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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).
Redgrave is regarded as one of Britain's greatest-ever Olympians. As of 2016 he was the fourth-most decorated British Olympian, after cyclists Sir Chris Hoy, Sir Jason Kenny and Sir Bradley Wiggins. He has carried the British flag at the opening of the Olympic Games on two occasions.
With a total of seven Olympic medals, six gold and one silver, Hoy is the second most decorated Olympic cyclist of all time. Between 2012 and 2021, he was the most successful British Olympian and the most successful Olympic cyclist of all time.
He later took home three different medals at the 2008 Beijing Olympics for three different events, and in London in 2012, he won two gold medals, making him Britain's most decorated Olympian ...
Former England football manager Gareth Southgate and actor Stephen Fry have both been knighted in a New Year Honours list that also recognises the stars of the Olympic Games. 800m champion Keely ...
They are also the first British team to have defended an Olympic relay title in swimming or athletics. [82] This was also Scott's seventh Olympic medal, which made him Britain's 3rd most decorated Olympian. [83] Scott was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2025 New Year Honours for services to swimming. [84]
The swimmer is the most decorated Olympian of all-time, with a whopping 28 medals. Following his retirement after the 2016 Rio Olympics, he became an advocate for mental health for athletes ...
He won a gold medal at four successive Olympic Games from 2004 to 2016, and held the record as Great Britain's most decorated Olympian with 8 medals until Jason Kenny won his 9th in 2021. He is the only rider to win both the Tour de France and Olympic Gold in the same year, winning them a week apart in 2012. [4]