Staff GB added 65 medals to their Olympics haul this 12 months, beating their Tokyo complete by one and creating moments that may go down in Olympics historical past.
However the place did all these medals come from throughout Nice Britain and Northern Eire?
We’ve got taken a deep dive into the stats to seek out out which nations and areas produced probably the most medal-winners this 12 months, and which sports activities they conquered.
So – which elements of Staff GB triumphed, and which struggled to get off the beginning blocks?
As with our evaluation of Staff GB medals gained between 1896 and 2020, we have adopted the official Olympics guidelines the place a staff medal solely counts as soon as.
To calculate regional success, we have break up the medal by the quantity within the staff. So, every particular person of a four-person relay wins 0.25 of a medal for his or her area.
Every athlete’s area or nation has been decided by their native land.
West Midlands triumph
Traditionally, London has topped the Staff GB medals desk, however this 12 months the West Midlands led the way in which.
The area gained 0.5 golds medals, 5.45 silver and a couple of.67 bronze.
Throughout the board, Staff GB gained the fewest gold medals since Athens in 2004.
Nevertheless, athletes equivalent to 19-year-old climber Toby Roberts and lure shooter Nathan Hales meant the South East alone would have come twentieth within the official Olympics medal desk, with 3.5 golds.
Making a splash
The South West gained Staff GB’s first inventive swimming medal, with duet members Izzy Thorpe and Kate Shortman each hailing from Bristol.
The duo, who’ve been swimming collectively since they had been 9, gained silver within the pool.
For Scotland, Duncan Scott continued his medal-winning methods.
He gained a silver within the males’s 200m particular person medley and was a part of the gold-winning males’s 4x200m freestyle, bringing his Olympic medal complete to eight, probably the most gained by any Scot.
The West Midlands was additionally probably the most profitable a part of Staff GB when adjusted for inhabitants, profitable 1.45 medals per a million folks.
All 4 of Staff GB’s canoe medals got here from the West Midlands, though it is unlikely the athletes discovered their craft on the canals of Birmingham.
Biking success
The entire medals from Wales-born athletes this 12 months got here from girls’s biking occasions.
Emma Finucane gained two particular person bronzes within the girls’s kieran and the person dash, and there have been Welsh staff members for the medal-winning girls’s staff pursuit, madison and staff dash.
Three medallists had been born in Northern Eire, swimmer Jack McMillan and rowers Rebecca Shorten and Hannah Scott.
Shorten and Scott gained silver within the girls’s 4 and gold within the girls’s quad sculls respectively.
Belfast’s McMillan, in the meantime, helped Staff GB retain their Olympic 4x200m freestyle relay title, after racing within the heats though he was not chosen to swim within the closing.
Solo stars
A number of of the celebs that captured sports activities followers’ hearts heralded from the North. Bryony Web page, who soared to victory within the girls’s trampolining, comes from the North West, as does 800m golden lady Keely Hodgkinson.
Within the comparatively new sport of BMX freestyle, Keiran Reilly took the silver residence for the North East.
Different sports activities the place Staff GB solely gained one medal embody weightlifting, with East Midlands-born Emily Campbell profitable bronze within the girls’s 81kg, and boxing, with Lewis Richardson from the East profitable bronze within the males’s 71kg.
Lastly, not all Staff GB medallists had been born within the UK. Sky Brown, who was born in Japan, gained bronze within the girls’s skateboarding, regardless of dislocating her shoulder per week earlier than Paris 2024.