Olympics overnight (Tuesday): Another set of medals for the Brits

Here, we reflect on Monday’s action and look ahead to today:

* Charlotte Dujardin successfully defended her individual dressage title after a sizzling performance that matched the heat in Deodoro. The 31-year-old has now equalled cyclist Laura Trott in winning three Olympic gold medals. Dujardin won with the brilliant Valegro on an Olympic record grand prix freestyle score of 93.857 per cent, as they obliterated the field.

* Mark Cavendish finally claimed an elusive Olympic medal after a dramatic conclusion to the men’s omnium. After eight years of trying and at the third time of asking, Cavendish finished second behind Italy’s Elia Viviani, while defending champion Lasse Norman Hansen of Denmark took bronze. A mid-race crash appeared to be of Cavendish’s own making, but no protest from his rivals was forthcoming and he was able to stand on the podium to receive his silver medal.

* Burnley’s Sophie Hitchon broke the British record with her final throw of the competition to land an historic hammer bronze. The former ballet dancer launched the hammer out to 74.54 metres to move from sixth place to third and become the first British woman to win an Olympic medal in the discipline. In fact, Hitchon is the first British man or woman to win an Olympic hammer medal since 1924.

* Britain’s women made it six wins out of six in the hockey competition, beating Spain 3-1 to reach Wednesday’s semi-final against New Zealand.

* Keri-anne Payne missed out on a medal in the marathon swimming. The 28-year-old, who won silver in Beijing in 2008 and finished fourth at London 2012, was seventh in the women’s 10-kilometre final in one hour 57 minutes 23.9 seconds, 51.8 secs behind winner Sharon van Rouwendaal of Holland.

Coming up on today:

* Marcus Ellis and Chris Langridge face China’s Zhang Nan and Fu Haifeng in the doubles semi-finals of the men’s badminton at 2.40pm BST, with a place in Friday’s final up for grabs.

* Leeds star Nicola Adams continues her bid to become the first British boxer to retain an Olympic title for 92 years when she takes on Ukraine’s Tetyana Kob in the quarter-finals at 3pm.

* Monday’s disrupted sailing programme means a packed schedule on Tuesday, with Giles Scott only needing to complete the last Finn race to claim gold and follow in the footsteps of Iain Percy and Sir Ben Ainslie. Annalise Murphy will try to win Ireland’s first sailing medal in 36 years in the Laser Radial, entering the medal race in third place with Britain’s Alison Young in eighth. Two-time world champion Nick Thompson will also take part in the postponed Laser finale.

* Laura Trott, who took her third Olympic gold in the team pursuit on Saturday, continues her bid for another in the fourth event of the omnium shortly before 3pm, the 24-year-old holding an eight-point lead after the first three disciplines. And an hour earlier Becky James takes on China’s Tianshi Zhong in the quarter-finals of the women’s sprint.

* In gymnastics, Amy Tinkler contests the floor final at 6:47pm and Leed star Nile Wilson the horizontal bar final around 50 minutes later.

* Robbie Grabarz will be seeking a second Olympic medal in the high jump final at 0030 (Wednesday), with Laura Muir and Laura Weightman in the 1500m final two hours later.