The Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics [1] have come and gone and team GB made us immensely proud. Despite the pandemic, international athletes finally got the chance to meet and battle for glory, in hopes of raising their country's status on the world stage.
The Games' opening ceremony featured 22 marchers out of 375 athletes comprising Team Great Britain, led by flag bearers [2] Hannah Mills (sailing) and Mohamed Sbihi (rowing). Team GB performed strongly in the competition, accumulating 65 medals total. Overall, this put us in fourth place behind the United States, China, and Japan, and above the Russian Olympic Committee and Australia. Beyond that, the Tokyo Olympics saw Team GB not only win medals in events we haven't won in years, but also win medals in new sports like skateboarding, crush world records, and provide us with some brilliant moments overall (here's look at you Tom Daley). Keep reading to see every single one of the medals won by Team Great Britain [3] at the Tokyo Summer Olympics 2020.
Team GB's Gold Medal Count at the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics: 22
Team GB won 22 gold medals in total. Divers Tom Daley and Matty Lee famously won our hearts with their capture of gold in the men's synchronised 10-meter platform. British prowess in swimming has produced two golds — Tom Dean for men's 200-meter freestyle, and Adam Peaty for men's 100-meter breaststroke. Out of the pool, Tom Pidcock came out on top in men's cross-country mountain biking. Bethany Shriever [4] had the nation bursting with pride with her BMX gold, who managed to crowdfund £50,000 whilst working as a teaching assistant to take part in the games. Find the full list of gold medal winners below:
Lauren Price - boxing, women's middleweight
Jason Kenny - cycling, men's keirin
Galal Yafai - boxing, men's flyweight
Joseph Choong - men's modern pentathlon
Kate French - women's modern pentathlon
Katie Archibald and Laura Kenny - women's madison
Matt Walls - men's omnium cycling
Ben Maher - individual showjumping
Hannah Mills, Eilidh McIntyre - sailing, women's 470
Giles Scott - sailing, men's Finn
Dylan Fletcher, Stuart Bithell- sailing, men's 49er class
Oliver Townend, Laura Collett, Tom McEwen - eventing team
Max Whitlock - gymnastics, pommel horse
Charlotte Worthington - women's BMX park freestyle
Jess Learmonth, Jonny Brownlee, Georgia Taylor-Brown, Alex Yee - athletics, triathlon, mixed relay
Kathleen Dawson, Adam Peaty, James Guy, Anna Hopkin - swimming, mixed 4x100m medley relay
Beth Shriever - women's BMX racing
Tom Dean, James Guy, Matthew Richards, Duncan Scott - swimming, men's 4x200m freestyle relay
Tom Dean - swimming, men's 200m freestyle
Tom Daley, Matty Lee - men's synchronised 10m platform
Tom Pidcock - men's cross-country mountain biking
Adam Peaty - swimming, men's 100m breaststroke
Team GB's Silver Medal Count at the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics: 21
British athletes accumulated 21 silver medals. Both our women and men had impressive showings in taekwondo, with Lauren Williams and Bradly Sinden each taking home a prize. The same went for the triathlon, as Georgia Taylor-Brown [5] and Alex Yee both managed to score silver. In the pool in the men's 200-metre freestyle, Duncan Scott finished right behind fellow Brit Tom Dean, then a day later won a second silver in the men's 200-metre individual medley, whilst in athletics, 19-year-old Keely Hodgkinson won Team GB's first track medal of the games in the 800m run. Find the full list of silver medal winners below:
Ethan Hayter, Matt Walls - track cycling, men's madison
Laura Muir - athletics, women's 1500m
CJ Ujah, Zharnel Hughes, Richard Kilty, Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake - athletics, men's 4x100m relay
Ben Whittaker - boxing, men's light-heavyweight
Keely Hodgkinson - athletics, women's 800m
Pat McCormack - boxing, men's welterweight
Jason Kenny, Jack Carlin Ryan Owens - cycling, men's team sprint
Katie Archibald, Laura Kenny, Jessie Knight, Neah Evan - cycling, women's team pursuit
John Gimson, Anna Burnet - sailing, nacra 17 multi-hull class
Emily Campbell - women's +87kg weightlifting
Tom McEwen - equestrian, individual eventing
Luke Greenbank, Adam Peaty, James Guy, Duncan Scott - swimming, 4x100m medley relay
Kye Whyte - men's BMX racing
Duncan Scott - swimming, men's 200m individual medley
Mallory Franklin - women's canoe slalom C1
Harry Leask, Angus Groom, Tom Barras, Jack Beaumont - rowing, men's quadruple sculls
Duncan Scott - swimming, men's 200m freestyle
Georgia Taylor-Brown - athletics, women's triathlon
Alex Yee - athletics, men's triathlon
Lauren Williams - women's +67kg taekwondo
Bradly Sinden - men's +68kg taekwondo
Team GB's Bronze Medal Count at the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics: 22
Team GB have racked up 11 bronze medals at the Tokyo Summer Olympics. Chelsie Giles took the first with her performance in the 52-kilogram category of judo. Britain's artistic female gymnastics team (made up of Jennifer and Jessica Gadirova [6], Amelie Morgan, and Alice Kinsella) won bronze in the team final. On 2 Aug., Bianca Walkden showed a bronze medal in taekwondo, whilst
Charlotte Dujardin also won bronze, which set a new record becoming Britain's most decorated Olympian. A day later, Sky Brown [7]won a silver medal in women's park skateboard [8], making her the youngest ever Olympic medalist for Team GB. Find the full list of bronze medal winners below:
Josh Kerr - athletics, men's 1500m
Imani-Lara Lansiquot, Dina Asher-Smith, Daryll Neita and Asha Philip - women's 4x100m relay
Jack Carlin - men's cycling sprint
Women's hockey team - women's hockey
Holly Bradshaw - athletics, women's pole vault
Liam Heath - canoe sprint K-1200m
Frazer Clarke - men's boxing super heavyweight
Sky Brown - women's park skateboard
Jack Laugher - men's 3m springboard
Declan Brooks - men's BMX freestyle
Karriss Artingstall - women's featherweight boxing
Emma Wilson - windsurfing
Bryony Page - gymnastics, trampolining
Luke Greenback - swimming, men's 200m backstroke
Josh Bugajski, Jacob Dawson, Tom George, Mohamed Sbihi, Charles Elwes, Oliver Wynne-Griffith, James Rudkin, Tom Ford - rowing, men's eight
Matt Coward-Holley - men's trap shooting
Charlotte Dujardin - individual dressage
Carl Hester, Charlotte Fry, and Charlotte Dujardin - dressage
Alice Kinsella, Amelie Morgan, Jennifer and Jessica Gadirova - gymnastics women's team
Bianca Walkden - women's taekwondo +67kg
Chelsie Giles - women's +52kg judo