Day one of the 2017 European Youth Olympic Festival saw Team GB in action across tennis and swimming, getting Győr 2017 officially underway following Monday night’s glittering Opening Ceremony. Fresh from his flagbearer duties, Archie Goodburn continued a memorable start to the Festival in the pool with personal bests in both the 200m freestyle and
The British Olympic Association has today announced the 50 athletes selected to represent Team GB at the Győr 2017 European Youth Olympic Festival (EYOF). The Festival will see around 3,000 athletes from 50 European nations come together to compete across 10 Olympic sports from 23rd-29th July. Team GB’s athletes, who will all be aged 14-17
Ellie Soutter claimed Team GB’s first medal of the Erzurum 2017 European Youth Olympic Festival Wednesday as the 16-year-old took snowboard cross bronze. The Bromley-born boarder saw off the challenge of Russia’s Zinaida Vasileva in the girls’ final and secured third place behind Agathe Sillieres and Kim Martinez of France who took gold and silver
Following a record-breaking year for Team GB, Olympic athletes have once again been recognised in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours list. The list of awards includes a damehood for Katherine Grainger, the first female Olympian to win five medals at five games, for services to rowing and charity; and a damehood for Jessica Ennis-Hill for
Team GB’s hockey gold medallists were the big winners at the inaugural Team GB Awards last night with the squad picking up three of the five categories. Danny Kerry won Coach of the Year while the BBC Moment of the Games and the publically voted Great Britain’s Choice Award, presented by Aldi, both went to
The British Olympic Association has this evening been named the Most Successful National Olympic Committee of the Year at the 2016 Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC) General Assembly. The ANOC Awards also saw British success in the Women’s Team of the Year category, with Team GB’s women’s hockey team recognised following their gold medal
The British Olympic Association (BOA) is encouraging the nation to vote for the Olympian whose performance inspired them the most at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games as the online ballot opens for Team GB’s ‘Great Britain’s Choice Award’. The award, presented by Team GB’s official supermarket partner Aldi, will feature as part of the inaugural
Double Olympic silver medallist David Florence will bid to make it a Games hat-trick on day four of Rio 2016 as Team GB bid to keep the medal streak going. Florence – a canoe slalom specialist – collected C1 silver at Beijing 2008 before repeating the trick in the C2 with Richard Hounslow on home
Bronze medal wins for divers Tom Daley and Dan Goodfellow as well as trap shooter Ed Ling doubled Team GB’s medal haul on Day 3 at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. Daley and Goodfellow leave it late to snatch synchro 10m platform bronze Ling holds his nerve to win trap bronze medal Fourth place finishes
HRH Princess Anne, President of the British Olympic Association (BOA), today visited Team GB’s biggest ever Preparation Camp in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. She was accompanied on the visit by Lord Coe, Chair of the BOA. The Princess met a host of Team GB athletes including the athletics squad and Beijing 2008 silver medallist, marathon swimmer
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