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Paris 2024: Andrews and Wollaston complete New Zealand's most successful Olympic Games

By SENZ

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After two and a half weeks of intense competition for New Zealand's athletes, and broken sleep for the supporters back home, the final day of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games has arrived.

The NZ team have already achieved their greatest ever gold medal tally after an impressive Day 15 showing on the water, on the golf course, and the incredible track and field theatre that has been Stade de France.

Day 16 sees the streets of Paris provide a stunning backdrop for the women's marathon featuring Camille French, plus at the Saint Quentin en Yvelines Veldrome, the Kiwi track cycling team pushes for further honours with a packed Sunday night schedule (NZT).

The Olympic Games will officially come to an end when the closing ceremony takes place Monday at 6am (NZT), handing the torch over to Los Angeles for 2028.

Check back in with senzradio.nz for results at the conclusion of Day 16, plus podcasts and reaction throughout Monday from Scotty & Izzy, through to The Run Home with Kirst & Beav.

Day 16: August 11 (NZT)

Athletics
6.00pm: Women's marathon (Camille French)

Cycling - Track
9.00pm: Women's Omnium race 1 - scratch (Ally Wollaston)
9.22pm: Women's sprint semi-finals race 1 (Ellesse Andrews)
9.29pm: Men's Keirin quarter-final (Sam Dakin)
9.50pm: Women's sprint semi-finals race 2 (Ellesse Andrews)
9.57pm: Women's Omnium race 2 - tempo (Ally Wollaston)
10.18pm: Women's sprint semi-finals decider (Ellesse Andrews - potential)
10.29pm: Men's Keirin semi-final (Sam Dakin - potential)
10.45pm: Women's sprint final 1 (Ellesse Andrews - potential)
10.53pm: Women's Omnium race 3 - elimination (Ally Wollaston)
11.15pm: Women's sprint final 2 (Ellesse Andrews - potential)
11.32pm: Men's Keirin final (Sam Dakin - potential)
11.44pm: Women's sprint final decider (Ellesse Andrews - potential)
11.56pm: Women's Omnium race 4 - points (Ally Wollaston)

RESULTS

Athletics
In the women's marathon, Camille French finished 60th.

Cycling - Track
In the men's keirin, Sam Dakin finished eighth in the men's keirin, Ellesse Andrews picked up her second gold medal of the Paris Games, this time in the women's individual sprint, and Ally Wollaston added one more to New Zealand's tally with bronze in the women's omnium.

Ellesse Andrews - Zac Williams/SWpix

Photo: Zac Williams/SWpix.

At the conclusion of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, New Zealand finished 11th on the medal table with 10 gold medals, 7 silver, and 3 bronze. Andrews' gold medal on the final day placed the Kiwis ahead of Canada, who began the Olympics with a spying scandal that engulfed their women's football team.

Paris 2024 is New Zealand's most successful Olympic campaign with 10 gold medals, surpassing the previous record of 8 set at the 1984 Los Angeles Games.

GOLD
Black Ferns Sevens - women's rugby sevens
Lucy Spoors & Brooke Francis - women's double sculls rowing
Finn Butcher - men's kayak cross
Lisa Carrington, Alicia Hoskin, olivia Brett & Tara Vaughan - women's K-4 500m
Ellesse Andrews - women's keirin
Lisa Carrington & Alicia Hoskin - women's K-2 500m
Lisa Carrington - women's K-1 500m
Lydia Ko - women's golf
Hamish Kerr - men's high jump
Ellesse Andrews - women's individual sprint cycling

Finn Butcher, Paris 2024 - Photosport

SILVER
Hayden Wilde - men's triathlon
Matt Macdonald, Tom Murray, Logan Ullrich & Oliver Maclean - men's four rowing
Isaac McHardie & Will McKenzie - men's 49er sailing
Emma Twigg - women's single sculls rowing
Rebecca Petch, Shaane Fulton & Ellesse Andrews - women's team sprint cycling
Bryony Botha, Emily Shearman, Nicole Shields & Ally Wollaston - women's team pursuit cycling
Maddi Wesche - women's shot put

Hayden Wilde, Paris 2024

BRONZE
Micah Wilkinson & Erica Dawson - mixed Nacra sailing
Ally Wollaston - women's omnium cycling
Kerri Williams, Davina Waddy, Phoebe Spoors & Jackie Gowler - women's four rowing

PODCASTS

Kiwi gold medalist Hamish Kerr spoke with Scotty & Izzy on Monday morning (NZT), reflecting on the nail-biting finish to the men's high jump.

Out of the 20 Olympic medals won by the NZ team, 14 were at the hands of the nation's athletically-gifted wahine. Scotty Stevenson, Israel Dagg and Sam Hewat look back on those incredible feats in their latest 'Deep Dive'.