Workforce GB at Paris 2024 Olympics: Helen Glover, Keely Hodgkinson, Adam Peaty and extra – the celebrities competing for medals

Workforce GB are anticipated to safe one other sizable medal haul on the Paris 2024 Olympics, persevering with their spell of sustained success since London 2012.

At these dwelling video games, Workforce GB secured 29 gold medals from a complete of 65, with the whole haul achieved in Rio 4 years later barely improved to 67 (with 27 gold), whereas Tokyo noticed requirements maintained – 64 whole medals, 22 of them gold.

Right here, we have picked out 12 of the travelling Workforce GB social gathering who’re in competition to medal, who you might not but learn about but however certainly will do over the subsequent fortnight, and a few, merely, as a result of they have tremendous compelling tales.

Listed below are our Workforce GB ones to look at:

Helen Glover

No higher place to begin than with one in all Workforce GB’s flagbearers, together with diver Tom Daley, at Friday’s opening ceremony. Glover has described it as “the biggest honour of my life” because the 38-year-old, two-time Olympic champion rower will get set to compete at her fourth video games.

Glover’s 2012 success was Workforce GB’s first gold of their dream haul of 29 at their dwelling video games and likewise a first-ever triumph for British girls’s rowing. She and Heather Stanning then repeated the trick in Rio 4 years later, earlier than Glover introduced her retirement.

After having began a household, she returned to aggressive rowing in time for the Japan Olympics, the place she sadly didn’t medal, however a lot is predicted of her once more right here on a ‘girls’s 4’ staff – alongside Rebecca Shorten, Esme Sales space and Sam Redgrave – that has thus far gone 2024 unbeaten. Can they preserve that kind of dominance come Thursday, August 1?

Keely Hodgkinson

Hodgkinson is quick turning into the face of the Paris Video games from a British perspective, with the 800m runner extensively tipped for gold.

Having secured silver at Tokyo in 2021 at simply 19 years of age, she proved it was no fluke when twice claiming European gold since (2022, 2024), in addition to carding two additional second placings on the final two World Championships (2022, 2023).

On the Diamond League assembly in London on 20 July, Hodgkinson set a brand new British 800m document of 1:54:61 to turn into the sixth quickest lady in historical past over the space.

Gold may be very a lot the goal come the ladies’s 800m closing on Monday, August 5.

Louie Hinchliffe

Staying on the monitor, Hinchliffe is a reputation that may not but be acquainted… however I am positive that of nine-time Olympic gold medallist Carl Lewis does, who’s serving because the 22-year-old’s coach.

Having transferred to the College of Houston to be coached by the American sprinting legend, Hinchliffe actually burst onto the monitor and area scene in Might of this 12 months when qualifying for the NCAA finals (the USA’s college athletics championships), with a wind-assisted time of 9.84 seconds.

The Sheffield-born teen, who as soon as had trials at Man Metropolis and whose childhood hero was Wayne Rooney, then grew to become the primary European to win the title with a authorized time of 9.95 seconds, inserting him because the sixth-fastest Brit of all time.

May Britain be about to boast their first 100m medallist since Linford Christie took gold in Barcelona 1992? Discover out on Sunday, August 4.

Emma Finucane

Britain has a wealthy current historical past in monitor biking, with Sir Jason Kenny, Sir Chris Hoy, Sir Bradley Wiggins and Dame Laura Kenny our 4 most-decorated Olympians.

May Finucane’s identify quickly be added to that record? The 21-year-old is definitely giving herself an opportunity to by tripling up at Paris, trying to full a clear sweep of the ladies’s dash, keirin and staff dash – a feat solely beforehand achieved by Jason Kenny and Hoy.

Finucane’s quest begins with the ladies’s staff dash, which kicks off the monitor biking programme on Monday, August 5.

Matt Richards

Aged simply 18 when a part of the lads’s 4×200 metres freestyle relay staff that romped to gold in Tokyo three years in the past, Richards was considerably ignored in comparison with his extra skilled and adorned team-mates.

James Man additionally received gold as a part of the 4×100 m combined medley at Tokyo, whereas Tom Dean too clinched a second win in his particular person 200 m freestyle, edging out Duncan Scott into silver in an exciting end.

However Richards is about to be the dominant one of many bunch this day out, having left each Dean and Scott in his wake within the 100m and 200m freestyle on the British trials, whereas he’s additionally set to compete within the 50m self-discipline and as much as 4 relay occasions. The swimming begins on day one in Paris, from Saturday, July 27 operating by way of to Sunday, August 4.

Adam Peaty

Staying within the pool, Peaty comes into Paris a three-time Olympic champion after triumphing twice within the 100m breaststroke at Rio and Tokyo, in addition to successful the 4x100m combined medley on the latter video games. He additionally has two Olympic silver medals to his identify, is an eight-time world champion, a 16-time European champion and he has damaged world data 14 instances!

