Tokyo 2020 Olympics: Day 13 on BBC & Eurosport – TV Guide

BBC Sport and Eurosport will have extensive round-the-clock coverage of day 13 of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

SOTB’s Olympics TV guides will take you through all the key action and list the must-see moments every day throughout the Games.

A total of 22 Olympic sporting disciplines are in action on Thursday and 27 more gold medals are set to be won. Here is a summary of the best action to look out for:

ATHLETICS: The two-day women’s heptathlon competition draws to a close with the long jump, javelin and the 800m, as does the men’s decathlon, which reaches its climax over the 1,500m.

In women’s pole vault, Holly Bradshaw, who finished fourth at the 2019 world championships and fifth in Rio, competes for Great Britain, in a strong field which includes this year’s world number one is Katie Nageotte of the United States, Rio 2016 champion Katerina Stefanidi of Greece and reigning world champion Anzhelika Sidorova of the Russian Olympic Committee.

CANOE SPRINT: Great Britain’s reigning Olympic champion Liam Heath lines up in the semi-finals of the men’s K1 200m, with the final to follow a few hours later.

TRACK CYCLING: In the men’s omnium, Matthew Walls rides for Team GB, in a event in which he won bronze at the World Championships last year. The format of the omnium has changed for the Tokyo Games, with shorter sprint disciplines being dropped in favour of four endurance events spread over one day of racing.

MARATHON SWIMMING: The final swimming event of the Tokyo Olympics takes place with the men’s marathon swim, featuring GB’s Hector Pardoe.

DIVING: Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix and Lois Toulson represent Great Britain in the women’s 10m platform competition.

HOCKEY: The men’s gold medal match takes place at the Oi Hockey Stadium between Australia and Belgium, while earlier in the day, Germany play India for bronze.

KARATE: One of the final sports to get underway at these Games, Karate it makes its Olympic debut.

Scroll down for a full overview of BBC Sport and Eurosport’s TV coverage on day 13 of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

For further details about UK TV coverage of the Olympics and Paralympics, visit SOTB’s dedicated Tokyo 2020 page.

BBC Sport is the home of live free-to-air coverage of all the key medal moments at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

More than 350 hours of coverage will be broadcast across network TV – BBC One and BBC Two – and via one extra live stream available on the Red Button and online via BBC iPlayer.

Eurosport is the only place to watch live coverage of every single televised Olympic event at the Tokyo Games.

The pan-European broadcaster will be running 9 dedicated Olympics TV channels, available on Sky, Virgin and BT TV, while full streaming coverage of every sport, totalling more than 3,000 hours of live action, can be found on Eurosport Player and Discovery+.

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All BBC and Eurosport timings/channels listed in below are all subject to change.

Tokyo is eight hours ahead of the UK when lining up your viewing plans, so the early action on each day’s timetable will be happen overnight and the live sporting schedule is set to run through until around 3pm UK time each day.

With focus on UK medal interest, the potential for disruption due to Covid and the high chances of inclement weather in Tokyo, there may be late changes to the main BBC network TV schedule and Eurosport 1/2 coverage throughout the Games.

Please check your electronic programme guide on the day for up-to-date listings.

WATCH LIVE OR CATCH-UP via BBC iPLAYER

23:05 (Wed)

LIVE ATHLETICS, SWIMMING, CANOE SPRINT
Presenter: JJ Chalmers

It’s a packed programme early on day 13 of the Tokyo Olympics as JJ Chalmers brings you live action in athletics, canoe sprint, men’s marathon swimming, hockey and skateboarding.

The concluding second day of the heptathlon gets underway in the long jump and javelin, while men’s Olympic titles will be decided in the 110m hurdles, triple jump and shot put.

Away from the track, Britain’s top medal hope of the morning is Liam Heath, the reigning Olympic and two-time world champion in the kayak 200m event.

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06:00-09:00

LIVE TRACK CYCLING, BOXING, DIVING
Presenters: Dan Walker & Sam Quek

There’s boxing and diving finals before focus switches to the Velodrome as reigning sprint champion Jason Kenny leads the British cyclists in action.

