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Medal recap: 2024 Olympic Games, Day 5

An incredible day for the host nation in the pool, and Jess Fox does it again.

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Scott Pryde

Another day is in the books at the Paris Olympics, with French swimming star Leon Marchand taking all the headlines.

He managed to win both the 200-metre Butterfly and Breaststroke events on the same day in what was an incredible feat, with Australians shutout of gold medals in the pool on Day 5.

It was Jess Fox's day again in the Canoeing though as she took out her second gold medal of the games, while medals were also decided in Gymnastics, BMX, Diving, Fencing, Judo, Rowing and Shooting.

Here is the full recap from Day 5, with the updated medal table.

Artistic Gymnastics

Men's All-Around
1. Shinnosuke Oka (Japan)
2. Boheng Zhang (China)
3. Ruoteng Xiao (China)

Canoe - Slalom

Women's Canoe Single
1. Jess Fox (Australia)
2. Elena Lilik (Germany)
3. Evy Leibfarth (USA)

Cycling - BMX Freestyle

Women's Park
1. Yawen Deng (China)
2. Perris Benegas (USA)
3. Natalya Diehm (Australia)

Men's Park
1. Jose Torres Gil (Argentina)
2. Kieran Darren David Reilly (Great Britain)
3. Anthony JeanJean (France)

Diving

Women's Synchronised 10-metre Platform
1. China
2. North Korea
3. Great Britain

Fencing

Men's Sabre Team
1. South Korea
2. Hungary
3. France

Judo

Women's -70kg
1. Barbara Matic (Croatia)
2. Miriam Butkereit (Germany)
3. Gabriella Willems (Belgium) and Michaela Polleres (Austria)

Men's -90kg
1. Lasha Bekauri (Georgia)
2. Murao Sanshiro (Japan)
3. Theodoros Tselidis (Greece) and Maxime-Gael Ngayap Hambou (France)

Rowing

Men's Quad Sculls
1. Netherlands
2. Italy
3. Poland

Women's Quad Sculls
1. Great Britain
2. Netherlands
3. Germany

Shooting

Women's Trap
1. Adriana Ruano Olia (Guatamaela)
2. Silvana Maria Stanco (Italy)
3. Penny Smith (Australia)

Swimming

Women's 100-metre Freestyle
1. Sarah Sjoestroem (Sweden)
2. Torri Huske (USA)
3. Siobhan Bernadette Haughey (Hong Kong)

Men's 200-metre Butterfly
1. Leon Marchand (France)
2. Kristof Milak (Hungary)
3. Ilya Kharun (Canada)

Women's 1500-metre Freestyle
1. Katie Ledecky (USA)
2. Anastasiia Kippichnikova (France)
3. Isabel Gose (Germany)

Men's 200-metre Breaststroke
1. Leon Marchand (France)
2. Zac Stubblety-Cook (Australia)
3. Caspar Corbeau (Netherlands)

Men's 100-metre Freestyle
1. Zhanle Pan (China)
2. Kyle Chalmers (Australia)
3. David Popovici (Romania)

Triathlon

Women's Individual
1. Cassandre Beaugrand (France)
2. Julie Derron (Switzerland)
3. Beth Potter (Great Britain)

Men's Individual
1. Alex Yee (Great Britain)
2. Hayden Wilde (New Zealand)
3. Leo Bergere (France)

2024 Olympic Games Medal Table - end Day 4

Pos Country Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 China 9 7 3 19
2 France 8 10 8 26
3 Japan 8 3 4 15
4 Australia 7 6 3 16
5 Great Britain 6 6 5 17
6 South Korea 6 3 3 12
7 USA 5 13 12 30
8 Italy 3 6 4 13
9 Canada 2 2 3 7
10 Germany 2 2 2 6
11 Hong Kong 2 2 4
12 Sweden 1 1 2 4
13 Netherlands 1 1 1 3
14 Kazakhstan 1 2 3
15 South Africa 1 2 3
16 Belgium 1 2 3
17 New Zealand 1 1 2
18 Georgia 1 1 2
19 Ireland 1 1 2
20 Romania 1 1 2
21 Croatia 1 1 2
22 Guatemala 1 1 2
23 Azerbaijan 1 1
24 Serbia 1 1
25 Slovenia 1 1
26 Uzbekistan 1 1
27 Argentina 1 1
28 Brazil 1 3 4
29 Hungary 2 1 3
30 Poland 1 2 3
31 North Korea 2 2
32 Kosovo 1 1 2
33 Mexico 1 1 2
34 Turkey 1 1 2
35 Switzerland 1 1 2
36 India 2 2
37 Moldova 2 2
38 Fiji 1 1
39 Mongolia 1 1
40 Tunisia 1 1
41 Egypt 1 1
42 Slovakia 1 1
43 Spain 1 1
44 Tajikistan 1 1
45 Austria 1 1
46 Greece 1 1
47 Ukraine 1 1
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