Greg Rutherford disappointed with long jump bronze medal

Former Olympic champion Greg Rutherford has admitted that he is "really disappointed" after failing to defend his long jump title at Rio 2016.

The Briton could only manage a best of 8.29m, as Jeff Henderson took gold in the final round with a jump of 8.38m.

However, Rutherford was unable to hide his feelings as he took to Twitter to thank his fans for their messages of support.

He tweeted: "I truly cannot thank you all enough for the amazing messages of support. I'm really disappointed with today and that may sound mad to some, but I wanted this so bad and gave everything to try and win.

"When your best isn't good enough it hurts and I want to rectify what's happened."

South Africa's Luvo Manyonga had to settle for silver after finishing just one centimetre behind American Henderson.