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
Great Britain are the latest to confirm their places in the men’s and women’s competitions at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games after England won the Rugby Europe regional qualifiers in France and Russia respectively on Sunday. England’s women were the first celebrating after silencing the home crowd in Kazan with a 19-0 victory over Russia
The British Olympic Association has today confirmed the 44 athletes selected to represent Team GB at the Baku 2019 European Olympic Festival (EYOF). Baku 2019 will see around 2,500 athletes from 48 European nations come together to compete across 10 Olympic sports from 21st-27th July. Team GB’s athletes, who will all be aged 14-17 at
On the final day of competition at the European Games in Minsk, Team GB added seven medals, including three golds, to place them ninth in the table with 23 medals in total. Badminton was undoubtedly one of the success stories of the Games with five medals from a possible seven events. Marcus Ellis and Lauren
Double European Games gold medallist Marcus Ellis has been given the honour of being Team GB’s flagbearer at tonight’s Closing Ceremony. The badminton athlete will lead the British delegation after a fine seven days of competition at Minsk 2019, which saw him secure gold in the men’s doubles yesterday with Chris Langridge, before following up
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