill & Tom Walsh)
5.15am: men's 1500m - repechage (Sam Tanner)
5.50am: women's 100m semi-finals (Zoe Hobbs)
7.20am: women's 100m final - (Zoe Hobbs - if qualified)

Swimming
7.09am: women's 800m freestyle final (Erika Fairweather)

RESULTS

Shooting
Chloe Tipple continues in the women’s skeet with a score of 65 points, currently ranked 28th.

Golf
At Le Golf National, Ryan Fox carded a three-under par third round to improve his position to T23, and Daniel Hiller was one-under par to be T53.

Heading into Sunday night's (NZT) final round to decide the medals, the leaderboard is loaded with a who's who of the world's best golfers. USA's Xander Schauffele and Spain's Jon Rahm are T1 on -14, Great Britain's Tommy Fleetwood is a stroke behind, Denmark's Nicolai Hojgaard and Japan's Hideki Matsuyama are 4th on -11, with the likes of Rory McIlroy, Scottie Scheffler, Tom Kim, and Thomas Detry a further stroke back.

Australia's Jason Day, Chile's Joaquin Niemann and Sweden's Ludvig Aberg round out the top ten at 9-under par.

Rowing
In the women's single sculls final, Emma Twigg (7:19.14) fought hard to retain the gold medal she won at Tokyo 2020, but walked away with silver with the Netherland's Karolien Florijn beating her to the finish line with a time of 7:17.28. Lithunia's Viktorija Senkute edged out Australian hopeful Tara Rigney for bronze.

After a delayed start due to another competitor in the men's single sculls final being stuck in traffic, Tom Mackintosh finished 5th.

Cycling - Road
Corbin Strong finished 27th in the men's road race, while Laurence Pithie was 39th.

Sailing
Josh Armit currently sits 4th overall in the men's windsurfing after finshing 3rd in his semi-final. Veerle ten Haave was 7th in her women's windsurfing quarter-final to be 10th overall.

Tom Saunders is 5th overall in the men's dinghy class, finishing 19th in race 5 and 3rd in race 6 with four remaining. In the women's dinghy, Greta Pilkington was 15th in race 4, 33rd in race 5, and 18th in race 6 to sit 30th overall with four races to go.

In the mixed multihull class, the duo of Micah Wilkinson & Erica Dawson had a strong opening day on the water, finishing 4th in race 1, 3rd in race 3, and 7th in race 3 to be 4th overall with nine more races on the schedule.

Canoe - Slalom
In round one of the women's kayak cross, Luuka Jones finished second in race 4 and will progress through to the heats, as will Finn Butcher in the men's event after he finished first in race 6.

Athletics
It was a tough but inspiring day for the Kiwis involved in the track and field events. Tom Walsh was unable to register a successful throw as he battled a suspected groin injury to finish 12th in the men's shot put final, while J__acko Gill__ (21.15m) was 6th.

USA's Ryan Crouser is once again the Olympic champion with a throw of 22.90m, cementing his GOAT status in the sport with a third consecutive Olympic gold medal-winning performance.

In the women's 100m, Zoe Hobbs was unable to make it out of the semi-finals after finishing 6th.

In the final, Saint Lucia's Julien Alfred (10.72) made history by winning her nations first-ever Olympic medal, shocking USA's Sha'Carri Richardson (10.87) who won silver, with fellow American Melissa Jefferson (10.92) completing the podium in the marquee event.

Sam Tanner also failed to break out of the men's 1500m repechage, putting an end to his gutsy Paris 2024 campaign.

Swimming
With a busy week in the pool, Erika Fairweather lined up for the women's 800m freestyle final, finishing 8th.

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