Double gold for Team GB from canoeing and shooting

Team GB struck double gold on Thursday with Olympic victory in the men's canoe double and trap shooting.

Tim Baillie and Etienne Stott splashed their way to gold at the Lee Valley white water centre, where their biggest challenge came from David Florence and Richard Hounslow.

Florence and Hounslow took the silver to make it a Team GB one-two in an event where the hosts have never previously won a medal. Pavol Hochschorner and Peter Hochschorner of Slovakia were the bronze medallists.

World record holder Peter Wilson, trained by Sheikh Ahmed al Maktoum, a member of the Dubai royal family, grabbed Great Britain's first Olympic shooting medal for 12 years, winning gold in the men's double trap at the Royal Artillery Barracks.

Sweden's Hakan Dahlby took silver and Russia's Vasily Mosin won bronze after a shoot-off.

The three extra medals lifted Team GB to fifth in the medals table.

Prime Minister David Cameron tweeted: "Fantastic news in the canoeslalom and doubletrap shooting. Let's hope we can get even more Olympic medals today."

His hopes were quickly rewarded when Gemma Gibbons pocketed silver in the women's under-78kg judo class at the ExCel Arena, though she had to concede gold to Kayla Harrison, winner of the first ever Olympic gold medal in judo for the United States.

Further Team GB medals were in prospect in the Olympic velodrome, where four-time Olympic champion Sir Chris Hoy and sprint queen Victoria Pendleton were lining up in the men's and women's team sprint finals.

"It's going to be very, very close but we're going to be at our best since Beijing," Hoy said. "Since the worlds it's been going really well. We've started making significant strides."

Olympic and six-time world sprint champion Pendleton is looking to claim her maiden gold of the Games when the women's two-lap equivalent, making its Games debut.

Pendleton and Jess Varnish set a new world record in their heat in a time of 32.526, only to be upstaged minutes later by China who powered over two laps to clock 32.447.

Hoy, with Kenny Jason and German-born Philip Hindes, set the fastest time in the men's qualifiers though not before their heat against Germany had to be restarted because of a mechanical fault with Hindes's bicycle.

The finals are scheduled for later Thursday.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/britain-hopes-golden-splashes-olympics-084403679--oly.html

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