featuring live coverage of the opening day of athletics competition, five swimming finals, cycling finals, gymnastics, boxing, and a look back at the decisive show-jumping phase of the Three-Day Event, earlier tonight. Introduced by Desmond Lynam
Athletics Finals
Two finals decided tonight in the Women's Shot and the Men's 20km Walk, where Britain achieved a gold medal in Tokyo 1964 with Ken Matthews. Men's 20km Walk
World record: J. Pribilinec (Cze) 1:19.30 1983 Olympic Champion and record holder: M. Damilano (Ita) 1:23.36 1980
Women's Shot
World record: N. Lisovskaya (USSR) 22.53m 1984
Olympic Champion and record holder 1. Slupianek (GDR) 22.41m 1980
Also in tonight's session in the Olympic Stadium:
Women's 800m First Round
Men's 800m First Round
Olympic Champion STEVE OVETT begins the defence of his title with SEBASTIAN COE and PETER ELLIOTT also in qualifying action.
Men's 10,000m First Round
Britain's trio are NICK ROSE, STEVE JONES and MIKE MCLEOD.
Women's Heptathlon
Two more disciplines are completed: the shot and 200m.
Commentators DAVID COLEMAN
STUART STOREY , BRENDAN FOSTER
Swimming Finals from the Olympic Pool Tonight's finals include the Women's 200m Individual Medley which is reinstated since it was last held in 1972. Women's 200m Individual Medley World record: U. Geweniger (GDR) 2:11.73 1981
Olympic record: S. Gould (Aus) 2:23.07 1972
Men's 200m Butterfly
Commonwealth Champion PHIL HUBBLE won the silver medal in Moscow.
World record: M. Gross (FRG) 1:57.05 1983 Olympic record: M. Brunner (USA) 1:59.23 1976
Olympic champion: S. Fesenko (USSR)
Women's 800m Freestyle
SARAH HARDCASTLE is among the fastest in the world at this distance.
World record: T. Wickham (Aus) 8:24.62 1978
Olympic Champion and record holder: M. Ford (Aus) 8:28.90
Men's 100m Backstroke
World record: R. Carey (USA) 55.19 1983
Olympic record: J. Naber (USA) 55.49 1976 Olympic Champion: B. Baron (Swe)
Women's 4 X 100m Medley Relay
World record: GDR 4:05.79 1983
Olympic Champions and record holders: GDR 4:06.67 1980
Cycling Finals
The last session in the Olympic Velodrome in Dominguez Hills. Sprint
Three laps of the track, but it's a tactical game of cat and mouse, until the raw speed of the final 200m, covered in under 11 seconds.
Olympic Champion: L. Hesslich (GDR)
Team Pursuit
Britain have a remarkable record of winning bronze medals in this event, having done so on eight occasions including Munich and Montreal.
Olympic Champions and record holders: USSR 4:14.64 1980
Points Race
In this new Olympic event, over 50km, riders score points in sprints at half-way and the finish. Speed, stamina, and a tactical brain are needed as the large bunch circle the track. Commentators
HUGH PORTER and PHIL LIGGETT
Gymnastics Final
The Women's
Individual Overall
Tonight's winner follows great legends of sport: Latynina, Caslavska, Tourischeva, Comaneci, who have all won this title in the past. Commentator RON PICKERING
Olympic Champion: E. Davydova (USSR)
Hockey
Great Britain v New Zealand Highlights of tonight's match
Action-News-Results of the rest of the Olympic competition including boxing, basketball, shooting and volleyball.