Team Great Britain (GB) has kicked off the Olympic Games 2024 in Paris with a great start, bagging nine medals already on the third day of the global sporting competition. However, Team GB has now won the nation’s first gold medal at the Paris 2024 thanks to the talented eventing team, this was then followed by another gold in the men’s mountain biking.
Tokyo 2020 champions Laura Collett and Tom McEwan, joined by world number one Ros Canter, sealed victory in the final showjumping stage at Chateau de Versailles today (July 29). This followed just a few hours after divers Tom Daley and Noah Williams won silver medals for Team GB in the men’s 10m synchronised platform final.
Following this gold medal win in eventing, Team GB have broken the top ten of the medal table at Paris 2024 and currently sit in seventh place. Team GB has now reached the podium at six of the past seven Games for this Olympic sport, and have won back-to-back team golds for the second time, the first being in 1972.
Team GB ended the three-day competition with 91.30 penalties to finish a 12.3 clear of host nation France, while Japan took home the bronze medal. Later today, Great Britain’s riders (Collett, McEwan and Canter) will compete for individual eventing medals after all three qualified to the final.
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Adding to the medal tally in quick succession for Team GB was also Tom Pidcock who won a gold medal this afternoon in the men’s mountain biking beating France’s Victor Koretzky by 0.09 seconds. Shortly after, Laura Collett won her first individual Olympic medal – a bronze – and Adam Burgess then followed with a silver medal in the men’s singles final for canoe slalom.
China currently sits in joint first place with South Korea in the medals table each with five gold medals and France currently has the highest number of medals at 13. Team GB now have a total of nine medals – two gold, four silver and three bronze.
With gold medals now under their belt, here’s hoping this is just the beginning of a successful Olympic Games for Team GB with more event-filled days to come!