But, that run of unrivalled success got here at a price, with Peaty taking a break from the pool final 12 months as he battled with melancholy, alcohol abuse and burnout.

Having since turned a nook in time to qualify for Paris, Peaty has mentioned: “As soon as you stop running from yourself, I think that’s when you start living your true self and your true life. And in sport terms, I think that’s when you’re most dangerous for everyone else because you’re just so at peace.”

With one other gold within the 100m breaststroke – the ultimate going down on Sunday, July 28 – Peaty would be part of US nice Michael Phelps as the one male swimmers to win gold in the identical occasion at three Olympic Video games.

Molly Caudery

No Brit has ever received the pole vault on the Olympics… step ahead, Caudery.

The 24-year-old was a silver medallist on the 2022 Commonwealth Video games, received gold on the World Indoor Championships earlier this 12 months after which secured bronze on the Europeans in June when clearing 4.73 metres.

Quick ahead a fortnight although and she or he upped her private finest from 4.75m to 4.92m on the Toulouse Capitole Perche meet, securing the British document within the course of and the seventh-best mark of all time.

May she prime the 5m mark? Qualification takes place on the morning of Monday, August 5, earlier than the ultimate on Wednesday, August 7.

Amber Rutter

Rutter’s Olympic story hasn’t been what you’d precisely name standard.

Having certified for Rio 2016 as a teen – at 18, the youngest member of the Workforce GB taking pictures squad, in truth – she would then miss out on a good probability of medalling at Tokyo in 2021 after a constructive Covid take a look at prevented her from travelling.

Now, again within the squad for Paris, Rutter’s navigating her quest for an Olympic medal alongside the early days of motherhood, having given delivery solely three months in the past!

“It’s definitely chaos and that really does describe my life,” she instructed Sky Sports activities forward of the ladies’s skeet competitors on Sunday, August 4.

Sky Brown

Brown is already a history-maker, having turn into Workforce GB’s youngest ever medallist when claiming skateboarding bronze on the Tokyo Video games aged simply 13.

Skateboarding was one in all 4 new sports activities added to the Olympics in 2020, with occasions held in each ‘park’ and ‘avenue’ classes, Brown medalling within the former… and she or he now has her eyes firmly set on gold.

“I want that gold medal,” she instructed Sky Sports activities. “It’s a big goal but I think I can do it.”

One other large purpose of Brown’s is to at some point characterize Workforce GB in each skateboarding and browsing. Although she didn’t qualify within the latter for Paris, she definitely has time on her aspect and Los Angeles 2028 could possibly be a risk. First although, she’ll be going for gold on her board on Tuesday, August 6.

Scrumptious Orie

Born in Moscow and fluent in Russian, this super-heavyweight boxer referred to as Scrumptious fairly actually made a reputation for himself when successful gold on the 2022 Commonwealth Video games in Birmingham.

Seen as a future star of the game, a profitable video games may see the 27-year-old flip professional and comply with an identical pathway to the one cast by Anthony Joshua following his London 2012 triumph.

“GB Boxing, we have a track record of winning medals and consistently as well,” Orie mentioned. “I think we thrive on that… I particularly do, I thrive under that pressure. I’ve done it in the Commonwealth Games, I’ve done it in the European games and I know that I’m more than capable of doing it in the Olympics with the whole world watching.”

And the entire world will certainly be watching when the boxing runs from Saturday, July 27 to Saturday, August 10.

Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix

Maybe a well-known identify to many already, Spendolini-Sirieix is the daughter of Fred Sirieix from First Dates fame.

That is her second Olympic Video games, having earned a spot because the youngest member of the Workforce GB diving staff at Tokyo three years in the past, when simply 16.

There, she reached the ultimate within the girls’s 10m platform, in the end ending seventh, however she is tipped for much larger issues in Paris after a terrific few years which has seen her turn into the primary English lady to win Commonwealth gold within the occasion since 1966, in addition to win the synchro occasion on the 2022 video games. Spendolini-Sirieix additionally doubled up on the Europeans that 12 months and claimed gold and two bronzes on the Worlds earlier in 2024.

She first dives into the pool on Wednesday, July 31 within the synchro occasion alongside Lois Toulson.

Beth Shriever

Shriever adopted up her gorgeous BMX gold on the Tokyo Video games by additionally claiming a primary world title just a few weeks later.

Including European gold in 2022 meant that Shriever grew to become the primary BMX bike owner in historical past to carry all three titles on the similar time.

There have been damage setbacks since and something can occur within the frantic world of BMX, however the 25-year-old, who has a monitor named after her in Kent, definitely has the pedigree to say gold as soon as once more come Monday, August 2 (with qualification the day earlier than).

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