Hello! It’s Saturday in Tokyo and we have a spectacular run of events coming up. Here’s my colleague Martin Belam with his rundown of the highlights for the day.
All events are listed here in local Tokyo time. Add an hour for Sydney, subtract eight hours for Gateshead, 13 hours for New York and 16 hours for San Francisco. You’ve got this sorted now, right?
🌟If you only watch one thing: 9am-12.30pm and 7pm-9.50pm Athletics – so much to watch. The morning sees preliminaries in the men’s 100m, heats in the 800m and the pole vault qualifiers. The women are doing 100m hurdles, 400m hurdles and discus. Then in the evening there’s more men’s 100m races and the long jump qualification. The women have their 800m semi-finals. The medals? At 8.15pm the men’s discus final starts. At 9.35pm there’s the 4x400m mixed relay final. The session finishes at 9.50pm with the women’s 100m final.
- 7.30am Triathlon – the mixed relay goes very early in Tokyo, which makes it an 11.30pm bedtime watch on Friday night in the UK 🥇
- 7.45am Golf – round two was halted due to the danger of lightning strikes. It will resume first thing, and then the third round is expected to start at 9.30am. Competitors will tee off from both the 1st and the 10th holes. Xander Schauffele of the US is currently leading on 11 under, with Mexico’s Carlos Ortiz a shot behind.
- 9am-6pm Rugby sevens – it’s the sharp end of the women’s competition. The semi-finals are Fiji v New Zealand at 11am and Team GB v France at 11.30am, the bronze medal match is at 5.30pm, the final at 6pm 🥇
- 10.30am-11.43am Swimming – there’s only a morning session on Saturday, which includes four finals: mens 100m butterfly, women’s 200m backstroke and 800m freestyle, and the mixed 4x100m medley finishes the day 🥇
- 11am-7.50pm Judo – it is the final day of judo at the Nippon Budokan, with the mixed team competition. The finals start at 5pm 🥇
- 11am-7.24pm Boxing – the first medals in boxing will be awarded today, as the losing semi-finalists in the women’s featherweight will both get a bronze. The first is at 1.39pm, and Great Britain’s Karriss Artingstall is in the second, which is last fight of the day at 7.24pm 🥉
- 1pm-2.50pm Trampoline gymnastics – the second and final day is the men’s competition 🥇
- 2.33pm-3.33pm Windsurfing – conditions permitting, it should be the women’s and the men’s RS:X class 🥇
- 3pm Tennis – slightly frustratingly it is not quite clear when the women’s singles final will start. Marketa Vondrousova v Belinda Bencic is third on the order of play, after first Djokovic and Carreño Busta, and then Rybakina and Svitolina, battle it out for their respective bronzes 🥇
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You can find our full interactive events schedule here. Not only does it tell you what is coming up, it has results of everything that has been on, and also carries scores and standings of everything live.
As it stands
Here’s how the emoji table stood at 11.15pm Tokyo time
1 🇨🇳 China 🥇 19 🥈 10 🥉 11 total: 40
2 🇯🇵 Japan 🥇 17 🥈 4 🥉 7 total: 28
3 🇺🇸 USA 🥇 14 🥈 16 🥉 11 total: 41
4 ◽️ Not Russia 🥇 10 🥈 14 🥉 10 total: 34
5 🇦🇺 Australia 🥇 9 🥈 2 🥉 11 total: 22
6 🇬🇧 Great Britain 🥇 6 🥈 9 🥉 9 total: 24
7 🇰🇷 South Korea 🥇 5 🥈 4 🥉 6 total: 15
8 🇳🇱 Netherlands 🥇 3 🥈 7 🥉 5 total: 15
9 🇫🇷 France 🥇 3 🥈 5 🥉 5 total: 13
10 🇩🇪 Germany🥇 3 🥈 4 🥉 9 total: 16