Rio 2016 | Anita Wlodarczyk obliterates world record; Biles misses out on gold on day 10
A slip on the balance beam meant American Simone Biles finished with a bronze medal in the women's balance beam final. She will now hope to win her 4th gold in the floor exercise final today. Meanwhile, Anita Wlodarczyk of Poland won the gold medal with a record-breaking hammer throw in the final.
Anita Wlodarczyk broke the World record in the women's hammer throw event with a throw of 82.29m in her final attempt. She did not even wait for it to land. Anita knew she had done it the second the hammer left her hands and started jumping around in joy. This was the sixth time she set a World record - she briefly lost the record in 2011 but has since pushed the frontier so far ahead from that 79.42 that this record will stand the test of time. Wenxiu Zhang won the silver with a throw of 76.75, which was her season best, while Sophie Hitchon took bronze, and she became the first Great Britain woman to do so.
In the women's balance beam final, Simone Biles had to contend with a bronze medal, instead of the gold she is accustomed to, after an uncharacteristic slip on the balance beam cost her the gold. She finished with a score of 14.733, long way behind her teammate Lauren Hernandez (15.333) and the gold medal winner Sanne Wevers (15.466) of Netherlands.
Mark Cavendish finished second in an eventful men's omnium points race to earn his first Olympic medal. After the event, an elated Cavendish told BBC: "I would have liked gold, but I have got my Olympic medal." The 31-year-old, 30 times a Tour de France stage winner, was involved in a dramatic mid-race crash but there was no protest as South Korea's Park Sanghoon was taken out of the velodrome on a stretcher. Italy's Elia Viviani won the gold, while Lasse Norman Hansen of Denmark won the bronze.
Egged on by the home crowd, Brazil's Thiago Braz da Silva dethroned France's Renaud Lavillenie as the champion in the men's pole vault final, giving the host nation its first athletics medal of the Games. Thiago set a new Olympic record by reaching a height of 6.03m, while Renaud won the silver with a height of 5.98m.
In a dramatic end to the women's 400m race, Shaunae Miller, of the Bahamas, threw herself over the line to beat American Allyson Felix to the gold.
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