The 2024 Olympic Games in Paris is well into its first week with Team GB’s medal count quickly rising.
Britain has one of the most successful records in Olympic history and Team GB are once again fighting the likes of the United States and China in the medal table.
The nation has secured 20 medals at Paris 2024 so far from the opening five days; six gold, seven silver and seven bronze, making it their best start to an Olympics for 112 years.
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Here is the updated medal tally for Team GB at the Paris 2024 Olympics.
Yasmin Harper and Scarlett Mew Jensen – bronze
Yasmin Harper and Scarlett Mew Jensen clinched Britain’s first medal at the Games as they impressively landed a historic bronze in the women’s 3m Synchro event.
There was huge, late drama as Australia’s misplaced final dive saw the British pair sneak onto the podium, which saw them become the first British women in 64 years to win an Olympic diving medal, and the first ever in synchro competition.
Anna Henderson – silver
Making her Olympic debut, Henderson overcame tricky and rainy conditions to finish in 41 minutes and nine seconds for a result no-one was really predicting.
Adam Peaty – silver
Adam Peaty came agonisingly close to adding another gold medal to his considerable collection on Sunday night. It wasn’t meant to be, missing out on first place by 0.02 seconds. Peaty tested positive for Covid the following day.
Kimberley Woods – bronze
Kimberley Woods scooped bronze in the women’s kayak singles. It was a perfect redemption story for the 28-year-old, who three summers ago in Tokyo incurred 56 seconds of penalties for a bottom finish in her maiden Olympic final.
Tom Daley and Noah Williams – silver
Tom Daley and Noah Williams pushed the Chinese team right until the very end and scooped the silver medal in the men’s synchronised 10m platform dive. It was Daley’s fifth Olympic medal in his illustrious career.
Laura Collett, Tom McEwen and Ros Canter – gold
Laura Collett, Tom McEwen and Ros Canter all picked up gold – Team GB’s first of the summer – in team eventing. This is the first time since 1972 that Great Britain have defended their Olympic eventing title.
Tom Pidcock – gold
Tom Pidcock retained his gold medal in the mountain bike event after coming out on top in a thrilling duel with Victor Koretzky.
Pidcock overcame a puncture earlier in the race to set up an intense final lap, edging ahead of the Frenchman to seal first place.
Adam Burgess – silver
Adam Burgess missed out on a place on the podium by 0.16 seconds in the Tokyo games, with bronze in the canoe slalom C1 this time around in Paris atoning for the near miss three years ago.
Laura Collett – bronze
Collett, who is blind in one eye after a horror fall in 2013 which saw her resuscitated five times, followed up her gold in the team eventing with bronze in the individual eventing – her third Olympic medal after claiming gold in the team eventing in Tokyo.
Matt Richards – silver
Matt Richards, in his first Olympic games, was pipped to gold by Romania’s David Popovici by 0.02 seconds.
The 21 year-old believes that he touched the wall first, but did not apply enough pressure to register on the touchpad initially.
Nathan Hales – gold
The three-time World Championship medallist marked his Olympic debut in some style, not just winning gold in the men’s trap shooting but setting a new Olympic record with 48 out of 50 targets hit.
Matt Richards, Duncan Scott, Tom Dean, James Guy – gold
The quartet retained their men’s 4x200m freestyle title, giving Team GB their very first medal of the 2024 Olympics in the pool.
Kieran Bird and Jack McMillan also picked up gold medals having raced for the relay team in the earlier heats.
Alex Yee – gold
Yee produced a sensational finish to become Britain’s second Olympic triathlon winner, overcoming a 14 second deficit to New Zealand’s Hayden Wilde going into the last lap of the 10km run.
Beth Potter – bronze
It was a fruitful Triathlon for Team GB, with Yee’s gold backed up with bronze from Potter, who navigated her way through the perils of the bike race which saw several competitors hit the deck on the slippy Parisian streets.
Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix and Lois Toulson – bronze
Spendolini-Sirieix and Toulson were fourth heading into the final round, but a flawless final jump saw them overtake the Canadians into the final podium position of the women’s synchronised 10m platform final.
Lauren Henry, Hannah Scott, Lola Anderson, Georgie Brayshaw – gold
Team GB won gold in the women’s quadruple sculls for the first time in their Olympic history with a stunning comeback to pip the Netherlands on the line in a photo finish.
Kieran Reilly – silver
The 23 year-old secured a hugely impressive silver with a run of 93.91 in his second run of the men’s BMX freestyle, narrowly losing out to Argentina’s veteran Jose Torres Gil.
Mathilda Hodgkins-Byrne and Becky Wilde – bronze
It was a miracle bronze for Team GB in the women’s double sculls, with Wilde having undergone surgery on her forearms last September and Hodgkins-Byrne having given birth last year.
Esme Booth, Helen Glover, Samantha Redgrave and Rebecca Shorten – silver
Team GB’s flagbearer Helen Glover agonisingly missed out on gold in the women’s four to the Netherlands, which would have seen Glover become the first female British rower to win three Olympic gold medals.
Oli Wilkes, David Ambler, Matt Aldridge and Freddie Davidson – bronze
The British quartet recovered from a slow start to bag GB’s third Olympic rowing medal inside an hour on the morning of day 6 of the games.
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