They've gone for gold, and then some.
Britain has racked up the medals over the years Team GB will be flying the flag for the country over at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. And the British athletes making the short journey across the channel will be hoping to enter the Olympic history books alongside sporting greats from yesteryear. The first British athlete took a Gold medal way back at the inaugural modern Games in 1896: Weightlifter Launceston Elliot claimed the nation’s first gold medal in the one hand lift at Athens.
Cyclist Dame Laura Kenny and dressage rider Charlotte Dujardin are in joint ownership of the record for the most medals won by a female British athlete, having collected six medals each across their incredible careers. Kenny has five golds and one silver while Dujardin has three golds, one silver and two bronze. Katherine Grainger, meanwhile, has who won five medals during a 16-year Olympic career – one gold and four silver.
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