Here are major highlights from Day 3 of the Olympics 2024:

Equestrian:

British eventing riders Ros Canter, Laura Collett and Tom McEwen won team gold on Monday after solid rides in the show-jumping final as France had to settle for silver in front of a euphoric home crowd due to too many glitches.

The British team ended the three-day competition with a combined score of 91.3 penalty points ahead of France with 103.6 and Japan with 115.8.

Britain were the clear favourite for gold after Germany dropped out of the race when one of their riders fell.

German eventing rider Michael Jung won his fourth Olympic gold medal on Monday after beating his main challengers Christopher Burton from Australia and Britain Laura Collett in the final showjumping contest.

Jung, riding on his bay Hanover gelding Chipmunk, won the three-day competition combining dressage, cross-country and showjumping with a final score of 21.8 penalty points, ahead of Burton with 22.4 and Collett with 23.1.

Shooting:

China’s Sheng Lihao gunned down his second gold of the Paris Olympics by winning the men’s 10-metre air rifle event with a nerveless display at the Chateauroux Shooting Centre on Monday.

Sheng, 19, topped qualification for the individual event on Sunday and won the gold with an Olympic record tally of 252.2 ahead of world champion Victor Lindgren (251.4) of Sweden.

Miran Maricic won the bronze for Croatia.

Compatriot Huang Yuting, however, was denied the same feat by South Korean Ban Hyo-jin, who won the women’s competition by beating the Chinese via a shoot-off.

Huang missed a second gold but became the first multi-medallist shooter of the Paris Games.

Audrey Gogniat secured the bronze medal her first medal for Switzerland in Paris.

Diving:

Yang Hao and Lian Junjie played their parts with aplomb in China’s bid to take all eight diving golds on offer by winning the men’s synchronised 10-metre platform event on Monday.

The pair led the event from the first round and finished with 490.35 points - becoming the second Chinese diving pair to top the podium so far at the Paris Olympics.

Tom Daley and Noah Williams of Britain took silver with 463.44 points, followed by Canada’s Ryan Wiens and Nathan Zsombor-Murray who won bronze.

Cycling:

Britain's Tom Pidcock roared back after suffering a puncture to retain his Olympic men's mountain bike title following a thrilling battle with France's Victor Koretzky on Monday.

The 24-year-old world champion needed all his renowned bike handling skills to first claw back a 40-second deficit and then hold off Koretzky in a barnstorming last-lap battle through the trees and rocks of the 4.4km Elancourt Hill circuit.

Alan Hatherly took the bronze in what was South Africa's first Olympic cycling medal since the country's re-admission.

Skateboarding:

Japan’s Yuto Horigome, 25, held off a pair of Americans, 23-year-old second-place finisher Jagger Eaton and 29-year-old Nyjah Huston, who took bronze, with his last trick to retain his title in a nailbiter final at La Concorde on Monday.

Eaton, the 23-year-old silver medallist who won bronze in Tokyo, said he would try to make it to a third Games but that the young talent coming up was undeniable.

Archery:

South Korea won the gold medal in men’s team archery at the Paris Olympics on Monday, beating the host nation 5-1.

On Sunday, the South Korean women’s team won their 10th consecutive gold after an intense shoot-off against China.

France was left with the silver medal and Turkey claimed bronze.

Gymnastics:

Chinese gymnasts were left totally distraught after their gold medal hopes were abruptly dashed in the final moments of the men’s team competition at the Paris Olympics on Monday following two error-laden routines on the high bar.

The mishap knocked China from first place to second, leaving the entire team shellshocked as Japan snatched the gold. The United States claimed bronze.

Just when it looked like China had all but secured the title as they led Japan by more than three points with only three more performances left on their final apparatus, things went awry.

Swimming:

Canadian teenager Summer McIntosh blew away the field to win the gold medal in the women’s 400-metre individual medley (IM) at the Paris Olympics on Monday, securing her second medal of the meet.

World record holder McIntosh touched the wall in four minutes 27.71 seconds, far ahead of American silver medallist Katie Grimes and her bronze-winning US teammate Emma Weyant.

In the men’s 200 metres freestyleRomania’s David Popovici beat Britain’s Matt Richards by a knife-edge 0.02 of a second to win gold at the Paris Olympics on Monday.

Luke Hobson of the United States took the bronze, 0.07 of a second behind the winner.

World record holder Thomas Ceccon made a thrilling late surge to claim the men’s 100 metres backstroke gold and give Italy a second swimming title at the Paris Olympics on Monday.

The former world champion touched the wall in exactly 52 seconds, edging China’s silver medallist Xu Jiayu by three-tenths of a second at La Defense Arena.

American Ryan Murphy took bronze and was brave in his bid for a second Olympic gold in the event.

Tatjana Smith of South Africa took the first gold in the 100-metre breaststroke at the Paris Olympics on Monday.

China’s world champion Tang Qianting took the silver medal and Ireland’s Mona McSharry looked stunned, tears flowing, after an extraordinary three-way battle for bronze.

Australia’s red-headed rocket Mollie O’Callaghan toppled defending champion Ariarne Titmus to claim gold in the women’s 200 metres freestyle in an Olympic record at the Paris pool on Monday in a duel of club-mates.

O’Callaghan was third behind Haughey and Titmus at the last change but threw down the hammer with a 27.98-second split in the final lap to overhaul them both in a time of 1:53.27.

That was a cool 0.54 seconds ahead of Titmus, with Haughey settling for bronze after exhausting all reserves.

Fencing:

It was an evening for France. After three days of intense cheering for the local fencers, the Grand Palais crowd finally got the Olympic gold medal it craved in women’s sabre at the Paris Games on Monday.

France’s Manon Apithy-Brunet, won 15-12 in a final bout that left countrywoman Sara Balzer, the 2023 world champion, with a silver medal.

Kharlan went on to claim bronze, Ukraine’s first medal of the Paris Games.

In the men’s foil individual defending champion Cheung Ka-long of Hong Kong retained his title, beating first-time Olympian Filippo Macchi of Italy 15-14 in a disputed bout.

Nick Itkin of the United States took bronze.

Canoeing:

Nicolas Gestin laid down two stunning runs in the semi-final and final to obliterate the field and claim gold for France in stunning fashion in the men’s single canoe slalom at the Vaires-sur-Marnes Nautical Stadium on Monday.

Last to descend in the final after his superlative semi, he flashed through the course to finish more than five seconds ahead of Britain’s Adam Burgess, who took silver, with Matej Benus of Slovakia securing the bronze.