UK Sport expects Team GB to win between 50 and 70 medals at Paris 2024. Can they beat the 64 from Tokyo 2020?
This page will be updated throughout the Olympics with the roll of honour of British medallists – and a tracker comparing the total to Tokyo.
Medal tracker last updated at 19:50 on 2 August 2024
Gold medals: Eight
Tom Pidcock
How he did it: It looked as though Pidcock would not be able to retain the Olympic title he first won in Tokyo when he suffered a puncture on lap three. He recovered in remarkable style, catching the leaders and overtaking France’s Victor Koretzky late in the race for victory.
Laura Collett, Tom McEwen and Ros Canter
How they did it: Great Britain retained the team eventing title they won in Tokyo to win Team GB’s first gold medal at Paris 2024. Collett, McEwen and Canter ended the three-day competition with 91.30 penalties to finish a commanding 12.3 clear of host nation France, while Japan took bronze.
Nathan Hales
How he did it: Who knew we would all be invested in shooting on a Tuesday afternoon in July? Hales was the reason for that as he won gold for Team GB, setting a new Olympic record of 48 (out of 50) in the process. It comes just a year after he set a new world record of 49 out of 50.
Matt Richards, James Guy, Tom Dean and Duncan Scott
Swimming – men’s 4x200m freestyle relay final
How they did it: Just as they did in Tokyo, GB’s 4x200m freestyle swimming team struck gold with a dominant display in the pool. Richards, Guy, Dean and Scott reunited to triumph ahead of the USA in second and Australia in third.
Lauren Henry, Lola Anderson, Hannah Scott and Georgina Brayshaw
Rowing – women’s quadruple sculls
How they did it: The GB quartet were behind for most of the race, then pulled through for a dramatic photo finish with the Netherlands. They edged ahead when it counted most to claim gold just 15 minutes after Yee’s triathlon victory.
Alex Yee
How he did it: Yee’s sensational sprint finish provided a thrilling end to the men’s triathlon as he reeled in New Zealand’s Hayden Wilde in the closing stages of the final-leg run. Yee finished in one hour 43 minutes 33 seconds, just six seconds ahead of Wilde.
Imogen Grant and Emily Craig
Rowing – women’s double sculls
How they did it: After missing the podium by just 0.1 seconds in Tokyo three years ago, Grant and Craig are now Olympic champions. In a dominant performance, they took the lead at the 500m mark of the 2,000m race and pulled away to win by almost a length from Romania and Greece.
Bryony Page
Silver medals: 10
Anna Henderson
How she did it: Grace Brown took the lead from Henderson as the Australian finished more than a minute and a half quicker. But the final rider, the United States’ world champion Chloe Dygert, was unable to better Henderson’s time so the Briton claimed silver by less than one second.
Adam Peaty
Swimming – men’s 100m breaststroke
How he did it: A tearful Peaty had to settle for Olympic silver as Italy’s Nicolo Martinenghi snatched a shock gold by 0.02 seconds. Silver still caps a remarkable turnaround for Peaty, who had taken a break from the sport after issues with alcoholism and his mental health since his last gold in Tokyo.
Tom Daley and Noah Williams
Diving – men’s synchronised 10m platform
How they did it: Daley won his fifth Olympic medal and Williams his first as they finished second behind China’s Lian Junjie and Yang Hao. Daley, 30, effectively retired from diving after winning synchronised 10m platform gold at the Tokyo Games, but was persuaded to return to the sport by his son Robbie.
Adam Burgess
How he did it: The 32-year-old qualified fourth fastest with a clean semi-final performance and produced another impressive run in the final to win his first Olympic medal, having missed out on the podium by 0.16 seconds in Tokyo.
Matt Richards
Swimming – men’s 200m freestyle
How he did it: Richards missed out on a stunning Olympic gold by two hundredths of a second but took a thrilling silver behind David Popovici of Romania.
Kieran Reilly
How he did it: Reilly was the final rider to go and trailed Argentina’s Jose Torres Gil and France’s Anthony Jeanjean before his second run. The 23-year-old put in a superb run to surpass Jeanjean and claim silver.
Helen Glover, Esme Booth, Sam Redgrave and Rebecca Shorten
How they did it: An agonisingly close race, the boat of mother-of-three Helen Glover, Esme Booth, Sam Redgrave and Rebecca Shorten was neck and neck with the Netherlands for the final 500m of the 2,000m race, eventually edged out on the line by 0.18 seconds. Glover claimed her third Olympic medal aged 38, having retired from rowing twice previously.
Oliver Wynne-Griffith and Tom George
How they did it: Wynne-Griffith, from Wales, and George, of England, led for the majority of the race and looked set for gold but were unable to hold off the dynamic charge of Croatia’s Sinkovic brothers, who went ahead in the closing 20m and won by just 0.45 seconds.
Ben Proud
Swimming – men’s 50m freestyle
How they did it: In the shortest swimming event of the Games, Ben Proud came within a fingernail of taking gold in a thrilling final, finishing just behind Australia’s Cameron McEvoy.
Duncan Scott
Bronze medals: Eight
Yasmin Harper and Scarlett Mew Jensen
Diving – women’s synchronised 3m springboard
How they did it: The British pair moved from fourth to third with an excellent final dive. A horrible mistake on Australia’s final dive meant they failed to overhaul Harper and Mew Jensen, who claimed GB’s first opening day medal since 2004.
Kimberley Woods
How she did it: In a dramatic final, Woods was holding on to third place in the standings with only reigning Olympic champion Ricarda Funk to run. But when Germany’s Funk clipped a gate and picked up a 50-second penalty, the bronze was secured for 28-year-old Woods and Team GB.
Laura Collett
Equestrian – individual eventing
How she did it: Collett followed up her team eventing gold with an individual eventing bronze later the same day after a penalty-free jumping round.
Beth Potter
How she did it: After uncertainty over whether the race would go ahead because of poor water quality in the river Seine, Potter held on to third place for her first Olympic medal. France’s Cassandre Beaugrand took gold to the delight of the home crowd, with Switzerland’s Julie Derron winning silver.
Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix and Lois Toulson
Diving – women’s synchronised 10m platform
How they did it: Spendolini-Sirieix and Toulson’s superb final dive lifted them up from fourth to the medal places. They scored 304.38 points from their five dives, finishing behind China and North Korea.
Oli Wilkes, David Ambler, Matt Aldridge and Freddie Davidson
How they did it: The men’s four of Oli Wilkes, David Ambler, Matt Aldridge and Freddie Davidson – all Olympic debutants – started slowly but fought back hard to go past Italy and take the bronze, with the USA claiming gold.
Mathilda Hodgkins-Byrne and Becky Wilde
Rowing – women’s double sculls
How they did it: Britain’s Mathilda Hodgkins-Byrne and Becky Wilde secured an emotional bronze, making a strong start before being overtaken by eventual champions New Zealand and silver medallists Romania, but digging deep to hold off the Netherlands.
Jack Laugher and Anthony Harding
Diving – men’s synchronised 3m springboard
How they did it: Laugher and Harding only began working together in 2021 but have won European, Commonwealth, world and now Olympic medals. Having saved their most difficult two dives until the final rounds to keep themselves in contention, the pair celebrated wildly after finishing behind China and Mexico.