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Olympics 2024: NZ's Finn Butcher wins gold in kayak cross, cyclists race for gold

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Team New Zealand, New Zealand's Ellesse Andrews, New Zealand's Shaane Fulton and New Zealand's Rebecca Petch compete in the women's track cycling team sprint first round of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at the Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines National Velodrome in Montigny-le-Bretonneux, south-west of Paris, on August 5, 2024. (Photo by SEBASTIEN BOZON / AFP)

Rebecca Petch, Shaane Fulton and Ellesse Andrews racing in Paris during the qualifiers. Photo: AFP

The New Zealand women's team sprint have won silver in the track cycling.

The trio of Shaane Fulton, Ellesse Andrews, Rebecca Petch were beaten to gold by Great Britain, who won in a new world record time.

Druing the first round of competition they broke the world record, and earlier broke the Olympic record in qualifying at the National Veoldrome in Paris..

Overnight, New Zealand's Finn Butcher won gold in the men's kayak cross at the Paris Games.

After progressing through the quarters and semis, he beat three other competitors in the "big final" of the men's event at the Vaires sur Marne Nautical Stadium.

The 29-year-old from Central Otago beat the world champion and favourite, Joe Clarke from Great Britain.

"I'm so stoked. Just a kid from Alex on top of the world! It feels special to bring it home.

"I knew I had to execute the last upstream and then it would be as good as gold. All the way down the course, the New Zealanders were running beside me, screaming. so loud - they pushed me to the end."

Meanwhile, New Zealand's women pole vaulters have all qualified for Thursday's final at the Stade de France.

Eliza McCartney cleared 4.55m on her second attempt to go through. Olivia McTaggart and Imogen Ayris missed that height, but go through to the final by virtue of clearing 4.40m on their first attempt.

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