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Note: * Indicates athletes who ran in preliminary rounds and also received medals. nb Note: Marion Jones was stripped of all her Olympic medals. In 2008 the Russian team of Evgeniya Polyakova, Aleksandra Fedoriva, Yulia Gushchina, and Yuliya Chermoshanskaya were initially awarded the gold medals. However, the medals were rescinded in 2016 ...
Lizzy Yarnold is the most successful British athlete at the Winter Olympics, with two gold medals. Duncan Scott is the most prolific athlete at a single Games, winning four medals (1 gold, 3 silver) at the 2020 Olympics. Steve Redgrave is the most consistent British Olympic athlete, winning gold medals at five consecutive Games (1984-2000).
Gymnastics events have been staged at the Olympic Games since 1896. [1] British female gymnasts have participated in every Summer Olympics since 1928, except for 1932. [2] [3] British women have won four medals at the Olympics: the 1928 team all-around bronze; the 2012 uneven bars bronze, which was won by Beth Tweddle; the 2016 floor exercise bronze, won by Amy Tinkler; and the 2021 team all ...
Katarina Mary Johnson-Thompson, MBE (born 9 January 1993) [1] is an English athlete.A multi-eventer, she is primarily known as both a heptathlete and an indoor pentathlete.In heptathlon she is a double world champion, double Commonwealth Games champion and an Olympic and European silver medallist.
Pages in category "Olympic gold medallists for Great Britain" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 606 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The fastest British woman on record, she won a gold medal in the 200 metres, silver in the 100 metres and another silver in the 4×100 m relay at the 2019 World Championships, breaking her own British records with further records which still stand. Aged 24, Asher-Smith was the first Briton to win three medals at a World Championships.
She was also named "Outstanding Female Athlete" at the Commonwealth Sports Awards, despite not competing in the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, [80] won "The Best British Athletic Performance of 2010" at the UK Athletics Awards, [81] and was awarded the Dame Marea Hartman Award, given annually to the outstanding English female athlete of the ...
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:British athletes. It includes athletes that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Female athletics competitors from the United Kingdom .