Team GB at Paris 2024 Olympics: Preview, highlights, athletes to watch and schedule for 6 August
The 6 August and British athletes continue their incredible progress on Day 11 of the Olympic Games Paris 2024.
Dina Asher-Smith, the world champion in the women's 200m in 2019 and a world bronze medallist in 2022, goes in the half lap on the fifth day of stadium athletics.
World champion in the men's 1500m Josh Kerr continues his rivalry with Norway’s Jakob Ingebrigtsen.
Sky Brown, another world champion from Great Britain, features in the women's park skateboarding prelims, with the final following afterwards. Now age 16, Brown was just 13 when she won Olympic bronze for Team GB at Tokyo 2020.
Ben Maher won a six-way jump-off in Tokyo to take individual jumping gold in equestrian, so is all in for defending his title, while women's team pursuit qualifying begins in track cycling with GB regrouping quickly following Katie Archibald's absence from the Games after breaking her leg in a freak garden accident shortly before leaving for Paris.
Micky Beckett, a world silver medallist in sailing last year, goes for a medal in the men's one-person dinghy (the ILCA 7, formerly named Laser).
Andrea Spendolini-Siriex returns to compete, individually this time, in the women’s 10m platform diving after securing a first-ever Olympic bronze in the discipline in the synchro event with Lois Toulson on Wednesday, 31 July. Toulson is reserve for the final while Spendolini-Siriex qualified in third.
Read on to discover Team GB’s highlights on Day 11 of Paris 2024.
British athletes to watch on 6 August at Paris 2024: Sky Brown, Dina Asher-Smith and Ben Maher
Skateboarding phenom Sky Brown "doesn't want to play it safe in Paris," she has stated, putting to bed any concerns about taking it easy after tearing her MCL in April and discloating her shoulder the day before heading to France. The bronze medallist at the inaugural edition of the sport at Tokyo 2020, is eyeing top spot after she was one of the favourites in Japan.
Asher-Smith takes to the purple-hued track for the athletics competition at the Stade de France, having come through the semi-final safely and will want an Olympic individual medal to add to her two 4x100m relay bronze medals from Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020, and to put aside the disappointment of not qualifying on Saturday, 3 August for the 100m final in Paris.
World silver medallist and Harvard University graduate Gabby Thomas of the USA, as well as Saint Lucia's Julien Alfred, winner of the women's 100m, are the ones to watch.
Maher has made a last-minute change to his steed and will ride reserve horse Dallas Vegas Batilly instead of Point Break in the individual jumping event. He'll use his considerable experience at his fifth Olympic Games to defend his title from Tokyo 2020 to add to the team gold won on Friday, 2 August alongside Scott Brash and Harry Charles, who will also compete in the individual event.
Paris 2024 schedule highlights for Team GB on 6 August
All times listed in British Summer Time
Sky Brown in the women's skateboarding park
11:30 prelims / 16:30 final
Dina Asher-Smith in the women's 200m
20:40
Ben Maher in the equestrian individual jumping
09:00