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Gold - Jade Jones wins 57kg taekwondo gold - GB's 22nd gold
Great Britain's Alistair Brownlee won gold ahead of brother Jonny in the triathlon while compatriots Hannah Mills and Saskia Clark triumphed in the sailing on day 13 of the Rio Olympics.
Britain have now won 21 golds in Rio.
Liam Heath and Jon Schofield won silver in the men's 200m kayak double while Marcus Ellis and Chris Langridge took bronze in the badminton men's doubles.
With three days remaining, Britain are just 10 medals short of the record 65 they secured in London four years ago.
Defending champion Jade Jones is back in the final of the -57kg taekwondo, and will go for gold at 02:00 BST on Friday.
Earlier, Nicola Adams reached the women's flyweight final as she attempts to become the first British boxer to retain an Olympic title for 92 years.
Brilliant Brownlee brothers
Victory for Alistair Brownlee meant the 28-year-old became the first athlete to win successive Olympic triathlon titles, while brother Jonny, 26, improved on the bronze medal he won at London 2012.
The Yorkshiremen were close throughout the swim and cycle stages before Alistair pulled away halfway through the 10km run and finished six seconds ahead.
He said: "I was pretty confident we would get first and second but I didn't know which way round it would be."
Sailors step up to gold
Mills and Clark needed only to finish Thursday's medal race to win gold in the women's 470 sailing event.
They duly did so - finishing eighth to improve on the silver medal they won at London 2012.
"I can't believe it," Mills told BBC One. "It has actually been the best feeling ever.
"We have forgotten all about London. We are so proud to come back after it and we've worked so hard to get the upgrade to gold."
Brit watch
Heath and Schofield won bronze at London 2012, but went one better at Rio, edging out Lithuanian pair Aurimas Lankas and Edvinas Ramanauskas by 0.014secs.
"We gave it a bit of a lunge for the line," said Heath. "We hit it as hard as we can."
Ellis and Langridge's bronze was Britain's first Olympic medal in the men's doubles.
They beat China's Hong Wei and Chai Biao, the world number five pairing, 21-18 19-21 21-10.
"This is an incredible feeling," said Ellis. "After how we performed in our very first match, we knew we could compete with anybody."
Welsh fighter Jones brushed aside Sweden's Nikita Glasnovic in her taekwondo semi-final.
Adams saw off China's Ren Cancan, who she also beat in the London 2012 final, by a unanimous points decision.
The 33-year-old will face Colombia's Ingrit Valencia Victoria or France's Sarah Ourahmoune in Saturday's final (18:00 BST).
In diving, Tonia Couch finished 12th in the 10m platform final.
But Liam Phillips, ranked second in the world, had to withdraw from the quarter-finals of the BMX after a heavy fall.
Four-time world champions Peter Burling and Blair Tuke won Olympic gold for New Zealand in the men's 49er two-person skiff class.
Burling, 25, and Tuke, 27, held an unassailable 34-point lead going into Thursday's medal race, which they won.
Australian duo Nathan Outteridge and Iain Jensen took silver, with Germany's Erik Heil and Thomas Ploessel third.
Britain's Dylan Fletcher-Scott and Alain Sign were last in the medal race to finish sixth overall.
Their boat capsized around the fourth mark, ending their chances of a top-five finish.
Victory for Burling and Tuke means they remain unbeaten since winning silver at London 2012.
Chinese diver Ren Qian won Olympic gold at the age of 15 as Britain's Tonia Couch finished out of the medals in the 10m platform competition.
Ren took the lead after the third of five dives and a superb inward three-and-a-half somersault with her fourth virtually clinched the title.
China's Si Yajie took the silver, while Canada's Meaghan Benfeito won bronze.
Couch, competing in her third Olympics, ended with a fine reverse two-and-a-half somersault but finished in 12th.
Argentina won Olympic men's hockey gold for the first time with a 4-2 victory over Belgium in Rio.
Tanguy Cosyns gave Belgium the lead but Argentina took control before half-time thanks to goals from Pablo Ibarra, Ignacio Ortiz and Gonzalo Peillat.
Gauthier Boucard brought the Red Lions back into it but Agustin Mazzilli's last-minute goal sealed victory.
Germany won the bronze medal with a 4-3 penalty shootout win over the Netherlands after the match ended 1-1.
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