Here are the major highlights of day 5 of the Paris Olympic2024:

Diving:

China’s Quan Hongchan and Chen Yuxi won gold in the women’s synchronised 10-metre platform event on Wednesday, extending the country’s winning streak in diving.

The pair established their lead in the first round and finished with 359.10 points.

North Korea’s Jo Jin Mi and Kim Mi Rae took silver with 315.90 and Britain’s Andrea Spendolini Sirieix and Lois Toulson won bronze with 304.38.

Triathlon:

France and Britain hogged the Olympic triathlon spotlight as Cassandre Beaugrand delivered a decisive gold for the hosts in the women’s race while Alex Yee pipped New Zealand’s Hayden Wilde to settle for silver in an amazing victory in the men’s event on Wednesday.

Yee’s victory added a 10th Olympic triathlon medal to Britain’s collection after Beth Potter won bronze earlier in women’s individual.

France’s Leo Bergere won bronze, the country’s second-ever individual Olympic triathlon medal. Julie Derron of Switzerland claimed bronze on the women’s individual.

Bicycling:

First-time Olympians from Argentina and China took gold in the BMX Freestyle finals as a string of dramatic crashes knocked out the reigning medallists under a baking-hot Paris sun on Wednesday.

In his first Olympic games, Argentina’s Jose Torres Gil, 29, shot off the ramp in his first run, flying higher and gyrating faster than all competitors, his 94.82 score remaining at the top of the scoreboard throughout the event.

Perris Benegas took the women’s silver- the second silver in the discipline for the US Australia’s Natalya Diehm won bronze.

Britain’s Kieran Reilly, in his Olympic debut, secured himself a silver.

France’s Anthony Jeanjean, 26, who is top of the BMX Freestyle Park UCI World Cup rankings a fast and confident second run secured his bronze.

Shooting:

Adriana Ruano Oliva became Guatemala’s first Olympic champion after the accidental shooter won the women’s trap event of the Paris Games on Wednesday.

Italy’s Silvana Stanco hit five fewer targets to claim the silver, while Australia’s Penny Smith struck 32 out of 40 to win bronze.

Canoeing:

Australia’s Jessica Fox pulled off another sensational descent at the Vaires-sur-Marnes Nautical Stadium to win her second gold of the Paris Games on Wednesday.

Germany’s Elena Lilik took the silver and American Evy Leibfarth bagged an unexpected bronze.

Gymnastics:

Japan’s Shinnosuke Oka displayed nerves of steel as he capitalised on early errors by the top contenders and fended off a late challenge by China’s Zhang Boheng to win the men’s all-around gold medal at the Paris Olympics on Wednesday.

Zhang trailed by just 0.233 of a point to take silver and his countryman Xiao Ruoteng claimed bronze.

Swimming:

Sweden’s Sarah Sjostrom trumped a top-quality field to clinch the gold medal in women’s 100-metre freestyle on Wednesday.

Torri Huske of the USA claimed silver while Haughay Siobhan Bernadette of Hongkong claimed bronze.

Meanwhile, in the men’s 100-metre freestyle, China’s Pan Zhanle obliterated his own world record at the Paris Olympics on Wednesday

The 19-year-old sensation's time of 46.40 seconds shaved an incredible 0.40 seconds off his previous mark set at the World Championships in Doha in February.

Australia’s silver medallist Kyle Chalmers finished a yawning 1.08 seconds behind Pan, while David Popovici finished a further 0.01 seconds behind for the bronze.

Home hero Leon Marchand took his second gold medal of the Paris Olympics and set up the possibility of an unprecedented same-day 200 metres butterfly and breaststroke double at a pulsating La Defense Arena.

France’s Paris Games poster boy Leon Marchand went where no swimmer has gone before by winning the 200 metres breaststroke and butterfly golds on the same night - and both in Olympic record times - at his home Olympics on Wednesday.

Australia’s Zac Stubblety-Cook, the 2021 champion in Tokyo, had to settle for silver while Caspar Corbeau of the Netherlands took the bronze.

The Paris 2024 poster boy took the 200 butterfly title in Olympic record time and, roared on by his fans, beat Hungary’s world record holder and reigning champion Kristof Milak into second place.

Canada’s Ilya Kharun took the bronze in a race led by Milak until the final length.

Katie Ledecky the American iron-woman secured a record-equalling eighth gold medal in the sport to retain her 1,500-metre freestyle title at the Paris Olympics on Wednesday.

World record holder Ledecky blew away the field in the gruelling, 30-lap race at La Defense Arena, touching the wall in an Olympic record 15.30.02, more than 10 seconds ahead of France’s silver medallist Anastasiia Kirpichnikova.

Isabel Gose of Germany took bronze.