Team GB will be flying the flag for the country over at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris.
And the British athletes making the short journey across the channel will be hoping to enter the Olympic history books alongside sporting greats from yesteryear.
The first British athlete took a Gold medal way back at the inaugural modern Games in 1896: Weightlifter Launceston Elliot claimed the nation’s first gold medal in the one hand lift at Athens.
Let’s take a look at the most successful Olympians in British history.
Who is Britain’s most successful Olympian?
Team GB’s most decorated Olympian in history is cyclist Sir Jason Kenny.
Kenny has won with nine medals; seven gold and two silver.
His gold medal in the keirin and silver in the team sprint saw Kenny reach the top of the charts for British athletes in terms of gold medals and total medals.
Sir Bradley Wiggins was the previous record holder winning five golds at four consecutive Games between 2004 and 2016.
His eight medals has him just ahead of fellow cyclist Chris Hoy, who has seven Olympic medals – six gold and one silver.
Cyclist Dame Laura Kenny and dressage rider Charlotte Dujardin are in joint ownership of the record for the most medals won by a female British athlete, having collected six medals each across their incredible careers.
Kenny has five golds and one silver while Dujardin has three golds, one silver and two bronze.
Katherine Grainger, meanwhile, has who won five medals during a 16-year Olympic career – one gold and four silver.
Most medals won for Great Britain at the Olympics
Jason Kenny – nine (seven gold, two silver)
Bradley Wiggins – eight medals (five gold, one silver, two bronze)
Chris Hoy – seven (six gold, one silver)
Laura Kenny – six (five gold, one silver)
Steve Redgrave – six (five gold, one bronze)
Charlotte Dujardin – six (three gold, one silver, two bronze)
Ben Ainslie – five (four gold, one silver)
Jack Beresford – five (three gold, two silver)
Henry Taylor – five (three gold, two bronze)
Max Whitlock – five (two gold, three bronze)
Katherine Grainger – five (one gold, four silver)
Kathleen McKane Godfree – five (one gold, two silver, two bronze)
Who is the most decorated Olympian of all time?
Michael Phelps is the most decorated Olympian in history with 28 medals.
US swimmer Phelps competed in five Olympics between 2000 and 2016.
During those years, he won 23 gold medals, three silver medals, and two bronze medals.
The most Olympic medals won by a woman is 18, the record being held by gymnast Larisa Semyonovna Latynina (USSR).
She won nine gold, five silver and four bronze medals between 1956 and 1964.
