Tokyo Olympics 2020: Bermuda’s Duffy beats Britain’s Taylor-Brown to win women’s triathlon and more – live!

8.00pm EDT 20:00

Flora Duffy, by the way, nearly gave up triathlon after the 2008 Games when she was lapped. She tells the BBC that today’s victory is an “incredible moment”. She is correct. Meanwhile, another Brazilian is through to the men’s surfing semi-finals: Italo Ferreira beat Japan’s Hiroto Ohhara.

7.55pm EDT 19:55

One for our Australian readers (or anyone who likes Australian athletes). Here’s a handy guide to Aussies in action today at the Games:

7.51pm EDT 19:51

A few other finishers in the women’s triathlon: Britain’s Jessica Learmonth and Vicky Holland were ninth and 13th respectively, USA’s Summer Rappaport and Taylor Knibb 14th and 16th and Australia’s Emma Jeffcoat came home in 26th. NZ’s Nicole van der Kaay was 29th.

7.48pm EDT 19:48

Just to recap: Bermuda’s only previous medal was in 1972: a bronze in boxing. Expect a lot of babies (boys and girls) to be called Flora in Bermuda in the coming years.

7.44pm EDT 19:44

Flora Duffy wins Bermuda’s first-ever gold!

And Duffy passes the line as Olympic triathlon champion with a big grin on her face. The smallest nation to ever win an Olympic gold. She collapses to the ground with her hands over her face. She has the floor to herself for a while too as she has a huge lead over GB’s Taylor-Brown who wins silver. USA’s Zaferes wins bronze. A great silver for Taylor-Brown who suffered a puncture on the bike.

7.39pm EDT 19:39

Duffy of Bermuda (population 72,000) now leads Taylor-Brown of Britain (population 66 million) and Zaferes (330 million) and is cruising towards her country’s first-ever gold.

7.35pm EDT 19:35

It’s still very much Duffy’s race – and gold medal – to lose. She. Is. Not. Slowing. Down. Meanwhile, GB’s Taylor-Brown – who has recovered from that puncture on the bike – is about to catch USA’s Zaferes in silver. In fact, she just passed her. All three women are now on the last lap.

7.27pm EDT 19:27

Duffy now has a 47-second lead over Zaferes with GB’s Taylor Brown five seconds back from the American. A first gold medal for Bermuda looks like a certainty! Germany’s Lindemann is another 30 seconds or so back in fourth.

7.24pm EDT 19:24

The track has dried out at the triathlon and the runners are whistling round as the heat builds. Duffy continues to look comfortable out in front while USA’s Zaferes is looking a little heavy footed and GB’s Taylor-Brown looks she may be catching her for silver.

7.18pm EDT 19:18

Some news from our man on the ground in Tokyo, Sean Ingle. Team GB say Georgia-Brown had a puncture, which explains why she slipped off at the end of the bike. She is already up to bronze on the run though. We’re at the end of lap one of the run and Duffy now has a 17 second lead over USA’s Zaferes in second.

7.15pm EDT 19:15

And we have a break in the triathlon! Bermuda’s Flora Duffy has got some separation from USA’s Katie Zaferes. She looks pretty comfortable as she takes a decent lead. The British pair of Jessica Learmonth and Georgia Taylor-Brown are in third and fourth.

Bermuda have never won an Olympic gold medal, but they have a very good chance now and Duffy recently set a personal best in the run. Their last (and only) Olympic medal came in 1976 in boxing – it was bronze.

Updated at 7.20pm EDT

7.12pm EDT 19:12

Another result in the quarter-final of the men’s surfing. Two-time WSL World Champion Gabriel Medina of Brazil has beaten France’s Michel Bourez and is through to the semi-final.

7.10pm EDT 19:10

GB’s Georgia Taylor-Brown looks like she’s been dropped by the leading pack in the triathlon and is now 20 seconds back as they transition to the running stage. So it’s now Jessica Learmonth (GBR), Flora Duffy (BER), Laura Lindemann (GER) and Katie Zaferes (USA) out front and with a big advantage over the rest of the field. Australia’s Emma Jeffcoat is back in ninth and it would take a miracle for her to end up in the medals today.

7.05pm EDT 19:05

We’re on the final lap of the cycling in the women’s triathlon and it’s still the same group of five with a big lead over the field: Jessica Learmonth (GBR), Georgia Taylor-Brown (GBR), Flora Duffy (BER), Laura Lindemann (GER) and Katie Zaferes (USA). Lindemann is the highest ranked of the leaders and is also a very good runner, so she’ll be slight favourite at the moment. But we saw the strongest runner, Alex Yee, beaten in the final stages yesterday, so form isn’t everything.

7.00pm EDT 19:00

Preamble

Hello and welcome to [checks calendar] day four of the Tokyo Games. Plenty coming up today, including a big day in the pool. In the next couple of hours we’ll have the conclusion of the women’s triathlon, the quarter-finals of the women’s and men’s surfing, Argentina v Australia in the men’s hockey and a smattering of handball, rugby sevens and beach volleyball.

My colleague Martin Belam has prepared a more exhaustive list of today’s action, which you can peruse at your leisure below:

All events are listed here in local Tokyo time. Add an hour for Sydney, subtract eight hours for Belfast, 13 hours for New York and 17 hours for San Francisco. Then email me to say that time itself is too complicated.

🌟If you only watch one thing: 7.45pm Artistic gymnastics – it is the women’s team final. A Simon Biles-led Team USA will face a strong challenge to defend their gold medal from Not Russia and from China 🥇