Matt Richards missed swimming gold by agonising 0.02 seconds
Matt Richards has won silver in the men’s 200-metre freestyle after missing out on first place by 0.02 seconds.
Richards claimed Team GB’s second runner-up spot of these Paris Games in the pool but like Adam Peaty 24 hours earlier, he was 0.02 seconds adrift of winner Romanian sensation David Popovici.
Duncan Scott, who won silver in the event at Tokyo 2020, finished fourth at La Defense Arena, just 0.08 secs behind bronze medallist Luke Hobson.
Peaty secured a second place in the men's 100-metre breaststroke on Sunday, he was also beaten by just 0.02 seconds, this time to Italy's Nicolo Martinenghi
Team GB scored another silver on Monday evening after British paddler Adam Burgess in the canoe slalom.
He was overcome with emotion following this victory after coming fourth by just 0.16 seconds in Tokyo three years ago.
Burgess was beaten to gold by Frenchman Nicolas Gestin by more than five seconds.
Standing on an Olympic podium for the first time, Burgess said: "I was thinking about myself as a 10, 11 year old dreaming of that moment.
"I was thinking about Olympic Games gone by when I was watching in 2004 in Athens, Beijing. And I was thinking about my parents, my family, everyone out in the stands here to support.
"I was thinking about the disappointment in Tokyo, I was thinking about, just you know, so much.
"I’ve been trying to visualise success at this race in the build-up and I’ve not been able to do it without getting emotional, to be honest.
Earlier on Monday Team GB won its first two golds, with Tom Pidcock winning his consecutive Olympic mountain bike competition in dramatic fashion.
Pidcock’s race was in danger of unravelling when he suffered a flat front tyre on the fourth of eight laps, shortly after he had taken control of the 35km race with an attack which split the pack.
Having fallen 40 seconds behind French hope Victor Koretzky, Pidcock fought his way back to reclaim the lead with a lap and a half to go.
But the pair traded blows in the last couple of kilometres – dramatically touching wheels – before Pidcock burst forward to secure the win.
Laura Collett, Tom McEwen and Ros Canter landed Great Britain’s first gold medal in the eventing team final.
Collet, 34 from Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, described herself as being "on top of the world".
She told ITV News: "I’ve never, ever, ridden into an atmosphere like that. Luckily London 52 is one trusty partner. So are my teammates as well, we brought it home."
She added that her horse, London 52, was a true "true professional" not being distracted by the roaring British fans cheering Collet on.
"The noise was unreal but it didn't distract him at all. He's a true professional and I think he knew what was at stake. I wouldn't want to have sat on any other horse.
"It's very cool to win the first gold of the Games and long may it continue, it's pretty special to be the first."
Adding to her haul, Collett also won a bronze medal in the individual eventing competition.
Collett suffered a near-fatal accident in 2013 after a heavy fall from her horse where she needed to be resuscitated five times and given an emergency tracheotomy by paramedics.
She suffered a fractured shoulder, broken ribs, a punctured lung, lacerated liver and damage to her kidneys - a fragment of her shoulder bone also travelled to her right eye through her bloodstream and damaged her optic nerve.
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