Sky Brown becomes GB's youngest Olympic medallist with skateboard bronze in Toyko
Meanwhile, the GB women's hockey team saw their title defence come to an end as they lost 5-1 in their semi-final against the Netherlands in sweltering conditions at Oi Hockey Stadium.Andrew Pozzi reached Thursday's men's 110m hurdles final, with his fourth-placed finish in the semi-finals enough to see the Briton through.
Around 07:30 BST, Hannah Miles and Eilidh McIntyre will be targeting a sailing gold in the 470 class, after Luke Patience and Chris Grube finished eighth in the men's equivalent.to win gold in a very fast women's 400m hurdles - and broke her own world record in the process.Hinton was 13 years and 44 days when she swam at the Amsterdam Games in 1928 and her record as Britain's youngest-ever competitor at a summer Olympics stood for almost a century.
Had the Games not been postponed by a year, Brown would have lowered that summer record further, though figure skater Cecilia Colledge retains the overall accolade for Britain - she entered the 1932 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid aged 11.But the Japan-born teenager - who had a heavy fall in training last year that saw her fracture her skull, break her left arm and wrist and suffer lacerations to her heart and lungs - delivered a score of 56.47 to climb into the bronze-medal position.
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