Team GB secured five more medals today with at least two more on the way, taking our overall tally to 57. Our first came in the final race of the Women's 470 race where Hannah Mills and Saskia Clark secured Britain's fourth silver medal in Sailing.
The pair were in a battle with New Zealand's duo, Jo Aleh and Olivia Powrie, for the gold medal but could only manage ninth in the final race. The New Zealand duo scored a time of 32:34 to win the final event and secure gold with an overall tally of 53. The Brits would finish on 59 to scoop silver with the Dutch pairing, Lisa Westerhof and Lobke Berkhout, winning bronze.
The first of our Male Boxing medals came for Anthony Ogogo today after losing his semi-final bout. He faced a tough opponent in Brazil's Esquiva Falcao Florentino who is bidding, along with his brother, to be the first sibling boxing gold medallists in the same games since 1976. Ogogo fought hard but eventually lost 16-9 to settle for bronze.
After narrowly losing to Argentina, the Women's Hockey team bounced back to secure the bronze medal against New Zealand. A penalties from Alex Danson (44:51) and Sarah Thomas (62:37) along with Crista Cullen's 59th minute goal put GB 3-0 ahead. A penalty from Stacey Michelsen gave New Zealand a consolation on 68-minutes but Britain ultimately came away with the medal.
Bronze continued to be the colour of the day as the controversial Lutalo Muhammad also walked away with a medal. The argument over whether he or Aaron Cook should have picked will continue to rumble on but nothing should be taken away from Muhammad. His tournament looked over when he lost 7-3 to Spain's Nicolas Garcia Hemme.
But it did put him into the bronze medal contest where faced Iran's Yousef Karami who lost to Hemme in the Preliminaries. Muhammad managed to beat him 11-7 to set up the bronze medal face-off against semi-finalist Arman Yeremyan from Armenia. Muhammad was able to beat him 9-3 to take the medal.
Our final medal of the day came in the Men's High Jump. A mark of 2.29 metres was enough for Britain's Robert Grabarz, along with Qatar's Essa Mutaz Barshim and Canada's Derek Drouin, to take the bronze medal. USA's Erik Kynard took silver with a height of 2.33 while Russia's Ivan Ukhov won gold with 2.38 metres.
But the colour may be set to change once again as two more medals are still to received. Luke Campbell will at least win silver on Saturday when he face Ireland's John Joe Nevin in the Men's Bantam Final. Campbell beat Japan's Satoshi Shimizu 20-11 while Nevin beat top seed Lazaro Alvarez Estrada of Cuba, 19-14, to set up the iconic final.
Freddie Evans has also guaranteed himself at least silver after getting through to the Men's Welter final on Sunday. Cardiff's Evans beat top seed Taras Shelestyuk of Ukraine 11-10 to set up the final against Kazakhstan's Serik Sapiyev.
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