Mo Farah, Liam Heath and Nicola Adams win gold at Olympic Games in Rio
Sunday 21 August 2016 11:06, UK
Team GB surpassed their medal tally from London 2012 as Mo Farah, Liam Heath and Nicola Adams claimed golds on the penultimate day of the Olympic Games in Rio.
Six more medals were won on Saturday to take the total to 66 (27 gold, 22 silver and 17 bronze) with one more guaranteed from super-heavyweight boxer Joe Joyce still to come on Sunday.
Farah added the 5,000m title to the 10,000 he won last Saturday, although on this occasion he did not have to bounce back from an early fall.
He led for most of the second half of the race and sprinted clear of America's Paul Chelimo to secure the long-distance double, just as he had at London 2012, matching the feat of Finnish great Lasse Viren.
Farah's gold was the third of the day for Team GB after a historic win in the boxing ring for Nicola Adams.
The reigning flyweight champion earned a unanimous decision against France's Sarah Ourahmoune to become the first female to win back-to-back Olympic boxing gold medals.
Heath had won the first gold medal on another super Saturday when he got up close to the line to win the final of the men's K1 200m kayak sprint event.
The 25-year-old had previously won a silver medal alongside Jon Schofield in the 200m K2 kayak doubles event.
Britain's other three medals on Saturday were all of the bronze variety, the first coming in the women's triathlon thanks to a late burst from Vicky Holland.
Holland sprinted away from team-mate Non Stanford to finish third behind America's Gwen Jorgensen, and she almost caught silver medallist Nicola Sprig of Switzerland for silver.
Britain had two chances of a bronze medal in taekwondo, but it was only world champion Bianca Walkden who managed to win her match in the +67kg division.
Like Walkden, Mahama Cho made it to the semi-finals of the men's +80kg division but he would narrowly lose in his bid to make the final and also lost his bronze medal play-off as well.
The all-important 66th medal came late in the evening in Rio when Eilidh Doyle, Anyika Onuora, Emily Diamond and Christine Ohuruogu won bronze in the women's 4x400m relay in the Olympic Stadium.
That medal was enough to take Team GB past the 65 medals won at London 2012, only trailing the seemingly unbeatable 146 medals won at the 1908 Games, also in London.
There was disappointment for Tom Daley in the semi-final of the 10m platform diving competition - the highest qualifier went from first to last with a series of poor dives and failed to make it to the final.
The loudest cheers of the day came from the iconic Maracana Stadium where hosts Brazil won a thrilling men's football final.
