Team GB could have picked up their lowest Olympic gold medal haul since Athens 2004 – however it has still been a hugely successful Paris 2024 Games.
British athletes scooped 14 gold medals within the City of Love, which left them seventh in the general standings – their lowest position in 20 years.
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USA finished top of the standings with 40 gold medals – ahead of China on total medals won – with Japan third after claiming 20 golds.
Nevertheless when it comes to Team GB’s total medals collected, they amassed a whopping 65 to depart them in third spot.
An incredible 131 British athletes found themselves on the rostrum in Paris across 18 different sports.
Impressively, it’s greater than the 64 they managed in Tokyo three years ago.
Their haul of 65 just two fewer than the 67 they picked up at Rio 2016, which was Team GB’s best medal tally because the 146 they scooped within the London 1908 Games.
And so they have won the identical amount of medals as what Team GB achieved at London 2012 – and 14 greater than at Beijing 2008.
Though in contrast, Team GB won more gold medals in each of the last 4 Olympic Games.
In Japan, British athletes won 22 golds, 27 got here at Rio 2016, 29 at London 2012 and 19 at Beijing 2008.
You will have to return 20 years at Athens in 2004 for Team GB to have picked up fewer golds than in Paris, having won nine in Greece.
But while there was disappointment within the swimming pool, on the track and on the velodrome, a lot of superstars made it a Games to recollect.
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Keely Hogdkinson eased to 800m glory to change into Britain’s first gold Olympic medallist in athletics in eight years.
Meanwhile track cycling star Emma Finucane won one gold and two bronzes in Paris to change into the primary Team GB woman to win three medals in a single Games since 1964.
And no-one will forget Alex Yee’s epic triathlon gold, where he overtook Recent Zealand’s Hayden Wilde within the closing stages, before scooping a bronze within the mixed relay.
He’s now essentially the most successful Olympic triathlete in history, having won gold within the mixed relay at Tokyo and silver in the person event.
For trampoline gymnast Bryony Page, it was third time lucky because the 33-year-old finally ended with gold round her neck after a silver at Rio and bronze at Tokyo.
Yee and Page’s Olympic heroics saw the pair named as Team GB’s flagbearers for the closing ceremony, which took place at Stade de France on Sunday night.
Elsewhere, Tom Pidcock defended his gold medal from Tokyo within the Men’s cross-country mountain biking event, with Nathan Hales and Tony Roberts triumphing within the Trap Men’s Shooting and Men’s combined climbing events respectively.
Team GBs only gold medal within the pool got here within the 4x200m Freestyle Relay, while three were won in rowing, two were picked up in equestrian, with Ellie Aldridge coming out on top in the ladies’s Kite.
Meanwhile British legends Adam Peaty and Katarina Johnson-Thompson – together with opener ceremony flagbearers Tom Daley and Helen Glover – all won silver at Paris 2024.
Legendary decathlete Daley Thomspn, who the gold medal for Team GB at each Moscow 1980 and Los Angeles 1984 – waxed lyrical over Britain’s athletes.
Chatting with talkSPORT, he said: “I actually think the performances of the Olympians have been unforgettable.
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Team GB gold medals at Paris 2024 Olympics
- July 29 – Equestrian – Team Eventing – Ros Canter, Laura Collett, Tom McEwen
- July 29 – Cycling – Men’s Cross-Country – Tom Pidcock
- July 30 – Shooting – Men’s trap – Nathan Hales
- July 30 – Swimming – Men’s 4x200m freestyle relay – Matt Richards, Duncan Scott, Tom Dean, James Guy
- July 31 – Triathlon – Men’s triathlon – Alex Yee
- July 31 – Rowing – Women’s quadruple sculls – Laura Henry, Hannah Scott, Lola Anderson, Georgie Brayshaw
- August 2 – Rowing – Women’s lightweight double sculls – Emily Craig, Imogen Grant
- August 2 – Gymnastics – Women’s trampoline – Bryony Page
- August 2 – Equestrian – Team jumping – Scott Brash, Ben Maher, Harry Charles
- August 3 – Rowing – Men’s eight – Sholto Carnegie, Rory Gibbs, Morgan Bolding, Jacob Dawson, Charlie Elwes, Tom Digby, James Rudkin, Tom Ford, Harry Brightmore (cox)
- August 5 – Cycling – Women’s team sprint – Sophie Capewell, Emma Finucane, Katy Marchant
- August 5 – Athletics – Women’s 800m – Keely Hodgkinson
- August 8 – Sailing – Women’s kite – Ellie Aldridge
- August 9 – Sport climbing – Men’s boulder and lead – Toby Roberts
“The sportsmen and girls, they never allow you to down, they usually all the time perform incredible feats.”
Meanwhile sprinter Adam Gemili, who represented Team GB at London, Rio and Tokyo, believes more funding in athletics is required to supply the subsequent set of stars.
He told talkSPORT: “There’s not enough funding for our sport, and publicity and exposure.
“It’s great, every 4 years we fill a stadium, every morning and evening session and other people have the appetite for it.
“The people in charge just need to provide us the events that we are able to sell so we are able to put someone like a Keely on the market to encourage a brand new generation to come back through.”
Attention now turns towards Los Angeles in 2028, where you may be certain Team GB will once more be amongst the combo at the highest of the meal table.
And you may expect a lot of Team GB’s silver and bronze medals from Paris shall be become glittering gold within the City of Angels.
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