First-time clearance at 2.35 for Mutaz Esha Barshim. He wants this first Olympic gold medal after silver in Rio and silver (having been upgraded from bronze) in London.

But Korea's Sanghyeok Woo responds with a national record. Impressive.

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Elliot Giles was still hanging on to his lead coming out of the final bend but Kenya's Ferguson Cheruiyot Rotich made a late move to win the semi-final in 1:44.04. Amel Tuka of Bosnia and Herzegovina is second so those two automatically qualify for the final.

Giles' 1:44.74 probably won't be enough to bag him a fastest loser's spot and so there will be no GB representation in the final.

There was a big tumble in the race as Nijel Amos of Botswana clipped the heels of American Isaiah Jewett. They cross the line some 50 seconds after the rest of the pack.

The last 800m semi-final is under way and GB's Elliot Giles is out at the front as the bell goes for the final lap.

And then there were seven - Korea's Sanghyeok Woo, Brandon Starc of Australia, Russian Mikhail Akimenko and American Juvaughn Harrison join Barshim, Nedasekau and Tamberi in clearing 2.33m.

They move on to 2.35m - will we see the medals decided here?

Paula Radcliffe
Women's marathon world record holder on BBC TV

Clayton Murphy made a lot of tactical mistakes in that race but Peter Bol did not, he has run himself a personal best and there is still more to come.

A tough race for Daniel Rowden, he tries to find a gap on the inside but it's just not opening up for him.

He finishes fifth in a season's best of 1:44.35.

Australia's Peter Bol wins it in 1:44.11 with American Clayton Murphy second. They go through to the final.

Now we are getting to the business end of the competition.

Barshim, Nedasekau and Italy's Gianmarco Tamberi are the only athletes to clear 2.33m first time around.

They can sit back and wait to see what the others manage.

Poland's Patryk Dobek wins the first 800m semi-final in 1:44.60, with Kenya's Emmanuel Kipkurui Korir second and also progressing to the final.

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Jamaica's Yohan Blake, 31, after failing to make the 100m final: “I can’t cry, it’s the first in my career at this level I haven't been to a final, but I give God thanks nevertheless.”

“Definitely my last Olympics. You know track is not easy. I won't be ungrateful. I've gained a lot.

"I'm still the second fastest man in history, no one can take that away from me. I'm pretty happy with how my career has gone. I've not finished yet, but I just have to go back to the drawing board.”

Daniel Rowden ended 2020 with a personal best of 1:44.09 to go joint-ninth on the British all-time list, level with 1980 Olympic champion Steve Ovett.

He has taken a year out of his mechanical engineering degree at London’s Imperial College to concentrate on Tokyo.

Rowden goes in semi-final two, with Elliot Giles in the one after.

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We have the 800m semi-finals coming up shortly for you, featuring GB's Daniel Rowden and Elliot Giles.

Giles ran the second-quickest indoor 800m in history in Poland this February, breaking Sebastian Coe’s 38-year-old British mark with 1:43.63.

He won European bronze in 2016, two years after a motorcycle crash left him with temporary brain damage and back and knee injuries. He's only able to train 3-4 times a week but says a first full year without injuries is behind his improvement.

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No joy for Tom Gale. He has three failures at 2.30m and his competition is at an end.

The next height for the ten remaining athletes will be 2.33.

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Michael Johnson
Four-time Olympic gold medallist athlete on BBC TV

Zharnel Hughes' semi-final performance was great. He had not run a personal best since 2018, so this is the right time to come through.

Halfway into the semi-final, he wasn't in the race. I don't know if it is going to take 9.8 to win it.

The pressure is on Britain's Tom Gale who needs to clear 2.30m with his third attempt to stay in the competition.

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Before Max Whitlock's gold, we saw two other Olympic champions crowned.

Artem Dolgopyat won Israel's first Olympic gymnastics title by taking gold in the men's floor exercise.

Brazil's Rebeca Andrade then won women's vault gold, her second medal of these Games.

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Yikes! Puerto Rico's Jasmine Camacho-Quinn runs 12.26 seconds, a new Olympic record and just 0.06 off the world record to qualify for tomorrow's final.

This was the same stage where she crashed out when leading her semi-final at Rio 2016.

Great Britain's Cindy Sember will not be joining her in the gold-medal shoot-out after finishing down in seventh.

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Men's pommel horse

Simon Gleave
Head of sports analysis, Nielsen Gracenote

Max Whitlock's gold medal in the pommel horse makes him the seventh Briton to win at least six Olympic medals.

He follows Bradley Wiggins (8), Chris Hoy (7), Jason Kenny (7), Steve Redgrave (6), Charlotte Dujardin (6) and Duncan Scott (6) in reaching this milestone.

Tiffany Porter will not be appearing in tomorrow's 100m hurdles final. The Briton finishes down in fifth in 12.86 seconds in her semi-final.

Can her sister Cindy Sember make the grade? She is up next in the third and final semi-final, lining up alongside Puerto Rico's Jasmine Camacho-Quinn, the fastest woman in the heats.

On the subject of tennis...

A little earlier on, Alexander Zverev of Germany won men's singles gold, and here's how he did it.