Team GB at Paris 2024 Olympics: Preview, highlights, athletes to watch and schedule for 1 August

August begins, and it's a busy day for Team GB athletes competing on Day 6 of the Olympic Games Paris 2024.

Team GB's rowers have had a cracking start to the regatta in Paris after the women's quadruple sculls secured gold on Wednesday, 31 July. Having been the top nation in 2008, 2012, and 2016 but dropping to 14th in rowing's medal table at Tokyo 2020, this is exactly the start they wanted.

Today, Helen Glover, a three-time Olympian before Paris with two gold medals, returns in the women's four with the men's four, the 2022 and 2023 world champions, also looking for medals.

Joe Clarke goes for gold in canoe slalom in the men's kayak single, while the first sailing medals will be won in the women's skiffs and men's skiffs.

Reigning Olympic BMX racing champion Beth Shriever and silver medallist Kye Whyte also begin their Olympic campaigns, while the women's gymnastics individual all-around final will be a huge draw yet again.

Golf gets underway with the start of the men's event and Tommy Fleetwood and Matt Fitzpatrick will be up against the likes of Ireland's Rory McIlroy, while Team GB men's hockey take on hosts France, and the women, Team USA.

And that's just a selection of the highlights on an action-packed day for Team GB in Paris.

Read on to discover Team GB's highlights on Day 6 of Paris 2024.

• Olympic Games Paris 2024 schedule

British athletes to watch on 1 August at Paris 2024: Helen Glover, Joe Clarke and Beth Shriever

Helen Glover returns to the rowing fray for her fourth Olympic Games and with "more fire in my belly that I ever thought possible" due to her three young children being there to roar her - and teammates Esme Booth, Sam Redgrave and Rebecca Shorten - across the finish line.

Oli Wilkes, David Ambler, Matt Aldridge and Freddie Davidson take on the men's edition, while the finals of the women's double sculls, men's double sculls also take place today.

Joe Clarke missed out on a place at Tokyo 2020 so was unable to defend his title in men's single kayak (K1) from Rio 2016. This time out he has two medals in mind, one in this discipline, and also in the new kayak cross event for Paris 2024 in which he is three-time world champion.

• What is kayak cross, a new event for Paris 2024?

Beth Shriever returns to the Olympic stage after securing a breathless gold in Japan, so exhausted after crossing the line her legs buckled, and Kye Whyte, her silver medal-winning compatriot who is also back for a second Olympic Games, scooping her up in his arms in a joint celebration. Shriever has been dominant ever since but broke her collarbone in May so it has been a race against time to be fit.

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Paris 2024 schedule highlights for Team GB on 1 August

All times listed in BST

Helen Glover in women's rowing coxless four

9.54 a.m.

Joe Clarke in the men’s kayak single semi-final, and final

2.30 p.m. & 4.30 p.m.

Beth Shriever in BMX racing

7.20 p.m. Women's quarter-finals