What will happen on day 13 of Paris 2024?
A total of 27 gold medal events will be contested on Day 13, Thursday, August 8. Today's featured events are:
Team sports come to exciting conclusion, focus on world records
The men's basketball competition will advance to the semifinals (5:30 p.m., 9 p.m.), the men's soccer bronze medalist will be decided (5 p.m.) and the men's hockey tournament will conclude (2 p.m., 7 p.m.).
Will the men's speed climbing world record be broken as the competition draws to a close (12:28pm)? Samuel Watson has already shaved his own record of 4.79 seconds down to 4.75 seconds, but Watson has posted training videos in the run up to the Olympics in which he completes an even faster ascent of the 15m wall. The record could definitely be broken again.
Athletics: Lyles, McLaughlin-Levrone, Chopra
Noah Lyles will be looking to complete the second leg of a potential triple crown in the men's 200-meter final (8:30 p.m.) on Aug. 8. Lyles, the U.S. national record holder, has publicly stated his desire to break Usain Bolt's world record, and his personal best is just 0.12 seconds off Bolt's mark.
Meanwhile, India will be looking to win a second Olympic gold medal in athletics with defending champion Neeraj Chopra competing in the men's javelin final (8.25pm). In Tokyo, Chopra will become India's first individual Olympic champion since 2008 and its first in athletics. But competition remains stiff with the likes of Jakub Fadreici and Julian Weber of Germany.
And Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone seems like a tough runner to beat: She set a new world record (pending ratification) of 50.65 seconds at the US Trials and is the overwhelming favorite going into the women's 400m hurdles final (9:25 p.m.), with no one else coming close, but don't overlook Femke Boll, the only other woman to have broken 51 seconds.
Sailing: Singapore could win historic medal
The small Southeast Asian island nation has only had one Olympic champion so far: Joseph Schooling, who won gold in swimming at the Rio Olympics in 2016. But that could all change on the 13th day at Marseille Marina, when a new event (starting at 3:40 pm, if conditions are right) will see the crowning of the first sailing kiteboarding champion.
That's thanks to Max Mader, who is already a two-time world champion at just 17 years old, with a silver medal in 2022 and three Youth World Championship titles to his name. Mader also won gold at last year's Asian Games, adding another to his growing list of achievements.
Medal Events
Athletics (track events)
20:00: Women's Long Jump Final; 20:25: Men's Javelin Final; 20:30: Men's 200m Final; 21:25: Women's 400m Hurdles Final; 21:45: Men's 110m Hurdles Final
boxing
21:30-22:01: Men's 57kg semi-final; 22:02-22:33: Women's 75kg semi-final (Bronze medal for semi-final losers) 22:34-22:50: Men's 51kg final; 22:51-23:06: Women's 54kg final
Canoe Sprint
13:30-13:40: M C-2 500m Final A; 13:40-13:50: W K-4 500m Final A; 13:50-14:00: M K-4 500m Final A
Cycling (Track)
19:11–19:17: W Keirin final; 19:27–20:00: M Omnium points race
diving
15:00-16:40: Men's 3m Springboard Final
football
17:00-20:00: Men's Bronze Medal Match
hockey
14:00-15:45: Men's Bronze Medal Match; 19:00-20:45: Men's Gold Medal Match
Marathon Swimming
07:30-10:00: W 10km Open Water
It depends on the water conditions.
Sailing
11:43-12:10: Mixed 2-man dinghy medal race; 12:18-12:38: Mixed multihull medal race; 15:40-16:10: Men's kiteboarding final; 16:37-17:07: Women's kiteboarding final
Sport climbing
12:54～13:00: M-Speed Final
Taekwondo
20:19–21:33: Men's 68 kg Medal Competition; 20:35–21:52: Women's 57 kg Medal Competition
Weightlifting
15:00~17:08: W 59kg; 19:30~21:38: M 73kg
wrestling
19:30-20:05: Men's Greco-Roman 67kg Medal Final; 20:05-20:40: Men's Greco-Roman 87kg Medal Final; 20:50-21:25: Women's Freestyle 53kg Final
See here for details of the daily schedule.
