Paris 2024: Team GB star Keely Hodgkinson qualifies for women’s 800m semis, Joshua Cheptegei wins men’s 10,000m gold

Keely Hodgkinson might be joined within the girls’s 800m semi-finals by Group GB team-mates Jemma Reekie and teenager Phoebe Gill at Paris 2024.

Two-time European champion Hodgkinson is on a quest to win a maiden Olympic gold, and he or she moved a step nearer by successful warmth 4 in a time of 1:59.31 to qualify for Sunday’s semi-final.

It was a snug race for the 22-year-old British sensation as she crossed the road first forward of the USA’s Nia Akins and Benin’s Noelie Yarigo.

Reekie had set the tone by successful the opening warmth in a blistering time of two minutes, having led from the beginning.

Seventeen-year-old Gill – Group GB’s youngest observe athlete to compete within the Olympics in additional than 4 a long time – got here via a tricky warmth to complete third in 1:58.83.

Uganda’s Joshua Cheptegei set a brand new Olympic file to win the boys’s 10,000m gold.

Regardless of threatening to interrupt his world file, Cheptegei needed to accept a blistering time of 26:43.14, with Ethopia’s Berihu Aregawi taking silver in 26:43.44 and American Grant Fisher’s time of 26:43.46 sufficient for bronze.

“My assortment for the observe is actually full as a result of I’m the three-time world champion on the observe,” Cheptegui informed Eurosport.

“I am so excited and I actually thank God as a result of it took me lots of braveness and I thank God as a result of he has made it doable.”

Earlier, the Group GB quartet of Sam Reardon, Laviai Nielsen, Alex Haydock-Wilson and Nicole Yeargin set a British file within the combined 4x400m relay heats after ending in a time of three:10.61.

They completed first, forward of the Netherlands and Italy, to qualify for Saturday’s remaining.

In the meantime, america ran 3:07.41 to interrupt a brand new world file and take their warmth in fashionable style.