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Great Britain's only stripped medal in Winter Olympic history was an Alpine Skiing bronze at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. Alain Baxter tested positive for a banned substance, resulting from Baxter using a branded inhaler product bought in Salt Lake City which, unknown to him, contained different chemicals in the United States ...
The following Team GB competitors won multiple medals at the 2020 Olympic Games. Charlotte Dujardin's two bronze medals added to her two golds from London 2012 and her gold and silver from Rio 2016 made her the first female British athlete to win six Olympic medals, a feat later equalled by Laura Kenny. Dujardin also became the first female ...
A number of previous British Olympic champions ended their competitive career in Paris; Tom Daley announced his retirement after winning a British record fifth diving medal in five games in the men's 10 metre synchronised platform, a silver with Noah Williams, who himself later became only the third male British diver to win an individual ...
British athletes took 10 medals away from Budapest in a promising performance ahead of Paris 2024. Skip to main content. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 ...
The team is organised by the British Olympic Association (BOA) who have since 1999 branded it Team GB, explaining that "Team GB is the Great Britain and Northern Ireland Olympic Team." [19] The BOA selected a team of 541 athletes, 279 men and 262 women, to compete in all sports after gaining automatic qualification places in their respective ...
Christine Ohorougu became the second British track and field athlete to win medals in three successive Games. In swimming, Adam Peaty won gold in the 100 metres breaststroke, the first British male swimmer to win gold since 1988. Jack Laugher and Chris Mears became Britain's first Olympic diving champions.
Great Britain has qualified their mixed doubles team (two athletes), by finishing in the top seven teams in the 2021 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship. [31] On 14 October 2021, the British Olympic Association announced that reigning world champions Jennifer Dodds and Bruce Mouat would be their mixed doubles representatives. [23]
The medal was won by a team of Scottish curlers at the 1924 Games in Chamonix, France.