Five Team GB medals on day five at the Olympics

Two gold medals in 15 minutes were the highlight of Team GB’s morning on the fifth day of the Paris Olympics.

Triathlete Alex Yee and the women’s quad sculls rowers won the fifth and sixth gold medals, while there was a BMX silver and bronze medals in triathlon and diving.

Yee looked set for silver in the men’s event when he trailed New Zealand’s Hayden Wilde late on but the 26-year-old Londoner found something extra in the closing stages to go one better than his Tokyo silver.

The women’s crew of Lauren Henry, Hannah Scott, Lola Anderson and Georgie Brayshaw had trailed the Netherlands for all of the final but put in one last push to win in a photo-finish.

Meanwhile, Kieran Reilly collected a silver medal in a thrilling conclusion to the men’s BMX freestyle final.

There were also bronzes on day five of the Games for Beth Potter in the women’s triathlon and for diving pair Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix and Lois Toulson.

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The men’s triathlon had been due to take place on Tuesday but was rescheduled until after Wednesday’s women’s race because of poor water quality in the River Seine.

Both races were given the go-ahead early on Wednesday after further quality checks on the water.

Yee was in touch with the leaders during the 1500m swim and was in a large leading group for the 40km bike leg.

His team-mate Sam Dickinson, who sacrificed himself to help Yee, led going into the 10km run but stepped aside in a pre-planned move. Yee quickly took the lead only for Wilde to first bridge the gap and then overtake him.

Wilde held a lead of 14 seconds over the Briton going into the final lap but Yee, a former British 10,000m champion, had enough left and he surged past the Kiwi in the closing stages to win in one hour 43 minutes and 33 seconds – six seconds clear of his rival with France’s Leo Bergere in third in 1:43.43.

The win sees Yee emulate Alistair Brownlee and become Britain’s second Olympic triathlon champion.

At the Vaires-sur-Marne Nautical Stadium, the GB women’s quad were chasing a first Olympic title in the event.

But the Dutch made the strongest start with the GB crew trailing in third before overtaking Ukraine and moving into second.

The 2023 world champions upped their pace and worked hard to stay in touch before unleashing a strong finish over the final 250m to win by 0.15 seconds.

“It’s been a long time in the making and I still can’t quite believe it,” Scott, who became Northern Ireland’s third gold medallist of the Games, told BBC Sport.

“I don’t know if I’m emotional yet but that will come. I think we were so process-driven and the immensity of what this is, it hasn’t caught up with me.

“The crew were amazing. We kept it so cool to the end. We had the confidence, we’ve done so many hard miles in training.”

World champion Reilly, 23, scored 93.70 points in the first of his two runs in Wednesday’s final at the Place de la Concorde to put himself in second place behind Jose Torres Gil.

And by the time he reappeared for his second run which concluded the final, he was already guaranteed a bronze medal.

However, while he was unable to overturn the 94.82 marker laid down by Argentina’s Gil, a 93.91 score was awarded after a spectacular routine and nervous wait, to ensure the Englishman reclaimed second spot from French favourite Anthony Jeanjean, who had earlier posted a 93.76.

In the women’s triathlon, Potter, who competed on the track for Team GB in the 10,000m at the 2016 Rio Games, came to Paris as the defending world champion and the winner of last year’s test event.

She left the water in fifth behind Bermuda’s Flora Duffy, who won this title at the Tokyo Olympics but the slippery wet roads around Paris caused problems for several athletes in the cycling.

However, the leading contenders were able to stay safe and head off on the 10km run.

The run pace was strong from the start with Britain’s Georgia Taylor-Brown among those unable to stay with the leaders as a lead group of four formed with Potter joined by French duo Cassandre Beaugrand and Emma Lombardi and Switzerland’s Julie Derron.

Early in the final lap, Beaugrand made the decisive break and the others were unable to respond as she finished in 1:54.55.

Derron took silver, six seconds behind with Potter a further nine seconds back.

Before the start of these Games, Britain had waited 64 years for a female diving medal at the Games but Spendolini-Sirieix and Toulson made it two in five days after Scarlett Mew Jenson and Yasmin Harper’s earlier bronze.

The duo came into the event in good form having won silver at last year’s World Championship and bronze this year.

But although they were second after round two behind red-hot favourites and defending champions Chen Yuxi and Quan Hongchan of China, they had a poor third round to drop to fifth.

However they regrouped and finished strongly with a final round of 77.76 for a final total of 304.28 which secured their place on the podium after Canada could only manage 68.16 for a tally of 299.22.

Chen and Quan finished on 359.10 with North Korea pair Jo Jin Mi and Kim Mirae winning silver on 315.9.