Here are the major highlights of day 8 of the Paris Olympics 2024:

Tennis:

Australian duo Matthew Ebden and John Peers won the men’s doubles gold medal in tennis at the Olympics as they beat American pair Austin Krajicek and Rajeev Ram 6-7(6) 7-6(1) 10-8 on Saturday.

Americans Taylor Fritz and Tommy Paul also finished on the podium, earning the bronze by beating Czech duo Tomas Machac and Adam Pavlasek 6-3 6-4.

Zheng Qinwen became the first Chinese player to win an Olympic tennis singles gold medal when she held off Croatia’s Donna Vekic for a 6-2 6-3 win in a tense final on Saturday.

Iga swiatek of Poland took bronze.

Rowing:

Dutch rower Karolien Florijn won in the women’s single sculls Olympic final on Saturday at 7:17.28, with Emma Twigg of New Zealand picking up silver and Lithuania's Viktorija Senkute bronze.

World champion Oliver Zeidler of Germany won the delayed men’s single sculls race ahead of independent neutral athlete Yauheni Zalaty from Belarus and Dutch rower Simon van Dorp.

With World champions Romania in control from the beginning secured gold in the women’s eight and Canada held off a strong challenge from the British crew to take the silver medal, 0.67 seconds ahead of the British, who took bronze.

The men’s eight race turned into a fascinating tactical battle as the British blazed through the first 500 and then, roared on by coxswain Harry Brightmore, they hung on for victory despite a strong challenge from the Dutch.

Tipped by many as favourites for the gold medal, the American crew struggled in the early part of the course and never really recovered, finishing in third place.

Shooting:

Yang Ji-in struck gold in the women’s 25 metres pistol event in her dream Olympic debut but the 21-year-old was made to work for it by local favourite Camille Jedrzejewski, who won silver.

Both the shooters were tied at 37 in the final, forcing a shoot-off in which Yang eventually prevailed 4-1.

Hungary’s Veronika Major won the bronze, also via shoot-off, denying India's Manu Bhaker a third medal at the Paris Games.

Vincent Hancock cemented his status as a skeet shooting great after winning his fourth Olympic gold medal, beating protege and fellow American Conner Prince at the Paris Games on Saturday.

Hancock qualified behind Prince but dug deep into his vast experience to prevail 58-57 to secure his fourth gold in five Olympic appearances.

Lee Menga Yuan of Taipei took bronze.

Equestrian:

Germany’s dressage queen Isabell Werth became her country’s most decorated Olympian on Saturday as she led her team to victory over Denmark and Britain in the dressage team grand prix special.

Defending Olympic champion Jessica von Bredow-Werndl later sealed the razor-thin win for Germany who got a total score of 235.79 points, ahead of Denmark with 235.67 and Britain with 232.49.

Cycling:

Belgium’s Remco Evenepoel had a heart-in-mouth moment as he claimed gold in the Olympic men’s road race in impressive fashion on Saturday to become the first male rider to achieve the double after also winning the time trial.

Evenepoel’s brutal attack left French Valentin Madouas, who was hovering 1:15 behind when Evenepoel’s incident occurred, gasping for air but the Frenchman hung on to take silver after 273km, one minute and 11 seconds off the pace.

Christophe Laporte of France took bronze.

Sailing:

Italian Marta Maggetti pulled off a strategic masterstroke in a women’s single windsurfing event with Israel’s Sharon Kantor snatching silver. Emma Wilson of Britain took bronze.

Israel dominated in the windsurfing as Tom Reuveny claimed Olympic gold in the men’s windsurfing on Saturday.

Australia’s Grae Morris took the men's silver and Luuc van Opzeeland of the Netherlands won bronze.

Table tennis:

China’s defending champion Chen Meng took the women’s singles table tennis gold medal as she beat teammate Sun Yingsha 4-2 to win at the Paris Olympics on Saturday.

Japan’s Hina Hayata, won the bronze medal match by beating South Korea’s Shin Yu-bin 4-2 after overcoming injury for a hard-fought victory.

Archery:

South Korea’s Lim Sihyeon won gold in the women’s individual archery event at the Olympics on Saturday, her third title in her first Games.

Lim’s compatriot Nam Suhyeon took silver and France’s Lisa Barbelin fought off South Korea’s Jeon Hunyoung to claim the bronze, her country’s first medal in the event bringing a wild roar from the crowd.

Gymnastics:

Carlos Edriel Yulo produced a spectacular performance to win the men’s floor exercise final at the Paris Games on Saturday, earning the Philippines their first-ever Olympic medal in gymnastics.

Yulo scored 15.000 points, edging out Tokyo champion Artem Dolgopyat of Israel by just 0.034 of a point.

Top qualifier Jake Jarman of Britain settled for third, just 0.067 of a point adrift of the gold medal spot after committing small landing errors on his tumbles.

