Today at the Olympics: Tuesday’s schedule and highlights including Josh Kerr vs Jakob Ingebrigtsen

6 Aug 2024 • 8:37 PM MYT
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Team GB continue their hunt for more medals at the Olympics on Tuesday as Paris 2024 rolls on with another hectic schedule in the French capital.

Tuesday’s highlights

Josh Kerr’s 1500m final showdown with Jabok Ingebrigtsen has been dubbed a “race for the ages” and is perhaps the highlight of the entire athletics schedule at these Olympics. Kerr is the world champion and bronze medallist from Tokyo while Ingebrigtsen is the reigning Olympic champion - there is also no love lost between the pair, which only adds to what should be an epic at the Stade de France.

Elsewhere in the athletics, the women’s 200m final is set to feature the new 100m champion Julian Alfred, as well as American star Gabby Thomas. Great Britain’s Daryll Neita and Dina Asher-Smith will hope to go through and join them.

It was a record-breaking opening day at the track cycling and the men’s team sprint side will look to follow the women’s gold. Jack Carlin, Edward Lowe and Hamish Turnbull.

Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix targets a second Olympic diving medal in the individual 10m final, having won synchro bronze along with

Sky Brown won bronze in Tokyo at the age of just 13, and the now 16-year-old targets a second Olympic medal in the final of the women’s park.

Team GB won gold in the equestrian team jumping earlier in the Games, and Ben Maher, Harry Charles and Scott Brash now go for individual gold in the jumping final.

Elsewhere, Lewis Richardson is guaranteed a bronze medal already in the men’s light middleweight. In the semi-finals, he goes for either bronze or silver against Mexico’s Marco Verde.

Here are the day’s top picks for Team GB and a full rundown from around Paris:

Team GB watch

All times BST

Ben Maher, Scott Brash, Harry Charles – equestrian, jumping (9am BST)

Sky Brown – skateboarding, women’s park (11.30am qualifying, 4pm final)

Andrea Spendolini Sirieix – diving, women’s 10m platform (2pm)

Michael Beckett - sailing, men’s dinghy medal race (2.43pm)

Elinor Barker, Josie Knight, Anna Morris, Jessica Roberts - track cycling, women’s team pursuit qualifying (4.30pm)

Ed Lowe, Hamish Turnbull, Jack Carlin - track cycling, men’s team sprint (5.59pm first round, 6.55pm final)

Ethan Hayter, Oliver Wood, Daniel Bigham, Ethan Vernon - track cycling, men’s team pursuit first round (6.14pm)

Jacob Fincham-Dukes – athletics, men’s long jump (7.15pm)

Josh Kerr, Neil Gourley – athletics, men’s 1500m (7.50pm)

Lizzie Bird – athletics, women’s 3000m steeplechase (8.14pm)

Dina Asher-Smith, Daryll Neita – athletics, women’s 200m (8.40pm)

Lewis Richardson - boxing, men’s 71kg semi-final v Marco Alonso Verde Alvarez (8.46pm)

Day 11 (Tuesday August 6) - 17 gold medal events

Artistic swimming

Athletics

Basketball

Beach volleyball

Boxing

Canoe sprint

Cycling (track)

Diving

Equestrian

Football

Handball

Hockey

Sailing

Skateboarding

Sport climbing

Table tennis

Volleyball

Water polo

Wrestling