9 Aug 2024

Double gold in Paris in kayaking and track cycling

From Paris Essentials, 11:00 am on 9 August 2024
New Zealand's Ellesse Andrews celebrates winning the women's track cycling keirin final for gold of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at the Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines National Velodrome in Montigny-le-Bretonneux, south-west of Paris, on August 8, 2024. (Photo by SEBASTIEN BOZON / AFP)

Photo: SEBASTIEN BOZON/AFP

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New Zealand has won two gold medals and a bronze at the Olympic Games overnight.

Ellesse Andrews won the women's Keirin at the velodrome in a dominant final performance.

Andrews adds to the silver medal she won in the women's team sprint earlier in the week.

She's now an Olympic and World Champion in the format.

And the women's K4 500m team won New Zealand's fourth gold medal of the Paris Games.

The team of Dame Lisa Carrington, Alicia Hoskin, Olivia Brett and Tara Vaughan held off Germany and Hungary to claim the gold medal, the sixth gold medal of Dame Lisa's Olympic career.

Sailors Erica Dawson and Micah Wilkinson, have also won Olympic bronze in the Nacra mixed multihull in Marseille.

They finished 8th in their medal race, which was enough to promote them into the bronze medal position.