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  1. Frenchman Leon Marchand became the first swimmer to ever win two individual Olympic Gold medals in the same session as he triumphed in both the 200m Butterfly and the 200m Breaststroke at a raucous La Defense Arena in Paris to make it three Golds at the Games for the 22-year-old from Toulouse.
    Elsewhere on Day five, there was more Gold for the home team as Cassandre Beaugrand won the Women's Triathlon and Great Britain's Alex Yee won the Men's equivalent race with a sprint finish to deny New Zealand Hayden Wilde and on the Rowing lake the GB Women's Quad Scualls pipped the Netherlands on the final stroke.
    Australia's Jessica Fox made it double personal Canoe Slalom Gold with victory in the C1 to add to her previous triumph this week in the K1.

  2. Simone Biles won a fifth Olympic Gold medal as she helped USA win the Women's Team Gymnastics title at the Bercy Arena in Paris, three years after pulling out of the competition in Tokyo with a mental block.
    Elswhere on Day four, New Zealand won the Women's Rugby Sevens, China claimed the first Table Tennis crown in the Mixed Doubles, Great Britain retained the Men's 4 x 200m Freestyle Relay and Daniel Wiffin came home first in the Men's 800m Freestyle to earn Ireland's first Gold of the Games.