Team GB at Paris 2024: The statistics

It's official, Team GB has assembled for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.

After a shortened cycle of three years, over 300 athletes will don the Team GB badge as they represent their country on the biggest stage of all this summer.

It's a lot of athletes and a lot of sports to keep track of and so ahead of the Games, we're breaking down all the fun facts and figures of just what makes Team GB tick.

Number of athletes: 327

The number that makes Team GB a team. The British Olympic Association will see one of its biggest cohorts hit the French captial this summer, just 49 athletes fewer than Tokyo 2020. And for only the second time in Team GB's history, there will be more women competing than men at Paris, with 155 male and 172 female athletes.

Returning Olympians: 169

Returning Olympic medallists: 73

Plenty of our athletes have already achieved the heights of Olympic success, having medalled at a previous Games. Whilst 33 of the 73 are not just returning medallists but Olympic champions as well.

Adam Peaty and Max Whitlock are the most decorated of our team when it comes to Olympic titles, all three of them having a hat-trick of Olympic crowns to their names, whilst Duncan Scott is the most decorated at a single Games after winning four medals at Tokyo 2020.

London 2012 Olympians: 17

The golden age of London 2012 is still alive and kicking with 18 athletes who competed at the home Olympics 12 years ago taking to the start line in Paris.

Athletes: Carl Hester, Katarina Johnson-Thompson, Eilish McColgan, Holly Bradshaw, Elizabeth Deignan, Tom Daley, Jack Laugher, Ben Maher, Scott Brash, Max Whitlock, Laura Roper, Helen Glover, Liam Pitchford, Jade Jones, Andy Murray, Heather Watson and Lawrence Okoye

Number of sports entered: 24

Number of teenage athletes: 14

Prepare to feel old in Paris, with 14 of Team GB's own still in their teens. But remember: there's always hope!

Athletes: Megan Havers (16), Penny Healey (19), Phoebe Gill (17), Ella Maclean-Howell (19), Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix (19), Abigail Martin (16), Ruby Evans (17), Lola Tambling (16), Sky Brown (16), Toby Roberts (19), Eva Okaro (17), Jacob Whittle (19), Jonny Marshall (19) and Anna Hursey (18)

Read more: History maker Eva Okaro ready to inspire at Paris 2024

Youngest competitor: Sky Brown

Sky Brown made history as she became Team GB's youngest-ever Olympic medallist by winning skateboarding park bronze at Tokyo 2020 at just 13 years old, and will be back again three years later, still the youngest member of the team.

Oldest competitor: Carl Hester

Aged 57, Carl Hester will also make history by equalling fellow equestrian legend Nick Skelton's record of seven Olympic Games when he competes at Paris.

Mothers: 9

An incredible 9 mothers will represent Team GB at Paris 2024, having given birth and made their return to the pinnacle of sport.

Athletes: Helen Glover, Mathilda Hodgkins-Byrne, Katy Marchant, Elinor Barker, Elizabeth Deignan, Charley Davison, Bianca Williams, Amber Rutter and Ros Canter

Read more: Katy Marchant and Elinor Barker: From the velodrome to motherhood and back again

Most popular first names: Anna and Tom

Good news for all Anna's and Tom's, there's a high chance you could be cheering for your namesake at Paris 2024 with a total of six Anna's and 10 Tom's competing.

Athletes: Anna Burnet, Anna Hopkin, Anna Toman, Anna Henderson, Anna Morris and Anna Hursey

Tom Hall, Tom Pidcock, Tom Daley, Tom McEwen, Tom Digby, Tom Ford, Tom Barras, Tom George, Tom Sorsby and Tom Dean

World Champions: 39

Finally, a whopping 39 athletes will stride into Paris 2024 on top form after being recently named world champion in their event. Watch out as they look to take a dazzling double crown in Paris.

Charlotte Fry (Equestrian - Dressage, individual), Yasmin Ingham (Equestrian - Eventing, individual), Bradly Sinden (Taekwondo men's 68kg), Elinor Barker, Josie Knight, Anna Morris (Cycling- women’s team pursuit), Kieran Reilly (Cycling - men's BMX Freestyle), Barker and Neah Evans (Cycling - women’s Madison), Emma Finucane (Cycling - women's track individual sprint), Tom Pidcock (Cycling - men's mountain bike), Katarina Johnson-Thompson (Athletics - women's heptathlon), Josh Kerr (Athletics - men's 1500m), Oli Wilkes, David Ambler, Matt Aldridge and Freddie Davidson (Rowing - men’s four), Lauren Henry, Hannah Scott, Lola Anderson and Georgie Brayshaw (Rowing - women’s quad), Emily Craig and Imogen Grant (Rowing - women’s lightweight double sculls), Jacob Dawson, Morgan Bolding, Rory Gibbs, Sholto Carnegie, Charles Elwes, Tom Digby, James Rudkin, Tom Ford and Harry Brightmore, (Rowing - men’s eight), Mallory Franklin (Canoeing - C1), Joe Clarke (Canoeing - K1 and kayak cross), Kimberley Woods (Canoeing - kayak cross), Beth Potter (Triathlon - women's triathlon), Jake Jarman (Gymnastics - men's vault), Bryony Page (Gymnastics - women's individual trampoline), Laura Stephens (Swimming - women's 200m butterfly) and Freya Colbert (Swimming - women's 400m individual medley)

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