Team GB have achieved a lot in 128 years of the Olympic Games.
And Ethan Hayter, Dan Bigham, Charlie Tanfield, Oliver Wood and Ethan Vernon reached one of the greatest milestones of all in Paris 2024, winning Team GB's 1000th sporting medal of the modern Olympic Games.
Powering to silver in the men's team pursuit, the quintet added to over a century of history in the velodrome.
British and Northern Irish athletes have competed at every single Olympic Games since 1896, when the modern Olympic Games first took place in Athens, and are still the only nation to have won a gold medal at every edition of the summer Games since.
Launceston Elliot started the chain as Team GB's first Olympic champion all those years ago in Greece, victorious in the one-handed lift in weightlifting.
We’ve achieved a lot in the 128 years of the Olympic Games.
— Team GB (@TeamGB) August 7, 2024
1,000 medals up, and we’re not done yet…🇬🇧#TeamGB pic.twitter.com/vWdDz0gT4C
And 128 years later the Team GB quintet at Paris 2024 wrapped up the 1,000th medal. With plenty more to come to in the French capital.
"It’s nice to win silver and it’s nice that it’s the 1000th medal," said Bigham.
"We’ve had our ups and downs, everyone has their stories and their journeys, but it has been pretty awesome and we are all very proud to stand here with what we’ve done."
British and Northern Irish Olympians have now won 312 gold medals, 339 silver and 349 bronze across all summer and winter editions of the Olympic Games.
Of the 1,000 total medals, 34 of them have been won at the winter editions of the Olympic Games. The number does not include medals won in arts competitions in Games between 1920-1948.
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