Katie Ledecky reacts after winning the women's 800m freestyle final. Photo: FRANCOIS-XAVIER MARIT / AFP
An overview shows US' Katie Ledecky reacting after winning the final of the women's 800m freestyle swimming event during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at the Paris La Defense Arena.
New Zealand has had a disastrous morning in the athletics sports at the Paris Olympics, with Kiwi shot putter Tom Walsh suffering an injury and fouling all his throws, and sprinter Zoe Hobbs missing out on the 100m final.
Teammate Jacko Gill also fell short of winning a medal in the shot put, coming in seventh. The gold went to US athlete Ryan Crouser for the third Olympics in a row.
Hobbs managed 11.13s in her 100m semi-final, but it was not enough to qualify for the final.
"I just didn't execute a good race. I think I let it go from the get-go," she told RNZ. "My reaction wasn't great and over the first 10 I was already behind, and I let it slip through my fingers, and that's just the reality of the 100m sometimes."
"You have to put together a perfect race, especially to make an Olympic. I'm really disappointed."
Outside the athletics arena, Swimmer Erika Fairweather came eighth in the final for the 800m freestyle.
The United States broke records in the swimming, with Katie Ledecky claiming a ninth career gold medal, and the United States winning the mixed medley relay title in world record time.
Meanwhile, Emma Twigg has been pipped for the gold by the Netherlands in the event she won at Tokyo 2020.
Twigg was unable to defend her Olympic title, settling for silver as she was beaten in the women's single sculls final by Dutch rower Karolien Florijn. Tom Mackintosh came fifth in the men's single scull final.
Earlier in the week, New Zealand rowers won three medals - a gold, silver and bronze - in quick succession in a magic hour on the water.
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