A late winner from goalkeeper Hannah Haughton clinched an opening game win for Team GB’s women’s beach soccer team as the inaugural ANOC World Beach Games in Doha, Qatar, got underway yesterday. Southampton based Haughton struck just two minutes from time in the third and final period to give Team GB a 5-4 victory over
Beach soccer’s Gemma Hillier has been selected as Team GB’s athlete representative for tonight’s Opening Ceremony at the inaugural ANOC World Beach Games in Doha, Qatar. Gosport born Hillier played for Portsmouth for 18 years and was the first female player in the UK to be nominated in a men’s hall of fame before falling
Reigning Olympic champion Liam Heath heads the list of five canoeing athletes named today by the British Olympic Association (BOA) for Tokyo 2020, as part of the celebrations marking the 55th anniversary of the Opening Ceremony of Tokyo 1964. Heath will compete at his third Olympic Games in Tokyo next year having won sprint bronze
Olympic champions Hannah Mills and Giles Scott are among 12 sailors named by the British Olympic Association (BOA) as the first Team GB athletes selected for Tokyo 2020. The Rio 2016 gold medallists are joined by a host of elite sailors representing eight of the 10 Olympic sailing classes, as the team is announced at
The British Olympic Association (BOA) has announced the 21 athletes selected to represent Team GB in the inaugural World Beach Games in Doha, Qatar. Team GB will compete across seven disciplines at Doha 2019, as 97 countries, from all five continents, come together for the Association of National Olympic Committees’ (ANOC) first ever World Beach
I Am Team GB – the Nation’s Biggest Sports Day – returns on Saturday 24th August as Team GB and Toyota look to get the nation moving. With over 400 events planned across the UK, local communities will be getting active and involved in everything from walking groups going out into the countryside to sport
Fifty Team GB Olympians spanning six decades, including one of only two Holocaust survivors to compete at the Games, visited the University of Bath on Saturday for a special celebratory reception. Sir Ben Helfgott, who captained the GB weightlifting team at both the Melbourne 1956 and Rome 1960 Games, and 90-year-old Michael Howard, a fencing
Gold medals from young tennis star Matilda Mutavdzic and gymnasts Ondine Achampong and Raekwon Baptiste ensured Team GB end Baku 2019 second in the medal table after a successful final day at the European Youth Olympic Festival. Mutavdzic was guaranteed at least silver having won her girls’ singles semi-final yesterday and made light work of her big-hitting Russian
With only 365 days left until the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, Team GB is spreading Olympic fever across the United Kingdom as the countdown starts in earnest to the next Games. Team GB’s ‘(Only) One Year to Go’ campaign launched as Olympians Greg Rutherford and Beth Tweddle delighted commuters on the tram from Manchester Piccadilly
Double gold in the pool and a win for cyclist Zoe Backstedt headlined a successful day for Team GB at the Baku 2019 European Youth Olympic Festival (EYOF). In total, six medals were won on day three, five in the pool, including a second gold for Katie Shanahan, and one on the bike as Team
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