Simone Biles’ showed no sign of waning as she soared above her rivals in the vault final on Saturday to scoop a third gold at the Paris Olympics, while Ireland and the Philippines enjoyed a historic day in women’s vault gymnastics.

Following her success in the team and all-around finals earlier in the week, the American was again the standout performer on the vault as she beat Brazilian rival Rebeca Andrade with an average score of 15.300 points from her two vaults.

Fellow American Jade Carey took bronze.

Rhys McClenaghan struck gold on the pommel horse on Saturday at the Paris Games, earning Ireland their first-ever Olympic gymnastics medal.

McClenaghan had held off what he described as the strongest Olympic pommel horse field in history, which included silver medallist Nariman Kurbanov of Kazakhstan and bronze finisher Stephen Nedoroscik of the US.

Athletics:

American Ryan Crouser became the first man to “three-peat” in the Olympic shot put on Saturday, adding another gold medal to his packed trophy cabinet with a mighty throw of 22.90 metres.

His compatriot Joe Kovacs won his third straight silver and Jamaica’s Rajindra Campbell took bronze.

Thea LaFond made history for the Caribbean island nation of Dominica by winning gold in the triple jump on Saturday to claim the country’s first-ever Olympic medal.

Jamaica’s Shanieka Ricketts took silver and American Jasmine Moore claimed bronze.

The Netherlands secured the victory in the Olympic 4x400 metres mixed relay on Saturday.

The Dutch team of Eugene Omalla, Lieke Klaver, Isaya Klein Ikkink and Bol clocked three minutes 7.43 seconds, missing the world record time the Americans set in Friday’s heats by just two-hundredths of a second.

The US took the silver medal in 3:07.74 and Britain claimed bronze in 3:08.01.

Julien Alfred delivered a brilliant gun-to-tape performance to win the women’s 100-metre final in a rain-sodden Stade de France on Saturday and claim Saint Lucia’s first-ever Olympic medal.

Alfred, 23, made her usual slick start and remained clear in heavy rain to come home in a national record 10.72 seconds.

World champion and race favourite Sha’Carri Richardson took silver in 10.87 but the American never really threatened and her compatriot Melissa Jefferson claimed bronze in 10.92.

Judo:

France won against Japan in a moment of great drama to give France the judo mixed team title at the Paris Games on Saturday.

Brazil and South Korea both won bronze medals.

Fencing:

Ukraine claimed the gold medal in the women’s sabre team event as they rallied to edge South Korea in a thrilling final bout at the Paris Games on Saturday.

Japan also won their first medal in the event, upsetting top-ranked France in the bronze medal match, with the hosts missing out on the podium despite having individual event champion Manon Apithy-Brunet and runner-up Sara Balzer.

Badminton:

China’s Chen Qingchen and Jia Yifan beat compatriots Liu Shengshu and Tan Ning to the women’s doubles badminton gold at the Porte de La Chapelle arena in the Paris Games on Saturday.

The Chinese team won 22-20 21-15 over their third-ranked rivals.

Japan’s Chiharu Shida and Nami Matsuyama bagged the bronze after defeating Malaysia’s Pearly Tan and Thinaah Muralitharan.

Swimming:

Hungarian powerhouse Kristof Milak stormed to a second Olympic gold with victory in a thrilling men’s 100 metres butterfly final on Saturday, while adding to the silver medal he won in the 200m event at the Paris Games.

Milak touched the wall in 49.90, 0.09 seconds ahead of Canadian runner-up Josh Liendo.

Ilya Kharun grabbed a second bronze for Canada, having also taken one in the 200m butterfly in Paris.

Summer McIntosh became the first Canadian athlete to take three golds from a single Olympics when she won the 200-metre individual medley at the Paris Games on Saturday.

Kate Douglass of the United States won the silver and Australian Kaylee McKeown was awarded the bronze after US swimmer Alex Walsh, the 2021 silver medallist, was disqualified for an illegal turn at the end of the backstroke leg.

Katie Ledecky tore up the record books again at the Paris Games by claiming a ninth career gold medal in women’s 800m freestyle.

She won the 800 in 8:11.04, a second clear of Australia’s silver medallist Ariarne Titmus in a repeat of their Tokyo 2020 tussle.

Ledecky’s teammate Paige Madden took bronze.

Caeleb Dressel won a ninth career Olympic gold medal from the sidelines as the United States romped to victory in the mixed 4x100 metres medley relay in world record time at the Paris Games on Saturday.

The winning time of three minutes 37.43 seconds smashed the record of 3:37.58 set by previous champions Britain at the 2021 Tokyo Games.

China took the silver 0.12 behind and Australia the bronze. France, with Leon Marchand swimming the second leg, finished fourth — the four-gold national hero’s first defeat in a final at the La Defense Arena.