KERI-Anne Payne, Cassie Patten and Bryony Shaw boosted Britain's hopes of a top four place in the medals table by adding three more medals to the Team GB tally in Beijing today.
Payne and Patten took silver and bronze respectively in the open water 10km swimming and Shaw weighed in with a bronze in sailing's RS:X windsurfing class.
The overall British medal tally now stands at 36 keeping Team GB ahead of Australia in what
is expected to become a battle for fourth spot.
Britain, with 16 golds and 36 medals overall, still occupy third place in the medal table, but Russia are coming up on the rails and, with a number of key team events to be decided as the Games draw to a close, may overhaul Britain.
Australia, who have 11 golds, were facing the possibility of a day without adding to their medal tally and Britain have now overtaken them in number of medals won after today's haul.
Payne and Patten's medals drew Britain level on 35 and Shaw's bronze edged them ahead.
There were just 11 medals up for grabs on the 12th day of competition in Beijing – the second fewest of any day in the entire Games.
And Australian athletes had just one chance in the remaining events to avoid a day without a medal with Ryan Carneli hoping for a repechage spot in the men's -58kg taekwondo event.
Britain had a couple of outside medal chances as teenager Michael Harvey could also earn a spot in the repechage of the same event, while Natasha Danvers goes in tonight's women's 400m hurdles final.
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