Leona Maguire and Stephanie Meadow also well placed in the golf.
IABA high performance director Bernard Dunne says Kellie Harrington will utilise her own strengths in Sunday morning’s lightweight boxing final.
The Dubliner got the better of a “chess match” with Sudaporn Seesondee to reach her first Olympic final.
She’ll meet Brazil’s Beatriz Ferreira with gold on the line on Sunday morning.
Natalya Coyle made a bright start to the modern pentathlon.
The County Meath athlete placed third after the fencing ranking round.
Both Stephanie Meadow and Leona Maguire will go into round three of the women’s golf in Tokyo five shots adrift of the medal placings.
Respective rounds of 66 and 67 overnight leave them on 4-under par.
World number-1 Nelly Korda heads the field on 13-under par.
David Kenny placed 29th in the men's 20-kilometre race walk on his Olympic debut.
Brendan Boyce and Alex Wright go in the 50-k version tonight.
Andrew Coscoran finished in 10th place in the Olympic 1500 metre semi-final.
The Balbriggan man was just outside his personal best time, running in a time of 3 minutes 35 point 8-4 seconds.
In cycling, Mark Downey finished 17th in the Omnium points race.
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