The day’s boxing includes the men’s featherweight final, a weight class in which Peter McGrail earned world bronze two years ago, while the women’s 10m platform diving final is likely to be dominated, as always, by the brilliant Chinese.

Kenny will be expected to progress from the men’s sprint quarter-finals, with the track cycling events also including the men’s omnium and women’s keirin.

NOTE: Between 6am and 9am during Olympic Breakfast, there will be hourly BBC national news updates.

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09:00-12:00
12:00-12:45

LIVE TRACK CYCLING, ATHLETICS, FOOTBALL
Presenters: Hazel Irvine & Gabby Logan

Great Britain’s Ethan Hayter will be hopeful of a medal in the men’s omnium, having claimed a bronze at the 2019 World Championships, while another gold will be decided in the women’s keirin.

In athletics, Great Britain’s Tom Bosworth is another medal contender in the men’s 20km race walk, while the women’s pole vault final also gets underway.

Elsewhere, the bronze medal is decided in the women’s football.

NOTE: Coverage switches to BBC Two for 45 minutes at 12pm.

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12:45-15:00

LIVE ATHLETICS, HOCKEY, KARATE, CLIMBING
Presenters: Hazel Irvine & Gabby Logan

The women’s heptathlon concludes with the nerve-jangling 800m. The men’s 400m final is always the highlight of any Olympics with the likes of the USA’s Michael Johnson and 2016 champion Wayde van Niekirk of South Africa previous winners.

Elsewhere, the men’s hockey gold is decided, and the inaugural men’s climbing final takes place. Great Britain’s Jordan Thomas will hope to contend in the first ever Olympic 67kg karate final.

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15:00-18:00

OLYMPICS 2020
Presenter: Jason Mohammad

As the live action draws to a close, there’s another chance to see extended highlights of the best action from around the Games. Jason Mohammad introduces coverage from some of the key events on day 13 of the Tokyo Olympics including the men’s hockey final and bronze medal match in the women’s football.

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19:30-21:05

TODAY AT THE GAMES
Presenters: Clare Balding & Alex Scott

Clare Balding and Alex Scott present highlights of a thrilling day’s action from Tokyo 2020 as Great Britain’s Katarina Johnson-Thompson goes for heptathlon gold.

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21:05-22:00

OLYMPICS EXTRA
Presenters: Jeanette Kwakye & Nihal Arthanayake

Jeanette Kwakye and Nihal Arthanayake take you through more action from day 13 of the Tokyo Olympics as 27 gold medals were decided.

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00:00-15:00

LIVE ADDITIONAL COVERAGE

An extra stream featuring uninterrupted coverage of a selected sport will be available to watch via the Red Button or iPlayer, starting from midnight and running through until at least 3pm.

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WATCH EVERY SPORT LIVE ON EUROSPORT PLAYER

Eurosport and discovery+ is the ‘Streaming Home of the Olympics’ for Tokyo 2020.

The platform will include more than 50 live event feeds, including the main Eurosport 1 and 2 channels. Discovery+ will also stream Eurosport pop-up channels 3 to 9, as well as providing access to all the action on-demand.

If you are looking for the place to find each and every sport live and on-demand for the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020, Eurosport and discovery+ are the only places to find this level of coverage.

Eurosport 1 will focus on more traditional Olympic sports and prospective Team GB medal events and host a daily highlights programme – Tokyo Today – at 4pm and 9pm. Eurosport 2 coverage will include new Olympic sports including skateboarding, surfing and sport climbing.

Eurosport 3 to 9 will host seven pop-up channels categorized by sport genre in HD on Sky, BT, Virgin Media and Amazon alongside a UHD/HDR channel on Virgin Media and Sky, while Sky Q customers can also access 50+ live event feeds via discovery+ subscription.

TV schedules for Eurosport 1 and Eurosport 2 can be found below, while the full Eurosport streaming schedule can be found via the Eurosport Player website.

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