Team GB's Paris 2024 in numbers

Paris 2024 20 Aug 24

Team GB's time at Paris 2024 is officially over and out.

From golden highs to emotional moments, it was truly an Olympics to remember.

One week on, we're taking stock of the facts and figures behind the performances.

Here is our Paris 2024 in numbers:

327 athletes

A mighty 327 athletes represented Team GB at Paris 2024, winning a staggering 65 medals altogether.

14 gold medals

We heard 'God Save The King' 14 times in Paris. This included our first ever medal in sport climbing with Toby Roberts named boulder and lead champion.

Rowing crowned the most Team GB Olympic champions, with an impressive three golds won at the Stade Nautique de Vaires-sur-Marne.

22 silver medals

We won 22 silver medals in the French capital, with athletics and swimming both clinching four each.

Artistic swimmers Kate Shortman and Izzy Thorpe brought home our first-ever Olympic medal in the sport with duet silver.

29 bronze medals

And there were 29 bronze medals won by our athletes, including a memorable moment for 16-year-old Sky Brown who won back-to-back bronzes in the women's skateboarding park.

1018 sporting medals for Team GB

Charlie Tanfield, Ethan Hayter, Ollie Wood, Ethan Vernon and Dan Bigham reached a historic milestone as their men's team pursuit silver in the Velodrome recorded Team GB's 1000th Olympic medal in sporting competition.

Nine mothers win eight medals

A record nine mothers represented Great Britain at the Olympic Games, offering emphatic proof that raising a family and being an elite athlete need not be mutually exclusive.

Katy Marchant, Bianca Williams, Ros Canter, Mathilda Hodgkins Byrne, Amber Rutter, Elinor Barker and Helen Glover all medalled in Paris, with Barker bringing home two medals.

Three teenage medallists

Toby Roberts, Sky Brown and Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix were the three teenagers who came away with medals from Paris.

41 returning medallists

From Tom Daley to Georgia Taylor-Brown, there were 41 returning Olympic medallists for Team GB at Paris 2024.

90 new medallists

However, the debutants turned up ready to make a point, with a whopping 90 athletes reaching the Olympic podium at their maiden Games.

This included track cyclist Emma Finucane who became the first woman to win three medals at a single Olympic Games in 60 years for Team GB.

Three world records

Imagine not just breaking the world record once, but breaking it three times in one day. Well that's what Finucane, Marchant and Sophie Capewell did.

The women's team sprint broke the world record three times on their way to gold and how hold the leading time at 45.186s.

Two Olympic records

Kerenza Bryson and Nathan Hales soared to Olympic record contention. Modern pentathlete Bryson broke the women's overall Olympic record in her semi-final to clock a new best of 1402 points.

Hales shot just one off his own world record to set a new Olympic standard of 48 as he took men's trap gold.

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