Jade Jones strikes first gold for GB in Singapore

JADE Jones won Britain's first Youth Olympic Games medal on the third day of competition after the 17-year-old taekwondo star claimed gold in the women's -55kg category following a sudden-death play-off.

Jones overcame Vietnam's Than Thao Nguyen at a noisy International Convention Centre in Singapore when the Welsh youngster landed a kick to her opponent's head six seconds into sudden-death after the pair had finished locked at 6-6 following three rounds. "It's just amazing, it's always nerve-wracking when it gets that close but it's whoever wants it more," she said. "It's just amazing, I can't explain it, It's unbelievable."

Team GB have a chance to add to their medal haul tomorrow in the men's and the women's rowing pairs after both teams came through their semi-finals at the Marina Reservoir. Ed Nainby-Luxmoore and Caspar Jopling finished second in a time of three minutes 17.37 seconds, 2.35 secs behind Greek world champions Michalis Nastopoulos and Apostolos Lampridis.

"It's definitely a step on from the heat, a big improvement but hopefully a bit more to come tomorrow," said Nainby-Luxmoore. "Most of the pairs here were racing at the junior world championships so in that aspect we're the underdogs but then they don't know anything about us, so in a way it's a good thing."

In the women's pairs, Georgia Howard-Merrill and Fiona Gammond overcame a troubled start to scrape into the final by 0.15secs after finishing third in a time of 3mins 41.03secs.

"At the beginning we had a bit of a steering mishap so we never relaxed and rowed our own race," said Howard-Merrill.

"We both know we can row a lot better. We should've got that result.

"We need to step up a lot but if we do, hopefully we can get a medal."

Sarah Milne reached the semi-finals of the badminton with an impressive demolition of Holland's Josephine Wentholt, coming through 21-15 21-8 to set up a clash with China's Deng Xuan, while Oliver Golding continued his fine from in the tennis as he comfortably saw off Alessandro Colella 6-2 6-1. He now faces Colombian Juan Sebastian Gomez in the last eight. In fencing, Alexander Tofalides' bid for gold in the individual foil ended at the quarter-final stage at the International Convention Centre, where he lost out to American Alexander Massialas 15-12.