Here are the major highlights of the event of the day 7 of the Paris Olympic2024:

Cycling:

Joris Daudet led a French clean sweep of the podium in men’s BMX racing on Friday.

His compatriots Sylvain Andre and Romain Mahieu took silver and bronze in front of an ecstatic home crowd in the Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines stadium to chants of “Allez les bleus”.

Saya Sakakibara of Australia won gold in women’s BMX racing in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines.

Manon Veenstra of the Netherlands took silver, while Zoe Claessens of Switzerland claimed bronze.

Swimming:

Leon Marchand fulfilled what French fans may regard as destiny as he swept to a fourth gold medal at his home Paris Games with another dominant victory in the men’s 200-metre individual medley on Friday.

Britain’s Duncan Scott won the silver, more than a second behind Marchand, while China’s defending champion Wang Shun took the bronze.

Cameron McEvoy wrote his name on the list of Olympic champions at the Paris Games on Friday as the first Australian man to win swimming’s fastest race, the 50 metres freestyle “splash and dash”.

Britain’s Ben Proud took the silver his first Olympic medal and France’s Florent Manaudou the bronze.

Australia’s Kaylee McKeown cemented her place among the greats of Olympic swimming on Friday as she became the first woman to retain both of the backstroke titles with a stunning gold in the 200m backstroke event in Paris.

The 23-year-old world record-holder overhauled American challenger Regan Smith to claim the win in an Olympic record 2:03.73 at a rocking La Defense Arena.

Kylie Masse took bronze for Canada.

Shooting:

Switzerland’s Chiara Leone ensured Olympic gold in the women’s 50-metre rifle in a Friday rollercoaster final at the Paris Games.

The top five in the eight-strong field frequently exchanged places heading into the elimination round where the 26-year-old prevailed with an Olympic record tally of 464.4.

Sagen Maddalena (463) of the United States won the silver while Chinese world champion Zhang Qiongyue took the bronze.

Rowing:

Croatia won gold in the men’s pair at the Vaires-sur-Marne Nautical Stadium on Friday.

The Sinkovic brothers finished ahead of silver medallists Britain and Switzerland, who took bronze, while the Dutch pair of Ymkje Clevering and Veronique Meester eased to victory in the women’s pairs.

Romania came in second to take the silver medal, with Australia picking up the bronze.

In the men’s lightweight double sculls, Ireland took home the gold medal while Britain won the women’s lightweight double sculls gold medal at the Vaires-sur-Marne Nautical Stadium on Friday.

Italy came in second to take the silver, with Greece picking up the bronze in men’s sculls similarly Romania came in second to secure the silver in women’s lightweight double sculls, with Greece taking the bronze.

Sailing:

Diego Botin and Florian Trittel of Spain stormed to Olympic men’s skiff gold on Friday, while Odile van Aanholt and Annette Duetz clinched victory for the Netherlands in the women’s skiff event.

With the points tallied, the ‘McKiwi’ men’s skiff of Isaac McHardie and William McKenzie won silver for New Zealand and Ian Barrows and Hans Henken of the United States bronze.

Earlier, the Dutch women recovered from a dramatic last-minute error to secure gold as the overall leaders on points. Sweden landed silver and France bronze in the first medals of the 10-event Olympic sailing competition.

Diving:

China’s Wang Zongyuan and Long Daoyi retained China’s men’s synchronised 3-metre springboard title at the Paris Olympics on Friday, claiming the country’s fourth gold in the sport and keeping alive their goal of taking all eight on offer.

Mexico’s Juan Celaya and Osmar Olvera took silver and Anthony Harding and Jack Laugher from Britain won the bronze.

Trampoline:

Britain’s Bryony Page claimed gold in the women’s trampoline at the Paris Games on Friday in a nerve-wracking final at the Bercy Arena on her third Olympic medal-winning appearance.

Viyaleta Bardzilouskaya, a Belarusian competing as an individual neutral athlete, clinched silver, while Canada’s Sophiane Methot took bronze.

Belarusian Ivan Litvinovich bounced his way to the top of the podium at the Paris Olympics on Friday to win the men’s trampoline final.

Litvinovich overcame nerves to retain his title from the Tokyo Olympics with a score of 63.090, beating silver medallist China’s Wang Zisai by more than a point.

Wang’s compatriot Yan Langyu took bronze.

Equestrian:

Britain’s equestrian team bagged another Olympic title as showjumpers Ben Maher, Harry Charles, and Scott Brash won gold on Friday with almost no errors on a challenging course to bring further cheer in the wake of the damaging Charlotte Dujardin scandal.

Securing a third team win in the discipline with two-time penalties and no knocked-off rails, Britain triumphed ahead of France who took silver and the United States secured bronze.

Badminton:

China’s Zheng Siwei and Huang Yaqiong demolished South Korea’s Kim Won-ho and Jeong Na-eun 21-8 21-11 to win the Olympic badminton mixed doubles gold medal at the Porte de La Chapelle Arena on Friday.

Japan’s Arisa Higashino and Yuta Watanabe took the bronze by beating South Korea’s Chae Yu-jung and Seo Seung-jae 21-13 22-20.

Judo:

Brazilian Beatriz Souza won the gold medal in the women’s over 78kg category in judo at the Paris Olympics on Friday.

Raz Hershko of Israel took silver, while France’s Romane Dicko and Kim Ha-yun of South Korea were awarded bronze.

In the men’s +100kg category Frenchman Teddy Riner claimed a record fourth Olympic judo gold medal, beating world number one Kim Minjong of South Korea on Friday.

Tajikistan’s Temur Rakhimov and Alisher Yusupov of Uzbekistan were awarded bronzes.

Archery:

South Korea’s mixed archery pair of Lim Si-hyeon and Kim Woo-jin swept the floor 6-0 with their German opponents to take the gold medal and retain their title at the Paris Olympics on Friday.

The United States won the bronze medal.

Tennis:

Czech pair Katerina Siniakova and Tomas Machac won the Olympic tennis mixed doubles gold medal with victory in the final against China’s Wang Xinyu and Zhang Zhizhen on Friday.

Doubles specialist Siniakova and Machac, who are in a relationship off the court, combined superbly and held their nerve in a tense finale to win 6-2 5-7 10-8.

Canadians Felix Auger-Aliassime and Gabriela Dabrowski beat Dutch pair Demi Schuurs and Wesley Koolhof to take the bronze.

Fencing:

Hungary did just enough to dethrone Tokyo champions Japan and snatch gold in the men’s epee team event winning 26-25 against the defending champions at the Paris Olympics on Friday after cruising through the early rounds.

France went on to lose 43-41 to the Czech Republic, who claimed the bronze medal.

Athletics:

World record holder Joshua Cheptegei claimed the Olympic 10,000 metres men’s title by winning a fantastic race and taking the Games’ first track gold.

The 27-year-old Ugandan covered the rack in 26:43.14 minutes – knocking 18 seconds off Kenenisa Bekele’s 2008 Olympic record.

Ethiopian Berihu Aregawi finished strongly for silver in 26:43.44 and Grant Fisher took a superb bronze in 26:43.46 for the United States.