Tokyo Olympics: Kiwis in action - Wednesday, August 4

  • 01/01/2021

When are our NZ athletes competing at the Tokyo Olympics.

Wednesday, August 4

CANOEING

Women's K1 500 heats & quarterfinals - Lisa Carrington, 1st 1m 48.463s (into semi-final on August 5) 

Women's K1 500 heats - Caitlin Regal, 3rd 1m 50.297s (into semi-final on August 5)

Men's K2 1000 heats & quarterfinals - Max Brown & Kurtis Imrie, 4th 3m 17.210s (into quarter-final) & 2nd 3m 10.220s (into semi-final on August 5)

CYCLING

Men's sprint qualifying, 1/32 & 1/16 - Ethan Mitchell, 24th 9.705s (into 1/32), lost to Jeffrey Hoogland (Netherlands, into repechages), 3rd (did not progress)

Men's sprint qualifying, 1/32 & 1/16 - Sam Webster, 18th 9.631s (into 1/32), beat Rudyk Mateusz (Poland, into 1/16), beat Sebastien Vigier (France, into quarter-final on August 5)

Women's keirin first round/repechages - Ellesse Andrews, 4th (into repechage), 1st (into quarter-finals on August 5)

Men's team pursuit bronze medal race - Aaron Gate, Regan Gough, Jordan Kerby, Campbell Stewart & Corbin Strong lost to Australia (crashed)

EQUESTRIAN

Showjumping individual final - Daniel Meech eliminated

GOLF

Women's individual strokeplay, round 1 - Lydia Ko, 15th= 70

SAILING

Men's 470 medal race - Paul Snow-Hansen & Daniel Willcox, 3rd (4th overall)

WEIGHTLIFTING

Men's +109kg - David Liti, 5th 175kg snatch, 236kg clearn & jerk, 214kg total