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get inspired. Latest News. Remembering our Winter Olympic heroes of the First and Second World War. Team GB athletes invited to meet His Majesty The King at Buckingham Palace. Reserve Officer Kerenza Bryson on her time in the British Army and Paris 2024 reflections. Lizzie Simmonds re-elected as Chair of the BOA's Athletes’ Commission.
Team GB Olympians at Paris 2024: Full list of athletes
Sholto Carnegie, Rory Gibbs, Morgan Bolding, Jacob Dawson, Charlie Elwes, Tom Digby, James Rudkin, Tom Ford and Harry Brightmore - Men's eight. Helen Glover, Esme Booth, Sam Redgrave and Rebecca Shorten - Women's four. Oli Wilkes, David Ambler, Matt Aldridge and Freddie Davidson - Men's four.
Great British female Olympians down the decades | Team GB
Mar 7, 2022 · 1950s - Gillian Sheen. 50 years after first competing in the Olympic fencing programme, Gillian Sheen bagged Team GB their first gold. The then-28-year-old beat Romania’s Olga Orban to take victory in the foil. In the excitement of the victory, the British team manager rushed to congratulate her and only narrowly avoided being impaled on her ...
Explained: Olympic equestrian - Team GB
The first phase is a dressage test, followed by cross-country – a timed ride in the open over a series of solid obstacles – and then jumping. ec 21, 2022 Tom McEwen joined forces with world number one Oliver Townend and Laura Collett to win Team GB's first eventing team gold since 1972. McEwen wasn't just happy with Olympic eventing team ...
Lewis Richardson - Team GB
Richardson. Lewis Richardson clinched Team GB's only boxing medal of Paris 2024 with bronze in the men's light middleweight category. Richardson began boxing as a means to keep fit while playing football but switched his full attention to the ring after winning the 2012 National School Championships. He missed out on qualification for Tokyo ...
Mark England named Team GB Chef de Mission for Paris 2024
Paris 2024 17 Mar 22. The British Olympic Association (BOA) has today announced Mark England OBE as Chef de Mission for Team GB for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. Mark has successfully led Team GB at each of the last two summer editions of the Olympic Games, where the nation has secured 67 medals at Rio 2016 and 64 medals at Tokyo 2020.
The making of... Adam Peaty | Team GB
Adam Peaty at Tokyo 2020. Every step of the way, Peaty rose to the challenge, and that was certainly the case in 2016 when he set two world records on the way to winning the 100m breaststroke, Team GB’s first gold of the Games. It ended a 28-year wait for a British man to win Olympic gold in swimming and cemented Peaty’s position as ...
Black History Month: Celebrating Team GB trailblazers
Black British athletes. For more than a century, black British athletes have been blazing a trail and iconic figures like Daley Thompson, Anita Neil and Kelly Holmes have emerged. To celebrate Black History Month, let's celebrate some of the biggest names in Team GB. Harry Edward. Edward’s is the remarkable tale of the first black athlete to ...
Freya Colbert - Team GB
The former Nova Centurion swimmer then took to the pool for Team England at the Birmingham Commonwealth Games, winning bronze in the 4x200m freestyle relay before adding European gold in the event and bagging individual 400m individual medley bronze in Rome. In 2024, Colbert stormed to World Championship fame in the 400m IM for her first ...
Black History Month: The story of Louis Martin - Team GB
Louis Martin engaged the crowd with his unique lifting style. Born in Kingston, Jamaica in 1936, a 19-year-old Martin came to the UK as part of the Windrush generation in the mid-1950s – sailing on a ship called Rosina to Marseille, then boarding a ferry to England and making his home in Derby, because he had a friend who lived there.